List More And Sell More

It is very true, list more and you will sell more. I do not know if there is any scientific research behind this, but as you look at the successful sellers in sites such as eBay, Amazon and Etsy the ones who sell items on a daily basis are the ones who list items on a daily (or regular basis). But from time to time most sellers seem to drift away from the listing process, sometimes there are real reason why we have not listed, but then there are just times when we find watching TV or just being plain lazy the reason for not listing.

The challenge is the times we do not list we soon see our sales slow down and in the worst cases sales stop, and then we start to blame eBay, Amazon and Etsy, and when we have done with that it is the product, Google, now while these could be a small percentage of the problem the underlying fact is we have stopped listing on a daily basis.

Each one of us runs our online businesses in a different way. Some of us have more time to run it while others only have a few hours a day to devote to running the business. But what ever time we have, we need to schedule into our To Do List and diaries a time to List, and then we will see the sales starting to come in and money flowing into our bank accounts.

How To List More

Myself and others have written blog posts and Facebook posts with hints and tips on how to have process that enables you to list more items in a short period of time and even if you have full time staff working for you some of the processes will help you generate more sales and increase your turnover of both money and stock. (And as a side note, it is quite important to have a good turn over of stock as this will help get people coming back to your shop time after time).

A method I have found that works well and one I teach students is :

• Take all your photo’s for the week in one go : This will allow you to spend time taking the photo’s for the week and once you have taken them spend some time cropping them where needed and any other work on them. But an important thing is call them something that you will remember and if possible call the photo what the item is.
• Next write up the titles and descriptions : You do this for each item in either a text file or word file, spend some time doing this, and also add the weight and cost of postage of each of the items.
• You are ready : Because you have done all the hard work above it can be as quick as cutting and pasting the different parts of the listing into eBay and Etsy. (Amazon is even quicker).

Please try and not do each item on it’s own, this will take you a lot longer and very soon you will become very board and will be putting off doing any listings………….listings should be fun, as they bring you the money in.

In closing set yourself some listing goals. Let’s say you want 90 new items a month in your shop or store. This may sound a massive number, but it is only 3 listings a day. Three a day is a figure most people can cope with, and once you have reached this goal there is no reason why you cannot set a higher one such as 5 a day then 7 a day and so on. Have loads of fun List More and Sell More and soon you will be smiling.