Please could someone help me

[Rednosty]

I have been doing a little card that I update every once in a while, print on colored cardstock for the season. Send to old buyers, hand out to people, etc.

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You can fancy it up, put in a frame, send by email, etc, A little blurb for ebid.net and for your website too. Lists your ebid stores, and I have a link to ebid on my website. so everyone gets pulled over to ebid. Goes to buyers and sellers that might be thinking of leaving feebay too.

I left a little room at the bottom of card where I put a little note if I am mailing it. "Just added more vintage cookbooks" or whatever they bought in the past. And I sign the bottom too.

When I do a letter marketing to special groups like Inns and B & B, I do a folksy letter and attach a page of items I have for sale that they might be interested in. Rather than send an email spam, I mailed letters to about 100 Inns, and did get about 4 new buyers!

You of course tailor it to fit your customers, what you sell, if you want to promote your website, your ebid stores, ebid, your stuff, whatever. If you do a big mailing, you might want to make sure you run a sale on ebid, something special so when the new people look up your stuff they see it is on sale, etc. Make it longer, shorter, etc. But get all the important stuff in and you can use the format for handing out at shops, booths, shows, etc.

Hmmmm If I got that it would go right into the Rubbish bin (Sorry) It's Not the content its just that When I see something like this in my inbox I just don't bother reading it and bin it.

[2Bookworms]

Thank you for that Delta, its nice seeing what other people write

[kengillam]

I would keep it a lot shorter, too long and people can't be bothered to read it.

[deltadelta48]

Hmmmm If I got that it would go right into the Rubbish bin (Sorry) It's Not the content its just that When I see something like this in my inbox I just don't bother reading it and bin it.

But Red, these are NOT strangers, who hate spam, but customers who need to know where we went when we vanished from feebay overnight (i.e. suspended sellers).

They are buying for Christmas now, we want them to buy that stuff from us. If we were such wonderful sellers, they will remember us, and want to reconnnect with us and NOT think the postcard is garbage.

Sure it is alot of info,but they need it to find ebid and to find us again.

Also we need something to pass around to other interested people at the PO, rummage sale, etc. A card with links does that.

I bet 75% of sellers have NOT contacted old buyers at all. This is an important thing that we all need to do to help ourselves and help ebid.

Sure everyone will do it differently. But point is we have to do it to build our sales and ebid's sales too. And it is not easy to do.