eBay Promoted Listings: Promote Smarter, Sell More

Let’s Put Your Advertising Dollars to Work!

A practical, step-by-step guide to eBay’s advertising options so you can get more visibility, more traffic, and more sales from the inventory you already have.

How To Get More Followers For Your Social Media Posts!

by | Oct 22, 2014 | eCommerce News, eCommerce Selling Tips, Selling on eBay, Social Media Tips

Social Media posts on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google Plus and Instagram for you as an entrepreneur and seller are yes about your business and products but do keep in mind social media postings are social!
They are a great opportunity for you to share content that is engaging, informative and depending on what you offer your customers fun!
Fun?!
Yes fun!
Have fun with your content, it will show!
Find great recipes, fashion trends, tips on using your product lines, seasonal tie ins ( have you posted anything about Fall, Fall leaves, home decor, home maintenance, baking, cooking,Halloween, Halloween parties, Halloween costumes, Fall hay rides, pumpkins, picking the perfect pumpkin and or pumpkin carving) yet?
Why not enjoy the Fall with your followers! 
You’ll both have a better time and you will build your customer base and followers!
So think Fall and have fun!

How to get a fast easy source for e commerce inventory!

by | Oct 9, 2014 | eCommerce News, eCommerce Selling Tips, Selling on eBay

Many non professional sellers sell personal possessions and unused gifts online on the internet in the month of October to raise cash for their family’s Holiday and Christmas spending.

If you as a professional online entrepreneurial seller need a good source of low cost inventory October is a great month for you to shop on ebay, Amazon, etsy, Bonanza and Addoway to buy goods selling below their Holiday re-sell value.

This is an online version of the practice of inventory sourcing called Retail Arbitrage.

What is your area of expertise?

Do you know what sneakers, DVDs, women’s clothes, men’s clothes, children’s toys etc sell for?

Keep an eye on the various internet sales sites for when inventory is priced  low and buy stock for your business to sell during the peak shopping season of Thanksgiving to New Year’s!

Remember the adage, “Buy low, sell, high”?
Well now is the time to be buying low online to sell high later!

It’s time to get shopping!

How to help your ebay items be found by search!

by | Sep 19, 2014 | eCommerce Selling Tips, Selling on eBay

4th Quarter is fast approaching for online entrepreneurs selling on ebay and elsewhere and it’s important to have your inventory listed now!When listing on ebay it is crucial to chose the right keywords and use the best order of the keywords to get maximum results in search for the items that you are selling.
There are thousands of sellers offering products on ebay and the order of your keywords can make a huge difference in how your products show in ebay’s Best Match search. Best Match is the default search on ebay.
You want to do everything you can to be on on the first page of ebay’s Best Match search and your sales item’s titles’ keywords play a role in that,
Here is a short and effective tutorial I did on youtube on how you can write ebay titles that will rank well in ebay search.
How to write great titles for your eBay listings quickly
Do you check your items regularly to see how they rank in ebay’s Best Match search?By watching the above youtube  video for 3 minutes and taking notes you’ll know smart tips to help your items rank better in ebay search.

Better search results mean more of your customers can find your items more easily and you know what that means?

Yes, it means more sales for you! After all if customers can’t find your products they can’t buy them, can they?

Tweak your titles and welcome your customers to your ebay sales items now and all throughout the upcoming Holiday sales season and you’ll be enjoying that festive sound of cha ching, cha ching!

 

 

Social Media Time Saver that’s Free for ebay sellers!

by | Sep 10, 2014 | eCommerce News, eCommerce Selling Tips, Social Media Tips

As an ecommerce entrepreneur selling on ebay do you love using Social Media and want to save time?

Hoot Suite has a great way for you to do just that!

In Chrome and Firefox install the Hoot Suite extension.

Now you have HOOTLET on your web browser.

Go to your ebay sales item ( this works whether your have an ebay store or not)
and click the twitter bird icon.

You can tweet with ebay or HOOTLET
pick HOOTLET

Once you pick HOOTLET you can choose
1- which twitter account tweets the ebay item if you have multiple accounts to pick from.

2- You can also schedule ( yes I said schedule) the tweet from Hootlet which takes only seconds!

You can install and use Hootlet whether you have a free or a paid Hootsuite account.

Using Hootlet to tweet your ebay sales items saves you time and it is very easy to do!

Now that’s something to hoot about!

All About Hootlet

Want better search results for the ebay items you’re selling?

by | Aug 22, 2014 | eCommerce News, eCommerce Selling Tips, Selling on eBay

Many think that to successfully sell on ebay all a seller has to do is list.

False. Well partially false, certainly an item can’t sell if it’s not listed.

And I should say that if you are selling a highly desirable item at rock bottom prices yes the item I think would sell.

However if you are like thousands of ebay sellers and you are listing your items you are facing a lot of competition.

One of the ways to stand out is to write an ebay guide related to the products you are selling.

So if you offer women’s shoes you could write a guide on how to know what shoe size your are!

If you sell winter coats, a guide on what’s the warmest coat might be a good fit.

The guide once published is not only available to ebay sellers it’s fed to other search engines so it can be picked up by Google,Yahoo,Bing etc..

To write a successful guide be sure to put your item in the guide’s title and pick the correct ebay categories to tag your guide.

If I’m selling Party Shoes I want Party Shoes in the title of my guide and I’d want to tag women’s shoes.

The tag function is at the bottom of the writing an ebay guide template.

Once published your items that are related to your ebay guide will appear at the bottom of your guide helping to increase customer traffic to your offerings.

You can write an effective guide in under 30 minutes and your items will reap the results of increased search results on the internet which can mean  more SALES for you!

Here is the link to the ebay template for writing an ebay guide on the ebay site. Click the link under #1 Getting Started.
Link to getting started writing an ebay Guide on ebay’s website

Here’s a guide I wrote on “How chose the right Bible for you” to get you’re creative juices flowing!
An example of an effective ebay buying guide. This 1 is on selecting Bibles.

 

Let me know when you’ve finished writing your ebay guide!

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