A strategy for selling books on the internet. This is for the one man band that would like to grow into a Trio .
First given:
Amazon has the eyeballs so if one could only do that ; Do that. It takes 5 minutes a book with a good complete condition description that can be copied and pasted later. I also put a location code in this field.
Second ebay
ebay takes time. It needs a picture. Also more details such as a publisher ,date etc. That information is usually furnished in an Amazon listing.
This is IMPORTANT !
Do the work, make a good listing and download to Bonazle or other websites such as bisi. These are free sites with only Final value fees.The two sites have easy download from ebay in their package.
If it does not sell on ebay you have a free listing with a chance for it to sell . These listings will be picked up by google and other seo procedures ,thus a long tail for low cost hosting
Now that one man band is a trio with an additional star lead singer.
This strategy has one major flaw that needs to be addressed
Keeping up and deleting sold stock .
A system of procedures must be implemented at the start or the one man band will be sweeping out the concert hall.
If you can not develop the procedures and the discipline to follow through daily.
YOU ARE SCREWED !
You will lose accounts and increase your work load with no new monies.
Do it all or do not do it!
good selling from the Big fat Little Guy
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Your last paragraph is the key here. It's just too much damn work to be honest. I tried moving some eBay listings to Amazon and fell behind keeping track, so now I only sell media items on Amazon and keep my collectibles on eBay where they belong. I have over 2,000 items imported onto Bonanzle from eBay as well, and the best thing about not doing any business there is that it removes the need to remove sold items so often. In fact, I'm thinking of scaling my Bonanzle listings wayyy down, to maybe less than 100 of my better items and then spending the proper time to customize those listings to the Bonanzle site.
But still, the key is finding a way to track sold items across all of these sites. Where's the tool to do this (I always ask this). Someone could make a ton if they'd just figure out a way to spit an Excel file across all of these sites and then bundle it in one place with real-time inventory tracking. Of course it needs a reasonable fee as well, but I bet you at under $40/month they'd be able to move this to plenty sellers.
Thanks for the post, Cliff
Like Cliff I have different classes of merchandise on different venues. Unlike both of you I have multiple inventory in most cases so it is relatively easy to subtract the inventory I carry on Bonanzle from my shop inventory.
I think your point about having a routine and a method in your madness is key.
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