Thursday, November 8, 2012

Get more eyeballs to your ebay auction using Social Media

If you have already heard there are over 659 million visits and 75 million unique visitors per month on ebay alone. So why would you need more traffic? Well...you need all the traffic you can get because there are still some people out there that never look at ebay and you just might be able to grab their attention with one of the items that you are selling.

It's a very simple method, I use it quite frequently I might add. It's located on all of your Ebay item sale pages. ebay has placed to the right of each photo several social media icons: email, facebook, twitter, and pinterest. All you have to do is select the item you want to promote to your friends then select which social media platform you want to send the item to by clicking on the icon of your choice. Once you click the icon you will get a notice to connect your social media account to ebay. Next click "Allow" then follow the steps as indicated.

Once you have connected, the social media window to add your text will pop up. Here, you will be allowed to create content and promote your items, so go ahead and tell them all about it! but try to keep it short and sweet (there are only so many characters available)

 *Note- when using pinterest you will be able to post the photo of your item. This format works just as well on that particular platform. Once you have promoted your item click "finish" and your done! Hey! why not get even more eyeballs to your sales. Remember, the more eyeballs the better chance of having more sales!

I enjoy using these methods simply because there's really no way to communicate to people looking on ebay except with email which is very slow and they must already an ebay member. This gives you a chance to have a conversation with a lead quickly and while you are having that conversation with them... let's say on twitter for instance, even more people are starting to take a look as well due the conversation. So, there you are, another tip from me to you, I hope you enjoy and take advantage of this one, I DO!!!

 Happy Selling!

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