One of my favorite Zibbet features is the community of wonderful sellers here. The best place to get to know Zibbet sellers is at Zibbet’s Community Hub, Zibbet’s social networking site. If you’ve not joined the Community yet, there is no better time than the present! Once you’ve opened your ZCH account, jump right in–introduce yourself and start getting acquainted. Besides receiving a warm and friendly welcome, you’ll quickly (more…)
Wouldn’t it be great if you could list a new item in your shop and have it automatically posted on your blog, your Community page, your Facebook page and Twitter? It just so happens that Zibbet offers all sellers a tool called an RSS feed that allows you to do just that. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It’s programming that allows dynamic data from one site to be “fed” to (more…)
I have a huge confession to make. As I sat down to write this week’s article, I was clueless as to what I was going to write about. So I scanned some online articles that I had bookmarked, looking for a topic that grabbed my attention enough for me to actually read the article. While on the Practical Ecommerce site, an article titled 4 Ways Video Can Drive Traffic and Conversions caught my eye. So I gave the article a quick (more…)
According to the results of a survey by Forrester Research Inc. and cited by InternetRetailer.com (2009), “Baby boomers are more likely to consume than create online social content.” The survey revealed that 66% of those surveyed aged 43-52 and 62% of those aged 53-63 reported reading blogs, listening to podcasts, reading online forums and customer ratings, and watching user-generated (more…)
Promoting your products comes with the territory. I believe that the popular line from the movie Field of Dreams, “If you build it, he (they) will come” only applies to baseball diamonds built in the middle of cornfields! When it comes to selling, after you build it you have to promote it. Finding what works requires a lot of trial and error testing which also takes a lot of time. Selling, both online and off, is hard work. (more…)
