Diary of a Poor Person aged 46 1/2

macgirl

Hi Mrscmr - am I right in thinking your website can be reached through your user name and homepage?

If so, may I make some suggestions (seen as you asked ). I agree with fc123 about the postage being more expensive than many of your items. Perhaps you could have some higher priced items to establish a pricing architecture?

That way you can hook people in and they are more likely to make add-on purchases. Also, Ebay has a massive captive audience, so driving hits to your site is key. As your products are mainly aimed at kids, could you afford an ad banner on say Netmums or similar target market? HTH!

mrscmr

great thoughts macgirl!

we have our own website now as well as the ebay shop... we need to look at the postage option, other people have also said about adding more items in the 15 - 25 price range. we have adjusted the postage into postage bands to make it more reasonable. we looking at ways to generate traffic, have found twitter and facebook v good. if you post something on our twitter page immediately we have activity on our website - within 1 min or so, but we need to convert this into sales!

thank u!
xx

anyone else?????

macgirl

I'd even go higher than that pricewise - have a wider pricing structure. Even stocking a few items you think are too expensive, might surprise you with sales (not everyone is as money conscious as us )
People like to buy something special as well as affordable for one-off / not on the high street purchases.

Then you become a destination for something different/special and customers will think it's more worthwhile buying the add-ons for a fiver for future presents, as well as making repeat purchases.

People are definitely hooked in with free P&P when spending over a certain amount - or 10% off offers. Boden are very good at this. Good luck!

elegant_elephant

Evening mrscmr.

I've nothing intelligent to add to all these comments apart from I agree with them all especially the one about higher price points.

I love the website, kids toys and accessories are great, love the wooden ludo set!

You've done so well with this! Congratulations! (Raises glass of fizz - diet coke not champagne unfortunately)

Vixstar

Had a look at the site - gorgeous items - just the same point as the others that for the lower priced items the £4.95 postage seems an awful lot, though it may work to tempt people to place a larger order so that the postage seems less.

mrscmr

thank you all so much for your thoughts.... its an evening of working tonight so we will see what we can come up with!

Happytogetdebtfree

It's an evening of the debate for me. Glad people are offering advice on website :-) easy on the work relax more x

mrscmr

ok team!

all good stuff you have mentioned we are putting into action!
just sourced some lovely more expensive items, offering free gift at one level of purchase and free p and p at a different level! gonna add our blog page for the week, plus photo of a happy customer - which was very lovely of her! also adding a links pages where we are linking to other sites to increase traffic and then i will get on to the optimisation properly! will announce when it has all been done!

may be a long long night! xx

Happytogetdebtfree

god it sounds like stress stress stress ... just watched the debate oooh i dont fancy any of them to stand for us what to do x

savingholmes

looks like you are getting useful feedback - not had chance to look again yet