jonathanbrightlight Volunteer Community Mentor
It looks like I'm getting a lot of Ebay views (other sellers?) but nothing external. How does one get someone to externally view?
Looking at the last 30 days, our external views averaged around 8-15% of our total views. Totally normal to have way more eBay views.
I get more external views than eBay views. Most of my external views come from my Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and YouTube social posts. If you want more external views and you are not using social media, you can try sharing your listings using social media.
I am a very small seller, only selling Christmas ornaments, so you may get different results.
30-day traffic on this account
That is completely normal & it doesn't mean that "sellers" are looking at your items. Most of your views are always going to be via eBay for most sellers. They can be buyers, sellers or people who accidentally wound up on the page lol.
Really never focused on the views and watchers very much - focused on getting a shopper to stop and spend their $$ on my listing vs the other guys at my "fixed" price with pronto ship/deliver service after payment.-
Sold top shelve mainly primarily used stuff - clothing men's/women's, footwear, western wear, boots/hats cameras, some watches, wallets, hand bags and jewelry - stuff I was familiar with
. 1. The first three thing shopper sees in a listing are -
- the title - make it brief with key info - size, color, brand etc no sales sizzle,
- a clean close the picture of the item - if possible show just a partial pic of the item - like the upper 1/4th of a shirt, coat - that shows the collar, brand tag, size buttons (I call a show 'em a little leg pic) and followed by lots of details clean pics to show details and bums and bruises. A clear clean pic is a reflection of the seller and so is the not so cleand and clear.
- Price - a separate shipping/handling fee - this way you will show the lowest item price to the shopper to stop and read more if they are interested - your list is your only sales person - make it work for you m
2. short and sweet bullet point written description with all key dimensions - no ruler and item or coin referencing for sizing - one can't read the ruler scale in a small pic
3. Condition - under estimate the condition - every one loves to receive a better than expected item plus I don't really know what the terns - very good, excellent mean to every body - new I can under stand if it has a price tag - never use "like new" - you can't prove it
4. Price - never did free shipping - it will show a higher price to the shopper and they just may do a walk on by. Always did research of what same or similar items sold for and priced items at the mid point of the range. To make a profit the seller needs to source items at a cost that the market will bear and provide a decent minimal profit or more if you can get it - don't believe in selling for next to nothing or single digit prices. Average Item selling price of the 1665 items I ship
ed was $46.5 smd a 45% gross profit on the items. My once in a blue moon sale bought a Polaroid Land camera for 1 dollar at a yard sale - sold it for 1 buck+ $12+ shipping
5. Personally never shipped any thing without tracking and shipped via USPS priority mail via the least expensive service I could. Familiar your self with a all the carrier services and costs - they keep changing. Sold a few lighter than 16 oz items via Ground Advantage - had tracking and deliver time similar to Priority (3 days est). Only once did I ship an item in a box larger than 1728 cu.in - never heard of cubic pricing before as back then it only applied to a couple postal zone (in my case from GA to Cali - got a Gomer
PS: In a nutshell : Guess it is nice to know that your listings are getting views but when I sold something I liked to do this mo betta' . It is hard to tell what trips the trigger of each and every buyer.. - In my selling career I often asked the buyer why did I earn the privilege of receiving your order - of course I asked on after the goods were delivered and paid for... My boss often asked why did you lose that order.
@gurlcat wrote:
@mcdougle4248 wrote:If you want more external views and you are not using social media, you can try sharing your listings using social media.
🤣 I'm kind of excited but mostly confused.
So, I don't have an Instagram account, no idea what the platform even looks like. -Are you saying I can share my listings there, even with no presence of my own there, never mind any friends or "followers" or whatever? Where/how would my listings show up?
I am on Facebook, but I definitely don't want to annoy my friends with sales posts. Incidentally I don't see any eBay listings there either. -I know they're supposedly merging with Marketplace or something, but I mean just my main newsfeed, I never see eBay stuff there. So if I can't picture visibility there, I sure can't picture it on sites where I don't even know how they work.
I'm no expert on social media, especially for advertising your eBay items, but I find that Instagram posts are good when you're trying to get them seen by people you're not friends with/aren't following you, especially if you use tags well (and extensively), but the big drawback that's a killer for sharing eBay items is that you can't share clickable links in Instagram posts (as far as I know). Paid ads can have clickable links, but not just regular posts.
Facebook on the other hand does allow links, but you're less likely to get significant views from non-followers/friends. You can set up a business profile attached to your existing account (so you don't have two logins), but that doesn't really change that except that then your Facebook friends will have to follow that business profile in order to see your posts regularly. I don't recommend Facebook for this purpose.
I do think Pinterest is actually a decent option for eBay, but I don't know it as well so I could be wrong. We actually have all our eBay listings auto-posted to Pinterest, but the automatic posts don't have tags, or any text writeup about the items, so the discoverability of those pins isn't great. If you did it manually, you could probably get much better success.
I'm not familiar with the various other social media options for advertising purposes.
The listings shared on Facebook do not go to Marketplace. They go to your page. Here is the link to my Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/kimsuncannyornaments/ I do not know for sure how people find the posts. I am guessing the posts are shown to people who have shown interest on Facebook in the type of items you are selling. Here is what one of my posts looks like, as it appeared in my feed.
With YouTube sharing from the Social page, you can use a video from your listing or let AI generate one. As you noticed, I do not have videos in my listings, so I use the AI-generated video. The AI-generated video is a slide show. It is not very impressive to me, but people look at them. Here is a link to my YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/@Kimsuncannyornaments/shorts
I hope I am OK sharing those links...everything on my pages is eBay listings.
