Blogs as eBay Marketing Tools

[mandy]

"What can an online seller do with a blog?" To which I answer:

- inform your customers
- give more information about merchandise
- give your auctions/store items greater page rank
- attract customers
- earn money via affiliate marketing
- combine all selling efforts in one place

full article: http://auctionbytes.com/cab/abu/y206/m01/abu0158/s04

[mandy]

A followup article:

Last month I wrote about using a blog as an eBay marketing tool. In today's issue, I want to continue that idea and expound on the planning needed to make it work. I will show you the steps to naming your blog, coming up with a purpose for the blog, and selecting blogging tools. All of these steps should be done prior to actually building the blog.

full article: http://auctionbytes.com/cab/abu/y206/m02/abu0161/s03

[bargainbloodhound]

I didn't realize when I read last month's article that the writer was "Fitzgerald" on FAS.  :-[ Now I do.