We have reached the final showdown of the blog series. We hope you will enjoy the conclusion & act accordingly. Treat your custom eBay storefront design as an asset to your store giving you healthy return on your investments. It is just a matter of serious design that yields good sales, leads & money at the end of the day. Read below the conclusion. 9) Free Store or Listing Designs

The word free is enough to attract anyone. Free design are available online they save your money doing harm to your business in a long run. Professionals do charge for their services but that is once in for all. You can take us as an example; we have no monthly subscription charges, or maintenance fees. You just have to pay once & that’s all.

New sellers fall prey to free templates & designs and land themselves in jeopardy.

10) The Like & Dislikes

Do you like your design? Before asking this to yourself ask this to your designer whether they like the product finished by them? Between all these likes & dislikes there is a key to the question that either your design will be a success or crash land.

Keep it simple. If you like your visitor will like if you don’t like then you know what to do with the design. Change the design or the designer.

11) No marketing plans No scalable strategy

The approach towards designing a custom eBay storefront design is loosely configured by everyone who is involved in the project. A good hand on photoshop doesn’t guarantee a good design. An amateur photshopper can do it for you if it is only colors & images.

Store designing needs a strategic planning immaterial of the project size. And by strategy we mean from initial consultation till final approval & installation of the design. Check with your service provider whether all the aspects are taken into consideration or not.

12) World class support is a myth

Don’t believe us? Pick up your phone & call a customer service center of any product purchased by you recently. Either they are busy or they will keep you waiting if luckily you got connected with them.

Busy phone line is not an issue, but every one of us has gone through the nightmare of long waiting calls at support service centers. The same situation is if you visit them personally. They keep you waiting. The actual problem is even after these long waiting periods your problem is not resolved.

An ideal support service must be quick, intelligent & easy. Not like transferring calls to different departments. Reputed service providers like us give liberty to our clients to directly chat with relevant individual who is responsible to solve the problem.

Concluding the four part series of the blog, carefully review the 12 points outlined here. This blog series will help you with a new perspective towards the digital world.

Set your business goals, hire right people, and gather resources that are needed to build your custom eBay storefront design. Think of your store design to generate leads & sales for you.

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If you are reading this then it seems that your so called custom eBay storefront design lacks something or else you are wise enough to study before going into actual designing process. Continue reading you are on the right track.

6) The “WOW” factor in your design

Every seller on eBay or any other eCommerce platform wants people to come and get amazed by the sheer awesomeness of the look & feel of your custom eBay storefront design. That is what we all call the "wow" factor.

Wait a second! In this wow factor mayhem you skip the basic consideration of the user – what they are expecting? & what they will experience when they come across your store?

It is really flashy to attract visitors with unwanted CTA buttons, pop ups, sparkling texts and so on. These things merely distract visitors; you are seriously mistaken if you think they surprise people. Infact these tactics will negatively impact visitor by slowing them down from accessing some really important areas of your store. Finally what happens, they fly away without even looking at your products or content they were here to see.

It must be your priority to provide the target audience what they need when they come to your store.

7) Blind Faith in your Designer

You don’t time, you either don’t have knowledge, and you hired less experienced designers or may be something else behind a disastrous design. Simply relying on the service provider will only lead you to a useless store or listing designs.

Infact it is very simple, do some research work online. There are tons of resources available on designing subjects in easy & understandable languages. These resources e often allow users with no knowledge of programming to learn the basics of the same.

8) Time, Money & Energy being wasted

A very substantial amount of time, money& energy are being wasted after updating current store designs with new one. And this goes on with every change in the platform provider from where you operate your store. The ultimate gainer is the service provider who earns from you, then who is the looser?

It’s YOU meanwhile your designer gives your store a so called decent, big facelift your sales are down. Buyers go away with a negative perception.

Solution is to go for modern method designs that keep pace with changing environment giving you less amount of expense on makeover or upgradation.

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In continuation with the second part we would highlight here some important points same as in part 1 that may not seem to be as they are. Read here to check if you are on the right track or not.

3) Too many designers are good but check with them you might be wrong

A team with expert people is good for your project, but at the same time you must consider who will be involved in the design process. It is important to know how much is too much. A bunch of professionals may come up with a brilliantly created custom eBay storefront design or else bring a project to a halt because everyone can't come together on one decision.

A design must be a virtual salesman helping your buyers to buy desired products in time. They should speak to the needs of the buyer in a way that inspires buyer to purchase more from you. To create such an intelligent design you need to check upon the portfolio, staff & client reviews of the vendor offering design services.

An ideal person who is responsible for your store design will have to use your business goals, product summary & inputs while doing the design job. All these information matters a lot in store design rather than a big fat team of designers.

4) Do some paper work before design work

Don’t simply let things evolve – in simple words there should be a defined process of your custom eBay storefront design work & more importantly it should be in writing in the form of a contract. Go into a formal contract with your designer & that will bond both of you in terms of design expectations, pricing, timelines, revisions etc. Without defining these things might put you in a situation of never ending design mockups & unconcealed creativity.

Check with your store design service vendor whether they practice healthy paper work that is in the similar interest of both of you. A lot of disappointment can be restrained by defining certain things on paper before starting the actual work.

Reputable firms like us do the same with every project we deal with. This way you come to know who is doing what; unnecessary delays & confusion will be avoided. Paper work gives a flexible approach to the creative process.

5) Scrutinize your current store before designing a new one

You may be a frontline seller or a newbie, but gathering analytics for a new project is of crucial importance & this is applicable to both you & the one who is designing your store. Sellers pay less attention to this vital process & eventually spoil the essence of design.

Ordering a new design without observing loop holes in the current one will only lead to repeat the same problems. Hence, what is the ultimate solution?

Look for someone who can help you in this data analytic process – he/she can guide you on what to look for in the data. Ask your buyers what they want in a new design? Take their suggestions. Involve your friends & family members to review, compare both old & new designs on the scale of speed, performance, functions, user friendly etc.

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You are super excited about a custom eBay storefront design, and it's very difficult to contain the excitement. There are so many things to put into place when you go for an eBay store front design immaterial of readymade or custom made. The basics remain the same.

Excitement may end up in a mess when you try to put together the resources, plans & lofty ideas into reality.

Lots of incoming advice from many sources like - who should do what, how long it will take, and how much it will cost etc. Finally, you're lost & not sure where to start from.

Here are the 12 sign that your custom eBay storefront design is not on the right track and what can be done to avoid them.

Select, design, craft, create or order do anything but an eBay store front design must be based on your business goals. Not like your home interior designing project where everyone advices you on each & everything & you realize that something is wrong till decoration has gone wrong.

Providing strategic direction to the designer, your new design must be firmly rooted in driving your prime business objectives. Your design should be built to play an active role in your sales and marketing efforts rather than just being a fancy brochure.

Ask lot of questions to your designer or service provider. Set a deadline for this task so that your project is not off the track. Don’t forget to make tough calls cut unnecessary things from your wish list & add on some things that offer more value.

2) We Design Fast

Someone who is promising your design to deliver in 24 hours or luring to get it done in the fastest way is very much likely to give a poor result. Fake promises & over eagerness always lends you in tight situation.

The tight situation is on both the hand – the vendor as well as the client. He is dying to sell or make a design that is a complete waste of money & the later one is in dire need of a design.

Then what is the real procedure? An ideal designer will first examine your service or product wants & needs before any commitment. This kind of approach is realistic. Mutual discussions on designs, structure, layout, content, links etc. gives a good outcome. Hence, don’t fall prey to fake promises. If the designer is not interested in listening to you then how will he/she deliver what you want?

3) Lack of knowledge: How eBay designs are crafted?

Typically, there is an entire team of experts involved in engineering an excellent eBay design including web designers, web developers, analysts, programmers etc. job of a designer is to make the design look beautiful & a developer ensures that everything works in the way it is supposed to. Now if you hire a service provider who is good in one & not in the other one you may end up in a real mess.

OK, solution is to consider a team of professionals for the work who has the expertise to provide maximum value from both aspects that is delivery & the project budget.

We assume you are enjoying this interesting piece of information. For your convenience we have divided this blog into parts. This is the first part follow our blog post for the second one.

Auction selling on eBay is simple anyone can start auction selling on eBay with any kind of product category.  Even those who don’t know a single word about selling online they can also start an eBay auction right away. Isn’t it interesting?

But wait a minute – you might be misleading with the fact that auction selling is pretty easier & you will have guaranteed traffic. The misconception is that a new auction seller will basically have to drop his/her product on eBay and everything will automatically take care of itself.

Our verdict – In discussion with experienced auction sellers, it can be said that auction selling doesn’t differ from any other type of selling method or platform. Selling from a website or in off-line shops or even selling in a local market remains same.

Here are some useful tips for fresh & veteran eBay sellers both on technical details of auction selling.

• Use a custom eBay auction template right away. These templates are designed by us to give buyers the best shopping insight.

• Fix the width of product description box to make it comfortable for buyers to read and make the same more users friendly.

• If possible include your photo – a real buyer image makes a big difference. The shoppers will trust that they are buying from a human & not from any automated software.

• A trust factor will be reinstated when potential buyer will see a human figure in the first place instead of a boring eBay ID.

• Keep enough space in your custom eBay auction template for product description. Describe your product with benefits. Buyers know that they are going to get their desired product, but what else other than products you have to offer? This benefit will click your sales.

• Hence along with plain description of your products write the product benefits also. It will make buyers to read and understand easily.

• Use the power of money back guarantee. You are definitely going to deal with such type of situation, but this policy will grab many extra sales for you. Be clear with it.

• Write straight away that if the product doesn’t meet your expectations – you can return it & get your money back within 30 days.

These are very basic selling techniques that are used over decades but how many eBay sellers have been using them?

Along with the above tips an auction template is important for selling on eBay to get fair amount of sales & return on investments made.

Contact us for custom eBay auction template designs.