I think you have read our article on the basics how to start eBay drop ship business. When you gain the experience of online sales you will be interested to develop your online success. One way to choose is to build your own online store, another way to follow is to open eBay Store (by that time you will know the market and the rules perfectly – you will feel comfortable just to extend your cooperation with eBay. Third way to go s to combine both: online store of your own and eBay Store.



In this article we will discuss eBay Stores. To tell the truth, I think it is a great opportunity provided by eBay. eBay Store fees are much lower than the auction fees (the main difference is that your store listings will not be returned with the normal search results: your visitors should know your store and go directly to it, or they should get to your store through your auctions, or sometimes eBay is short of the results and your Store listings will be returned with normal inquiry results).

Let us give a definition to an eBay Store. An eBay Store is an online selling platform tied to eBay, the World's Online Marketplace. You can build your own eBay Store, create custom categories to merchandise your Store, cross-sell and up-sell all of your items, allows you to use your own logo and HTML, and provide information about you, your Store and your policies.

Now I am turning to eBay store benefits. You will get your own completely customizable online Storefront (no technical knowledge required), domain name, additional pages, promotion boxes placed on both: your auction and store listings, cross-promotion and e-mail marketing tools, sales and traffic reports, free-toll phone customer support, greater exposure on eBay and in general search engines.

eBay Stores come in three levels:

• Basic Store ($15.95/ month),
  
• Featured Store($49.95/ month),
  
• Anchor Store($499.95/ month).

The store levels differ in options added by eBay. I think it is a good start to try Basic Store, but I wish your dropship business grow to Anchor Store (an advanced solution for higher-volume sellers who want maximum exposure on eBay).



In addition eBay offers a free Accounting Assistant software to help you with bookkeeping, Store Referral Credit (you will be in part refunded if you promote your eBay store outside eBay), listing formats for 30, 60, 120 days and even good ‘til cancelled for very low fee (30-day listing is $0.02).

eBay Store provides you with all tools you need for a successful online business: marketing (traffic, listing tools, branding, cross-promotion, free eBay keywords – extra exposure on eBay and similar to pay-per-click systems) and analytics (sales and traffic reports) for a moderate fee. Complete this set with a great dropship supplier and work at the development of your dropship business. Your store will be also listed in eBay Store Directory.

In addition, eBay provides 30-day FREE trial. If you discover that eBay store has nothing valuable to add to your business then you will simply unsubscribe spending NOTHING. It is a risk free venture. Sign up to eBay store now!