Making $150 a day, how can I improve and make more sales?

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    by: AlliGdigital
    SaleHoo Junior Member
    21 posts

    Making $150 a day, how can I improve and make more sales?

    Posted 25 Aug 09 12:18 am.

    I've had my Ebay store going for a few months now and making some ok money . What I'm having trouble with is scaling it up , I've been posting more and the products sell really well , but only half of my Buy it now auctions close with a sale . What can I do to get more sales and drive more traffic to my auctions ? how important are keywords for G0oggIe search? I'm happy with my sales copy and I have 5 great products . Any great tips would be helpfull .

    I've make a basic Blog here which may be helpful to newbs with ebay.

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    Thanks
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    by: richelle-salehoo
    SaleHoo Staff
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    Re: Making $150 a day , looking to improve

    Posted 25 Aug 09 12:43 am.

    Hi AlliGdigital,

    It's great to hear that you are doing quite well :)

    Remember that there isn

    Richelle

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    by: salehoo_group
    SaleHoo Staff
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    Re: Making $150 a day , looking to improve

    Posted 28 Aug 09 6:33 am.

    Hi AlliGdigital,

    Richelle has given you some excellent tips. Google can be a big traffic generator for eBay sellers, and I would strongly recommend you use the Google keyword tool and something like Terapeak to help you optimize your titles and descriptions for highly searched terms.

    Also look at writing reviews & guides as well as your blog, and submitting articles to article directories containing your site URL. These things will all help you get more traffic.

    The second very important thing is setting up a newsletter. For most businesses - including eBay - 25% of your customers give you most of your profit. Newsletters are the best way of building loyalty and getting these all important sales. Also look at getting fresh inventory into your store on a regular basis so there are always new things for people to come back and look at.

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    by: raiderjake
    SaleHoo Master Member
    247 posts

    Re: Making $150 a day , looking to improve

    Posted 28 Aug 09 5:50 pm.

    i read your blog, its got some very good advise on there, well done. $150 is pretty damn good, do you mind if i ask in what way do you get your products? meaning, do you buy in liquidations or dropshipping, etc.
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    by: AlliGdigital
    SaleHoo Junior Member
    21 posts

    Re: Making $150 a day , looking to improve

    Posted 29 Aug 09 12:02 am.

    Thanks so much for your helpful info . I didn't know about the Google base thing . So whats the deal , do you list your store on there or your individual items ? I'm also going to look at other ways to generate traffic , I'm working on a private sales website as we speak .

    Thanks again
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    by: AlliGdigital
    SaleHoo Junior Member
    21 posts

    Re: Making $150 a day , looking to improve

    Posted 16 Sep 09 11:19 am.

    I've learned a valuable lesson today ! Don't always trust Paypal to get your money back on a transaction gone wrong . In order to step some things up I invested $5k on some new Items . The merchant procrastinated and mucked about giving me false tracking numbers and I'm sure they didn't have the goods . Before I made the transaction I called paypal to verify the merchant and they assured me its all legit . After a month of dispute paypal closed the investigation and managed to re-claim $35 and closed the case !!! After an angry phone call , they tell me they can only 100% guarantee transactions generated from Ebay. Great!!

    Moral of the story is always pay by credit card as my bank didn't take too kindly to it and got the money back in one week ! I'm pretty impressed with that .

    I'm copying this to my blog along with some other good advice.

    Cheers
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    by: raiderjake
    SaleHoo Master Member
    247 posts

    Re: Making $150 a day , looking to improve

    Posted 16 Sep 09 3:30 pm.

    ebay owns paypal so they gaurantee your money to make ebay seem safe. outside of ebay, your screwed
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    by: AlliGdigital
    SaleHoo Junior Member
    21 posts

    Re: Making $150 a day, how can I improve and make more sales?

    Posted 17 Nov 09 12:08 pm.

    Well I finally struck gold, or so it would seem. These 3GS 32Gb officially Unlocked 100% AU verified genuine units turned up today. I can get and move these no problem with good return but, when you start dealing volume sales of items over $1k AUD , a big problem is coming ,,, TAX! GST on this is going to kill it I think. The margins are too low but would be profitable in a fair tax system. Once projected sales reach $75K AUD 'which is very close now' Ebay sends reports to the man and GST registration is required, thus 10% of sale price goes in GST !!!! It almost makes you want to stand on a street corner with a trenchcoat . BTW don't ask where I got these, its too convoluted for me to even describe, and its not the goose that lays the golden egg.
    The way I feel is to get my Web storefont up and running ASAP and get away from Ebay for this sort of thing to at least get away from the feebay system and deal with the other devils SEO, Traffic and the TAXMAN !!!
    Any Aussies with GST advise would be greatly appreciated, my accountant seems to roll over on the issue.
    Anyway Rant over for now. Happy selling everyone

    PS Does anyone think these pics with stock samples and logo look wanky on Ebay Auctions? I think it re-assures customers you actualy have stock, I've even thought of having Gum trees and stuff in the background so buyers trust they are local stock :)