5 eBay Promotion Tips You Should Try

There are a thousand ways you can promote your eBay business but we cannot list them all here! Here are 5 highly effective eBay tips for promoting your online store.

Link it: Most email clients allow you to set an automatic signature that is placed on all outgoing email messages, easily allowing you to promote your store. A large number of forums and message boards allow users to include buttons and links in their signature lines. Make sure to read the posted forum rules to ensure compliance with site requirements. You should always include a link to your store when running an auction, a buyer may not have a need for the item listed at auction, but might want to see what other products you have available.



Blog about it: eBay is much more than just an auction and store site, one of the many new features to the site is blogging. Any member can set up a blog and write about whatever topics they choose. As new products are added to your store, you can write a post about them, in order to get the more recognition. Reading and following other bloggers can also help with networking on the site. If you have friends and frequent buyers on the site leave comments on their blogs, often they will return the favor. If you have blogs in other places be sure to link to your store, custom buttons can be added to your site or HTML links. Your eBay store listing can also be added onto any sites offering a profile or about me page.

Develop a logo: Businesses looking to get a little extra attention often use logos to create brand identity; a logo on your storefront also helps it look more professional.

Promote offline: Your eBay store promotion can take place offline as well. Print business logos and the Web site address for your eBay store on low cost buttons, pens, key chains and business cards, then pass them out to friends, family and co-workers.

Writing for your audience: If you are a good writer or can afford to higher the services of a professional, create a newsletter that relates to your interest and items you sale. For example, a seller who exclusively offers computer parts for purchase could write a brief weekly or monthly newsletter discussing how to customize your own computer system. Then before sending it out, a link to a sellers store and a specific item mentioned in the newsletter and listed on their store can also be linked too.

Besides a newsletter, a autoresponder series can be used. Autoresponders offer buyers tips or information about a product, they are usually designed to get the buyer to take action and buy a product. Most autoresponder series are set to run for a week. Sellers can also self promote through article directories, a number of sites allow a business to create an article and get it listed for free. These pages are indexed by the search engines, and once an article goes live it can provide a constant source of promotion.