Sales

[carniland_market]

How to grow sales to $500 in a month? what are the tricks?

[downunder-61]

No tricks, just find items that buyers want, at a reasonable price, fast shipping and great customer service if a buyer has a problem.

It takes time for any new business to grow, no one goes fro 0 to 200 miles an hour in the early stages.

[dbfolks166mt]

     Unless you have a fixed rate of return on the sale of your items you may be asking the wrong question. You can sell $500 a month in merchandise and either make money, loose money or break even. I never consider total sales to be a business goal but focus on what my rate of return is on my investment. Which is better to sell $500 a month and make a net return of $50 or to sell $200 a month and make $100? 

     Take a bigger view of your business model and determine what you want your net return, after expenses and taxes, to be and let that drive your business model/goal. 

[1tuna]

repeat sales to regulars

with the new display you can see all the regulars

when I sell 20 items at auction on a thursday night you can see all the repeats

up and down the page are "repeat buyer"

never end a 99 cent auction to sell as a buy it now no matter what price its at

bidders buyers and ebayers dont like an auction that does not go for 7 days

when you end it early you rob them of a chance to bid and it leaves a bad taste with them

watchers will bid at the end of an auction and they dont want the chance of the listing disappearing

@carniland_market 

[inhawaii]

That's a very odd question.

You think there is some kind of "trick" to selling $500 a month?

I sell more than $500 a month.

There are no tricks.

It's all hard work.

[ckimodog]

Tricks are for kids...

Go here and find out what you need to know:

https://sellerschool.ebay.com/

[bashort]

Find a niche  and make it your specialty. 

[carniland_market]

Thank you so much for your reply.