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 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.

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!

Top 3 Reasons Why You Cannot Afford to Ignore Google + For Your Business Social Media Marketing

Since its launch Google + has been making news every day. Recently Mashable shared the news that “Google+ Hits 25 Million Visitors, Gets More Sticky “.  Either for its followers, or about its applications, it’s certainly creating buzz around. It is felt that Google + has been structured in a remarkably similar way to Facebook, with profile pictures and news feeds forming a central core. Though there may be reasons for the similarity, there are more things which can be explored for business. At the moment Google only targets private persons and features for business pages are still in development . Google will start to test these features with selected companies.

We at OBVA have added our company profile on Google+1. We were thinking on why we need to be there..? Then we came up with “Top 3 Reasons Why You Cannot Afford to Ignore Google + For Your Business Social Media Marketing”

• Google Plus is a possible reincarnation of many dying Google Services like Picasa and Blogger
• SEO and SMO meet in Google
• Low budget SEO For Small Businesses

1. Google Plus Is A Possible Reincarnation Of Many Dying Google Services Like Picasa And Blogger

According to a report shared by Mashable “Google To Retire Blogger & Picasa Brands in Google+ Push”, Google intends to retire several non-Google name brands and rename them as Google products. Google has just changed their names. With “Google Photos” for Picasa and “Google Blogs” for Blogger. So business which are using blogger and Picasa should now have a profile on Google + to use these services. Facebook launched tagging of fanpage feature. While using Google plus business owners can make use of Google Photos for giving a description of their product or service in a better way. This can be inturn to get more traffic to your website.

2. Search Engine Optimization And Social Media Optimization Meet In Google

As you all know, Google Search Algorithm is now focusing on contextual linking. For Search Engine Optimization Google is prioritizing content for organic search. It’s like more the content the better, and the more contextual backlinks pointing to your website . This can fetch you a higher PR. To get contextual backlinks, you must have backlinks from high Google Page Rank or from popular relevant content. And Google + is directly linked to the most widely used search engine, Google. So its important that we do not ignore Google +.

The development of Social Media Optimization in gaining backlinks and popularity from popular sites like Facebook and Twitter is being targeted towards real time searching. In Facebook, privacy issues have always been a problem. . G+ takes a lead here and offers a better privacy management system . Google+ is more user-friendly than Facebook, particularly the ability to sort your contacts by category into circles for communication purposes.

3. Low Budget Search Engine Optimization For Small Businesses

As a small business owner, you probably have a very limited marketing budget if one actually exists at all. The secret of Search Engine Optimization using Google +1 is that it’s completely free for you to take advantage of, assuming you have the courage to edit some web pages. If you take the efforts, it will certainly pay you!

Beyond that, search engine optimization with Google +1 will provide your business  a long history of leads without any recurring costs. So, to recap here — we’re talking about free traffic, from qualified leads, who are interested in your service. And all that’s required from you is a little ‘bit of passion and patience’. Free tools such as Google webmaster tools, Google Analytics help us to know more about our business SEO and we can make things work better for us.

Again I would say “Google + is a directly linked to the most widely used search engine that is Google”. There are expectations that Google + will impact the ranking of Google search when you have +1 on your page, service etc. And it will also directly impact the ranking of that item in Google search.

Social media virtual assistants here at OBVA have given you some effective tips on how Google + cannot be ignored. I have shared some posts on how social media sites live Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter can be used effectively for business. You can grab our RSS feed for latest updates. You are welcome to be a friend on our Fanpage and would like to follow us on Twitter

5 Proven Tips To Encourage Your Customers Share Your Amazon/eBay Business – By OBVA Virtual Assistants

Not every true/honest seller explodes more sales in Amazon/Ebay business. You as an entrepreneur have to follow few strategies to make your business grow. The first thing is to make people aware of your business. This can be done by marketing. But we cannot assure that all readers would become your prospective customers by just seeing your ads. The best way to improve your business is to make your existing customers as tools to market your business. This is the best tactic followed by many eBay powersellers and Successful Amazon store owners.

Virtual Office Assistants from OBVA share the 5 proven tips to encourage your Customers to Share Your Amazon/Ebay Business:

Tip #1 : Ask Your Customers To Join In Your Social Networks Like Your Facebook Fanpage, Twitter, Linkedin:

Whenever your customers buy products from you, thank your customers first for buying products from your store.  Ask them if they are satisfied with their products. Follow up them to join your social networks like Facebook Fan page , Twitter, LinkedIn etc..This is the effective way of promoting your business.  You should make sure that that the social sharing plug-ins you use for your site is very simple and user friendly that your customers should feel easy to join your social network club.

New features like Facebook Fan page tagging have come up for increasing web traffic. Use them effectively and also make sure that your social networks sites like Twitter, Linkedln, Facebook have complete profile about your business, having keyword rich description about your products and are SEO optimized. Thus when customers  ‘Like’ your Fanpage, your traffic will be certainly increased.

Tip #2 :Ask Your Customers To Review Your Products/Service:

Becoming a top seller in business is easy. But it is difficult to maintain the standard of competition. Only a trustworthy relationship amongst the customers can help you build a long time business and covert the customers to long term buyers. A recent research has stated that “more than two-thirds of consumers today refer to online reviews and ratings before making purchase decisions from on or offline businesses.”

If you see any successful business owners or your top competitor’s site, they would include their client’s reviews or testimonies in their homepage. This would build a trust and gives a way to turn your readers into prospective leads. Hence, when your customers buy from you, ask them to review your product/service.

Tip #3: Community Forum:

This is also an effective way of encouraging your customers to share your business.  Community forums are there for any type of business or service. We too have community forums for Amazon and eBay where customers can post their queries. If you voluntarily solve their queries, there is a chance they can come to your store, get interested with your products and also can share your services to others.

Tip #4 : Email Marketing:

When your customers come to know that they are reminded about your new discounts/offers/new products they would be enticed to come to your store. It is obvious that whenever people are impressed by some seller, they will never fall on to their competitors.

The best way to impress your customers is to follow up them, offer discounts for future purchase etc.. To make email marketing as an effective tool, read Mashable’s 6 Smart & Effective Email Marketing Tactics. Make sure that whenever you sell new products or offer any discounts for a particular period, email your customers about them. This would obviously lead to word of mouth advertisement for your sales.

Tip #5: Offer Discounts When Your Existing Customer Promotes Your Business:

This is the common strategy that many business owners follow. Rewarding your customers for their referrals would certainly increase your sales volume. When your sales volume is increased, the trust on your business also gets gradually increased.

You as an entrepreneur may not have time to spend on these tasks. You can hire virtual assistants to contact your existing customers, follow up them for new contest/discounts, email them to share your business through social plugins, participating in forums to help customers solve their issues etc..

Social media Virtual Assistants at OBVA have posted blog posts on ‘Use of Facebook for eBay/Amazon’, ‘Use of LinkedIn for eBay/Amazon, and ‘Use of Twitter for eBay/Amazon, 5 Ways eBay Sellers Can Use LinkedIn For Business“ and also on 6 Facebook Applications Which Can Be Used for eBay/Amazon Business and 5 Twitter Applications That Can Be Used for eBay/Amazon Business.

You can go through these blogs and get an idea on how you can use these social media sites for your Amazon/Ebay Business. For latest articles you can grab our RSS feed so that you do not miss out any new posts.

We at OBVA have virtual office assistants who work effectively for our Amazon and Ebay clients. We help our clients in managing consistent positive feedback, participating in forums, email marketing to help increase our client’s store traffic. Delegating Your Online Store Can Do Wonders – Here are the proof  performance reports From Our OBVA Professionals. If you need more assistance for your business, please contact us. We never work for your competitors.

Results – Of My Experiment With Top 3 Twitter Tools That I Used For Twitter Marketing For Business

We have been doing some research with Hootsuite, Twilert and Summify for the past one week. Here are the results -

1. Hootsuite

As mentioned earlier HootSuite is a tool with which you can manage your multiple social networks in Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn ,WordPress, MySpace, FourSquare. For example I have added my Twitter, Facebook and Facebook fan page.

Here I tried to schedule my message to these social media sites and it worked out well for me. You can schedule the messages and then forget about it. This is an amazing tool for all small businesses as its useful + free. So, you can schedule your update to go out at the desired time. For example, we are based in India and we want more foreign clients come to our website. So, we schedule the twitter posts to go out during mornings of  USA time, especially Wednesday and Saturday.

2. Summify

Very easy-to-use summarizing tool for your social and news feeds which creates summary of the most relevant news stories, from all of your social networks and delivers it by email or via the web. We can generate reports and it will be send to our email . The report generation will take upto 1 to 2 hrs. With the links emailed to us we can know about the hot topics that are being discussed and shared in Facebook, Twitter and Google Reader .

3 . Twilert

This application allows you monitor Twitter for any keyword of your choice and you can get notified via email. You enter the keywords you want in Twitter conversations and set how often you want to be alerted (daily, weekly or  monthly ).

This screen shot shows the results of the keywords which I have used for my Twilerts.

This application shows us real time results on what eBay and Amazon business people are taking about.

On concluding this post I would like to say that  I have selected these tools on basis of the informations I got from the internet. But after using them I have realized how effective these tools can be for my business. If you want to do some social media yourself try out some tools suggested by experts and you will get to know about it.

List Of 7 Killer Posts – ‘eBay And Amazon Social Media Marketing’

This month, Social Media Virtual Assistants at OBVA shared a few blog posts on ‘How eBay and Amazon business owners can use Social Media for Marketing.’

In case if you have missed any of the posts, here is a complete list for you. I believe these posts will help you market your eBay and Amazon store better than before in case if you are doing something already on Social Media. If not, then this list can serve as a fantastic starter manual for you. Off course, I am available for any information help needed anytime. Email me for any help here…I am always available to help

Now, here comes the list of 7 Social Media Marketing Killer Posts for eBay and Amazon Businesses-

Post 1 – How eBay and Amazon Businesses can use Facebook for promoting their online stores.

Post 2 – How Linkedin can be effectively used for eBay and Amazon Businesses

Post 3 – How eBay and Amazon Businesses can use Twitter for promoting eBay and Amazon Businesses

Post 4 – 6 Facebook applications that can be used for eBay and Amazon Businesses

Post 5 – Avoid these 7 Customer mistakes that can result in negative feedback

Post 6 – Top 5 Effective Twitter applications that can be used for eBay and Amazon Businesses

Post 7 – 5 Linkedin Applications that can be used for eBay and Amazon Businesses

I am sure this list will give you an idea on how effectively social media sites can be used for promoting  your eBay and Amazon Businesses and take you business to a different level. You can grab our RSS Feed to get the latest updates.Will get back to you all soon with some more blog posts…..