TripleClicks requires a brief wait before you can put items on sale, so use that window to make sure you have ample product to handle 5-10 orders of each item and prep a flyer promoting online Grand Opening to hang around town.
Consider also putting an advertisement in your local paper for the items that will be on sale, and if you have an offline store be sure to put a notice of the new online version at the checkout and if you have an online store already let your existing customers know about your new online location and any products being offered specifically at TripleClicks.
Be sure to post to your news feed often on the front of you ECA T-connect Page so TC members see you are active and may choose to connect with your store.
Do those things and you'll see pretty fast results.
As to things not to do:
Don't spam the stream - Some ECA think they need to post a thank you to each customer on their news feed but this public post also shows in the red section of SFI members who have connected to you on their stream page. When you are posting thanks for connecting, thanks for your purchase, yada yada 20 times a day to this public feed most who connect with you will disconnect because they can't see any real news from the other ECA's they connected with.
If it's a connection saying thank you there may seem polite but the problem is every connection sees that same canned message with each new connection you welcome.
Don't be desperate. I see too many ECA who think they can't sell unless they have something on sale at all times or offer too many freebies and undercut prices so low you think it's stolen.
Serious business owners don't act like that. You will damage trust and end up missing thousands of potential customers. Instead offer better service and greater overall value, and pay the affiliates who do the selling nicely too. If you have the margin on an item to offer 30% off retail you have the room to offer 15% off retail and bump the CV up from the minimum 15% to 25-30% so more people are interested in promoting your offers.
Don't make up the retail price. I saw a item that sells around the world at between $47.77 and $51.99 priced at $49.00 on TripleClicks but the seller stated they regular retail price was $99.00 which was a blatant lie. If I can catch you in a lie like that using product search, so can others and as word get's out your sales will stop because nobody will trust you.
Don't over inflate a price to cover shipping and the seller cost at TC.
I hate seeing an item offered on TC for 130% of the cost at Amazon because the ECA didn't choose a product to list with sufficient profit to cover their offer of free world wide shipping and their sellers cost while still providing a profit. Even worse is when you know the whole reason is they don't want to come off their usual 40% markup to cover the fees and cost.
Being massively over priced is not a good way to run a business. If you are lucky enough to find a buyer, when they find out they were taken and paid too much they will tell people they know that you and/or TripleClicks scammed them.
It's common sense. If you can't sell a product at a fair price and make enough to cover free shipping then don't offer free shipping. If you don't have at least a 30% profit margin on an item you plan to sell, you have the wrong supplier and need to find someone who sells Wholesale goods instead of at Jobber Prices. Don't pass on your lack of research to the customer as inflated prices. You wont have customers for long if you do.
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TripleClicks requires a brief wait before you can put items on sale, so use that window to make sure you have ample product to handle 5-10 orders of each item and prep a flyer promoting online Grand Opening to hang around town.
Consider also putting an advertisement in your local paper for the items that will be on sale, and if you have an offline store be sure to put a notice of the new online version at the checkout and if you have an online store already let your existing customers
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