Atomic Mall's Owner Preaches the Seller to Seller Sales Doctrine

[LittleOnlineStore]

Well, I'm hoping we all have it wrong and she has relatives up there or something. That would sure suck if she moved up there for AM or that guy on Facebook....

If she did move for those reasons, hopefully, she will wake up and take a look at the Facebook pict and realize she needs to dump AM and focus on her business for her and her son's sake. Spending hours working on a site for someone else for free isn't helping her one bit.

Get your head out of the purple fog, realize that that site isn't giving you shet, and dump it once and for all. No one will think any less of you, and you can continue to make money for yourself and your son.

You've ruined your independent store with all of those affiliate banners and Amazon ads. Get back into selling, get back into your store and invest in your own business not on Atomic Mall.

[Cuff]

When you behave in a suspicious manner it makes people wonder what you're up to.
I'm over it.

[xwpopper]

[quote author=LittleOnlineStore link=topic=18789.msg75303#msg75303 date=1253844020]
You've ruined your independent store with all of those affiliate banners and Amazon ads. Get back into selling, get back into your store and invest in your own business not on Atomic Mall.
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Atomic Mall forum moderator tips for successful online business:
1. Leave AM and Revamp your eBay store, ensuring to attach your web address on each email.
2. List at least half of your inventory in that eBay store with Turbo Lister
3. Download all your inventory through Turbo Lister and create a .tab del file
4. Install Easy Populate for OSCommerce
5. Change headers and columns to suit the OSC upload, and change the prices to 5-10% off your eBay Store prices.
6. Upload the spreadsheet to OSC, re-download it as a Google Base file and upload it there, Oodle, and other free sites.
7. Take some of that time you have without AM to research paid services like Shopping.com, Pricegrabber, Buy, etc. and pick which one suits you the most.

If you follow everything above, and put AM on "Hold" for about a month, your sales will more than double each prior month until Christmas. You may not be a moderator anywhere, but you will see the difference in your wallet.
Or you can moderate a forum for a site that can't put more than 20 sales in the bank for you in a year.

[sneakymagenta]

This morning I woke up to 3 more sales at Atomic Mall and it brought my transaction total up to over 500 between the 4 stores since I started selling there.

Here is the breakdown
# Transactions $ Amount Sales
Store 1 opened Aug, 2008 134 Transactions $2339.46
Store 2 opened Sep, 2008 228 Transactions $3676.90
Store 3 opened Jan, 2009 109 Transactions $7234.65
Store 4 opened Aug, 2009 31 Transactions $322.19


Total 502 Transactions $13,573.20

Based on my expectations from what I need from an alternative site, these numbers exceed those expectations.

http://www.powersellersunite.com/about29...asc-0.html

He has close to 7,000 listings on AM.

Based on my expectations from what I need from an alternative site, those numbers are less than I sell in 2 weeks on my alternative site (my friggin' website) and I would be living in a van down by the river if I had chosen Atomic sMall instead of Volusion

*~* "~" "~"

Congratulations to Atomic Mall's forum moderator on her 0 August sales and 2 September sales on Atomic Mall! Whoo Hoo! Atomic Mall's best in class SEO is really pulling in the buyers! What is the sell through rate on 2/1700?

[LittleOnlineStore]

WTG Patch!

And it only cost you $678.66 to have those amazing sales.

Now, you should go help Alison get some sales, cause she seems to be having troubles.

[xwpopper]

http://www.powersellersunite.com/post-28...tml#280152
The spam king's yellow cards don't stop him from spamming his only seller recruitment arena outside of OSU.

[amy]

  I have noticed that the traffic is down at a lot of alts because of Google Shopping issues and AM is among those sites

That's strange because I had my best month ever trafficwise in October.

Amazon.com, Wal-Mart.com and BestBuy.com also showed strong traffic increases last month.

Alt-site AtomicMall's traffic was down 1.27% in September but alt sites like Wigix, up 36.29%, and NewEggMall, up 22.9%, registered strong gains.

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/atomicm...gmall.com/

The culprit responsible for traffic declines at certain alt sites isn't "Google shopping issues", "the economy", "trolls badmouthing a site", or whatever is being used as the the latest rinky dink excuse of the day...it's the buyer unfriendly nature of the sites themselves.

edit: that downward slope on the  5-month trend graph of the AM'ers revered Quantcast is nasty!  tolensmiley:

http://www.quantcast.com/atomicmall.com

Set the larger chart to monthly and you'll also notice that AM's traffic peaked in April, long before the current "google shopping issues" began,  and has trended down since then.

[sneakymagenta]

I have noticed that the traffic is down at a lot of alts because of Google Shopping issues

I have noticed that it would be impossible for traffic at the majority of alts on PSU's chart to be affected by any recent Google Shopping issues because their items weren't even included in it to begin with. :imptongue:

The '0 items in Product Search currently,  0 items 6 months ago, 0 visitors from Google Products now, 0 visitors 6 months ago' club: UBidRight, YourHighBid, AuctionQuests, Webstore, Wensy, ePier, Usiff, OnlineAuction

The '0 in UK Product Search, 0 in US product search, 0 when Thomas Edison invented the light bulb' club: CQOut, Specialist Auctions

The 'haven't had more than 0.7% of their items included since the Dinosaurs walked the earth' club: WeBidz (512 items of 164K), Blujay (1,311 of 593K), Plunderhere (789 of 111K)

[LittleOnlineStore]

I do have "some" A List stuff at AM currently although most is at eBay. 
 
I have been building up my presence outside of eBay on a steady pace but o, it isnt time yet to move more A List items to other sites, including AM. eBay is allowing me to build up my "war chest" and to buy additional inventory of which some will end up on AM. To give you an example, last year I spent over 700 dollars in clearence Halloween items and put them on AM. The money to buy those items came from eBay sales. I was pretty late in listing those Halloween items on AM but when the smoke cleared, I still made a profit and I still have a ton of inventory. That inventory is the foundation I will build on.
 
In the last week I have spent another 1600 dollars on Halloween clearance items, including over 1100 dollars today alone (shirts, costumes, home decorations, etc) that were 80-90 percent off as stores are trying to make room for the Christmas stuff. The 1600 dollars came from eBay sales. Since I will be going to school overseas next year, I am breaking in another partner (my sister) who will be handling the bulk of my businesses for a few years. I provide the finance and she'll start taking pictures, listing and shipping.
 
After the holidays I'll start moving more A List items to AM and turning more and more inventory over to my sister with the idea being that by April, I wont be doing anything but shopping, proccessing payemnst and handling emails. By the time I leave in May I will have at 3 partners in the US handling different parts of the inventory with varying degrees of responsibility. The transition has been going smoothly so far and I am making money and I have a responsibility to them to ensure that they are making money too and abandoning eBay too quick wouldnt matter much to me but it would to them. I'll continue to sell on eBay and reinvest part of my profits for more inventory to keep the engine running. Maybe in 3 years they'll be a big enough war chest (meaning inventory) that I could make everyone happy and still keep my current lifestyle without using eBay as much but now isnt the time if I want to still be making money 2 years from now.
 
I'm happy with the results I have gotten from AM so far and look forward to even more sales in the future. My transition from using only eBay to using alternative sites as well has been slow but is also has not been at all painful. I see so many people who say they are leaving eBay for good with no kinda plan. They try out the alts and discover that the alts dont bring in as much money so they give up and return to eBay out of frustration. I prefer to stick with my plan of moving away a bit at a time.

Wow, with a business plan like that, he'll be a millionaire in no time 

[sneakymagenta]

[quote author=amy link=topic=18789.msg75439#msg75439 date=1257178109]

  I have noticed that the traffic is down at a lot of alts because of Google Shopping issues and AM is among those sites

That's strange because I had my best month ever trafficwise in October.

Amazon.com, Wal-Mart.com and BestBuy.com also showed strong traffic increases last month.

Alt-site AtomicMall's traffic was down 1.27% in September but alt sites like Wigix, up 36.29%, and NewEggMall, up 22.9%, registered strong gains.

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/atomicm...gmall.com/

The culprit responsible for traffic declines at certain alt sites isn't "Google shopping issues", "the economy", "trolls badmouthing a site", or whatever is being used as the the latest rinky dink excuse of the day...it's the buyer unfriendly nature of the sites themselves.

edit: that downward slope on the  5-month trend graph of the AM'ers revered Quantcast is nasty!  tolensmiley:

http://www.quantcast.com/atomicmall.com

Set the larger chart to monthly and you'll also notice that AM's traffic peaked in April, long before the current "google shopping issues" began,  and has trended down since then.
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The October traffic numbers are out  tolensmiley:
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/atomicm...wigix.com/
Bonanzle UP 13.96% to 657,859
Wigix  UP 16.47% to 412,558
AtomicSmall DOWN 26.39% to 73,296
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/atomicm...orium.com/
AM's largest seller's website wirelessemporium received almost twice as many visitors (130,341) in October as AtomicSmall
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/alsosho...store.com/
Squashed to the left side Webstore (87,739, up 60%) even beat AtomicSmall.  ASs and FlounderHere did not...their traffic fell in October
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/onlineauction.com/
"No Google Product Search exposure ever" OLA's traffic (81,641 up 6%) even beat "best SEO on the planet"AM