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 shopperswithin 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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
I recently got a large clothing sale by one customer in my ebay store! How?
My ebay store categories includes clothing sizes! By sorting the clothes you sell by SIZE you are inviting browsing and shopping for your customers!
Your customers spending more time in your ebay store (or website) browsing and shopping can potentially greatly increase the order size of each sale!
Most importantly using clothes sizes in your ebay store categories(or website) shows your shoppers you care about your them!
It shows your customers you value their time and want to make their shopping experience with you a pleasant experience and that you care enough about them to set up your site in a manner that’s easy for them to navigate!
With the busy times we live in who isn’t looking to save time?!
Want larger order sizes for your clothing items?
Take the time to include sizes in your store categories.
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