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When you are shipping your eBay packages, do you include any “little gifts” or extra advertising? From October to December last year, I included small candy bars attached to seasonal messages with all of my orders. The seasonal message cards included my store name, blog url, my facebook and Twitter info. After the first of the year, I stopped sending chocolate candy bars because so many people are dieting. In the spring and summer, sending chocolate is a dangerous idea with the issue of melting. argh!
For some time now I have been contemplating a new design for the cards that I include in my packages. Recently, I purchased something from The eBay Shop and in the package was a professional looking “Thank you for your order!” card. It looked so much better than my computer generated cards, so I finally took the plunge and hit Vistaprint to design my own. I ordered business cards, package insert cards, a banner to use at my classes, and much, much more!
Check out my package inserts….
Here’s another with a place to write a personal note on the back….
Adding a short note thanking a buyer really adds a personal touch and I believe has helped my Detailed Seller Ratings. Using this medium for getting your social media avenues to your buyers will only help your business. When the buyer opens their package, you have a captive audience for spreading the word about your business. It may only be a short window for holding their attention, so designing attractive and informative inserts is important. I do not claim to be an expert on this topic, but I do feel that using small amounts of info on these cards will quickly get the point across.
Our first FacebookCyber Monday Party Challenge Gift!
Don’t you just love the “bling” on this cute little eBay keychain? Not just everyone has one of these! This is the first item to be offered in a drawing as soon as we have reached 30 participants. So invite everyone you know to join in our celebration of Cyber Monday!
Everyone is encouraged to participate…etsy, bonanzle, ebay….and I am sure there are other e-commerce business that do not belong to any of these categories that could benefit from extra exposure, as well enjoy the fun and games!
Everyone wants a successful, BLACK holiday season. Retailers call their break even day BLACK Friday….online retailers call it CYBER MONDAY. eBay, etsy, and Bonanzle sellers are no different….we all want a GREEN HOLIDAY. With all the auctions and seller booths out there, we often need to find ways of gaining more customers to our own sites. Simply My Business has created the CYBER MONDAY PARTY event on Facebook. Anyone is welcome to join…buyers and sellers alike.
A successful holiday selling season is definitely time consuming and a considerable amount of work, but we can make it a fun gathering of the minds and the goods at the CYBER MONDAY PARTY.
Games and drawings for some cool prizes will add to the celebration on Monday, November 30th, but don’t wait until then to get started. Go upload some of your items TODAY! OH…and bring your friends!
Over at The Sustainable Backyard, one of my other blogs, I posted about the lighten the load challenge 2009. I am challenging myself to rid my home, my waistline and my debt of 11,500 UNITS.
The great thing about using ebay and etsy to help me reach my overall challenge, is there is a double benefit. I will have less in my household and the money to help reduce the debt.
So, it will be here that I post about the amount of units that will relieve my 100 year old home’s aching piers and beams. I will show the progress of items removed from my home as they are sold online at eBay or etsy. That overall challenge of 11,500 units seems like a lot of units with the 1 LB. = 1 UNIT ratio, but I have some larger objects that are quite heavy that I hope leave our household before Spring.
I have already rid our household of approximately 1500 lbs, by selling our 1970 VW Beetle a few weeks ago. Next, I hope to sell our vintage piano that is just gathering dust and propping up some of my collectibles…which will soon be on the auction block as well.
So—do you have plenty of clutter in your life? Want to join in a fun way of seeing it leave? Grab the widget in the sidebar and leave a post here. Soon I will be adding a Lighten the Load Blogroll to both of my sidebars.
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Some people are getting raises, while my paycheck stays the same….lol. Too bad this doesn’t equate to postal worker wages being raised.
Effective January 18, 2009, the U.S.P.S. will increase Flat Rate U.S. and International Priority Mail Rates.
The form that my post mistress gave me includes commercial base and commercial plus hikes also, but since I assume I do not qualify I will include only the retail changes. While the increase is not significant if looking at one or two packages, multiply that .15 x 20 and that is $3 more that is coming out of my bottom line.
Priority Mail Flat-Rate
Envelope- $4.95
Small Box- $4.95
Regular Box- $10.35
Large Box- $13.95
Large Box APO/FPO- $11.95
Priority Mail Flat-Rate International (appears to be a $1 increase)
envelope- $10.95 to Canada and Mexico
$12.95 all other countries
small box- $10.95
Regular box- $25.95
Large box- $32.95
Even with the increase, I will continue to use USPS for most of my postal needs. I can safely say that I have never had any auction lost in the mail when I have used Priority Service. I also feel that the Priority boxes make my auctions appear a bit more professional and saves me a considerable amount of time not having to “look” for boxes.
Actually, I think Priority Mail ultimately save me money even when I do not use the flat-rate boxes. Where else can you get that perfect sized box for free?
