Delegating Your Online Store Can Do Wonders – Here are the Proofs – Performance Reports From eBay and Amazon – Proudly Shared By OBVA Virtual Assistant Team!

OBVA team is very excited to share the performance scores for all our client stores on eBay and Amazon. We would like to scream out the positive feedback  that we get from our clients every now and then, but since we are committed to client privacy, we never share client store ids, contact information, etc. Online market is very competitive and what differentiates one store from another is the feedback score, and then come other factors like pricing, return policy, etc. As we all know, feedback score depends completely on the quality of customer service we offer to online customers. Virtual store Assistants who help clients achieve wonderful store performance are certainly their assets, which they are not very comfortable to share with other competitors. We also respect this aspect, and we are committed to work for only one client in any particular product segment, so that we do not work for competitors.

OBVA eBay and Amazon Virtual Assistants take over all routine online business tasks like shipping label printing, customer service, managing refunds, replacements, feedbacks, claims, Internet Research, Keyword Research, Social Media Marketing, Blogging, and so on. We offer timely, dependable and reliable services for all our client stores and these service qualities help us retain clients for long term ongoing support.

After so much of efforts put in, performance scores and metrics is the pay-back. Online businesses are so transparent that everything is crystal clear. Any delays are clearly visible not only in feedbacks, but also in customer metrics. And it’s a challenge to keep negative and neutral feedback away while we work our way to 100% feedback and total client satisfaction.

We are excited to share performance reports for a few of our clients, as sharing all won’t be possible.We do not share store ids to ensure privacy for our valuable clients. However, we are happy to share the screenshots of the customer metrics scores and feedback scores achieved for a few of our clients.

This is feedback score of one of the Amazon UK Clients of OBVA Virtual assistants. We work for his feedback, claims, customer service, printing shipping labels, refunds and replacements. We work hard to maintain feedback rating for them to be 100%. Do you want your store’s rating to be the same way, contact us. www.obvainc.com.

Customer service efficiency for first quarter to a eBay client who is being helped by OBVA Online Virtual Assistants.

Can you see this response time for Amazon seller. Great isn’t it? This shows the commitment OBVA Virtual assistants towards their clients performances.

This is feedback score of one of the Amazon UK Clients of OBVA Virtual assistants. We work for his feedback, claims, customer service, printing shipping labels, refunds and replacements. We work hard to maintain feedback rating for them to be 100%. Do you want your store’s rating to be the same way, contact us. www.obvainc.com

If you want your store statistics to look like our clients’, contact us today to know how we can help you manage your store better. You can connect with us on Facebook, Twitter and email.

Part – I Few Non-eBay Ways To Promote Your eBay Store And Sell Something On Ebay

Social media is one of the fast growing mediums where you can connect with many people of your own niche and also engage with your customers.  It provides good opportunities for store owners to build relationships with their prospects and customers build exposure to their brand and manage their reputation online. Social media virtual assistants at OBVA would love to share a few non eBay ways to promote your eBay store and sell something on eBay.

1. Facebook

With 500 Million active uses since 2004, Facebook has been one of the biggest successes of all social media sites. According to an article of Techcrunch, “Facebook’s Mobile Monthly Active Users Grew 21% Over Past Four Months “ If your store doesn’t have a presence on Facebook then you are missing out on a critical communication channel with your customers and prospects. Virtual word-of-mouth is the greatest benefits of establishing a Facebook presence. And Facebook has already introduced tagging of photos which can be more useful for online eBay business.  And according to blog of Facebook there are Bigger, Faster Photos that makes it faster and easier to share photos on Facebook. Make use of it and upload your listings and attract more customers to your store. This post on how Facebook can be used for promoting stores and listings and Facebook applications that can also be used can guide you more. Here are few examples of eBay sellers who use facebook to promote their listings.

2.  Twitter

According to an article in webprofits “The growth of Twitter is significant that Google, Bing and Yahoo have now integrated Twitter results in their main search engine rankings. It has become one of the most visited social media websites on the internet, with astonishing growth rates. Twitter posts are instantly available to view for public. This means that news about your store like new listings or a free shipping item can be instantly spread out to millions of people around the world. Twitter is a place where you can promote products, talk about your store, follow people with similar interests, and also post links to your eBay store products. Twitter hashtags are being used effectively by many eBay sellers. The first key to promoting your store through the use of hashtags is to identify the tags that are already popular within your niche and then using them, putting your message in front of everyone who follows that hashtag. Also you can read our blog post on How Twitter can be used for promoting stores and listings. You can also use powerful Twitter applications effectively to promote your store effectively on Twitter.

3. Google Plus

Google plus is becoming irresistible. It is always beneficial to be an early adopter of new concepts and techniques. Now since Google Plus is also for businesses you can create a Google + page for your web store. Here is a an informative blog post by The Techlabs on How To Create a Google+ Page For Your Business. Create your own circles with similar individuals. When Google Plus grows and more similar businesses and individuals make accounts, they too will build their own circles for their own marketing purposes. The more people or pages you have in your Google plus “circles”, the more likely they are to visit your web store If you use your store to drive traffic to your store, you can use G+ to direct traffic to your website. If you are clueless on G+, read Get To Know The Ways Google+ Can Help Sellers To Sell Something On eBay. Google Plus is definitely having an impact on search engine results and the way the results are displayed and you cannot afford to ignore Google +.

In our next post, we will share Few Non-eBay Ways such as Linkedin, Pinterest, Google adwords on Part II- Few Non eBay Ways To Promote Your eBay Store. Please share your comments with us if you can think of any innovative non eBay ways to promote eBay store. You can like our Fanpage and follow us on Twitter.

How Twitter Hashtags Can Help eBay Sellers To Sell Something On eBay- By OBVA Social Media Virtual Assistants

Social media is growing up faster than anyone can imagine. Businesses today use various social media applications like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn to market their business. Same with eBay businesses.  In this post, we will discuss how eBay sellers can use  Twitter Hashtags to sell something on eBay.  Since, hashtags are doing really well, it is a good idea to explore how an eBay power seller can use hashtag to market his listings. Hashtags helps following relevant and real time tweets about any relevant product, service or any other subject. The tweets become more searchable and thus keyword targeting becomes easier.

Ebay sellers using Twitter would know the ‘#’ symbol, which is the hashtag used to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet. Hashtags are simply a way to tag tweet with subject matter/Keyword to make it easy to be found. Anyone can create a hashtag simply by placing the ‘#’ sign in front of a word. eBay sellers can effectively use hashtags to increase exposure, find relevant conversations to join with or retweet and ultimately, grow twitter accounts and your eBay business. This would eventually result in search engine optimizing of your web store . For example in this image you can see new listing link is also been mentioned along with #eBay new listings, so if you are going to update a new listing you can make use of this style.

Which hashtags to use?

Before starting on the hashtag, it’s best to know what the current popular hashtags are.  To use your hashtags in the most effective way, it’s best to keep up with these trends. You can check out sites like What the Trend, Twubs, Hashtags.org, and Tagalus.  The following search is from What the Trend site and gives the exact details of a seller. If a buyer is searching for you make sure that you are on top of the search by using hashtags.

To focus on data for popular hashtags you can also take notice of the tags being used by your followers and then search those tags on Twitter to see what kind of tweets is associated with your follower’s tags. The key to promoting your store and sell something on eBay through the use of hashtags is to identify the tags that are already popular within your community and use them, putting your message in front of everyone who follows that hashtag. To identify the keywords, do a keyword research.

Observe and start using your hashtags

After identifying these niche hashtags, observe them for a few days to get a feel for the types of messages that are shared to them. If you are a beauty store owner and if questions are being asked regarding some particular beauty products that you sell, answer them with the hashtag threaded in your response to increase your presence and knowledge. Getting in early on a trending topic can boost your exposure dramatically, which makes this effort worth some serious consideration if you’re hoping to significantly increase your Twitter following.

Create your own hashtags if you want to address your target customers. If thinking of offering a new listing in your store or some new auction with a price much cheaper than your competitors,  you can  create your own hashtag .

How to market your listing using hashtag?

Use a URL shortening service to shorten your store link and then you prepare your hashtags so that they will be posted to your Twitter account.  It is better to place your hashtags after your link. The reason for this is that it is not as distracting for Twitter friends and followers to read. To submit your tweets with hashtags, first remember that you want to allow space for your followers and customers to retweet your work. So make sure that you create a hashtag that will be retweeted and you get more customers to your eBay store. Your tweets should not appear as spam. Therefore, do not put too many hashtags in one tweet. Two to three hashtags should be your limit. And from time to time you can also tweet without hashtags also.

If you observe the tweets made by Consign Center and The Snobbery you can observe how effectively they have used #ebay for promoting their business.

Start exploring hastags and using them for promoting your listings on eBay.

You can contact us if you want any assistance in marketing your eBay store and listings. Our Social Media Virtual Assistants will be glad to help you. Also, you can contact us if you would like to talk to our outsourcing manager to know more about outsourcing your eBay store to a expert VA.

How Pinterest Can Help Your eBay/Amazon Online Business?

Pinterest is the fastest growing social network and has been driving more traffic to online
business.  Pinterest was launched in March of 2010.   It is site where you can collect and share things  you like. You can post various images and when the images are pinned your followers can see those images. People who like the images can comment and in this way you can interact with your followers. Therefore, be there in this new social media sites to make your presence felt to increase your selling. Our previous post was on how Google + can be used to sell something on eBay. In this post, let’s see how Pinterest can help your business.

How Pinterest works?

Millions of business minded people are using Pinterest.  To start using Pinterest, first you need to get an invite to join Pinterest. If you know a seller who is already a member on Pinterest, you may ask them to send you an invitation. If you don’t know anyone you can request for an invite from Pinterest admin. Once you get the invite, you can create your login details. Then follow some of your friends who are from your niche. You can use your other social media sites like Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn to find friends who are registered in Pinterest. Now you need to start building your boards. You can start with a board of your niche. However, you can add, edit or delete a board as freely as you like. You may start pinning things which interests you the most.

How it helps online business?

Create attractive images:

Make sure that the content you are going to pin is interesting and attractive.  Many business owners are already using this site. So, post quality images to attract your customers. This will drive huge traffic to your store. You can also read the ways to

Around 500 million users are using Pinterest and the number is increasing day by day. Hence, make sure you get more visits with your quality images.

Price it, advertise it and pin it

You can start advertising your store items. You can advertise your product by describing its features and advantages. Arrange your products by size, name, and the most selling ones etc with clear and concise description so that you can turn your users into prospective buyers. For example, if you check this link , you can see images with and without price. So, take it as an advantage to give your best.  Pinterest images automatically link back to the page of the originating site so they create visual links. So, there is more traffic coming on your way.

Customers can directly click on the gifts page to find your product with a price tag and a link. Inserting a price tag on the product and a back link to your store makes people understand that your product is for sale. You can also give attractive discounts to the customers who come to your store through Pinterest. This can certainly increase your sales.

Connect with other sellers by creating a board

Link with other sellers and make business relations to create a community. Always make sure that you get a feedback from your customers so that it will help you make improvements. Just like any other social media site, it will take time to reach targets. There are many boards in Pinterest such as health, weight loss, recipes, travel, business, beauty, pets, sports, hobbies etc. So choose your field and start pinning. People on your network will repin or share your content, making your marketing campaign simplified.

You can read 26 Tips for Using Pinterest for Business from Social media examiner. Pinning is beginning a trending tool online and you too should take advantage of this site immediately.  An article by Mashable states like this “Pinterest Drives More Traffic Than Google+, YouTube and LinkedIn”. If you find difficulty in making your presence felt in all the social media sites at a time delegate the task to social media virtual assistant who can make your life simpler and better.

Get To Know The Ways Google+ Can Help Sellers To Sell Something On eBay/Amazon Business

Social media virtual assistants at OBVA have been doing some research on how  Google+ can help your eBay/Amazon business. Social media is about engaging people in interesting conversations. We have already shared with you the ways Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin  can be used for eBay/Amazon business. When you start with any social media site you need to have a constant connection with them. You might be engaging people in all social media sites and in this post we are discussing the ways Google+ might helps eBay/Amazon sellers in any to sell something on eBay/Amazon. You might be thinking that who has time for another social-networking site? Or what can it offer me that is different from any other social media site? Social media virtual assistants at OBVA are going to discuss some of the points that might help you to decide if you want to start Google+.

Before the launching  Google + created much expectations and it did meet them. You might have read 6 Steps to Getting Started With Google+ from Social media examiner which gives you the basic steps to follow to start Google+. And there is a post on Top 3 Reasons Why You Cannot Afford to Ignore Google + For Your Business which also gives you some light on why Google+ is important. Here are the few ways with which you can use Google+ for your eBay/Amazon business effectively.

Get connected with your community through circles

If you want large traffic or more customers to your store then start promoting your store on Google+. This will ensure you have more reach and build a large following. You can also search for sellers of your kind and get connected with them and engage with them in your circle. Fill out your profile, and then start sharing the favorite topics and you can appear in Google’s search results.

Be informative and gain attention

Make sure that you give out good content for sharing. Work  on how to gain the attention of customers on Google+ with your offers and also your listings. You can read our blog on how to write effective listings. This will help you to make sure that your listings are visited the  most and you get more customers to your store. Google+ can also help you in giving out good advice to the fellow sellers and gain their confidence and also helpful in getting new ideas.

Features of Google+ looks promising for online sellers

As we are increasingly connecting through social media.  Google+ is a new way to connect online with people who matter to you. Mashable has posted an article on “How to Set Up a Google+ Brand Page” which is an easy guide that gives an idea .  So, once you started with setting a brand page you can post your listings, and write a description of your listing and share it there. You may want just your  customers to know about your latest promotion or hot new listings. So share it there.

Though many eBay/ Amazon sellers are engaging  audiences on Twitter and Facebook, Google + is wroth giving a try. And in a recent article by Marketing land “Top Google+ Brands See 1400% Follower Lift In February”. So, don’t wait just start now.

“I believe that everyone should dip their toe into the Google+ pool,” says Stephanie Inge, founder of the Dallas eBaybes & eMales. So, give it a try.

I hope with these points you would now be confident to start using Google+ to promote your store and get search engine optimized. You can also view some of our blogs on how Facebook applications, Twitter applications and Linkedin applications can also be used for eBay/Amazon business. Grab our RSS feed for latest updates and you can also share your views on our Facebook fan page and also follow us on Twitter and also do not forget to+1. If you find any difficulty in doing your social media marketing contact us and we will help you to reach out to more customers.

7 Cardinal Rules To Improve Your eBay Business This Year

Last year would have been a successful year for some eBay business owners and a year of failure for others. We also gave some Holiday Selling Tips which you might have explored. Hence, the first thought for any eBay business owners who entered this year would be finding out the best ways to develop the business to the next level and become a Powerseller. So how you as a business owner prepared for this year to grow your business?

Here are the 7 cardinal rules you can follow to make your business achieve the next level.

1. Be focused:

It doesn’t mean that you are not focused these years about your store. Though working hard these years hadn’t helped you achieve any goals, stepping up in to a new year will always give you a boost up to and a positive attitude to turn your business a successful one. Always be more focused about your goals to be achieved and plan accordingly. Follow these Top 7 EBay Selling tips to know more on how to sell something on eBay.

2. Hire right assistants for your business:

What would make your business a successful one? A good team is the basement for any successful business. Though you may be the business owner, you need to have people who can help you in suggesting business improvements to grow your business. So make sure you have right people at your hand. If not hire eBay Virtual assistants today.

3. Build a best team:

As you all know, success always lies in best team work. So it’s time for you to organize a superior team who can well co-operate with each other to leverage your business in a better way.  You will also need to analyze the skills of your team members so that you can come to know who can do what work and delegate them accordingly.

4. Add more value to your products and services:

This is the heart of your business. Proper planning would always help solve half the problem. So find out the products that doesn’t gives more profit to your company and make a list of them. Do a complete analysis of its competitors, sale through prices etc. Now you need to find out the best way of how to sell them with good profit.

You may include attractive packages for wrapping, offer discounts or reduce the costs, or include freebies with them. Though this seems to be a common tactic, yet discounts and freebies always entice a customer to choose your store than your competitors. For eg, many customers always look for free shipping. Why don’t you offer the same when customers look for this particular product?

5. Set your goals for this year:

Without setting any target one cannot reach top, both officially and personally. Set your plans today. It is good to make a complete eBay business plan for the whole year and the split it accordingly for every quarter. Build a team that would report on business level for every week so that you can make a call accordingly to fix the issues. If you find it difficult, allocate these work to Professional virtual assistants who are good at doing it.

6. Build trust:

How power sellers rock? It is because of the trust their customers have on them. This was achieved by brand awareness and quality of the products and service they provide. Don’t worry if you have very less customers following. Try to satisfy those few and they will become your walking advertisements to get tens or hundreds of customers to your company. So always be loyal to your existing customers by having a personal touch with them.

7.  Be a smart worker and hard worker as well:

Smart work is very important but you need to strive hard to accomplish all your goals. Successful entrepreneurs never quit even if they fail but they keep on moving with new goals and achievements.  You may be smart in making a good business plan but you always need to commit yourself in learning new ideas and techniques to make your business grow higher.

If you are ready with all these things including right business plan, right people then this year would be your year of success! If you need assistance in eBay selling please contact us.  Follow us on Twitter, like our Fanpage and +1 in Google plus to get more updates on eBay selling tips. Grab our RSS feed  to increase your selling in eBay and Amazon Happy selling!!

5 Hottest eBay Selling Tips To Increase Your Selling This Festive Season

What buyers may look for this holiday season and which store do they expect to buy? As many stores target their customers by introducing more offers and discounts, how you as an eBay seller, are going to stand out of the crowd and increase your turnover? Here are the 5 hottest tips that we follow for our clients stores  to increase the selling.

Follow these tips to increase you selling this holiday season.

Tip 1# Find and Sell Hottest Items That People Are Looking For:

Few items will always have a huge demand in the holiday season.  Find those items and try to sell them in your store with great deals. For e.g., If you are toy shop owner, try to search for the most wished items that people are looking for. A recent research states that Video Barbie dolls are the best selling this year. So do a research and find out the items that people are crazily looking for this holiday season.

Tip 2# Promise To Ship On Time:

Though many sellers sell items with  great deals, it is known to anyone that packages could mess up due to this holiday season. Hence they would always look for a store that ship items within 24-48 hours. This is the second factor that customers would see after choosing which item to buy. So promise your buyers that you would ship items within the specific time. If you can’t manage shipping, you can delegate your routine shipping label printing to experienced Virtual Assistants to take care of your shipping so that you can ship items in 24/7 hours. Include this in your listing as it would entice your customers to choose your store.

Tip 3# Include Free Shipping Option:

Free shipping option is another hot tactic followed by many retailers. Some are also offering discounts in shipping or include coupons for expedited shipping. The NRF’s data says, that some 5% of merchants will offer such a deal for orders placed as late as the last day of season. Hence push your sales by offering free shipping for orders and discounts in shipping for multiple orders.

Tip 4# Have Your Customers Spread The Word For You:

As we know, word of mouth is the best form of marketing, why not encourage your customers to talk about your offers and deals on their Social Media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, blogs, etc? For example, you can offer free coupons or gift vouchers to your customers who can tweet your offers. By this way you can promote your store and you can have more customers. This technique have been used by very big companies like Microsoft and Facebook.

Tip 5# Avoid Selling Poor Quality Goods:

Since manufacturers are selling goods directly to their customers there may be shortage of inventory due to peak season. You must be prepared with inventory. Do not sell poor quality fake items. Because, any customer who loves your product will never go to other sellers. In this peak season, any new customer may come to store and purchase items. If they love your items, then there’s a chance that they may turn into long term returning customers. So make use of this by selling the goods directly from manufacturer. For this, you can take an inventory report daily and find out the best selling items and have them in extra stock so that you may not suffer.

With the above said tips I hope that you would be able to increase you sales this holiday season. For every sales do a market research and find out the hot trend and hottest items that sell in market. You can use effective eBay marketing tools to find the best selling items. If you find any difficult in doing it delegate it to professionals. We at OBVA do research for our clients and get them more sales and profit during holiday seasons. You can join our community by liking our Fanpage or following us in Twitter.

Last-Minute Tips To Generate More Leads To Sell More In Amazon/eBay This Holiday Season!

It’s exactly just few days left for Holiday season.  Still many of the eBay and Amazon sellers or other small business owners are striving hard to drive more sales.  According to the Ponemon Institute, a full third of holiday shoppers plan to spend more money online than in-store in 2011. Therefore you need to spend more time in promoting your business online to attract your local and global audience.

We at OBVA would like to share Last-Minute Tips how to sell something on eBay/Amazon  this holiday season:

Spread Your Offers In Social Media:

Promote your ads/offers using paid advertising campaigns in Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ to entice more visitors. Attractive offers like Buy two get one free, bonus gifts for every purchase etc..can boost more sales. Also, Flash news about one time offers like “Barbie dolls with gift wrapped for free shipping only today”, Foundation creams with Free shipping for first 20 international customers”  will turn you customers to click the buy buttons. You may not have time to involve in such creative and attractive offers to your customers. Delegate such tasks to Virtual Assistants quickly to end your deals.

Word Of Mouth Spreading Through Referral Marketing:

Once you come with attractive offers, encourage your customers to be your walking advertisements. This with no doubt can increase your sales.  Implementing this will not only increase your sales but would maintain a high volume selling in the coming year 2011.  “Refer your friends and get 20% discount on your next purchase can increase your sales” or ” Share it to your friends and get a free gift coupon today!” can get you high ending sales volume. Here are  Top 3 Tips To Convert Your New Customers To Repeat Customers  that might help you.

Mobile And Email Marketing:

According to a recent research it has  been estimated that more than 420 million smart phones will be selling in this year 2011. Hence make use of this effectively, by sending message alerts with special offers and discounts to your customers may change their buying mood to your store. Email marketing is another best way to promote your business with great offers. More than one-third of online shoppers say they would not make a purchase without a free shipping offer. Hence make this is a subject to increase your selling. Here are few Tips To Encourage Your Customers Share Your Amazon/Ebay Business .

Though many store owners may be enticing their customer with more offers, stand out of the crowd by making your offers clear, focused and easy to understand.  Your offers should be clean, brief, to the point and should turn any customer to click on buy buttons. If you do have time to write such exclusive offers, you can hire experts to quickly generate more leads. Here are few “ Holiday Selling Tips That No Seller Will Share With You” which you can use to increase your sales. No matter if it is too late to choose your Virtual Assistant, delegating to experts always help. Happy Selling!

One More Solid Reason To Add More Listings This November – By OBVA eBay Experts

Like every year, eBay holiday offers are being rolled out. The offers are innovative, and focused at helping sellers encash more sales during the holidays. It is upto you how much you can make best use of the offers.

Recently, there was an announcement by Todd Lutwak, Vice President of Seller Experience recently  “One day only! On November 29, list up to 1,000 items Auction-style for free. Add Buy It Now for free, too!  This one-day only promotion applies to all sellers. If you have missed out this offer, you missed out something, but remember to stay tuned for more upcoming offers. If you really want to make the most of this holiday season , you have to stay tuned to the latest news and updates so that you can make the most out of this holiday offers. Here are some useful  Holiday Selling Tips That No Seller Will Share With You!

To start with, you should be prepared for more offers to come. How to get started?

Track your listing time:

You can create your listings at your convenience and control the time they start and end. eBay gives sellers the option of listing items for 1,3 or other days as per your choice. Any auction listing will end the same time the day it is supposed to end. When you list your items,  remember to apply the best listing ending time as per visitors traffic.

Optimize your listing endings smartly:

Your BIN listings and auction listings must end during a time when there are more visitors at eBay.  There is a general assumption that auctions that end on Sunday will have more bids. You can read “How to make your ebay auctions more effective” to know more on auction timings. Also, if your auction listings live for longer, you will get more bids. So, more chances of getting a good selling price for your product.

Your listing must be properly optimized for look, feel and SEO:

Start thinking as a potential customer and try and figure out how they are going to be searching for your item or your store. If you want your store or listing to show up when the customers search for it, make it keyword optimized. The right keyword can earn you first page in search and if you want it to be done in a professional way give the task to internet research experts who can give you good results. eBay tool  “eBay Research Labs BayEstimator” can be used here or the perfectly optimized eBay title. Here is a post  by eBay virtual assistants which gives “The Steps To Get High Search Engine Ranking Optimization For Your eBay Listings“.

Distribute the listing well using Social Media:

Recently Facebook introduced Tagging of photos for Fanpage. This means that you can create a listing, add your product image on your fan page and then tag those pictures with your fan page. You can use social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin to promote your listings. Here are some of posts that can guide you. ‘Use of Facebook for eBay/Amazon’, ‘Use of LinkedIn for eBay/Amazon, and ‘Use of Twitter for eBay/Amazon.’ And also there are some of the applications that can be used to promote your eBay business such as 6 Facebook Applications Which Can Be Used for eBay/Amazon Business and 5 Twitter Applications That Can Be Used for eBay/Amazon Business. If you choose to automate your listings, then “Turbo Lister – Top eBay Marketing Tool “is a good tool to start with. However, it is always wise to have a person look through the listings done automatically, to review any errors, etc.

To create an effective listing you may need professionals help so delegate it to eBay virtual assistants who are experts in creating it for you. You should  have a team in place for all regular activities so that customers are taken care of in the busy season. A few negative feedbacks may spoil your chances of faring well during holiday season. So, why take a chance? Delegate your routine store tasks to professionals who can work with minimum supervision, so that you can focus on more sales this year end. Happy Holiday Selling to you!

5 Top Reasons Why You Must Outsource Your Amazon And eBay Store – By OBVA Virtual Assistants

Starting an Amazon or eBay business not only needs you to invest lot of time and energy, but also needs some skills.. Every seller puts his best effort to succeed in online business, then why most of them fail? Common reasons are, more unwanted feedbacks, more irate customers and less business due to the negative feedback left by customers even when you have done your best to make them happy. It is just that they had to wait a bit longer, than they expected, as you were busy doing other stuff, like listing, research, etc. After all, every task is important and it is equally important that each task is done on time. Therefore, it is smart to delegate your responsibilities to dedicated experts. Virtual Assistants at OBVAshare the 5 Top Reasons Why You Must Outsource Your Amazon And eBay Store to experts-

Reason #1 : You May Not Have Time To Do Regular Market Research On Your Own – And Market Research Is Unavoidable

Market research is the base for any successful online business. It is required both during the initial planning phase and also for ongoing learning. Once you come with the products to sell, you need to know what would be the niche keywords for your business, who are your competitors, your target customers and how is the competitionfor your product. This is a detailed process and the result will highly impact your business either positively or negatively. If you find the right keywords then with no doubt you can rank high in the competition. On the adversary if the keywords you choose are not right then your business will be a complete loss. What if your business turns out to be a failure due to wrong marketing? The best way is to delegate your product research to Internet research professionals who can find out niche keywords for your products, their competitors, sale through prices etc. so that you have facts and figures at your finger tips, that help you take right decisions.

Reason #2 – A Professional Can Write SEO Optimized Listings Faster And Better

This is the second phase. SEO plays a prominent role in making your listings visible to the target market. Writing search engine optimized listing will certainly increase your site traffic. So when you sell hundreds or thousands of products then you need to write effective keyword rich item title, description that should be clear, concise, informative and self explanatory. If you are not an experienced SEO expert, then it’s wise to delegate the product listing writing to SEO experts who can write SEO listings for your products to get more business for you.

Reason #3- Dedicated Professionals For Customer Service Which Avoids Late Reply And Negative Feedback

Many new eBay/Amazon businesses rise up or rank well soon in the competition.  The question is “Does it maintain its consistency?” When you see many successful Amazon sellers or eBay power sellers they work very hard to strive in the competition. How do they finally succeed? They always work hard to maintain their DSR rating and feedback.  Their target is to keep their customers happy. So if their customers are not satisfied they would soon work on a better solution to keep them happy which is the best tactic for any successful business. Also, when any customer comes to your store, only your store feedback will help them decide to become a buyer or just a visitor. What you want them to be? Just a visitor or a lead? If you have less experience in maintaining 100% positive feedback, delegate your store customer service to customer service professionals who can promptly solve your customer’s concerns and keep them happy and satisfied because in online business, feedback makes all the difference.

Reason #4 – Better Marketing Because Marketing Needs Time Commitment And Experience

Marketing helps you considerably boost your sales. You need to create your business profile in major social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin etc.. Your customers should be informed about regular product updates, new products and offers, etc. Therefore, you need to commit yourself in spending part of your time daily in marketing your site. Do you have the time to do this? The best way is to delegate your site marketing to social media virtual assistants. for promoting the listings on social media, and they can help you with other forms of marketing too.

Reason #5- You can balance life better!

We all earn to make our life better!. But when you put all the burden on yourself to make your business a successful one, then you will find no peace even though you may be  making good money.  If you see any successful business owner, they  spend their time only in developing the core areas of their business. What about their other tasks? They simply delegate routine tasks to professional virtual assistants. If you never tried out delegating before, drop us an email  to schedule a call on how we can help you.