Managing Your Amazon Business When on Holiday

As an internet marketer, one of the hardest things to consider when you’re away from home is how to properly manage and maintain your Amazon business while you’re not there. Naturally, it s a great feeling to jet off on a week-long holiday, but if you don not consider what to do with all of your product listings once you get home, you may find yourself wasting time worrying about what else is going on back at home instead of focusing on your business. One way to combat this issue is through Amazon coaching courses. These can teach you what to do and when to do it so you don’t waste valuable time worrying about your business. So, what exactly should you expect from these courses?

Firstly, it is important that you reassure yourself that as a serious online seller, you shouldn’t worry too much if you see your sales slip a little in the run up to your holiday. After all, a great number of sellers have seen their best sales and highest conversion rates during the Christmas period, and some even had some repeat customers in December as well. Therefore, while it is important that you make your best efforts to promote all of your listings for sale over the Christmas period, it is also worth taking a look at your Amazon holiday strategies so that you can see what your best options are.

At the start of your Amazon holiday campaign, it is important to identify which of your products are likely to sell the best during the time that you’re away. In order to do this, it is a good idea to look at the holiday prices of all your listed items, and work out how much of your inventory would be affected by the lower price. If you find that you would lose out on a significant amount of money if you removed one particular product from your eBay shop, perhaps it would be a better idea to leave that item there, rather than risk losing sales in the run up to your holiday period. This is an area where a little bit of research can really go a long way towards ensuring that your profits are boosted, not muddled.

Once you’ve done this, the next thing that you need to do is to write a holiday message for your eBay store. This is the part of your listing, which will appear to prospective buyers when they perform a search for your specific item. The purpose of this text is to encourage shoppers to visit your website to see what else you have for sale on eBay, and in the best case scenario, you may want to include a few lines encouraging people to continue using your eBay store for their future purchases. But remember that the text is your sole guarantee of getting people to click through to your eBay shop.

Once you’ve registered, you can proceed to taking the certification exam. To help you prepare, Amazon provides an Amazon account tutorial. This provides you with tips and tricks on how to take the test, what kinds of questions to expect and how to maximize your chances of success. The Amazon training course can be completed in just two weeks, which is significantly shorter than any traditional education program or certification program.

There are several different ways in which you can manage your eBay store when on holiday. One way is to revert to the ‘All listings’ or ‘All Sellers’ setting for your holiday listings. This is the easiest option, but it doesn’t give you the control that you might need to improve your sales results. Instead of being able to edit the title or description of a particular listing, and create a new description for another item, you’ll just be able to revert to the first option. Unfortunately, this isn’t a feature that most users will need, so this might be worth considering in the case of a sudden influx of traffic to your eBay store.

Another option for your internet connection when you are on holiday is to use the ‘catch all’ internet settings. This is the eBay style setting which enables everyone to see all listings on eBay for the whole year, even when you are unable to view the listings yourself. If you are a frequent user of the internet and want to use this option, then you will need to have either a broadband internet connection or a mobile phone with data so that you can read the listings while you’re abroad. This option is particularly useful if you are travelling abroad to sell your products on eBay. It will enable potential buyers to search for products to buy from you, rather than browsing through your entire eBay listings. However, if your eBay store offers more than just eBay selling services, then using the catch all internet settings could leave your customers searching through your entire internet settings which could take time and energy to read.

The third option for your internet connection and eBay shop when you are on holiday is to use eBay’s ‘ping’ service. This will ping all your registered dropshippers and eBay members with their listings. The eBay staff will also be notified of the new listings so that they can provide the best available deals to your customers. Although this can be a great tool for finding the best bargains for your items, some sellers will find this process frustrating as it takes away from the actual time you spend on eBay selling, as well as hindering the chance of potential sales. You must, however, use the eBay Ping feature with care to avoid slowing down your website. The Ping feature will only work if the site has access to a guaranteed internet connection.

All three options for managing your eBay store during your time off for holiday will work well if used with care, but in some cases it may be best to hire a specialist ecommerce solution provider. These solutions offer you a wide range of tools for managing your listings during your time off, as well as providing you with the expertise to customise your eBay shop for peak periods and off-peak times. Some ecommerce solutions will also offer you the ability to update your listings for prices, fees and shipping information. Some sellers may find it best to leave all of these services behind and deal with eBay directly. Whilst you may miss out on some of the benefits of having your eBay listings managed by a professional company, your business can run as smoothly as possible during your time off.