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How To Boost Your Ebay Sales With A Single Click
Nov 2nd
With so many listings, it is vital to capture your audience at first glance when you are selling your merchandise on eBay.
Customers often become inundated with the overwhelming number of like items available for sale on eBay. Your job is to catch their eyes and pull them in. The best way to do this is, take better photos.
If you just take a little extra time to setup a simple photographer’s set, it will be worth it. The best part is that you don’t need fancy equipment or dedicate space in the house. You can achieve this by using everyday items found around the house, you will be able to sit back and watch as your eBay views and sales skyrocket.
The best part about this competitive edge is that you can create your own professional looking photo set with items that probably are already in your home. Here’s a look at how to boost the look of your eBay listings with ease . . .
• table/stool
• white sheet/table cloth
• 2 chairs
• rope – about 10ft
• light (softbox if possible)
• white pillow case
First, place your table near some large windows with one chair on each side of the table. Between the chairs tie your rope — this is used to create a white backdrop by draping the table cloth over the cord.
Use a very light table cloth that will diffuse the light from the window, but be careful not to use to thin or thick of a sheet. This could result in a gray background, or over exposure from the sun.
Then place a light/softbox in front of the table. If you do not have a softbox use the pillow case to cover the light. This will help create a soft lighting effect. Lower and adjusted lighting as needed. While shooting be sure to keep make sure only the white from the sheet is in the photo. Also keep an eye out for random shadows.
When shooting your eBay product photo, be sure to get as much light as possible on the item you’re selling on eBay. This will allow users to view small details better.
That’s it! This is a really quick and simple way to create a better product shoots with every day household materials. Once you start to post some better photos of your items, they’ll stand out in the eBay gallery and search listings.
Hope this mini tutorial teaches you about one CLICK (of the shutter!) that you’ll want to master which leads to more sales and higher winning bids!
Matt Johnson – Social media guru, with a love for connecting with people around the world. His passion for food and photography are evident in his two personal blogs BibleDogMan.com and NoGrilledOnion.comHow To Bulk Submit To Social Bookmarking Sites
Oct 26th
Social media is all the rage these days.
Anyone with a website knows they should be submitting their website pages to the various social bookmarking sites to gain better visibility on the web.
But we’re also talking about a time consuming task to do the repetitive submissions to the top social bookmarking sites like: Digg.com, Propeller, Delicious, Reddit.com, Stumbleupon, Technorati, Mixx, Twitter, Furl.net, etc.
There are completely automated tools that submit in bulk, but sometimes they can be seen as spam. The next best thing to manual hand submissions one at a time is to use a semi-automated tool. . .
SocialPoster.com allows you to set-up the basics first and then go through various filtered lists of social bookmarking sites and quick-click-thru to the posting page with the main data pre-populated for you.
Here’s a video walk-through tutorial of the process of using socialposter.com:
It won’t completely eliminate the time-consuming task of manually submitting to dozens of social bookmark sites, but it certainly will shave off a decent portion of time spent on the task. Moreover, it will help you to consistently submit to the top sites using socialposter.com’s list of sites.
Top 7 Social Bookmarking Sites To Register & Use
Aug 10th
2007 has been the year of social bookmarking & Web 2.0.
All that hype simply means that there is a new breed of website that harnesses the collecative power of individuals across the internet.
With bookmarking, all this time, whenever you alone discover a new website that’s worthy, you add it to your Favorites or Bookmarks. But with millions and millions of great sites out there, how can you really find the best ones all alone? You are by yourself. Read the rest of this entry »
How to Add Irresistible Upsell Offers or Advertising To Your Website
Jul 25th
As a website owner, no matter what type of business you have, you have to figure out ways to monetize the traffic that you receive.
Of course, one of the most popular ways right now is to add contextual text ads from Google Adsense or Yahoo! Publisher’s Network, etc. Classic banner ads from CJ.com, Linkshare.com and others can also be profitable as long as the offers you promote are relevant and complementary to the content and products you present to the visitors.
One of the newest tactics is one that doesn’t take up more real estate on you website, yet catches the eye of almost every single visitor to your site and is so understated that it actually creates a clickstream to whatever landing page you desire — whether it be an upsell offer, a 3rd party advertisement or even a promotional offer for one of your star products. Read the rest of this entry »
Why Flash Websites Are Not Good for SEO
Jun 26th
Flash has been a hit ever since it was born, and more and more sites employ flash within their sites to razzle dazzle the audience. Many sites are 100%-flash-based and while on the surface it might seem “cool” to run a site that is a “flash site,” the rest of the world won’t ever know about it because it is very hard to rank well on Google and the other search engines. Without Google pointing the way, it will be very hard to share all that joy in the Flash you’ve developed.
The 10,000 foot view is that Flash doesn’t fundamentally structure website content in a way that Google can use to determine what’s important, relevant, and the focus of any given site, section or page. Read the rest of this entry »
I love tech, gadgets and the web. Hope you pick-up a useful tip or two here today that helps you use technology to your advantage! Better yet, why not share your own expertise in a comment on a post today to help the other readers that land here for answers!