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getitright1234 · ‎02-10-2020

Using Social Media to Attract Buyers...is it working?

My reply: It use to.

I Facebook, use Twitter, and Pintrest to promote my listings. In the past, this seemed to generate alot of sales for me, now nothing seems to work.

I am setting more goals to list 20 new things every day. Do you self-promote your listings and if yes, are you seeing a difference?

luckythewinner · ‎02-10-2020

Using Social Media to Attract Buyers...is it working?

IMHO, the answer to this question would depend entirely upon how much of a following one has on social media, and whether one's followers would be interested in the items.

turquoisetulips · ‎02-10-2020

Using Social Media to Attract Buyers...is it working? OP

I often use social media to promote my stuff . I can only recall one time that it proved to work and result in a sale . The rest is just a guessing game . I've never had a buyer tell me they seen my stuff on Facebook . Tulips

gwzcomps · ‎02-10-2020

I don't think it helps without a following. There is more to gain through social media than using promoted listings though.

getitright1234 · ‎02-10-2020

When you facebook or tweet images of your product in the faces of others: you are doing what commercials do, however I sometimes wonder, now, if those interested are being redirected.

There were times when I was getting sales within minutes after twitting or facebooking an old and new listing.

equid0x · ‎02-11-2020

I never had any traction in pinterest other than views. Did a stint paying for ads there and no sales.

I only ever used Facebook to promote my own direct listings. It did result in some sales, but there was a metric **** ton of Facebook messages involved, 99.999% of which went nowhere.

I don't use **bleep**ter and have no interest in doing so and don't really see it as a viable venue for sales.

turquoisetulips · ‎02-11-2020

When you facebook or tweet images of your product in the faces of others: you are doing what commercials do, getitright ------------------------------

Right ,, although commercials can be disruptive[ EX . My pillow guy - eye roll ] and annoying they still put your products out there . As a consumer I prefer commercials not to be so repetitive until I'm already sick of whatever they're selling before I even think about buying . Tulips

southern*sweet*tea · ‎02-11-2020

I've never used social media to promote, mainly because I rarely use social media. I somehow can't picture my buyers flitting about on social media (I like to think they're more grounded than that) but I could be wrong.

The easier you are to offend the easier you are to control.

We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did. - Thomas Sowell

getitright1234 · ‎02-11-2020

It was said, my another poster: using social media to promote your listing is only good if you have a following, and that is not true.

I too get annoyed with the My Pillow Guy, the rotation is too frequent; however he must me doing something right,: getting sales, since he is continuing to pay for the advertisement.

Today, it's just not good enough to simply list your item, Sellers have to draw there customers to them and hope those customers do not get redirected.

Selling full-time is getting harder and harder, I feel if though I have pulled every trick out of the bag to grow more sales, it is becoming very laborious. I love finding and listing new things, but this well is getting drier and drier.

flyingmvp · ‎02-11-2020

We discussed the social media subject a couple of weeks ago, there are few similar posts,

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/Last-31-days/m-p/30613846#M1539309

You are at risk of losing potential sales on hard earned traffic from youtube, FB, twitter etc' which might be handed to other sellers - they will hand your sale to another seller through ads on your listing, cheaper similar offerings at the bottom of the page etc'

that might explain why now, you feel that nothing seems to work.

pburn · ‎02-11-2020

I don't use Twitter, but I don't see any ads on Facebook or Pinterest. Or anywhere else, for that matter, unless I've whitelisted a specific site. I use an ad blocker generally, and specific apps that block ads on Facebook and Pinterest. I wouldn't use them if I had to look at advertising.

I haven't had a television for over a decade. I also use an ad blocker for YouTube, and my ad blocker eliminates ads from other sources of streaming video.

I think more and more people are blocking advertising--I've seen figures as high as 47% of consumers are blocking ads.

P.S. Just for the record, my ad blocker also filters out promoted ads on eBay.

dhbookds · ‎02-11-2020

Well, I suggested on the Townhall that Ebay get better traffic reports so we could SEE if social media links helped with sales........ and also suggested Sellers be paid a % of FVF if they did...... (lol, so you can go vote for it)

If millions of sellers turn into sales people FOR ebay.......we might get more buyers.........

ha_heath · ‎02-11-2020

Using Social in sales or marketing is very good and effective! I often use Facebook & Instagram

getitright1234 · ‎02-11-2020

Thank you for attaching the above post. It summed up almost everything I believed and knew was happening.

My cell phone is a major tool that I use every 30 minutes of the day to promote my listings and I have seen a dramatic drop in its usefulness as I am tweeting and facebook promoting my listings.

I am now awaken enough to know, my sales are out of my control even when I list items that are in high demand.

The constant tweaking the system by trying this and that: adding more product, lowering prices, being open to offers, and back to back sales should have lead to a huge increase in sales, yet that is not the case.

I am willing to do the work, but I can not work without reward. I wanted to remain exclusively loyal to Ebay, but when nothing you do works anymore, it's time to consider other options.