| Yes, eBay can help your non-eBay businesses | | | | - Classifieds: You can put these informational bits |
| make more money. eBay is very well known and | | | | on eBay that aren't necessarily an auction. It's |
| has been around for a while now. A lot of people | | | | exactly like a classifieds in a Newspaper. So you |
| have discounted the quality of this business, but I | | | | make a classifieds ad on fishing supplies, saying |
| think it still has huge potentials to help people both | | | | something like "I'm currently looking to get rid of |
| at selling things online, and even helping an offline | | | | x, y, z. Please email me for more information." |
| business get more sales. | | | | People from eBay will search, find this and send |
| The most hard to believe fact about eBay is that | | | | you a message. |
| it gets the same amount of searches a day as | | | | - Upselling: This is a lot more interesting of a |
| Google. What makes this fact even better is that | | | | concept and it builds a much better long lasting |
| the people that search at eBay actually are | | | | relationship. What you're going to do is just put a |
| looking to buy. This is the ideal customer. Let's | | | | regular auction up on the site and sell it. Now you |
| say you sell fishing supply, if someone searches | | | | have the information of a person that you know |
| for fishing supply and gets to your listing, you | | | | is interested in fishing. You can always send them |
| know that they are looking and willing to buy | | | | a personalized email saying, "How's your fishing |
| fishing supply. | | | | rod treating you? I currently got some new |
| The question now is how do you get that | | | | product name and I thought you might be |
| targeted customer off of eBay and to one of | | | | interested". It's a very interesting way to resell to |
| your other businesses. Well there are a few | | | | a person you know is interested. |
| ways: | | | | |