by Kathy Terrill | Dec 31, 2014 | eCommerce News, Social Media Tips
I did some hashtag browsing this morning December 31 New Year’s Eve on twitter and found so far the most used hashtags for this year’s New Year’s Eve are.
1- #Midnight
2 -#NYE 2015
Look at your inventory and see what products would be perfect to tweet about today.
Do you have products related to parties, celebrations and New Year’s Resolutions? If so now is a great time to feature them!
New Year’s Eve is also a great time to chat with your followers using #Midnight and #NYE2015. Do they have plans? Are they staying home? Are they going out on the town?
You can also look back on 2014 and tweet favorite moments and your favorite tweets and encourage followers to share theirs!
You can even run a contest today with your followers for them to share and or vote on your best tweet of 2014!
The end of the year is always a great time to say thank you and let your followers know they are appreciated!
If you find other great #NYE hashtags on twitter today please feel free to post them below in comments!
Thank you all enjoy your #midnight and Happy #NYE2015!
I just found the 2 best hashtags for online entrepreneurs to use for New Years Eve 2015!
by Kathy Terrill | Nov 14, 2014 | eCommerce News, eCommerce Selling Tips, Social Media Tips
Savvy entrepreneurs are always looking for great information on social media!
Sellers want to know which platform is best for them!
Do I use Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google Plus or Instagram?
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by Kathy Terrill | Oct 29, 2014 | eCommerce News, eCommerce Selling Tips, Selling on eBay
According to a recent blog post from Socially Stacked over 40% of shoppers will begin their Holiday Shopping in November!
So, as a savvy entrepreneur and business owner the question is how do you get these shoppers to spend their money with you?!
The answer is offer shopping discounts!
Look at your inventory and institute discounts if customers buy more than a certain dollar amount so they have a reason to spend their money with you and not your competitor!
If you have an ebay store there is an awesome free tool available to you that will put discounts in place for you called Promotions Manager. With this tool you can offer dollars off, a discount and or buy 2 get 1 free order size discounts. You set the criteria for the discount and the inventory that is available for your customer to purchase to gain the savings. The seller controls the details of the offer. You can offer a variety of discounts to your shoppers within different categories in your ebay store and or you can do an offer for your entire store like buy more $200 merchandise ( and include all your inventory) for 10-20% off, $20 off etc.
Here is short video I did on how to easily set up a great sales discount on ebay using Promotions Manager.
So, since 40% of shoppers will start spending their money next month it’s time to get ready with great discounts to bring these customers your way so that your 4th Quarter is your best ever!
by Kathy Terrill | 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!
by Kathy Terrill | 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!
by Kathy Terrill | 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!
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