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How can I increase sells?

Can anyone help me with any suggestion or advice??  thanks!😊

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Hi and welcome, took a look at your listings and thought they looked great on the whole. I had a couple of thoughts to add:

 

Free shipping is an important sales tool. But using it in every title takes away from keywords needed to describe the item. When a buyer sees your offerings in the gallery, right below the price is the Free Shipping banner. So it is already prominently displayed to buyers by eBay on the thumbnail. Use the title for keywords related to the item for sale instead.

 

You have a lot of items without brand names or ones unrecognizable to the shopper. It is very hard to sell those kinds of unbranded goods on eBay. Brands are a major keyword draw to those searching on the platform. You will have to be more descriptive and provide more information in the titles in order to draw the buyer in.

 

For example, take the listing for the green leaf earrings. Your title: “Fashion earrings for women FREE SHIPPING”. That tells the buyer absolutely nothing about the earrings at all. It is completely generic. Suggested title: Green Leaf Tropical Earrings Pierced Dangle Faux Tortoise Shell Design”.


Things like brand, color, size, style, and key features should be included in the title, Item Specifics and the description. Btw, those are not stud earrings, they are french hook dangle earrings. You can use Google or Pinterest to pull up graphs on styles of things to get more information if you aren’t sure yourself.

Put size indicators in the listings. Not just clothes need dimensions. Staying with the earrings listing, no where is there any indication of the size of the dangles. Are they large? Small? Measure them with a ruler and put that in. It also doesn’t hurt to put a coin or ruler in one of the photos to show scale and aid the customer who is trying to decide what size they are.

 

Photos need to show all angles. Since the buyer cannot examine the item in hand, you have to do it for them. Show front, back, sides, top and bottom. Show close-ups. Flaws. Tags. Etc. Some of your listings show these and some don’t. Every item needs it.

 

Your Description fields are non-existant. All data needs to be articulated in the description field. Repeat info from the titles and the Item Specifics, and add any other pertinent details. All this is important. Search engines look at those three areas’ info to pick up listings for inclusion in their searches. This helps bring more traffic to your specific listings if included in Google, Bing and the like. Below is a link on how to optimize your listings for Search, from eBay.

 

https://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/listing-and-marketing/boost-traffic-with-seo.html

 

Hopefully these suggestions will give you a boost on how to improve your sales. You have made a great start, now you just need to fine tune your listings. I wish you much success. Come back anytime you like for help or to join in the conversation. Good luck.

 

 

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Step one: LIST MORE STUFF.

Step two: SEE STEP ONE. 

 

It sounds a little simple but it works. If you're new to eBay, there are 2 things I tell everyone:

-Don't sell anything you can't afford to be scammed out of 

-Don't over think things. 

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Take the FREE SHIPPING out of your titles & try and be more creative wth keywords. List something every day either one or two items on the cheaper side. Try a few different categories.

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find trending items and list

use good keyword and discription

try to give the all the things of your item in your listing

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HOW we find good keywords?

 

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Don't waste title space touting free shipping, sell stuff that's not ugly

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@andypan_2 wrote:

Don't waste title space touting free shipping, sell stuff that's not ugly


Hi @andypan_2 

You would be surprised at how well ugly things go for. I have made mistakes in the past selling items i considered ugly and therefore not valuable, only to discover later they were worth a fortune. So now i don't pass over the ugly stuff. Plus, tastes differ. What you consider ugly, i might consider beautiful. It is all subjective.

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One mans junk is another mans treasure so source stuff you don't like as its not about what you like its about what buyers want

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@onlinepr39 wrote:

HOW we find good keywords?

 


@onlinepr39 

 

Pick a word that you know and cross-reference with a Thesaurus.

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@fashunu4eeuh wrote:

@andypan_2 wrote:

Don't waste title space touting free shipping, sell stuff that's not ugly


Hi @andypan_2 

You would be surprised at how well ugly things go for. I have made mistakes in the past selling items i considered ugly and therefore not valuable, only to discover later they were worth a fortune. So now i don't pass over the ugly stuff. Plus, tastes differ. What you consider ugly, i might consider beautiful. It is all subjective.


@fashunu4eeuh 

 

Two items I flipped were a Goyard tote and a Versace ball cap. Neither did a thing for me, but sure sold well. LOL

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@onlinepr39 wrote:

HOW we find good keywords?

 


This is a kind of hard question to answer, if i understand the question. There are eBay keyword generators out there online, but for the most part, your keywords are those descriptors that define what your item is. You are the primary keyword finder. Things like color, brand, size, style, material, etc. describe your item. Those are your keywords. Also, look at what words other sellers use in their titles and Item Specifics to get ideas.

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First of all I want to thank you for the time you took to look my profile. I will definitely work on those suggestions , I believe It will be a better improvement for my sales. 

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You are right about that , Don't over think , I do it all the time , I need to change that  

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Thank you for your help , I will keep that in mind

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