If you want to take your eBay sales to another level, then you should consider using eBay Classifieds to help you. eBay is known worldwide as the place to buy and sell pretty much anything and has millions of visitors every day. But what about the lesser know eBay Classifieds section of the site? This is the where the actual buying and selling of an item takes place away from the site itself. There is no bidding or buying and no feedback left by either party.
eBay Classifieds can be utilised to list items, services or properties for sale in order to generate multiple leads for your business. You simply direct interested customers elsewhere to purchase your product or to sign-up for information. The easiest way to do this from an eBay Classified advertisement would be to add a direct link to your website or add a sign-up box, however as you may have guessed already, there are some rules that you must follow! Direct links to your website and opt-in boxes are not allowed, but all is not lost because you can include a telephone number!
This is why there is huge potential in using eBay Classifieds. Unlike the usual eBay auctions, you can simply place your telephone number within your classified listing. The contact number that you add will be seen by everyone that views your item. This means that you can direct enquiries to your telephone number and then convert those enquiries to sales by directing to your website. You would be surprised at the number of people who actually feel more comfortable when seeing a telephone number within a listing. It gives a greater sense of security to buyers.
I know you are thinking that this all seems like a good idea, but what about answering the telephone all the time to potential buyers and enquirers, especially if you are only a small business. Well, here is the solution:
Set up an answer-machine message that gives further information to your callers. Within this message, state the web address of your site and direct everyone who calls straight there! This requires no work what so ever apart from recording the message! Then make sure that your site has plenty of interesting content, products, a sign-up box, free info etc and you will build a list of customers as you go.
eBay Classifieds is a great new traffic stream for your business – it’s cheap, simple to set up and will allow you to generate more leads and sales on auto-pilot.