How can I cheaply and effectively promote my new eBay shop?

How to promote my ebay shop ?

• I've just opned an ebay shop : http://stores.ebay.com/Marinas-Beauty-Shop What should i do to promote it the best ? at the moment it seems that no one is watching my items... Where should i promote it the best ???

• Answer:

  Hey ?, If you want to start promoting your eBay store, the first place you should start is by making sure you include a link within EVERY auction listing that will forward to your About Me page. Make sure your About Me page clearly informs people about who you are and what you offer. Since you're new with very little feedback, people will want to know as much about you as possible in order to be secure in buying from you. You could also place hyperlinks in your auctions that forward to your eBay store too! Another thing you could do is to use eBay's classified ads. You could make up an ad that displays what you're offering in your store. eBay allows the ad to run for a full 30 days for less than $10 bucks which is a heckuva deal. Have you considered acquiring your OWN domain name for your store? If you're going to seriously promote your new store and you want more people to see it, you'll want to showcase a more pleasant looking web address than the one eBay gives you. I just checked the popular domain registrar Godaddy.com and the domain name of www.MarinasBeautyShop.com is available. Once you've purchased the domain you would forward it to http://stores.ebay.com/Marinas-Beauty-Shop. The reason why you want to do this is when you're advertising your store, you don't want the ugly domain eBay gives you. Plus people are more apt to click on www.MarinasBeautyShop.com than http://stores.ebay.com/Marinas-Beauty-Shop. Domain forwarding is simply where you REDIRECT people to go when they type in your new domain name. So when someone types in www.marinasbeautyshop.com they would automatically be redirected to your store at http://stores.ebay.com/Marinas-Beauty-Shop. Since you would now have a prettier domain, you could start to advertise it with free classified ads on places like Craigslist, Backpage, Kijiji, USFreeAds and AdLandPro just to name a few. Another way to promote your site is to submit your new web address to an online directory like www.the-big-brain.com as it will get your site crawled by the search engine spiders and will get you a link from a Google PR (Page Rank) 6 site. This will help draw more visitors to your site. You could also utilize social bookmarking icons. These icons make it easy for visitors to get to your site by social bookmarking it. There are several sites which will give you code (at no cost) to add to your site to create the icons. Some also offer drop down boxes to save space. There are lots of options. Among them are: www.addthis.com/web-button-select.html… www.toprankblog.com/tools/social-bookmar… and www.addthis.com/bookmark.php Promote your site by submitting the new web address to social bookmarking sites. You could use a bookmarking service like SocialMaximizer to do it for you. This will get you a lot of traffic. How about placing an eBay icon in your email signature! That way whenever you send an email out people will see your email signature at the bottom and can go to your eBay store with a single click. Each email you send will promote your eBay store which gives your store more exposure. You could write a free blog at Blogger.com about beauty tips,skin care, etc anything that interests you and has ties to your eBay store. End each blog with your signature, and a link to your eBay store. You could write articles about beauty and submit them to article directories like EzineArticles.com. This article directory can be used to submit articles to promote your business and website. Plus Google loves them and you'll get more visitors. Just make sure you include what is known as a "resource box" at the end of your articles that includes a link to your store. I hope I've given you a few ideas you can use to gain more exposure for your new store. One more thing, you might want to add more items to your store and spice it up a bit. People like to see lots of items to choose from. Good luck!