Application Development Tips for eBay Shops & Sellers
As the eBay global community matures, one of the key things we have noticed is increasing competition in the "internal" eBay marketplace.
This growing competition is happening as a result of rapid increases in the number of sellers in both the domestic market and also on an international basis.
In recent months, eBay has focussed much attention on building its' online auction business in developing economies such as India and China, with the result that sellers of low cost products from these countries are now readily able to promote their items through eBay to the US, UK and Europe.
One of the things that can be done to make your eBay shop or eBay website stand out from the crowd is to develop a unique "look and feel" to your “piece of eBay territory”. Many eBay shops now also have their own independent websites and sell goods through these using eBay as a "gateway".
You need to be careful not to infringe any eBay rules about "off-eBay" trading, but building your own website that operates in harmony with your eBay shop (and also promotes your eBay shop) is something that many people have started to do.
So - we thought it might be useful for fellow eBayers if we published some methods and guidelines that are used by major commercial enterprises when conceiving, building and operating their own websites. Our team here has been leading and project-managing major web-enabled IT developments for many years using both local resources and offshore software development in India, which massively reduces costs.
Over the next few weeks, we'll be publishing articles on Rapid Application Development, Managing your Project, Development Processes, Quality Control and getting the Website Application up and running safely and securely.
For small website development projects that most eBay shops and sellers might want to undertake, it’s not really necessary to stick rigidly to all the methods and techniques detailed in these papers. But they are a good source of tips and hints used by the “big boys”. We hope they will be useful to fellow eBayers!
This growing competition is happening as a result of rapid increases in the number of sellers in both the domestic market and also on an international basis.
In recent months, eBay has focussed much attention on building its' online auction business in developing economies such as India and China, with the result that sellers of low cost products from these countries are now readily able to promote their items through eBay to the US, UK and Europe.
One of the things that can be done to make your eBay shop or eBay website stand out from the crowd is to develop a unique "look and feel" to your “piece of eBay territory”. Many eBay shops now also have their own independent websites and sell goods through these using eBay as a "gateway".
You need to be careful not to infringe any eBay rules about "off-eBay" trading, but building your own website that operates in harmony with your eBay shop (and also promotes your eBay shop) is something that many people have started to do.
So - we thought it might be useful for fellow eBayers if we published some methods and guidelines that are used by major commercial enterprises when conceiving, building and operating their own websites. Our team here has been leading and project-managing major web-enabled IT developments for many years using both local resources and offshore software development in India, which massively reduces costs.
Over the next few weeks, we'll be publishing articles on Rapid Application Development, Managing your Project, Development Processes, Quality Control and getting the Website Application up and running safely and securely.
For small website development projects that most eBay shops and sellers might want to undertake, it’s not really necessary to stick rigidly to all the methods and techniques detailed in these papers. But they are a good source of tips and hints used by the “big boys”. We hope they will be useful to fellow eBayers!
