How to Get People to Buy Your Stuff

We had up to 300 customers per day, just a fraction of our eBay exposure.

“How do I get people to buy my stuff???” I hear you ask. Actually, that’s almost the whole of the conversation these days, because marketing isn’t like it used to be, and to begin with, that’s the wrong question.

It isn’t “How do I get people to buy my stuff?”, it’s “How do I get people to just L@@K at my stuff???”, and that’s the hardest question to answer, especially when you’re talking about online sales and marketing.

Let’s say that you’ve just invented the greatest tag line ever invented. Let’s say the tag line is “Cut Your Food Budget by 90%!!!”, which is the ultimate Breakfast-Table Subject. Continue reading

Can You Sell This???

You’re about to enter into the greatest online marketing game on the internet!

It’s the new internet game show, “Can You Sell This???” The game tonight is to meet the marketing challenge on this page — that means to try to sell everything on the page at full retail. Ready to begin?

The way it works is you grab a screenshot of the items you want to sell, and use those screenshots to sell the item, maybe on your web page or social media outlet — don’t forget to mark it up double, to get your full retail.

This is a way that you can use a multi-million dollar inventory without putting a single penny out of pocket, and you can start your own online gift shop this way, without having to spend anything to get started, and you’ll have hundreds of items on the virtual shelves!

Here’s a two-inch square “Empty Classified Document Folder” button you ought to be able to sell at $5.99 retail, and for a while, everybody will know what your button means. After that, it’ll be a collectible. If you get into a jam and you need some extra cash, you might sell the button to the highest bidder.

see the Classified Documents Folder collection

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It’s Not About the Art

This medium-sized tapestry wholesales for under $80.

It used to be that you’d paint something, put a frame around it and sell it either at a street fair or — if you were lucky and had a following — in a gallery.

The thing is, unless it was a co-op gallery, where the artists take turns running the store and each artist has a small area for display, you only got one show about every three years, so the gallery didn’t burn up its territory, meaning that the sales got fewer and fewer over the months, and then finally dried up altogether.

You have to move to a different town until you wear out your welcome there, too, and that’s why artists don’t stay in one place forever unless they do local landscapes. Continue reading

You Need to Know This

These paper plates can be mounted in deep frames to look like ceramics.

If you’re a stock clerk or on floor sales or you’re a buyer or an assistant buyer, it’s important — vital, actually — that you should be more or less constantly aware of ALL the currently stored and shelved merchandise, and I mean the ENTIRE line of merchandise.

Of course, in this age of automation and e-gadgets, nobody does that anymore. You simply enter the code or name or description of the thing, and you get a spread-sheet with all the particulars delivered right to your micro-screen on your Precious — I refer to your ever-clutched cellphone — what else could I mean? Continue reading

Huge Warehouse, Big Sale Today!

For Sale, at incredibly fair prices, an entire warehouse of over 2,000 amazing work-related items, totally unique to this planet, and found nowhere else but in my shops on zazzle.

I’ve had a few things shipped to me, to inspect the quality and assure myself that they are sending out good products. Rest assured, they are.

Permit me to tell you the story once again:

Five years ago, I loaded my zazzle shop with about 2,000 products, and assumed that everyone could see them as well as I could.

I was wrong. Continue reading

Yet Another Talk???

I’m painting again, now that there’s a market.

You don’t want to end up with a couple dozen storage units full of unsold art, so I taper off my production when sales are down. These days, I can’t work fast enough to satisfy the marketplace, which is maybe a good thing.

But, yeah, this is going to be yet another talk about eBay and that sort of thing — you know, marketing, entrepreneurship and general media mayhem, and we have to do it soon, before the Second American Civil War breaks out. Even before we start back on subject, I want to mention that THIS is the time to acquire Pre-War coins, and I have plenty for sale.

That having been said, let’s get on with the thing.

First of all, I want to make sure you have an eBay account. I’m not discounting other selling sites, but I’m restricting my selling characteristics to the eBay mode for the moment. We will discuss other means of presenting merchandise to the public.

Forgive me, I meant, of course, “merch”, not “merchandise”. The reason for the shortened word is always the same — spelling is a major obstacle to most people, even college graduates. Continue reading

Psst … Can We Talk Again???

This listing got 389 views in only a few days, and that’s normal for me on eBay.

C’mere, lemme show ya how the uni-verse works. First of all, I gotta tell ya about the Karma burn Orb. It’s the best Orb I ever made, and it alone is worth the effort to come here to make it and put it out into the general consciousness.

I want you to do this simple short daily practice: once a day, run the Karma Burn Orb — it only takes 2 minutes of your time, out of a possible 24 hours. Continue reading

Can We Talk???

I’ve been waiting for you all this time…where have you been???

If I could grab you by the lapel and show you what I discovered, I would, so consider it done, take it as written that you have been thus accosted, and smile. You’re in luck.

What I found out is that I can tweak the eBay sales system to make it serve the Boddhisattva Vow and at the same time make you a good living, or at least a side-hustle income, like what I bring in.

The thing is, there IS a secret, and nobody knows it — yet. Soon enough, it’ll be all over the place, because nothing succeeds like success. Continue reading

Sure Cure For What Ails Ya!

Micky Rat and I have posted a number of DR-Dissolving Radiations Orbs on my rare & unusual seller’s store on eBay. I posted over 500 items there and and on insane investor’s emporium I posted an additional hundred or so, all with the idea in mind of offering you an opportunity to pick up something you’d like at a fraction of the price, basically a giveaway, with the added fun of an auction that starts off at a single dollar — at these prices, nobody gets hurt.

So among the things I posted are a few of the DR Orbs, and I wanted to give you an idea of what I had in mind. Continue reading

It Worked!!!

I’m thinking of completing this and listing it on eBay. What do you think?

So I tried using the same techniques on eBay that I’ve been using on youtube, and by golly, it worked!

Same exact things do exactly the same on each venue. I can bump up the “view” rate and increase the number of bids, using the same skills and getting the same outcomes. Continue reading