[quote author=PowerSeller link=topic=3775.msg72094#msg72094 date=1219600861]
I've read The Pet Guy's posts and am glad that he's doing well (some of that is because he pays for AdWords). However, if he'd stayed on WP, his WP store would now be very far outperforming his eBay store and with a very small fraction of the fees. And I do know that he didn't sell "abolutely nothing" on Wagglepop since I personally bought well over $200. worth of products from him. It was a little disconcerting to see my hard-earned money brushed off as "absolutely nothing". The only reason why he didn't see more sales on WP is because WP sales come primarily through Google exposure, and he started delisting his items before the store even had a chance of being indexed in Google, let alone build up rank.
Quote:You obviously know how to market the WP store, and get people to shop there even with all the phone verification and invoicing handicaps, so imagine how terrific it could be without those?
Contrarywise, I'm not good at marketing, don't want to spend money on it, and have only spent real time doing it for my website, not the WP store. Wagglepop is a very easy site to get profitable sales on. The main requirements are showing up, listing stuff, KEEPING it listed, and not neglecting obvious mistakes like writing ineffective listing titles, etc.
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I was speaking of a Post Pet Guy made on WP after he had been open a couple months. He hadn't sold a thing. If you bought after that, then he wasn't brushing your purchases off. And, also, if any site can't index it's seller's stores in a few weeks, their SEO isn't very good. A site that is indexed should have new pages crawled no less than once weekly, and the site's SEO and pagerank will reflect the placement of the products in Google. Nothing takes months for a site that is constantly being crawled.
You may not believe you are good at marketing, but consider this...
Wagglepop has Phone verification for registration, as well as emails. They also force a new buyer to wait for an invoice from a seller, which many new buyers I remember saying it was worse than waiting for an auction to end. When people buy, they want to pay, not wait several hours, or until the next day to pay.
On an OSC website, you don't even have to register if you pay with Paypal Express or Google Checkout.
That is a huge advantage if you wanted to take off with it. And if you can market yourself so well with Wagglepop, there is no reason at all you can't do the same with your website. And if you would change the signature line in every listing to your website, I'd bet you would get the same amount of traffic and sales there if it was stocked. Then, get the SEO mod installed to show the product name in search results, and you'd be gold.