There are few points that sellers need to focus on to have a better chance of selling their items on eMapia.com.
First:
You need to mention as much details as possible. People want to know about what you are offering for sale. If you want to sell a car, write a lot about your experience with it, nature of usage, etc
Second:
Provide delivery options. You can either use darrb.com as a delivery option or mention the way you would deliver the items to the customers. You can say that you will deliver the item personally, or use a delivery company or simply using darrb.com. This will answer a basic question a potential buyer would have.
There are more tips to use when trying to sell items online, we will hopefully mention them on a regular basis.
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Any online marketplace requires a delivery service in order to finalize the deals. Many marketplaces leave this part to the sellers and buyers to decide on whether to use normal mail or couriers or just meet together if they are located in the same geographical location.
At eMapia we want to take this to the next level. We have a future plan of linking our sister company Darrb.com, the delivery services marketplace, to eMapia and provide the buyers/sellers the option of delivering the products using Darrbers.
The mechanism is yet to be defined and some time is required to get into the details of the integration. We will keep you informed about this whenever we have an update!
Today we completed our first month after launching on the 7th of August 2008. During this period people started adding their items to eMapia and its been a time where we need to mention some numbers:
- More than 90 registered users to date.
- A total of 59 items are available online.
- Items are distributed through 10 countries
- The UAE alone has 17 sellers, which is considered the biggest number of sellers per country.
- Cars are considered the most popular items for sale, which makes around 24% of the available items.
Not bad for the first month, hope things grow much faster in the coming period.
Google has introduced a very interesting feature called Search Insights. It allows you to check what are the things people are searching for based on a geographical location or time. You can also put a keyword and see where it is searched the most.
I’ve entered the word “Buying Online” for 2008 and the results were interesting. It appears that a lot of people in Ireland, Singapore, South Africa and Australia are searching for “Buying Online”!
The search terms related to “Buying Online” were “buying cars online “, “selling books online”, “selling games online” and others. Other terms that were considered as “Rising Searches” covered “selling iphone online”, “selling tv online” and “selling seeds online”. An increasing number of people are looking for seeds online! This might have to do with the commodity price increase in the previous period.
These results will help you understand what are the items that people focus on when searching to buy online. As a seller, you should try selling cars, books, games, iphones, TVs and seeds! on eMapia!!
I’ll cover what Google Search Insights think about the sellers in the following article.
