1. Find The Best Selling Items

Amazon itself has its Amazon Best Sellers Data that gives complete information on the best sellers of each item, best selling items, most gifted items and most wished for items, based on each category and even sub – category. For eg: If you are a beauty store owner in Amazon selling skin care products, then click on this link:

When you click on the item name, you can see its ranking in Amazon, number of positive reviews to find if it’s a bestselling and good quality product. Once you know the bestselling items, decide your niche. The feasibility of any niche will depend on sales, competition, supplier availability, and so on. Here, you will have to conduct a more detailed market research yourself or you can delegate to a internet market research expert.

2. Study Your Competitors 

See the titles of your competitors and also the descriptions they have given. See what type of images or pictures they use for the items. And also the style of the language used for description. This may attract new customers to your store.  Pay attention to when the top selling items, auctions began and ended. So that you can accordingly set your listings end time. The last but not least the pricing of the items and the shipping cost for the items. 

3.  Conduct detailed  Keyword Research

Once you know which products are bestsellers, and who are your competitors, next step is to empower your listings and titles. Here you need to conduct a detailed keyword research to know what people search on  Google to read reviews or find products like your products. A professional keyword research package will be a good way to get a list of keywords that work and have less competition. Next step would be to write reviews or posts related to your products based on these keywords, and link them to your Amazon Store Listings.

Advantages You Get By Conducting This Niche Market Research For Your Products/Items?

• 1) You will know which products have good market yet less competitive
• 2) You can introduce more items related to your current product category
• 3) You can learn from top sellers in your product area. Do not have to invent the wheel again!
• 4) Will be helpful in creating better pricing policy and marketing strategies, when you have access to facts and statistics.

Things To Consider:

Here are few things to consider before selling your items.

• The main channel that helps customers to come to your site is through keyword optimized title and listing. The post on “The 5 Step Plan to Make Your eBay Listings Attractive to Target Market” will help you write an attractive listing to help search engines notice your site.

• As you know, “In Online selling, customers always prefer buying products only after reading reviews to check the authenticity and quality of the product”.  Therefore, please read our 5 Proven Tips To Encourage Your Customers Share Your Amazon/Ebay Business.

• It is also important that you should manage a good feedback for your store. Check out  4 Rules That OBVA Virtual Assistants Follow To Manage Positive Feedback Ratings For Clients will surely help you manage positive feedback for your store.

Remember this tool is applicable only if you are an Amazon seller. Since it is the best time to increase your income, you may not have time to focus on all tasks. You can delegate your tasks to Virtual Assistants who can manage your complete store services. We do product research to find best selling products, its competitive prices, writing concise yet informative listing description, marketing, customer support, managing claims, disputes and 100% positive feedback for our eBay and Amazon store clients. Please contact us to outsource your complete store services. We never work for your competitors.

Here are the 7 cardinal rules you can follow to make your business achieve the next level.

1. Be focused:

It doesn’t mean that you are not focused these years about your store. Though working hard these years hadn’t helped you achieve any goals, stepping up in to a new year will always give someone boost up to and a positive attitude to turn out the business to be a successful one. Always be more focused about the goals to be achieved and plan accordingly. Follow these Top 7 EBay Selling tips to know more on how to sell something on eBay.

2. Hire a right assistants for your business:

What would make an eBay business success? A good team is the basement for any successful business. Though you may be the business owner, you need to have people who can help you in suggesting business improvements to grow your business. So make sure you have right people at your hand. If not hire eBay Virtual assistants today.

3. Build a best team:

As you all know, success always lies in best team work. So it’s time for you to organize a superior team who can well co-operate with each other and leverage your business in a better way. It is also very important to analyze the skill of your team members so that you can come to know who can do what work and assign accordingly.

4. Add more value to your products and services:

This is the heart of your business. Proper planning would always help solve half the problem. So find out the products that doesn’t gives more profit to your company and make a list of them. Do a complete analysis of its competitors, sale through prices etc. Now you need to find the best way of how to sell them with good profit.

You may include attractive packages for wrapping, offer discounts or reduce the costs, or include freebies with them. Though this seems to be a common tactic, yet discounts and freebies always entice a customer to choose your store than your competitors. For eg, many customers always look for free shipping. Why don’t you offer the same when customers look for this particular product?

5. Set your goals for this year:

Without setting any target one cannot reach top, both officially and personally. Set your plans today. It is good to make a complete eBay business plan for the whole year and the split it accordingly for every quarter. Build a team that would report on business level for every week so that you can make a call accordingly to fix the issues. If you find it difficult, allocate these work to Professional virtual assistants who are good at doing it.

6. Build trust:

Any successful business can be identified by the trust their customers have on them. This can be created by brand awareness and quality of the products and service they provide. So don’t worry if you have very less customers following. Try to satisfy those few customers and they will become your walking advertisements to get tens or hundreds of customers to your company. So always be loyal to your existing customers by having a personal touch with them.

7.  Be a smart worker and hard worker as well:

Smart work is very important but you need to strive hard to accomplish all your goals. Successful entrepreneurs never quit even if they fail but they keep on moving with new goals and achievements. So you may be smart in making a good business plan but you always need to commit yourself in learning new ideas and techniques to make your business grow higher.

If you are ready with all these things including right business plan, right people then this year would be your year of success! If you need assistance in eBay selling please contact us.  Follow us on Twitter, like our Fanpage and +1 in Google plus to get more updates on eBay selling tips. Grab our RSS feed  to increase your selling in eBay and Amazon Happy selling!!

Follow these tips to increase you selling this holiday season.

Tip 1# Find and Sell Hottest Items That People Are Looking For:

Few items will always have a huge demand in the holiday season.  Find those items and try to sell them in your store with great deals. For e.g., If you are toy shop owner, try to search for the most wished items that people are looking for. A recent research states that Video Barbie dolls are the best selling this year. So do a research and find out the items that people are crazily looking for this holiday season.

Tip 2# Promise To Ship On Time:

Though many sellers sell items with  great deals, it is known to anyone that packages could mess up due to this holiday season. Hence they would always look for a store that ship items within 24-48 hours. This is the second factor that customers would see after choosing which item to buy. So promise your buyers that you would ship items within the specific time. If you can’t manage shipping, you can delegate your routine shipping label printing to experienced Virtual Assistants to take care of your shipping so that you can ship items in 24/7 hours. Include this in your listing as it would entice your customers to choose your store.

Tip 3# Include Free Shipping Option:

Free shipping option is another hot tactic followed by many retailers. Some are also offering discounts in shipping or include coupons for expedited shipping. The NRF’s data says, that some 5% of merchants will offer such a deal for orders placed as late as the last day of season. Hence push your sales by offering free shipping for orders and discounts in shipping for multiple orders.

Tip 4# Have Your Customers Spread The Word For You:

As we know, word of mouth is the best form of marketing, why not encourage your customers to talk about your offers and deals on their Social Media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, blogs, etc? For example, you can offer free coupons or gift vouchers to your customers who can tweet your offers. By this way you can promote your store and you can have more customers. This technique have been used by very big companies like Microsoft and Facebook.

Tip 5# Avoid Selling Poor Quality Goods:

Since manufacturers are selling goods directly to their customers there may be shortage of inventory due to peak season. You must be prepared with inventory. Do not sell poor quality fake items. Because, any customer who loves your product will never go to other sellers. In this peak season, any new customer may come to store and purchase items. If they love your items, then there’s a chance that they may turn into long term returning customers. So make use of this by selling the goods directly from manufacturer. For this, you can take an inventory report daily and find out the best selling items and have them in extra stock so that you may not suffer.

With the above said tips I hope that you would be able to increase you sales this holiday season. For every sales do a market research and find out the hot trend and hottest items that sell in market. If you find any difficult in doing it delegate it to professions. We at OBVA do research for our clients and get them more sales and profit during holiday seasons. You can join our community by liking our Fanpage or following us in Twitter.

We at OBVA would like to share Last-Minute Tips how to sell something on eBay/Amazon  this holiday season:

Spread Your Offers In Social Media:

Promote your ads/offers using paid advertising campaigns in Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ to entice more visitors. Attractive offers like Buy two get one free, bonus gifts for every purchase etc..can boost more sales. Also, Flash news about one time offers like “Barbie dolls with gift wrapped for free shipping only today”, Foundation creams with Free shipping for first 20 international customers”  will turn you customers to click the buy buttons. You may not have time to involve in such creative and attractive offers to your customers. Delegate such tasks to Virtual Assistants quickly to end your deals.

Word Of Mouth Spreading Through Referral Marketing:

Once you come with attractive offers, encourage your customers to be your walking advertisements. This with no doubt can increase your sales.  Implementing this will not only increase your sales but would maintain a high volume selling in the coming year 2011.  “Refer your friends and get 20% discount on your next purchase can increase your sales” or ” Share it to your friends and get a free gift coupon today!” can get you high ending sales volume. Here are  Top 3 Tips To Convert Your New Customers To Repeat Customers  that might help you.

Mobile And Email Marketing:

According to a recent research it has  been estimated that more than 420 million smart phones will be selling in this year 2011. Hence make use of this effectively, by sending message alerts with special offers and discounts to your customers may change their buying mood to your store. Email marketing is another best way to promote your business with great offers. More than one-third of online shoppers say they would not make a purchase without a free shipping offer. Hence make this is a subject to increase your selling. Here are few Tips To Encourage Your Customers Share Your Amazon/Ebay Business .

Though many store owners may be enticing their customer with more offers, stand out of the crowd by making your offers clear, focused and easy to understand.  Your offers should be clean, brief, to the point and should turn any customer to click on buy buttons. If you do have time to write such exclusive offers, you can hire experts to quickly generate more leads. Here are few “ Holiday Selling Tips That No Seller Will Share With You” which you can use to increase your sales. No matter if it is too late to choose your Virtual Assistant, delegating to experts always help. Happy Selling!

Discount offer #1 announced by eBay:

On Dec 1^st eBay announced  that “All PowerSellers: Save up to 32% on USPS shipping this holiday season” This program offers Commercial Plus™ Pricing—savings of up to 32% off of retail pricing—when you pay for postage and print labels from eBay Labels. If you haven’t signed up yet, enrollment is easy—you can do so the next time you use eBay Labels.  eBay Top-rated sellers and Platinum or Titanium PowerSellers qualify for this discount year-round.

Who are Powersellers? eBay’s “Powersellers” are a group of sellers who are distinguished by the amount of volume they produce in online sales. These Powersellers are the very small group of eBay sellers that do at least $2,000 per month in sales on eBay and maintain a 99% positive feedback rating. If you want to know more about how to become one, here is a post on “Top 10 Secrets That You Should Know To Become A Powerseller.”

Discount offer #2 announced by eBay:

Another discount that eBay announced for the holidays is the 20% Final Value Fee discount, which is just one more way to save!

During holidays everyone is willing to do more business and get more profit.  Apart from making the most of each offer, a seller should also concentrate on how to write effective listing, take good care of customers, maintain positive feedback and claims, etc. You may need to do huge volume of listing, packing and shipping each month, you may consider delegating the tasks to eBay virtual assistants who can help you do the tasks for in time. You can then concentrate more on important aspects of your business and monitor the whole show.

During holiday season, one aspect that needs utmost attention from eBay sellers is feedback. Try to avoid these “7 customer service mistakes that can result in a negative feedback.” Always try to resolve the issue by contacting the buyer on time. Here is “eBay Feedback Revision Tip” that can help you get your feedback revised.

Once the shipping labels are printed, eBay sends automated emails to your customers. You can add wishes like “Merry Christmas” or “Happy New Year” to add to the customer experience.

We will certainly keep you posted with more news and offers from eBay and Amazon. You can subscribe to our blog RSS here, like us on Facebook and friend us on Twitter, and we would love to interact with you more often. If you are thinking of delegating your store, check out our customized services here. We offer completely customized eBay store and Amazon store services.

Recently, there was an announcement by Todd Lutwak, Vice President of Seller Experience recently  “One day only! On November 29, list up to 1,000 items Auction-style for free. Add Buy It Now for free, too!  This one-day only promotion applies to all sellers. If you have missed out this offer, you missed out something, but remember to stay tuned for more upcoming offers. If you really want to make the most of this holiday season , you have to stay tuned to the latest news and updates so that you can make the most out of this holiday offers. Here are some useful  Holiday Selling Tips That No Seller Will Share With You!

To start with, you should be prepared for more offers to come. How to get started?

Track your listing time:

You can create your listings at your convenience and control the time they start and end. eBay gives sellers the option of listing items for 1,3 or other days as per your choice. Any auction listing will end the same time the day it is supposed to end. When you list your items,  remember to apply the best listing ending time as per visitors traffic.

Optimize your listing endings smartly:

Your BIN listings and auction listings must end during a time when there are more visitors at eBay.  There is a general assumption that auctions that end on Sunday will have more bids. You can read “How to make your ebay auctions more effective” to know more on auction timings. Also, if your auction listings live for longer, you will get more bids. So, more chances of getting a good selling price for your product.

Your listing must be properly optimized for look, feel and SEO:

Start thinking as a potential customer and try and figure out how they are going to be searching for your item or your store. If you want your store or listing to show up when the customers search for it, make it keyword optimized. The right keyword can earn you first page in search and if you want it to be done in a professional way give the task to internet research experts who can give you good results. eBay tool  “eBay Research Labs BayEstimator” can be used here or the perfectly optimized eBay title. Here is a post  by eBay virtual assistants which gives “The Steps To Get High Search Engine Ranking Optimization For Your eBay Listings“.

Distribute the listing well using Social Media:

Recently Facebook introduced Tagging of photos for Fanpage. This means that you can create a listing, add your product image on your fan page and then tag those pictures with your fan page. You can use social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin to promote your listings. Here are some of posts that can guide you. ‘Use of Facebook for eBay/Amazon’, ‘Use of LinkedIn for eBay/Amazon, and ‘Use of Twitter for eBay/Amazon.’ And also there are some of the applications that can be used to promote your eBay business such as 6 Facebook Applications Which Can Be Used for eBay/Amazon Business and 5 Twitter Applications That Can Be Used for eBay/Amazon Business. If you choose to automate your listings, then “Turbo Lister – Top eBay Marketing Tool “is a good tool to start with. However, it is always wise to have a person look through the listings done automatically, to review any errors, etc.

To create an effective listing you may need professionals help so delegate it to eBay virtual assistants who are experts in creating it for you. You should  have a team in place for all regular activities so that customers are taken care of in the busy season. A few negative feedbacks may spoil your chances of faring well during holiday season. So, why take a chance? Delegate your routine store tasks to professionals who can work with minimum supervision, so that you can focus on more sales this year end. Happy Holiday Selling to you!

Reason #1 : You May Not Have Time To Do Regular Market Research On Your Own – And Market Research Is Unavoidable

Market research is the base for any successful online business. It is required both during the initial planning phase and also for ongoing learning. Once you come with the products to sell, you need to know what would be the niche keywords for your business, who are your competitors, your target customers and how is the competitionfor your product. This is a detailed process and the result will highly impact your business either positively or negatively. If you find the right keywords then with no doubt you can rank high in the competition. On the adversary if the keywords you choose are not right then your business will be a complete loss. What if your business turns out to be a failure due to wrong marketing? The best way is to delegate your product research to Internet research professionalswho can find out niche keywords for your products, their competitors, sale through prices etc. so that you have facts and figures at your finger tips, that help you take right decisions.

Reason #2 – A Professional Can Write SEO Optimized Listings Faster And Better

This is the second phase. SEO plays a prominent role in making your listings visible to the target market. Writing search engine optimized listing will certainly increase your site traffic. So when you sell hundreds or thousands of products then you need to write effective keyword rich item title, description that should be clear, concise, informative and self explanatory. If you are not an experienced SEO expert, then it’s wise to delegate the product listing writing to SEO experts who can write SEO listings for your productsto get more business for you.

Reason #3- Dedicated Professionals For Customer Service Which Avoids Late Reply And Negative Feedback

Many new eBay/Amazon businesses rise up or rank well soon in the competition.  The question is “Does it maintain its consistency?” When you see many successful Amazon sellers or eBay power sellers they work very hard to strive in the competition. How do they finally succeed? They always work hard to maintain their DSR rating and feedback.  Their target is to keep their customers happy. So if their customers are not satisfied they would soon work on a better solution to keep them happy which is the best tactic for any successful business. Also, when any customer comes to your store, only your store feedback will help them decide to become a buyer or just a visitor. What you want them to be? Just a visitor or a lead? If you have less experience in maintaining 100% positive feedback, delegate your store customer service to customer service professionalswho can promptly solve your customer’s concerns and keep them happy and satisfied because in online business, feedback makes all the difference.

Reason #4 – Better Marketing Because Marketing Needs Time Commitment And Experience

Marketing helps you considerably boost your sales. You need to create your business profile in major social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin etc.. Your customers should be informed about regular product updates, new products and offers, etc. Therefore, you need to commit yourself in spending part of your time daily in marketing your site. Do you have the time to do this? The best way is to delegate your site marketing to social media virtual assistants. for promoting the listings on social media, and they can help you with other forms of marketing too.

Reason #5- You can balance life better!

We all earn to make our life better!. But when you put all the burden on yourself to make your business a successful one, then you will find no peace even though you may be  making good money.  If you see any successful business owner, they  spend their time only in developing the core areas of their business. What about their other tasks? They simply delegate routine tasks to professional virtual assistants. If you never tried out delegating before, drop us an email  to schedule a call on how we can help you.

Here are some of the eBay marketing tools that can be used effectively to increase the sales during this holiday season and also get good feedback rating.

1.      Part 1 – Turbo Lister – Top eBay Marketing Tool

Turbolister  is a tool that can be used offline to prepare as many items for sale as you want. You can add items into it whenever you are free and can upload them all in one batch. When you know which time the listing gets more bid, you can plan your listings accordingly.

2.      Part 2 – Terapeak – Top eBay Marketing Tool

Terapeak is widely used by established sellers alike who want be on top of all eBay Market data. This tool is a must for any eBay seller looking to collect valuable insights into what’s selling, who’s selling it, and for for how much?

3.     Part 3 – eBay Listing Analytics – Top eBay Marketing Tool

eBay listing analytics helps you review the performance of each and every item of your store.  This can be done either by entering the keyword or the item number. You can also review the performance of your listings in a particular category.

4.      Part 4 – Selling Manager-Top eBay Marketing Tool

Selling Manager is an online sales management tool for managing your eBay listings. It is an effective tool especially for new, small and medium sized eBay sellers. After your listings are created manually or using a bulk listing tool like Turbo Lister you can manage and track your listings using Selling Manager.

5.      Part 5 –Blackthorne Basic– Top eBayMarketing Tool

Blackthorne is similar to Turbolister. i.e it is also an offline tool that can be downloaded in the computer. Blackthorne Basic is an effective bulk listing tool that can also be used in post auction management, tracking auction listings, tracking emails and manage feedbacks.

6.      Part 6 – Bay Research Labs BayEstimator

BayEstimator is the most popular tool within the eBay Research Labs. BayEstimator helps you in writing optimized title for your product. Hence, by writing an effective item title, when your potential customer search for the item related to your business, your store will be listed in the search result thus increasing your traffic and sales, (if you have written a wonderful and effective eBay listing too )

7.      Part 7 – Here is A Top eBay Marketing Tool “Deal Finder”

According to eBay Deal Finder is “To truly find the best deals, we built Deal Finder to compare the current selling price of an item on eBay to the lowest price we can find for the same item”.

Above are some of the effective marketing tools that can be used to increase sales. And also you can go through “How to Increase Sales with eBay Markdown Manager” – Shared By eBay Virtual Assistants Of OBVA” to increase sales and become top seller in eBay. eBay Virtual assistants use these tools to increase sales and increase traffic to their customer’s stores.  Some of the tools are easy to learn and access  making it easy for anyone to learn and use them effectively.. For more updates on eBay grab our RSS feed . You can also like our Fanpage and follow us on Twitter.

Keep your customers smiling by great customer service

You have a attractive offer for your product listing that makes a potential buyer click on your listing. Good. But then, the buyer  checks your feedback and immediately leaves your store. All your hard work is gone for a toss now. As you know, customer feedback is very important for any business, and all the more important for online stores like Amazon where it is transparent for anyone to see. While we can work on getting the feedbacks removed , it is best to follow the rules to avoid feedback at the first place. Therefore, it is critical for sellers to pay close attention to their ratings everyday.  .  .

Amazon does automatically send buyers a feedback request after 30 days . Still, you can use creative ways to attract more positive feedback. For example, you can add a note with shipped products thanking customers for their purchases and requesting a feedback. This simple trick can boost seller feedback ratings. Try to avoid these 7 customer mistakes that can get you a negative feedback. Speedy shipping during busy season is very important for buyers as they purchase for gifts and they want the gifts to show up on time. Offering expedited shipping on your orders shows you care about customer satisfaction. Always try to ship the item as soon as you receive the payment so that you do your best to ensure the product reaches quick. When we print labels for our clients during our day, which is USA night, the products are shipped within 12-24 hours, as we make use of time difference. Most of our feedback says, ‘Fast Shipping’, ‘reached earlier than expected, and so on.’

Take care of your customers all through – post order  customer service

There is a higher probability of lost rate during holiday season due to large amount of volume the shipping companies get. In order to avoid any negative or neutral feedback after shipping the item make sure that you follow certain rules so that you keep your customers happy and make them your long term buyer.

a) Cancellations-

If a buyer has made a mistake with an order and wants to fix it by cancelling then you can cancel the order at your end and refund to the customer and make sure that the order is not shipped again which will cause unnecessary feedback. If the order is already shipped then ask the customer to send back the item and you can inform the customer that you will refund once you receive the item. This will make the buyer think that you are reasonable and are trying to help him and this will make him a happy customer.

b) Product not received-

As I mentioned earlier the lost rate during holiday season is high. And if a customer sends you an email that he has not received it give them full detail of shipment and also try to track the item at your end. If the item is not received by the buyer in the stipulated time then send a replacement or refund depending upon the customer’s choice.

There are cases when the tracking shows delivered but the customer did not receive the item. In those cases try to make communicate to the buyer in a polite way look for the item  and if still not received you can send a replacement to keep him/her as a repeat customer. In case of returning the item make sure to write your own return policy. Read these “5 tips on how to write return policy” to make sure that you write effective and transparent policy. The point is don’t keep the buyer in dark .

c) Item reached damaged –

It helps to have a clearly defined return policy which states under which cases, you will offer full refund, or part refund and which cases won’t be covered for refund. When your customer gets back to you for a return request, try to be reasonable. While answering customer emails, we try to put ourselves in customers’ shoes so that we can offer a best possible solution.

Keeping your seller account secure

During this holiday season there is will be higher volume which can make any account disrupt. Many internet software spammy mails and phishes can disrupt your computer or seller account. You need to avoid these in order to keep your account secure. Start updating your software which you use for security on a regular basis. Since internet hackers can get your password and other security questions keep your malware scanning programs on your computer up to date.

You can also restrict your internet usage to only those sites you know and trust so that any unknown person or kids cannot use your computer. Update whatever software or operating system you are using and also download their security patches.  Be careful in opening email which do not end with “@amazon.com”. And also make sure go directly to the Amazon.com website to make any changes to your seller account. You do not want to be stuck with a fraud and loose money when your goal is to make more money on Amazon. You can also read this post on “Few Safest Payment Options In eBay”

I hope my previous post and this one would have given you some ideas on how to sell stuff on Amazon in coming holiday season. I would really appreciate if you comment and grab our RSS feed. You can also like our Facebook fan page and follow us on Twitter.

Attract Customers By Offering Great Deals

Why should customers choose you over your competition? This is the question that should pop up in your head every time you plan to write a new listing this holiday season.. Offering your customers  freebies (like a free sample or a free gift coupon, etc.) is a great way to make them open your listing page and then press the BUY Button. Also, if you can publish your best offers on Social Media sites, you can make the offer spread through the network. If you are not using Social Media for promoting your listings, then you may read “ List Of 7 Killer Posts – ‘eBay And Amazon Social Media Marketing“. Also, I am adding a whole list of posts on Social Media Marketing for eBay  at the bottom of this post. Do not forget to read through them before you market your next listings.

Before you market, make sure that your offer is very attractive for prospective buyers. Apart from Social Media, you can also get the word out through e-mails, blog posts, and tweets. If you have a Fanpage for your store, you can post your offer listings on the wall.  You can post updates on your fan page that create anticipation for an upcoming offer. If you follow Facebook announcements recently for free advertisement for small businesses in 2012. Here is a post from Under30CEO  “ Will Free Facebook Ads Help Your Business?” which analyzes the free ads of Facebook. You will notice how effectively they have created anticipation already.

You can also make use of One Day, One Deal sites like Woot which  has been acquired by Amazon. this sites offer a new item offer every single day . So make use of sites like these to attract more customers

Read the recent announcements(if any) from Amazon

Okay. You have a great product to sell. You are ready with the price and everything and then suddenly you get a bad surprise. Amazon doesn’t allow you sell that product. After all the hard work and preparation, this news won’t be pleasant for you, I guarantee and then you would so much wish you read the recent announcements before putting in so much of efforts and hardwork. For example, if you are a toy seller, it will be wise to read through “Holiday Selling Guidelines in Toys & Games” before anything else. There are some categories requiring approval. So it is wise to do a good quality Internet Amazon Market Research before diving into the market.

Focus on writing an attractive yet genuine ad

The most important step in writing an ad is to get reader’s attention with a strong opening which should make your customers read the entire ad and get to know about the offers which you are going to give them.  You have to create desire for your product by stating a problem and showing your product to be the solution. You can work on the images and write your offer in an attractive way to encourage visitors click on your listings. For example, FREE SHIPPING,BUY 1 GET 1, and so on. Nowadays, listings consist of demo videos where the product features are nicely showcased. A simple video too can make your listing more useful for the buyers. You can create a few images and listings for the same product and experiment. Stick with the ones that do the best. Daily deals and lightning deals are game-changers during this period because they create a sense of urgency and everyone is particularly price sensitive during the holidays. So make sure you offer a great price for the items and attract as many customers to your webstore as possible. Give them value for money and they will leave you a positive feedback for sure.

In this post, we discussed on listing part, in my upcoming posts, I will share with you more on next post will discuss on how to keep  your seller account secure, how to do great customer service during holidays, and how to handle post order problems. Grab our RSS feed for more information on Holiday Sales. Follow us on Twitter and Like us on our Fanpage to get more updates regarding Amazon business.

As per per promise, here is a list of Social Media Marketing related training posts:-

Post 1 – How eBay and Amazon Businesses can use Facebook for promoting their online stores.

Post 2 – How Linkedin can be effectively used for eBay and Amazon Businesses

Post 3 – How eBay and Amazon Businesses can use Twitter for promoting eBay and Amazon Businesses

Post 4 – 6 Facebook applications that can be used for eBay and Amazon Businesses

Post 5 – Avoid these 7 Customer mistakes that can result in negative feedback

Post 6 – Top 5 Effective Twitter applications that can be used for eBay and Amazon Businesses

Post 7 – 5 Linkedin Applications that can be used for eBay and Amazon Businesses

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