Tuesday, 11 June 2013

How To Acquire Reputation When Selling Online Apparel

By Jack Houman


Creating an online apparel store can be easy. Operating and maintaining one requires a lot more work than making a quick website with some apparel available on it for sale. You need to sell yourself to the online community. You need to draw customers in. Gain traffic to your online apparel store by following these tips.

Open an extension. Just selling on your own website shop is not enough to keep the business growing. Selling your wares in a brick-and-mortar boutique or setting up a booth at designer shows, expos and other events can be a good way to increase profits and brand awareness. A shop on one of the dozens of online niche marketplaces like Etsy, Wigix, Bonanza or set up and one of the larger markets at eBay, Buy website, Sears Marketplace or Amazon Marketplace.

The idea behind email marketing is to offer your customers value with meaningful content. If they haven't asked for emails they will be angry. Building a relationship of trust takes time and customer loyalty is the result of taking the time necessary.

Make sure your customers can easily and quickly reach you. Offer multiple ways to be contacted, such as over the phone, via email or via messages on your website. Respond to your customers quickly and do not request too much information from your customers during the buying process.

Get your customers to be looking forward to your emails. One way of doing this through reverse psychology; do not send your customer a lot of emails; you will make them yearn for them. Another way is to send them along with coupons or gift hampers, you will make them long for your emails.

It is important to be courteous to customers. It can be as simple as creating an autoresponder thanking them for placing an order. A good refund and return policy will help the consumers get what they want and will encourage them to give you recommendations to their friends. This will also keep them coming back with return business.

If you are operating from your home then it is advisable not to provide your private information to the public; do not place it in the public Ads. Rather you may provide the same only to the interested buyers and even so, do not be so nave, you may end up in trouble.

Be certain to research the market when pricing your apparel. View listings for similar clothing and to try remain competitive and current with your costs. Also offer bonus apparel product as an incentive and include free shipping and handling.




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