How To Get More Followers For Your Social Media Posts!
They are a great opportunity for you to share content that is engaging, informative and depending on what you offer your customers fun!
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!
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!
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!
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.
Welcome happy and satisfied shoppers!
Many ebay sellers have found that Sunday nights are an excellent time to have their ebay auctions end.
This is true for profit and non-profit charitable sellers. Yet even following this method sometimes you’ll find your item will end with no bids.
You scratch your head and wonder why?
First you want to make sure you are following ebay’s best practices in writing a great title and description checking that you are not neglecting your item specifics.
You also want to take clear and clean pictures clearly showing your item from all angles noting any defects you see.
Here is a link to ebay’s seller central with helpful tips for you to write a great listing.
So you say to me ” Kathy, I’ve done all that and my listing still received no bids”.
Ok did you promote your listing with any Social Media?
What’s key with Social Media is to grab the attention of your potential customers when you first list so they can be aware of your great product AND a day or two before your listing ends AND then again the day your item will end.
All Social Media whether it’s Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google plus, Instagram, Snapchat etc.. works with a feed of some kind and you want to promote your item without spamming several times to get shoppers looking at your listing.
As you will be posting and reposting on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google Plus, Instagram etc be fun and informative to your social media followers so your posts are not just here’s my product for sale buy me, buy me!
Let’s say the ebay auction item you are selling is a great pair of jeans. You could say something about how great jeans are for the weekend, how great it is to add another pair of favorite jeans to your wardrobe etc..
So in short to sell successfully by auction on ebay it’s not enough to list your item among the thousands of products listed every minute on ebay.
If you want juicy prices for your ebay auction listings you’ll need juicy social media posts and several scattered throughout your listing’s lifespan particularly towards the end of the auction!
Use this tip and let me know your ebay auction selling success!