Frances, I was feeling frustrated today. My sales are off a bit only because I am way behind in my listing. So, I sashayed down to the wrecking yard and had an afternoon of "acquiring" a lot of the little bits and pieces I keep promising I will go back and get "next time".
Today was next time. OOMPH. I got, my retail, $700 worth of stuff for $10. Yesterday I got $1100 for $25.
I'm different. Well, not from Pierre I am not. Pierre taught me the adage "Know what you sell and sell what you know". I also did the classic turn a hobby into a business. I'm betting Pierre did the same thing.
A business is, well, different from selling. With business, yer skin is thicker. With business, downtime in sales, allows for the focus to shift to other aspects of yer business. I acquire more widgets, I do a lot of research. Research what is available for sale, what is selling, what I can get, what is coming into the wrecking yards, takes up a huge amount of my time.
I research what sells to other countries. I research what a car model in Canada is named, what the name is in the USA, what the name is in other countries.
You only have 49 things listed. I have 360 with another 300, easily, I can list. At around 400 listings, continually adding to the pile, I sell 100-120 per month. Throttle that back to 50, and you should be selling six (6) a month, based on the math.
You have very pretty stuff. Nice and girlie. I "think" your prices might be too low. Play with yer prices. There is a large segment of buyers who believe that the higher the price, the better they are getting.
I looked at one listing and your description was after the pictures. I would put it before.
Try different approaches with different listings.
I was at eBay Live in Chicago back in 2008. They had a "Listing Makeover" booth. You signed up for an appt. They, well, she Jennifer P, shredded my listing and re-did it with "best practises". She was a senior marketing manager.
I stood there transfixed. She completely tore apart everything I believed was right. She re-did an entire listing. I looked over my shoulder. there were 40-50 people watching me being shredded. The look on their faces was "Yer braver than me".
She asked if I wanted my listing left the best way or returned to the way I had it. I told her to leave it the way she had done it.
I said to her "Do you realize what you have done? My sales will double just on the format change." Implementing the changes, my sales did indeed double.
Too many people try selling with their "Id" when they should be selling with their "Ego".
A business needs constant building, adapting, changing, re-inventing, WTF do I do now. I see you are coming up on two years on this ID. 600 is pretty impressive for two years. I am 4500, but, that took ten years with the first two years not being anywhere near 600. LOL!!!
Good luck.
