Re: Promoting eBid listings
Promotion is the biggest bane of my life - I promote on Twitter (I ignore all the angry old people on there and just do it...)
Selling groups on Facebook are another posting point; having a Facebook business page and trying to get people who might be interested in my products to join it and posting information-style ads three or four times a week - but it's all hard work I find....
Be interested to hear others' ideas...
Re: Promoting eBid listings
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Mandart
Promotion is the biggest bane of my life - I promote on Twitter (I ignore all the angry old people on there and just do it...)
Selling groups on Facebook are another posting point; having a Facebook business page and trying to get people who might be interested in my products to join it and posting information-style ads three or four times a week - but it's all hard work I find....
Be interested to hear others' ideas...
I just found you on Twitter and followed you.
Re: Promoting eBid listings
I think that participating in the stamp board would be valuable if you can find a few areas within it where you are comfortable contributing. In the few discussion forums in which I regularly (though lightly) engage, my only promotion of my ebid.net listings are links to my stores within my signatures. I see others who are more aggressive in promoting their wares, but that may be off-putting to many (as it is to me - I'm already inundated with adverts).
I doubt if I'll ever be able to dedicate the time to FB, Twitter or whatever is the latest hot platform. I gave up trying to figure out the purpose of Pinterest, other than it shows up in many image searches - although how one is supposed to be able to navigate from the Pinterest page onward to ebid.net or any other selling site is something that befuddles me as a searcher.
As for your items showing in Google searches, I'd suggest experimenting with titles. Try to put the most important (to someone searching) words at the start of your titles. For instance:
Instead of: USA Toledo Museum Art RPPC Real Photo Postcard Ohio US OH Sepia
Try putting yourself in the shoes of a searcher: Vintage Postcard: Pieter de Hoogh "Interior"; Toledo Museum of Art; Sepia
Despite all the hype about artificial intelligence in search engines, they still assume that titles and descriptions will have the most vital info up-front and will display matches with searches based upon that. It also doesn't hurt to repeat the important terms early in your description. The Internet is a crowded place, so make sure your listing titles are as close as possible to what a person may type into a search engine.
Even with good titles, searches on some items may turn up huge numbers of results, and ours may end up far back in the list. If you can find a few very desirable and less usual items to list, those may have less competition in search engine results. Though those items may not generate many sales, people who are intrigued enough to click may instead wander around your stores to browse other items.
Re: Promoting eBid listings
I post all my listings to my Pinterest page. It only takes a few moments to post the item to Pinterest when listing the item. And a few more to delete the pin when the item sells. I think that I get sales thru pinterest but I know I get followers.
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rocks2dust
As for your items showing in Google searches, I'd suggest experimenting with titles. Try to put the most important (to someone searching) words at the start of your titles. For instance:
Instead of: USA Toledo Museum Art RPPC Real Photo Postcard Ohio US OH Sepia
Try putting yourself in the shoes of a searcher: Vintage Postcard: Pieter de Hoogh "Interior"; Toledo Museum of Art; Sepia
Despite all the hype about artificial intelligence in search engines, they still assume that titles and descriptions will have the most vital info up-front and will display matches with searches based upon that. It also doesn't hurt to repeat the important terms early in your description. The Internet is a crowded place, so make sure your listing titles are as close as possible to what a person may type into a search engine.
Even with good titles, searches on some items may turn up huge numbers of results, and ours may end up far back in the list. If you can find a few very desirable and less usual items to list, those may have less competition in search engine results. Though those items may not generate many sales, people who are intrigued enough to click may instead wander around your stores to browse other items.
Good points. I need to process what you've written about listing titles. I agree. Finding less common items to list is important.
My focus when using listing titles has been to get the words in that a buyer might input here on eBid so that my listing pops up. I'll look at revising titles.
You use the example of one of my postcards.
In all honesty, I'm listing postcards for a low price because I can't bring myself to throw them in the recycling bin.
One of my hobbies is genealogy. If I were to find a postcard written by one of my Shaws, Rathbones, Hastings, Adams, Schwabes, Raths, Flaigs, Lusts, and connections, I would be over the moon. (The first four names are from UK .... Cheshire and Wirral.) It always surprises me that many postcard sellers don't put the country / names of sender / recipient etc., in their title or description. There are so many people interested in genealogy that pictures of locations or postcards written by ancestors are the focus.
Thank you.
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selkab
I post all my listings to my Pinterest page. It only takes a few moments to post the item to Pinterest when listing the item. And a few more to delete the pin when the item sells. I think that I get sales thru pinterest but I know I get followers.
I just found my Pinterest account and changed the password. Thanks.
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FirstGreenIsGold
I just found you on Twitter and followed you.
Thanks for the follow, just reciprocated. Together we can twitter the world away... :)
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FirstGreenIsGold
I just found my Pinterest account and changed the password. Thanks.
I have 400 listings on my Pinterest Board but I have not had any sales from it.
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FirstGreenIsGold
Good points. I need to process what you've written about listing titles. I agree. Finding less common items to list is important.
My focus when using listing titles has been to get the words in that a buyer might input here on eBid so that my listing pops up. I'll look at revising titles.
You use the example of one of my postcards.
In all honesty, I'm listing postcards for a low price because I can't bring myself to throw them in the recycling bin.
One of my hobbies is genealogy. If I were to find a postcard written by one of my Shaws, Rathbones, Hastings, Adams, Schwabes, Raths, Flaigs, Lusts, and connections, I would be over the moon. (The first four names are from UK .... Cheshire and Wirral.) It always surprises me that many postcard sellers don't put the country / names of sender / recipient etc., in their title or description. There are so many people interested in genealogy that pictures of locations or postcards written by ancestors are the focus.
Thank you.
If a Postcard has been Posted. I show both sides in the listing.. Its not possible to put that info in the listing theres not enough room.