promoting

[pjgymcoach]

has it become necessary to promote your items to get a sale?  is it worth is?

[gator08041971]

@pjgymcoach 

I have never found it necessary and I don't use those features myself.

However it can be varied depending on what you are selling and how much competition you have with your chosen selling items.

If you have a lot of competition, you either have to price low, or advertise to get noticed.

If you are selling items that are not as popular or as plentiful, not nearly as much need for that and you can set the prices more where you want them to be.

Just have to do your research.

[**selling**stuff**]

I was always against it, but after trying, and only promoting at 2%, it seemed to make my sales double.. when i would normally get around 8 sales a day, i now get around 20, so id rather play the volume game than the dollar game.. 

[inhawaii]

I don't promote.

My sales are just fine.

[gator08041971]

Having said all that.

I had chose an item that hasn't sold yet and has been listed a while, and I just enabled promotions on THAT item, at 2%.

Let's see if that changes the traffic on that item at all.  I will update this later.  I'm not going to tell anyone here which item and hopefully it gets traffic naturally, not as a result of this post.

Fee for that item won't be too harsh at 2%.

[lakefor94]

@pjgymcoach 

IMO, I would not throw more than 2% at it.

Been moving any of those beenie babies?

[chapeau-noir]

Depends on your market. For super-oversaturated markets like clothing, I think it's getting needful - which is really annoying because as a sales technique it has a very finite lifespan, and is reaching the end of it, so use it while it works, until it stops working.

If you're not in a ridiculously saturated market like clothing and accessories, I don't think it'll do as much as having good SEO and optimised listings with good photos, and that you can do on your own.

So, that's what I know.

[mam98031]

@pjgymcoach 

Most sellers do not promote their listings.  

Promoted listings works very well for some sellers and not so much for others.  It is just something you should test out for yourself to see what works best for you.

Now is not likely a good time to test this until the economy settles down and people are shopping more.  

[toysaver]

It does not cost anything to try it out, even for a few days.   You are only charged the extra percentage on related sales.   You can still have sales that were achieved without being promoted and eBay takes no promoted listing fee.  If a listing was sold after being promoted the fee appears it in the payment section as a separate deduction.   You can also stop it anytime.  It's not like your hooked into a contract.  

[jcrk56]

Pretty much hit and miss Ebay takes a big chunk .

[movieman630]

It's one of those things that once you turn it on, it's very very hard to ever go back to not using it.  If you do it's best to start at the minimum and look for results.

[meme6253]

I noticed you have a variety of items which is good, You may want to try promoting, you can start low like between 2-3%, That is what I use, Online selling has become highly competitive in almost all categories & there are all the economic issues so you need to try & draw potential customers to your items now more than ever, You can also try making coupons, I have been using that recently & it tends to help some., Good Luck to you!

[chapeau-noir]

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@mam98031 wrote:

@pjgymcoach 

Most sellers do not promote their listings.  

Promoted listings works very well for some sellers and not so much for others.  It is just something you should test out for yourself to see what works best for you.

Now is not likely a good time to test this until the economy settles down and people are shopping more.  

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60-70% penetration rate. I would say a significant number of eBay sellers are using them.