Boosting eBay Sales

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Within this lens various methods of boosting eBay sales will be discussed. Topics will include, presentation, branding, marketing among many other sales boosting techniques.

Whats in a name? 

My first question to you would be.. Does you ebay id/store name reflect the products you sell? If it does not... start brainstorming!!

One of the best starter tips I can offer to anyone selling on eBay is dont pick a name that reflects who you are.. choose a name that reflects the theme of the items you sell!

Remember keep it short, sweet, & to the point.. You want your name to be remembered on eBay. Abbreviations, numbers, etc are not memorable. Nouns are your friend.

The Power of Promotion

Lesser Known Methods available on eBay that provide a high amount of traffic to your listings.

Did you know a candy wrapper could bring tons of traffic to your item listings on eBay? You might be saying huh... how? Its been done! Read on to learn how. Lots of sellers use this formula to bring traffic to their items & it actually works! Seller interest and sales dramatically increase. A seller simply comes up with a marketing concept for a common household item or well known consumer product. For instance a bar of soap with a bit of music added to the auction related to the product. In this instance an old 50's bathing jingle worked well. The seller titles the listing A Bar of Soap, places it in the totally bizzare category on eBay and add extra features to the listing such as bold highlight and large gallery to stand out among other listings. The amount of views for items that follow this marketing concept is extremely high as well as the bids. Often sellers will include a bonus gift that compensates for the bid price which in turn creates an incentive for higher bids. Sellers often find the amount of traffic received is worth the cost of listing a featured listing in the totally bizarre category. I definately recommend experimenting with this method.

Earn Money from all of your eBay Photos

I bet you never thought that instead of paying for a website to host your images that you would get paid instead. Believe it or not it is true! ShareaPic will host your images for free & pay you for every page view you receive. The potential for revenue is enormous especially if you host lots of images and receive lots of traffic on eBay. I highly recommend switching from your current image host to ShareaPic & start earning dough! I signed up with them yesterday & I instantly started earning money. Pinch me.. I feel like Im dreaming.

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Marketing Tools

To discover what products are in demand right now on ebay & sell well be sure to visit eBaySaurus. eBaySaurus displays up to date big movers & shakers currently on eBay. This is a great tool to spot trends & find a selling niche on ebay.

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Additional Niche Finding

Ebay Catman:

eBay Catman is a list of highly popular terms that people search for on eBay. Each eBay Keyword is shown in sections by eBay category and date.


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Popular Products/Terms

Another excellent eBay marketing tool directly available on eBay.

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Adding Music to your eBay Listings

How it enhances the buyers experience & how to do it.

We live in a sensory driven world & subsequently sales are driven via sensory stimulation. This includes music stimulation.

You can insert a music tune in your auction listings via a program called web audio plus. It is available on eBay from various sellers for usually $2 - $5.  It is simple to use and loads music fast due to compression technology. I highly recommend using this program if you wish to add music to your eBay listings or Store Homepage.

Additional Traffic Building Resources & Combining Techniques

The freeadvertising forum is another good resource to build traffic. It boasts almost 200,000 members, & 1 million combined total threads/posts. Unbelievable!! Over 500 people are browsing the forum as I write this.

I recommend joining the freeadvertising forum for several opportunities. First promote your eBay store. Then use this combined technique of adding an image from Shareapic in your signature on the forum. Make a few posts, then go check your Shareapic earnings & I guarantee youll be quite glad you did!

You can apply this technique to any popular forum on the internet. Make the most of your Shareapic hosting! Be sure to use the clickable thumbnails for forums/boards when copying your coding from Shareapic. It will be specially coded for your signature for forum postings.

Free Advertising Forum

 

Combing the Power of Promotion & Adding Music to your eBay listing techniques

If you are interested in driving traffic to your eBay listings via the method described in the Power of Promotion be sure to use Web Audio Plus to add your jingle to your listing.

Creating Products to Sell on eBay

Ever thought of having your own products to sell on eBay? RentaCoder makes this dream a possibility! Currently you will find a variety of sellers on eBay selling a unique software program for a substantial cost with a high sell through rate.

bid to win the project and complete the work for you.

I highly recommend putting this method into action to create your own product niche on eBay.

Reverse Dropshipping

Simply request an affiliate tracking system to be built into your software project. Then you can offer others the opportunity to sell your product, which not only spreads the reach of your product but essentially makes you the dropshipper.


 

Earn Money While Talking About Your eBay Store

Another wonderful free social networking resource to promote your Store is via MyLot. Not only that, you also get paid to post discussions, photos, & much more. I recommend joining MyLot as it is highly complimentary to squidoo and ebay.  Simply do a search under discussions for eBay to catch up with all the chatter. A great experience all around!

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Build a Free Website to Promote your eBay Listings

Creating a complimentary website to promote your eBay listings is a smart move that every eBayer should consider. The more exposure the better! The FreeWebSpace community is a great place to start. They offer lots of great advice & are made up of 68,000 members with 1200 active members online while I write this segment. Be sure to add the FreeWebSpace community to your favorite bookmarks.

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Stumbleupon another great Free promotion tool for your eBay Store

Another new next generation promotional tool has been making waves throughout the internet community. So much so its been reported that ebay is looking to aquire Stumbleupon.

Currently Stumbleupon has over 2 Million Stumblers! How it works: Simply visit any website such as your store home page, you can then rate the site and review it as can other stumblers. Essentially you could add every store page, every product listing you offer to Stumbleupon. Internet viewers will then come across your page via the stumble button. The stumble button is installed into your web browser via a short and free download. Might I add it is lots of fun too! I highly recommend joining the other 2 million users at Stumbleupon.

And dont forget to stumble me!

http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.squidoo.com/boostingebaysales

Stumbleupon

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Happy Stumbling!

Showcase your eBay listings

eBay recently introduced a new tool to promote your eBay listings on websites, blogs, myspace etc.. 

This new tool is known as eBay To Go. It is simple to set up and provides you with a short snippet of code to insert to your website.

Vist eBay To Go at:

http://togo.ebay.com/


Promote Your eBay Store

Be sure to add your eBay store to ListMyStore a high traffic directory of eBay stores.
 



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Promote your eBay Store with a FREE Domain Name for Life

Creating additional traffic to your eBay store has never become more attractive with LunarPages Free domain for life offer. eBay provides all store owners with an off-ebay item link builder. This allows you to create dynamically-updated links to your current Store listings.

You can use this built in ebay store feature in conjunction with your free for life domain name from LunarPages!

 

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Boosting eBay Sales Tips from eBay Store Owners

If you have an eBay store, be sure to select a store theme that allows for your
store description text to show up. While the swirls and other graphics look
cool, the text that you are afforded in the classic theme is SO valuable for
search engines. You can customize the classic theme to any color palette you
want so there should be no fear of not being able to "brand" yourself.

Second- in the vein of branding: take it a step further than just an auction
template. Really go full force and market your look. This includes logos,
business cards, letterhead, packaging etc. Anything that will help a customer
recognize and distinguish your items from a competitor's. You want to capture
their attention and make them remember that they bought from you and make them
feel that they want to buy from you again! www.vistaprint.com is a terrific
company for inexpensive print items such as business cards, address labels,
postcards and flyers etc. Sign up for their mailing list- I receive emails from
them 2-3 times a week with free offers for many of the products I use all the
time. If you shop wisely, you can get tons of things for just the cost of
shipping!

Last- in the vein of earning repeat customers: In addition to brand recognition,
customer service is key! Answer every question no matter how insignificant it
may seem. Surveys have shown that potential customers will often ask a seller a
seemingly innocuous question just to see how that seller responds. Ever get
those ASQ's that say "can you tell me the measurements of this piece?" when you
KNOW that the measurements are clearly defined in the description of the
listing? Instead of getting annoyed and possibly giving a snippy reply or
brushing off the question as insignificant, take the time to make them feel like
no question is too small and you're happy to help. I've earned many repeat,
high volume customers that started out as a question I was groaning about
answering. (Currently about 1 in 3 of my transactions are with returning
customers)

Hope these tips are helpful!

-Tara Beaulieu, owner Scarborough Seashells
Visit Scarborough Seashells on eBay

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Plugboards - Free Promotion

What they are & how you can you utilize them to promote your eBay store.

Plugboards can provide you with an additional source of traffic for your ebay store for no cost at all! Plugboards are a popular form of advertising on websites of all kinds. The webmaster usually has a space or page devoted to a plugboard.
Plugboards are simple to use. You simply enter the location of your advertising banner and the link of your website and within moments you have a free ad on a website!

I highly recommend visiting:
http://hostingwahms.ourtoolbar.com/
They have a toolbar that will install on your internet explorer browser in seconds with links to over 300 plugboards!

A simple search on google will yield tons of links to plugboards.
Have fun plugging!!


eBay Neighborhoods

Promote your items on eBay for FREE!

Be sure to visit eBay's latest addition to their social networking hub:

http://neighborhoods.ebay.com

Simply join a neighborhood and post a topic within the neighborhood. eBay then allows you to add item numbers to your post to display items related to your topic.
Google is already indexing neighborhood posts for additional exposure.

Ship International

Want More Sales? List Worldwide!

A simple way to boost your sales on eBay is to offer worldwide shipping. Think its complicated its not! You can use Priority Mail Flat Rate envelopes & boxes to ship internationally. Buyers overseas often dont have access to the products available domestically. Consider this option, you may even find more sales overseas than regular sales.

Priority Mail International Rates:

Available to more than 190 countries, Priority Mail International service offers 6-10 average business day delivery.

Priority Mail International will now offer the same packaging and flat-rate options available for domestic Priority Mail. The flat-rate envelope is priced at $9 for Canada and Mexico, and $11 for all other countries; and two flat-rate box options - $23 for Canada and Mexico, and $37 for all other countries.

There is a 4-pound weight limit for the Priority Mail International Flat-Rate Envelope and a 20-pound weight limit for the Priority Mail International Flat-Rate Boxes. Tracking information will be available. Limited insurance coverage is included on Priority Mail International items, with the exception of the Priority Mail International Flat-Rate Envelope, where Registered Service will be available at the mailer's option.

Receive a 5 percent online postage discount using Click-N-Ship or authorized postage vendor.

Flat rate envelopes ship for $10.45 with Paypal shipping!

Dont forget to obtain a digital scale to weigh your packages. eBay has extremely great prices on digital scales. See below for these great deals.

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Listing Ticker

Did you ever wish you could post a listing your current eBay auctions to your web page or blog? Now you can with this free tool from AuctionInsights.

Simply enter your eBay ID at the site and click the button. Copy and paste the provided code on your home page, web site, or blog. This free service currently works for listings on the United States eBay site only.

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fashion-mayhem wrote...

Some great info, im always looking for new ways to get more customers. Thank you
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ReplyPosted January 09, 2011

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allzhark wrote...

I never use ebay but your lens give me useful information about it.
good job.

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Great lens, so much info, thanks.

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I used eBay a lot before i moved to eBid but still good info.

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