Tag: Selling Techniques

eBay Promoted listings via Frooition

Posted on June 24, 2021 (Updated March 28, 2022) by - Frooition

Marketing and promotion on eBay

Frooition are delighted to announce the immediate availability of an exciting new advertising service in partnership with eBay. This service, eBay Promoted Listings, is now available to Frooition eBay customers within our eBay-certified Frooition software suite. The Promoted Listings advertising service is a Pay Per Sale service and is the first release in the eBay marketing toolkit that allows eBay sellers to get more views and grow their sales through promoted and enhanced listing visibility. It’s not just about increasing your visibility on a search page, it’s about visibility across the whole shopping journey including Search, View Item, My eBay and Browse pages together with other eBay locations exclusive to Promoted Listings campaigns This new service offers the potential to increase listing views by up to 32% (average based on a… Read more »

How to optimise your eBay listings in 2020 – [eBay SEO]

Posted on October 7, 2020 by - Frooition

eBay SEO guy

What is eBay SEO? We know search engine optimization (SEO) is the practice of increasing the quantity and quality of traffic to your website through organic search. For websites there are well documented best practices to improve your search engine ranking, from relevant page titles, sitemaps, meta tagging, just to name a few, all of which you can complete for free. Did you know, with marketplaces such as eBay, there are several steps that every seller can complete to improve their product ranking? That’s right eBay SEO! eBay is 25 years old this year and its search systems have seen many evolutions within that time. Back at the start it was simple, you put as many keywords as you could… Read more »

Boost Your eBay Sales in 2 Easy Steps Using Item Specifics

Posted on September 3, 2019 (Updated March 28, 2022) by - Frooition

Boost your eBay sales

Want to increase your eBay sales? Well of course, who wouldn’t. Well, the first step is getting your items seen by more buyers. It is possible to boost this through sponsored listings and paying for additional listing features. However, there is an effortless, free, and effective way to achieve this: it’s just a matter of adding the right item specifics in the right place on eBay. How to boost sales on eBay in 2 steps: Tip #1: use product catalogue The first (and easiest) tip is to match your product to the items catalogue entry on eBay. If you can find your product line in the eBay catalogue, you should always use this. EBay will transfer the product details directly… Read more »

Why cross selling is so important – and how so many eBay sellers are getting it wrong.

Posted on January 24, 2017 (Updated June 4, 2019) by - Bigcommerce, eBay Design, Frooition, Retail, Shopify, Strategies

According to Marketing Metrics, the probability of selling to an existing customer is 60 – 70%. The probability of selling to a new prospect is 5-20%. When a customer is making a purchase, they are already in the mind set to buy.  It is the best time to sell them other products. Increasing average sale this way is what successful online entrepreneurs often refer to as “making all the profits on the back-end.” In 2006, Amazon reported that cross-selling and upselling contributed as much as 35% of their revenue. Both techniques are important to customer experience and maximising sales. The difference between cross selling and up selling      Which is right for your business? There is no reason not… Read more »

How presentation affects value perception – and how to use it to increase your sales.

Posted on December 20, 2016 by - Frooition

Burger with meat and French fries in serving basket on dark background

Don’t judge a book by its cover. The perfect example of good advice none of us can take. The burger above looks like it would cost more than the average fast food burger served in a polystyrene box. Being wrapped in brown paper and served on a chopping block, the basket for the fries, the slate table. It is all very artisnal looking. None of these elements affect the taste or quality of the burger itself, but they absolutely affect our perception of its value. “There is no truth. There is only perception.” – Gustave Flaubert. When you eat at a Mcdonald’s you are expecting food that is fast, but without any real care put into it. When you eat… Read more »

What is eBay Best Match?

Posted on March 4, 2010 (Updated May 25, 2011) by - eBay

Best Match is the process by which eBay sort search results, and the higher your listings appear in Best Match the more likely it is that a buyer will make a purchase from you. It’s important to realise that auctions and fixed price listings are sorted differently. In general auctions are still sorted by time ending soonest, but are then combined with fixed price listings to produce the final sort order (often alternately auction, fixed price, auction, fixed price, but if there are more of one type of listing than the other the frequency may vary). eBay’s initial sort order for fixed price items is according to “Best Value” or “Popularity”. eBay consider the measure of Best Value to be… Read more »