eCrater advice?

Hi Leahyrlw I opened an eCrater store about a month ago, it's easy to upload your items although it is the advertising that is the problem for me. As with most things its getting your shop out there and noticed by other people that takes the time.They do send the listings to Froogle and i have got items showing up when i do a search but still no sales yet.Its free so why not give it a try if it does not work out just close the store.Hope that helps.Paul

http://simpsons.ecrater.com

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Simpsons-The-Online-Store

http://www.1stoptrading.co.uk/shops/simco

Yes, Thanks for your reply. Marketing can be difficult. We've tried GoogleBase and I'm not sure if it just takes time or what. Our own website would be great - perhaps when we get the marketing down.
Thanks gain
Rosemary

My experience has been positive with my ecrater storeS. I have more than one.

It's very easy and there's really nothing intimidating about getting your sales up.

The BIGGEST piece of advice I can give you is promote, Promote, PROMOTE! Cross-promote when you can. Get the links out there as much as possible.

There's a spot on ecrater that walks you through submitting your ecrater store to search engines.

I'd advise anyone to try an ecrater store. I mean really, it's free and it can't hurt!

I know cavaliersoldat noted here recently that his ecrater was doing 600.00 a month! Mine do quite well...I get alot of off-site requests most. Once they view my site, they hit ask seller a question and send me the list of items they want..I invoice, voila!

Here's links to all of my online ecrater stores.

Http://www.Suthrnjewl.com

Good Luck,
Donna

Hi Donna,
The link you sent me to is beautiful. Who does that kind of work - did you do that yourself. Very tasteful. Let's the customer see everything you have and they can choose which direction they want to go. That's really neat.
Thanks
Rosemary

Thanks for the kind words.

I was shooting for a look on the initial site that represented my personality. Thanks for your words as I guess I did succeed.

It's a work in progress and will continue to be.

My site didn't look that way 3 days ago. Its look matched my ME and Store pages with eBay.

http://members.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=suthrnjewl

When I first purchased my domain name I had it forwarded to my EBAY Store. Then as I've ventured out and away from eBay, I've had it forwarding to my eCrater stores. (which I do sell from with no eBay fee's I might add)

This summer I'm going to make the site into a working site that actually has the products right there on the site and not directed to my ecraters. I feel that my ecraters are out there in the search engines pretty well and they will sustain on their own aside from a working site.

You have email. I sent you something. <wink>
Donna

Did anybody notice that the text on ecrater stores is now black?

Yes, the stores were down last week for a few days and from my understanding that's being taken care of...a part is in route.

The black makes a big difference in the text.

Good Luck All,
Donna
(I still wish Auctiva would open up a similar site to ecrater, I like your style better...please?)

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Originally posted by Suthrnjewl:
My experience has been positive with my ecrater storeS. I have more than one.

It's very easy and there's really nothing intimidating about getting your sales up.

The BIGGEST piece of advice I can give you is promote, Promote, PROMOTE! Cross-promote when you can. Get the links out there as much as possible.

There's a spot on ecrater that walks you through submitting your ecrater store to search engines.

I'd advise anyone to try an ecrater store. I mean really, it's free and it can't hurt!

I know cavaliersoldat noted here recently that his ecrater was doing 600.00 a month! Mine do quite well...I get alot of off-site requests most. Once they view my site, they hit ask seller a question and send me the list of items they want..I invoice, voila!

Here's links to all of my online ecrater stores.

Http://www.Suthrnjewl.com

Good Luck,
Donna

Hi there I also have a ecrater store. How do you make your home page that goes to your ecrater store with your domaign name? Thanks

What I've done is have pictures on the domain your speaking of, suthrnjewl.com (I own quite a few domains doing different things) directed to the URLs of my ecrater category.

I'd be more than happy to help you (as best I can).

My web page is being redesigned by KWK Designs. It will continue to do the same but will have the look of my auctions and eBay store. Kathy of KWKDesigns can do all of this for you and/or work with you to learn to do it yourself.

If you need help...Suthrnjewl at Suthrnjewl dot com.

Take care,
Donna

Ecrater is about to hit 500,000 items any day now.

ecrater is great! I am pretty much exclusively selling on there because it is free and it works better for what I sell. I just opened my store last week so I haven't had any sales.

I have been very active on the message boards and have found that success varies. I see reports of no sales to sales of $1000's a month.

You really have to work at promoting your site. The posters on the forums are awesome and there is a ton of resources to help you with marketing.

My store is www.outfitkit.com

Hi how do you put a domaign name going through ecrater without th ecrater address?

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Originally posted by ockitty:
Hi how do you put a domaign name going through ecrater without th ecrater address?

You need to buy your own domain name and then forward the domain name to your ecrater site.

I use 1&1 and it costs 5.99 per year per domain.

You can check them out here

http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=10842802

Click on domains at the top.

Do you already own a domain name? And if you do, whom did you purchase it through?

It's very easy to go to the control panel of your domain and forward the url to your ecrater.

I use namecheap.com

If you need help, Suthrnjewl at Suthrnjewl dot com.

Good Luck,
Donna