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Use Your Own Photo To Increase Your Auction Sales
The true fact about photo is that it worth thousand of words, a good photo can increase your auction sales instantly. A simple picture together with your ads can boost your sales up by 200% or more. People will only have confidence bidding on your item when they are absolutely sure what they are bidding on.
The true fact about photo is that it worth thousand of words, a good photo can increase your auction sales instantly. A simple picture together with your ads can boost your sales up by 200% or more. People will only have confidence bidding on your item when they are absolutely sure what they are bidding on.
A buyer will have strong image of what they are buying when they see your own pictures. Take a look at the items that have the most bids in almost any category on the auction web site, and I’ll bet you that the ads that have pictures have more bids, and also have higher bids than the ads that don’t include a picture! It’s the simple fact that seeing is believing!
Now, you have an idea that a picture will help your item sell. Asking yourself, how do I get a picture up on the online auction? Well, that’s a good question, and this next section is dedicated to showing you exactly how to take a picture of your item and post it to the Internet.
First, get pictures to your computer: this is no brainer, even for the novice, but there are a few different ways that you can accomplish this. The first is the old fashioned way, and that is to use a normal camera, take a photo, and then take it to your local photo shop and get it developed. Once you get the photo developed, you need to get the photo scanned into your computer.
A scanner is cheap, you can get it for around $50 and up at local computer stores, or you can take your photos to many local copy shops and they can scan your photos for you, and save them on flash USB.
Another way which consider better and more popular now is you use a digital camera which can take photo and synchronize to your computer instantly. These camera cost about $200 to $700.
If you already have a camcorder device, or buy it for around $50 to $250 at local shops. You can also use this small device to hook any video sources and grab images to your computer immediately.
Second, process the photo: you’ve got your photo saved on your computer in either a .gif or .jpeg files. Next thing you may need to do is process the photo in a graphic program. Programs like Paint Shop Pro or LView are available on the Internet. With these programs, you can use to adjust brightness and contrasts of the pictures, or you can even add some cool text over the photo to create a cool advertisement. If you have Adobe PhotoShop then it is perfect, this program is can help automate some tasks like processing photo and adding cool text, even create some effects to both graphic and text any way you like.
Take a look at the photo of the item you want to sell. The first thing you need to do is crop the photo to only show the item that you are selling. Each program will do this fairly simply. All you need is to click on the tool that select a rectangular area of your photo. Then you will need to draw a box only for the area you wish to keep, and then select crop command from the main tool bar or edit menu.
Next, you will need to adjust the brightness, contrast and sharpness of the picture to the way you need. Try to get as much visible detail as possible. Remember that the better the picture is, the more bids you will get!
Adding text to your photo may or may not useful for you, since you can add many of text before and after the photo. But adding a short descriptive text can be good idea in some cases. You can add text simply by click on the menu button where the “T” present, the select the area you you to add text and type it right away.
The third step is to post photo to the auction site: the photo is taken and ready to used in you auction ads. Most of the auction site like eBay only allow you to upload one picture to their site for free, additional pictures are chargeable, so you need to have some place to host your own pictures. You can get a free service for picture hosting and store plug in at Auctiva.
OK, now you got the idea to make a better photo and put as much pictures as you want for free. Good luck.