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I have an ebay store and I am not getting a lot of traffic to it. Does anyone
have any advice for me to improve?

Joe

http://stores.ebay.com/Snowdencandle

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Joe Snowden

Hey joe,
How are you? I took a look at your web site, I saw just a few images there. I see lots of items/products, but I had to click on the camera Icon if I wanted to see more of the product.
Honestly, driving traffic to an ebay store is very hard, have you ever considered a stand-alone web site opposed to an ebay store?

See the trouble with ebay is, there is one to many stores, why not create a shopping cart and then advertise your products on ebay? You can create a link from your website to ebay.. See with your own web site, you can get more in to adding images, description, creating your own keywords, and manging the web site yourself.

The products are great, not having an online store can hinder your business in the long run.
I checked out the name snowdencandles.com and its taken Im assuming that was you that registered the name, why not use it? if you own it.





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Edgar Monroy
Web Developer / Owner / Consultant
When starting your own business the need to "know-how" is greater than money!
http://www.nuevolution.net

Yah, it looked like 90% of the images didn`t show up...just little camera icons. There wasn`t any content, and it wasn`t at all personal. It didn`t have a "friendly" feel to it, just an impersonal list of stuff I couldn`t see.

I`d invest the money in opening your own Web site. From what I understand, you likely could do it for only a little bit more than what you`re spending on eBay. There are a number of developers and designers here in the community that could likely help. But it comes down to having some sort of "presentation" when you`re selling something. Your current site has no presentation at all. It`s just a list of something.

What made you choose to sell these products? Do you have a personal interest in them? If so, how can you make ME feel YOUR personal interest? What`s going to get me fired up (no pun intended) to buy your candles and whatever else? It can be the photos, content, or layout, but there has to be a reason for me to sit up, and *want* to take a closer look at your store....and then the products. Y`know? :-)