Does becoming a gold member really help your sales?

I noticed that none of my items ever end up in search unless I pay at least $40 a month to Bonanza. If you have this let me know if your sales are better as I’ve only had about 2 sales a year on here. Fourty dollars is a lot if no sales come in. I am only paying Ebay $19.95 for a store and everything goes in search. How are you making out with this plan?

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answered over 9 years ago

Site search or google search?….I see your items in booth, however, you should go over google’s rules on titles/Punctuation, etc to make sure you keep your items in google shopping.

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People search ebay/amazon for items, when they don’t find what they want they search google and that is where you will get your views from…

A majority of your visitors are going to come from google searches, rarely will you get visitors from anyone who actually uses bonz search…

I had silver for several years on 2 booths, I used it for the tools to spruce up the booth…with illness and cutting back, I dropped the silver..have had gold on occasion for like holidays…but for the most part, I go with the free booth….I notice many have memberships but they rarely use the tools that it gives them…it really doesn’t help paying for something you are not going to use.

The membership boosts what is already there, if the sales aren’t there, then there is nothing to boost…there is some other issue..might be good to run a feed diagnostic to see if there is a google feed problem.

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answered over 9 years ago

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EmbellishMart says: November 11, 2015

Very good, insightful information! Especially this, “The membership boosts what is already there, if the sales aren’t there, then there is nothing to boost…” There is SO much to understand about selling, marketing and promotion.

Susansweaters_Sewing says: November 14, 2015

Thanks, this was helpful to me also

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