Friday, September 3, 2010

Social Networking

So I've realized the real power of social networking, which is really amazing tool for advertisement.  I just recently signed up for 3 different sites that base their networking on using twitter.  Like described below Fiverr, I found a similar site called http://www.brighttask.com/ where you can set your price from 3-up to$30.  I believe it is just starting out but I find it better than Fiverr because you can set your price, and post what you are looking for and have people respond and do that current job.

The other site I found was

Launch viral advertising campaigns on Twitter with Magpie!
http://be-a-magpie.com/4ndq9x

If you are looking to advertise your business using twitter, you can use Magpie's service by creating a campaign providing the ad message and some keywords.  Magpie identifies key influencers for your brand, based on the content of their message streams. The ad message is blended into the message streams of the best matching

Twitterers.

Well I hope some of these sites help you with your businesses.
~Serena

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Friday, August 27, 2010

$5 on FIVERRS

Hey sorry again for the lack of post.  This post will be real short and simple.  Recently I found a site called www.fiverr.com  It's a site that you offer a service for $5.00.  The site will charge you $1.00 and you keep $4.00.  They use paypal as a form of payment and transactions, so it's fast and easy.  I would definitly recommend this for anyone looking to make a quick buck by doing an easy task.  Good luck to you all and until we post again.

~Serena
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Thursday, June 24, 2010

Great ways to advertise your ebay listings...

      Well lately I've been putting my site http://www.shoptilyoudropdeals.com/ together, and it's been a rough start.  I guess I didn't realize when you put so much on your plate there are bound to be some issues.  But I'm learning a lot on the way and I've realized it's really not that big of a deal. 
    
     Any ways as far as advertising go, I've learned a new term out there, which has probably been around for awhile but I'm just now find out.  It's called BUMBING.  No, not bumbing and grinding, but bumping your site, it advertises your ebay listing with a picture on someones website and links it to your listing.  It's completely free, here is a site that explains how to do it. - Ehow - How to Bump Your eBay Auctions .  There are also sites where you can bump a website link, ehow links, and even more catagories.

   I also found a site called - fflap.com - Apps which make the Social Net work.  It's interesting how this site works.  You connect your twitter account and soon facebook account with it and its like a social networking tool.  It posts it your listings from your ebay site on their site, and also connects with your social networking site letting people know your listings.  So far it's generated 64 clicks for me in the first day, and so far I have about 8 potential buyers!  The only sucky part is you only get 3 listings a day, or you can upgrade to the 10, or 50.  But it's very inexpensive 10 clicks - 2.50, and 50 - 3.00 is way worth it.  Well people let me know if any of these sites work for you.  Take care, and God Bless.

~Serena
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Monday, June 14, 2010

To buy or not to BUY that is the question...

This past month has been, well lets just say it's been a lonngggg month.  Just to let you know this post is asking you my readers your advice on e-commerce.   Here is my dilemma.....
  • I currently have a site that is built to sell on ebay, but it's a dummy site "store front".  Using auctiva.
  • I want to expand my business with either drop ship or wholesale inventory. 
  • I honestly don't want to use ebay anymore due to the final closing fees. (But I'm debating if what I sell will it be worth it or balance out?)
  • I want to be able to edit my store front the way I'd like it.
  • I don't want to spend so much money monthly, but I do want to be able to have freedom with editing.
  • Are using the actual free trails worth my time?
(I mean I understand if you want something for less, you should expect less, but I'm debating on which one and how it's working out for others.)
 Does anybody use any of these sites below?
  • 1FreeCart.com
    I currently have the free site, but there are a couple of options that I'm considering paying for, like the $15 a month deal, but I don't like the fact the site is full of adds that I can't make money from, you know what I mean?
  • freewebstore.org
    This site offers a free web store, but only allows 15 items, then after that if you want to expand you can move up to the $10 for 50 items or $19 for 150 items.  So far I pretty much like this one because of the ease of customizing the layouts.
  • Weebly.com
    I'm this site because it is drop and drag to customize your layout.  I don't like the pop out for making payments with paypal.  I feel the customer will confused on why there is a pop out for a certain item, or they have a pop up blogger which then makes them have to take the time to turn it off.  It's not shopping friendly to my point of view.
  • Webs.com
These are pretty much all my free to really cheap options.  I've also checked out
Well if you have any suggestions or advice for me post it here or email me at shoptilyoudropdeals@yahoo.com  Thank you again for everyone that visits this site.  I also want to let some of you know I just now got your emails because I hardly check the email address that I guess I have for this site, which I will be changing now, so please bare with me, and I will respond to your emails shortly :)  God bless you all.
~Serena

Friday, May 21, 2010

Let me take you to the wild wild west...

    Recently I had to update my survey pages that I am on due to the change in how many people are in my household.  I want to make sure you all know it is very important that you do make sure your profiles are up to date.  The reason being is your surveys are targeted by your profile, which you probably already know.  But especially if you have a new baby in the family or recently changed jobs, you may be more likely to receive more emails. 
    So as I was going through my profiles I found a site that I love to get surveys from because usually their target is really based on your profile and the survey rate is usually really high!  The survey site that I enjoy is Opinion Outpost - http://OpinionOutpost.com/join/4459499 .  If you haven't already you should check it out.  They offer  Amazon credit or check, your choice!
~Serena

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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Year long break...

Well that doesn't mean I haven't been trying to make money online, just blogging about it has been a struggle for me. On top of that I just received a new bundle of joy in September to a baby girl, whom is now 7 and half months!


Well lately my means of money making have been with eBay and ecrater. Ecrater has been awesome because there are no listing fees nor closing fees, which is really awesome. So my tip today is to get rid of everything you have that you don't really need and place them on www.ecrater.com so you clean out and make a couple of quick bucks.


Ha ha don't worry I will back with better tips tomorrow, this was more like a hello, I am back, nice to see you kind of message. Take care and God Bless.


~Serena


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