Firtst Ethnic / Tribal Keffiyeh blouse was sold!

I am proud! The first blouse was sold. I felt the same as two years ago when I sold my first item on ebay - proud and nervous. Is my customer gonna like it?

Surprisingly, it was sold on amazon, not on my ebay store. I thought that my great reputation (100%) and high feedback score (currently 568) will make it go easier on ebay... You don't hear me complaining (-:



Next thing was to rush, pick two other keffiyeh and produce another two blouses - this time a bit more sofisticated. I should pick them tomorrow from the tailor and have Shani, my personal home model, wear them and model for my photos.

I am curious what else can be formed from keffiyeh...? ideas?

Selling Online is a Tricky Business

I'm selling kufiya by Hirbawi for almost 2 years now. My ebay store sales are not bad... but I hardly find my items via google. (Hey! buy some SEO consultency!)

Today, I found that the rest of the world is looking for KEFFIYEH, not KUFIYA. So, while other were buying some cheap chinese KEFFIYEH, I was selling really good stuff, almost secretly (-:

I revised my listings as fast as I could on all 3 sites: my ebay store, my amazon store and on my own Holyland Treasury store.

Now, i have to wait and see if I don't end up with 1000 "stronger" search results instead of being the king of my (small) neighborhood

I'm on amazon, finally.

Took ages, but I managed to upload some items to amazon. No sales yet.

Looking back, listing procedure on amazon is not that complicated - just so different from what I do for the past 2 years on ebay...

Just passing the UPC barrier took me a day: don't worry - amazon creates one for you in case your product does not have one.

And like a magic, after you list your first item, the rest of them are a function of staying awake.

Now, for the real challange: how do you produce traffic to your new store? Who are the buyers on amazon? What makes them different from the ebay buyers?

Will keep you updated.

Handling Multiple Online Stores

There is an old joke:
a. How are you?
b. In one word? Good. In two words? NOT good.

Managing two online stores is a nightmare!

Working with the ebay UI for so long in order to manage my  ebay store, certainly created some habits that now collide with the UI of my own new store -  Holyland Treasury

The platform I chose, by Auctiva, is really a pro! Everything I was ever deaming of...

An than,comes the problem - from mutual stock that needs to be reflected in two stores (or more... what about Amazon ? ), continue with the need to upload and manage descriptions on multiple platforms, ending with the need to promote them in different techniques.

 And yes... there are the tools that can manage multiple stores for you.But they are either very expensive (over $200 a month) or limited (only ebay, no amazon etc.)

So I end up spending tremendous amount of time with great frostration and dull results.

Any idea?