There are many wholesale directories online, some are really useful, others are small and don't really offer very good discounts. I have been a member of a few different directories in the past, and I'd like to show the best here.
Wholesalerhub - www.wholesalerhub.com/uk
Offers 14,000 listings, and a small join from of £3.99 per month. This directory contains only UK wholesalers, many of which don't have a website so you need to visit a warehouse. This can be a bonus as you get more exclusivity as not so many people will bother visiting lots of warehouses etc.
UK wholesale directory - www.uk-wholesale-directory.co.uk
Offers 2,500 listings, but small joining fee of £9 for lifetime membership. You do get 2 free ebooks bonus on joining, however this wholesale website is small.
UK Wholesaler - www.uk-wholesaler.co.uk
Offers 5,000 listings, and includes dropshipping directory. £24.99 for lifetime membership.
Wholesalepages - www.wholesalepages.co.uk
Huge directory with 65,000 listings, from £3.99 per month to join. Offers dropshipping directory, USA/France/Hong Kong and asian wholesalers aswell as UK wholesalers, and many more. Very easy to navigate around and find what you're looking for. This is the best of the bunch.
Wednesday, 7 March 2007
Friday, 2 March 2007
10 X more Ebay Sales???
Here's a new idea which I'm trying at the moment. I once saw somebody selling a product on ebay and their listing had 2000 hits. Their sales were doing brilliantly, they had sold about 100 items. I looked at their listing, it was fairly plain, good item description, but a standard cheap listing, not a featured item etc. So how did it get so many hits, and so many sales? There were lots more people selling the same thing, who got one or two sales. This ebayer was getting traffic from somewhere else.
So I thought, if I can get more traffic to my listings, there's a better chance that things will sell. Also, if I was attracting buyers from elsewhere then they would see my listing straight away and not see my competition. I looked into buying traffic, but that has never worked, I always seem to get conned.
Then it dawned on me. If I am making £10 profit on one item, I can afford to pay £5 per item sold on adverts pretty easily. Google ads are highly targeted. They only show when a user searches for something. After I listed an item (with multiple quanity in case a lot sell), I have set up some google ads (www.google.co.uk/adwords) which point to my listing. I have used google adwords before - you pay every time someone clicks on your ad.
On the ad itself, I always put the price, then it stops people clicking who aren't interested in paying. I am concerned however that I will end up spending £1 a day (my budget) on ads which will get me nowhere.
However, I am hopeful because the items are for sale on ebay. Ebay is a widely recognised brand and bestows trust to the consumer, so when they see this item for sale, they are more likely to buy.
Does it work? - I don't know yet but I'll post up what happens. I'm currently waiting for the ads to go live!
Pete
So I thought, if I can get more traffic to my listings, there's a better chance that things will sell. Also, if I was attracting buyers from elsewhere then they would see my listing straight away and not see my competition. I looked into buying traffic, but that has never worked, I always seem to get conned.
Then it dawned on me. If I am making £10 profit on one item, I can afford to pay £5 per item sold on adverts pretty easily. Google ads are highly targeted. They only show when a user searches for something. After I listed an item (with multiple quanity in case a lot sell), I have set up some google ads (www.google.co.uk/adwords) which point to my listing. I have used google adwords before - you pay every time someone clicks on your ad.
On the ad itself, I always put the price, then it stops people clicking who aren't interested in paying. I am concerned however that I will end up spending £1 a day (my budget) on ads which will get me nowhere.
However, I am hopeful because the items are for sale on ebay. Ebay is a widely recognised brand and bestows trust to the consumer, so when they see this item for sale, they are more likely to buy.
Does it work? - I don't know yet but I'll post up what happens. I'm currently waiting for the ads to go live!
Pete
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