Archives for the 'Selling Tips' Category
7 Most Economical Ways To Give Away Stuff For Free
Saturday, February 21st, 2009 by Sofia Bag
When customers shop online, they are not always interested in buying. Some just want to browse or look at the things available for sale. These shoppers are called “window shoppers”, a person who only looks, but does not buy. So how do you convert these window shoppers to someone shopping for real at your web store? The answer is easy. Give away free stuff to your customers so that he will be more encouraged to make the purchase. It doesn’t matter how small the free stuff seems like to you. In your customer’s mind, anything that he receive which is…
3 Reasons Why You Should Avoid Using the Word Quality When Selling
Saturday, January 10th, 2009 by Sofia Bag
Selling a product can be so much fun. Exciting as it is many sellers fall short when describing about their products or services. Just browsing the ads section of my daily newspaper I see a lot of advertisers use the word quality to persuade readers about their products or company. Is this the right way of doing it? Let me get started by asking you a question: what is quality? Does it mean that your products are supreme? Or that your service is excellent? Well here are a few definitions of quality which I have taken from dictionary.com:
character with respect…
10 Things You MUST Do When Selling Your Items on Ebay
Sunday, December 28th, 2008 by Sofia Bag
So you have found a fabulous wholesale supplier or dropshipper. You have bought from them and now have a bunch of products to sell. You are excited and decided to do your selling on auction sites such as ebay. Don’t be in such a hurry to do so though! You have to carefully plan your listing before executing it. Millions of listings on ebay goes unsold every day. You don’t want your listing to be part of that statistic right? When you carefully plan your listing you increase your chances of selling your item. Besides, a poorly planned listing will be…
Discover What Products to Sell and Make Great Money
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 by Sofia Bag
How do you discover what products to sell? If you are starting a business for the first time you may be faced with this question. So you have the desire and are committed to it, but what products should you sell (and make great money)? There are many reasons why you may want to start your own business including to supplement your income, learn from experience or just for the fun of it. Regardless of your reasons for starting a business venture you will share one thing in common with other businesses and that is you will be selling a…
Should You Sell Retail or Wholesale?
Saturday, November 29th, 2008 by Sofia Bag
Do you know what type of business you will be venturing in? Will it be b2c (business to consumer) or b2b (business to business). All retail businesses fall into the first category which is b2c while most wholesale businesses fall into the second category which is b2b. There are some exceptions to this of course. Quite a big number of sellers are selling wholesale to the public provided that the customers follow the sellers terms such as ordering the minimum amount or ordering in bigger quantities. So how do you know which business is more suited for you? The following…