I have now been a part of this wonderful website for a couple of days and have been readings comments on different foras. What comes across to me as a sort of unanimous message is that the sales are not so high as compared to other auction platforms. I think the comparison is slighlty flawed as we are comparing this community-themed friendly platform to that offered by a corporation.
We can, however, collectively enhance the sales and boost the eBid.net profile. Offered below are some of my suggestions. I am not a businessman, so I offer these ideas for your consideration with all due humility:
- The best thing we can do for ourselves is to also become buyers on this site. Think of it this way: we all need things for ourselves or as presents for our loved ones. Sometimes we buy these things online. So, if we could first look around the stores here and purchase here then we, in a way, contribute to the growth of this website. That is why, when I needed an orchid that I did not have in my collection, I looked at this website first and bought it from Larry's Orchids on eBid.
- We can also post our store link to our blogs. I also send regular tweets about my listings to my twitter account and also post them to my Facebook page on orchids. This enhances traffic to the website and to my store, thus improving eBid's Alexa and Google rankings.
- And yes, inviting our buyers from other websites is also a great step and it has already helped my store.
These are just a few thoughts that i wanted to share. I hope this generates some more, probably better, ideas from all others on eBid.
(My eBid Store: http://us.ebid.net/perl/main.cgi?mo=...er-nice-things)