Building Your eBay Traffic the Smart Way: Use Froogle, Datafeeds, Cross-Selling, Advanced Listing Strategies, and More to Boost Your Sales on the Web's #1 Auction Site
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Book Description
What if you could double your eBay sales with one mouse click? Sound impossible? Welcome to the next big development in the world of online auctions: datafeeds.Using a datafeed to export your eBay auction listings, your items will now surface in shopping-focused searches performed by engines like Yahoo! Shopping, Amazon, and Google's new Froogle service. Instead of a general search, which finds thousands of Web pages that merely mention an item, sites like Froogle and Yahoo! Shopping return a list of online retailers who actually sell the product. Would you like to be on those lists?Building Your eBay Traffic the Smart Way gives you dozens of new strategies for reaching people whose only goal is to buy. With auction management software or a service, your eBay business information is kept in a database that can feed information to other e-commerce systems -- like Froogle, Yahoo! Shopping, Amazon, and other product search engines. Which means that your product is now available not only to eBay buyers but also to a whole new universe of online shoppers!Building Your eBay Traffic the Smart Way also unlocks the incredible power of cross-selling (linking from one auction to another), targeted advertising, pro-quality photography, eBay stores, online malls, and much more!
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5 out of 7 people found the following review helpful:
ExcellentTuesday, February 08, 2005
This is a great book on building traffic volumes to your web site. The concepts outlined apply just as well to non ebay sites. This book is non technical and contains advice that can be easily applied. Some of the suggestions are "free" (except time, e.g. participating in forums to build traffic), others a direct cost e.g. froogle ads. This information is of value beyond ebay.
The advice on using ebay store fronts as your business web site is interesting, as is the comment an external web site may not be required / wont pay for itself. I am interested in affiliate selling, and have been experimenting, my web address is:
http://mysite.verizon.net/vze48sdz/ (even given the obscure address the site pays).
For a book geared towards driving traffic to your sight, it's a pity not to include a section (see www.cj.com or the Amazon affiliate scheme for a few ideas). Minor complaint about a great book.
10 out of 11 people found the following review helpful:
Excellent book for Advanced Selling TechniquesWednesday, February 02, 2005
I read this book cover to cover in a few days. I thought it was excellent. It is for advanced sellers, with a good understanding of eBay selling, eBay stores, the web and a general background of online selling off of eBay.
There are many useful topics in this book, and the author writes about cutting edge techniques that should be examined by online sellers. There is little of this valuable information out there so this book was a pleasant surprise.
While not all techniques would be for everyone, I do believe sellers who are forward looking should understand such concepts as data-feeds, web portals, content sites, building a brand etc.
It might also be that a combination of techniques mentioned would bring the best results. Another useful aspect of the book is the consistent placement of a cost effectiveness review at the end of section discussions.
Overall an excellent source of information, and I look forward to similar such books in the future.
Marty