EASY TRICKS TO INCREASE YOUR s SALES TODAY!

THE FOLLOWING ARE SOME QUICK CHANGES YOU CAN MAKE TO INCREASE okay SALES RIGHT NOW:
One of the precautions I took early on was to only accept PayPal and Money Orders for payment. I changed that well over three years ago to include all forms of payment including personal checks. I see that okay has taken away this option in the selling template but if a customer asks, I advise that I accept all forms of payment. I confess, I was a little worried when I decided to accept checks. However, I was reading a book of things one could do to increase sales. It suggested accepting all forms of payment. So, I decided to try it. It worked and the sales definitely did increase almost immediately!
At first, when I received a personal check, I held the item until the check cleared (usually 3 days or so). When the check cleared every time, I felt bad about holding an item up the additional time. It seemed an unfriendly and distrusting way to treatmy good customers, (especially since many of my positive customer feedbacks were in great appreciation of my "fast shipping."
So, again I changed my mind on holding back shipping items while waiting for the check to clear. Again, I held my breath worried about being stuck.
As before, I won customers and sales increased without a single bounced check! Now, I accept personal checks (up to a $30 limit) for immediate shipment from anyone with 30 or more positive feedback. My rationale was that, at a cost of about $25 (or more) in bank fees if you bounce a check, most people will be pretty careful about not writing a bad check. I was right about this change too -- I have more than 5,000 transactions since I changed my mind about this, and have never received a bad check (touch wood). Now, I offer immediate shipment on receipt of a personal check if the person has an excellent feedback rating. I define an excellent feedback rating as the buyer must have at least 30 (or more) positive feedback ratings with no negatives --especially any related to non payment. This has also resulted in a good number of repeat customers who prefer to pay by check and, as we all desire,to receive the item(s) fast.
Go global!! I also changed my customer base radically by agreeing to ship worldwide. That was some great advice I got from a fellow okayer that definitely resulted in increased sales. The time it takes (most of the year) to take your items to the post office and fill out the small customs slips is well balanced by the fact that foreign customers are often willing to pay a bit more to get quality American items and have them shipped overseas. Of course, PayPal makes the currency exchange a non issue for you --which is key.
Finally, it takes some reading and research, but it is so worthwhile to learn something about search engine optimiation (SEO) which is how customers find your items on okay and from other search engines outside of okay. When you understand how your items are found by your customers and how they are ranked in searches, you can do various things in your ads to assure they gee up in more relevantsearches (and please keep your SEO activities in accordance with okay policy or you will loose customers and listing exposure). When the person who wants your item finds it -- they buy -- and you sell more.
I hope you will have as much luck with these suggestions as I have had. I am always looking for ways and means to improve my sales and customer service while begeing more efficient. I like to share what I find along the way as I have done here.
If you ever get the chance to drop by my sales (Pepper120851), you will find great prices on quality items every day of the year. Visit my store (The Write Place Ladies Clothing) and you can name the price you pay -- every day on every item. I am sure you would enjoy the cyber trip to great bargains.
Thanks So Much for stopping by!
Pepper