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Retro’s year by halves post got me thinking. I know it’s an ongoing discussion that listing = sales, but does anyone know if it’s how many you list or how often you list that makes a difference? I remember some time back there was a video (Suzanne A Wells?) where there was a discussion that you only had to list one item every day, as long as you listed EVERY DAY, for sales to start pouring in. Did I remember that correctly?
So, what’s more important? List every day, even if it’s only one item… or list LOTS, even if it’s only in spurts of 2 or 3 days per week?
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We are Team Just List. Doesn’t matter when or how much.
Life is too hectic and jam packed to try to “outsmart” some unknown eBay algorithm that may or may not exist. It’s better just to list when you can and as much as you can.
I know there are some sellers who swear by listing one item a day. Or scheduling all their listings to post once per hour. Cool if it works for them. Sometimes we each need some sense of control whether its backed by evidence or not.
We’re just happy to keep the pipeline filled as much as we can. Never hurt us. We have a second store with around 1000 items. We havent listed in that store in almost a year. It consistently sells about $1000 of inventory a month. Not great, but its not nothing. If there was some algorithm that expected us to list regularly, I would expect our sales to be closer to 0.
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Thanks Jay.
Life has been hectic lately, so I was wondering if I could get away with listing regularly, as in every week, rather than daily. I really need to bump up my sales. I had a dismal year last year and I want to make eBay my main income stream this year, so I need to do something to make it happen. Not trying to outsmart the system, just trying to do what would be most effective in getting the system to work for me.
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I can’t really prove anything, but being part-time I have hunches about things that might help exposure. Listing more regularly I think can only help. I can’t find the post quickly, but there was a discussion of this before in the forums. I posted this graph from Ebay of my sales. All of the peaks were listing days, except a couple of three day weekend holidays. This is a time period where I would go a week or two without listing. Almost always after I sit down and list a couple of sales come through. So, my goal is to have listing sessions more often this year even if I can only get a few items up and even though I’m really strongly wired to work in chucks of time.
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Listing in any form or quantity is good. Mainly because you’re adding more to your inventory, and adding more search terms for people to find your stuff.
We just dont have the luxury with our schedule to purposefully say “every day at 8am and 4pm, we’ll list 10 items”. Life is too busy and varied.
We just set time aside as often as e can to add new items.
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On the topic, I’ve noticed a definite match between what I list and what I sell. For the first year I listed shoes pretty much every week, and sold shoes pretty much every week. In the last 3 – 4 months I’ve been trying to kill the DPs and so have listed specifically within those categories; only jeans, or only home decor, or only shirts, for example. My shoe sales have all but dried up, but I have been getting sales in jeans and shirts and home decor.
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