Targeted Online Auctions
Creating Effective & Profitable Auctions
Every day, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, millions of
people from all over the world go shopping at online auctions. This is
not an exaggeration - eBay, with a 76% share of the auction site market,
reports 42.7 million users and a growth factor of 100% per year!
What are these auction buyers looking for?
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A Harris Interactive Poll conducted on 2,196 people found that online bargains (43 percent) |
What are they buying?
They buy items in all sorts of categories, but not just anything sells.
So targeted marketing has become crucial, especially since auctions have
become a very serious business for many companies. And its not just sales
at stake these days. More and more companies are using auctions to generate
additional traffic to their websites and to make additional offers.
Here’s the bottom line:
If you have what online auction buyers want and they can find your listing,
you will get bids and you will get sales. The real task is figuring out
just what it is they want. Beanie babies were hot years ago, but now you
can’t give them away. But there are some items that seem to always sell
well, year after year. If you can work out what those items are, you can
get off to a running start.
From a marketing viewpoint, online auctions are ideal:
The buyers are drawn to the auction sites by the tremendous number and
variety of items available on the auction sites, so the problem of how
to attract buyers is already solved. They are using the traffic generated
by the auction site and the customers arrive in a receptive frame of mind.
They like the auctions, looking at pictures and they enjoy the competitive
bidding process.
So how do you cash in on this?
By using targeted online auction strategies that take full advantage
of the buying habits and patterns of online auction buyers and the built-in
categories found on the auction sites.
eBay, the auction site giant, boasts 3,000 categories of auction items!
Their whole effort is to make it fast and easy for bidders to find the
items they are looking for, to zero in on their targeted items. Essentially,
these buyers self target. Most businesses have to find their buyers. At
online auction sites the buyers find you.
Offering items in online auctions is easy:
You do not have to have a website, though serious auction sellers do
have websites. You do not need to generate traffic with expensive advertising.
It has already been created at the major online auction sites. Registration
and set up is fast and easy. Fees for listings are extremely affordable.
This is essentially instant e-commerce without all the headaches.
At its most basic level, the formula for selling at online auctions is
simple:
Offer something buyers want, specifically. You must have a specific target
and product in mind, that you know sells well.
Categorize and list it effectively
Make a compelling listing
The setup is easy, the costs are low and the formula is simple. The problem
is that it is so simple that there are literally millions of sellers each
trying to sell to their target buyers.
So you need every advantage you can get so you can:
Offer products that consistently attract buyers.
Make your auctions stand out from all the others.
Effectively position and list your own products.
Price items to sell well and profitably.
Use multiple income streams and product lines to multiply your all of
your sales and marketing efforts.
Capitalize on the huge numbers of people who look at your listings and
gain exposure for other products and income streams.
Targeted online auctions give you these advantages.
There are many auction resource sites you can visit to learn more about
online auctions and how they can provide you with multiple income streams
and a boost to your online marketing efforts.
You can also learn the necessary skills and knowledge for using targeted
online auctions by buying and reading the newly-released ebook: How To
Make Money With Online Auctions - A Proven Method. This newly-released
ebook is currently available at www.makemoneywithonlineauctions.com.
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