The Sellit Blog: Plug Your Shop In Everywhere

Featured Etsy Merchants: Great Bath & Body Gift Ideas

Pure Intox...offering intoxicating bath and body products @PureIntox

Candied Beauty...the bath bakery @CandiedBeauty

Serendipity 8...handcrafted bath and beauty products @Serendipity_8

We’d love to hear about how you're using your Sellit mini-shop. Email us at blog[at]sellit[dot]com to be a featured Sellit merchant and we’ll do a story about you!

Happy Thanksgiving From Sellit!

May your stuffing be tasty 
May your turkey plump,
May your potatoes and gravy
Have never a lump.
May your yams be delicious
And your pies take the prize,
And may your Thanksgiving dinner
Stay off your thighs!
- Unknown

Where To Look for The Best Black Friday Deals Online

Do you really want to be stuck in this mess?

If not, this list can help you get the best deals without having to wait in line or deal with the crowds.

SITES:

BlackFriday.com We find the deals. You save!

BlackFriday.info The official site for Back Friday ads

BlackFriday on Twitter

CheapTweet: Scouring Twitter for deals so you don't have to. @CheapTweet

Black Friday Deals on Facebook

Black Friday videos on YouTube

Front Line Grabber or A-Z Grabber Online Your pass to the front of the line on Amazon.com

InetSoft's Free Black Friday Deals Shopping Tool lets you sort through thousands of sales to find what you want.

ZingSale emails you when stuff you want drops in price.

ARTICLES:

Skip the Crowds: Online Shopping Tips for Black Friday from PC World

Black Friday 2009 Daily Update from Black Friday Ads

Top 15 Black Friday Tech Deals from CNET

The Top 10 Black Friday Sites from PCMag.com

Best Black Friday Deals for Gadget Lovers from FoxNews.com

Do you have any other great places we should be looking come Friday?? If so, please leave a comment below for our readers. Thanks and good luck out there!

Jump Into The Conversations with Sellit Shout

The Sellit Shout is an easy way to bring your products or goods into conversations being had in some of the most effective locations that exist today. Are you having or sale or just added some new products to your shop? Get the word out and tie your products with the click of your mouse into sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and social bookmarking sites, all from one convenient place.

FOR FACEBOOK: From your Sellit admin, you can type a blurb in the message bar or pick a pre-populated one, click Shout and instantly update your Facebook status. The first image listed in your mini-shop will be included for all to see in your Facebook status update. You also have the option to send a private message regarding your shop to any friend you select. 

FOR MICRO-BLOGS: If you have found how easy it is to get in the conversations on Twitter and other micro-blogs like Plurk, you are going to love Shout. Using your allotted 140 characters, you can Tweet about your latest new products, sales or just show off something cool. Shout attaches a mini URL that links directly back to your mini-shop to get the most out of your online real estate.

FOR SOCIAL BOOKMARKING SITES: To increase the SEO of your original store and share products with link-minded folks, you should be taking advantage of the free bookmarking sites out there. From one location, Shout enables you to post your mini-shop to multiple bookmarking sites and share your products instantly. 

Sellit Shout is available through our Basic account and an automated version (get updates in the hopper & pick a date to send) is available with  Sellit PRO.

Introducing Sellit PRO

Here at Sellit, we believe your marketing efforts should be as unique and customized as your store and the products you are selling. We are continually finding new and inventive ways to increase your traffic and visibility on the web.

Sellit PRO can expand your current buying audience, help you jump into the conversations and coordinate all your social media efforts with the following features:

• Fast, One click import of your shop’s products
• No Setup or Per Product Fees
• 3000 monthly placements of your Sellit Products
• Mini-Shop, Shout & Advertising Statistics
• Mini-Shop Bookmarking capabilities
• Unlimited Sharing across Social Networks, Blogs and websites
• Premium Shout - Automated Facebook & Twitter status updating and advanced posting options
• Increased Monthly Visibility and Marketing
• Includes up to 150 items listed in your Mini-Shop
• Customize your Mini-Shop's look
• No Third Party Ads on Listings

Give Sellit PRO a try today for $12/month and take your shop to the next level!

Featured Sellit Merchant: Bubble Gum Designs, bouji and nouna & Home and Outdoor Decor

CafePress Merchant: Bubble Gum Designs

Designs that pop! T-Shirts and Novelty Items. Check out the Bubble Gum network: Twitter Facebook and MySpace.

Etsy Merchant: bouji and nouna

Unique designs for the contemporary baby. Check out the bouji and nouna network: Twitter Facebook and their blog.

Yahoo! Merchant: Home and Outdoor Decor

For a wide and growing range of indoor furniture, outdoor furniture, wall decor, garden accents, electronics, unique home decor and home accents. Check out the H & O Decor on Facebook.

We’d love to hear about how you're using your Sellit mini-shop. Email us at blog[at]sellit[dot]com to be a featured Sellit merchant and we’ll do a story about you!

Featured Etsy Merchants: Saudade Studio, Totally Hemp & CABTeam

Hello out there to our new Etsy Twitter friends using their mini-shop to drive more traffic to their store by using Shout! to post links on Twitter.

Saudade Studio...One of a Kind Handmade Fabric Bags & Jewelry @SaudadeStudio

Totally Hemp...The place where you will find unique, handmade hemp jewelry @TotallyHemp

CABTeam(Carried Away Bag-Makers Team)...Handmade money holders to benefit women for Women International @Solsisters

We’d love to hear about how you're using your Sellit mini-shop. Email us at blog[at]sellit[dot]com to be a featured Sellit merchant and we’ll do a story about you!

E-Commerce Webinars To Get You Ready For The Holidays

The holiday season, where many online sites make most of their money, is quickly approaching. Online sellers and marketers need to prepare now in order to reap the benefits of your work later this year. By implementing key conversion tactics today, you will better prepare for holiday traffic.

Check out all the upcoming and past webinars that are sure to help get you and your site geared up for the holidays.

Practical Ecommerce

SMB Email Marketing Best Practices, Tuesday, October 13th at 3:00 PM Eastern

Sales Taxes for eCommerce Businesses, Tuesday, October 20th at 3:00 PM Eastern

Grow Your Email Marketing Opt-in List Almost Automatically, Tuesday, October 27th at 1:00 PM Eastern

Get Elastic & WhichTestWon

Case Studies & Practical Advice To Raise Conversions Before the Holidays, Thursday, October 22nd at 2:00 PM Eastern

Outdoor Industry Association

Harnessing Email and E-commerce to Drive Holiday Traffic, Wednesday, October 14th at 2:00 PM Mountain

Yahoo! Small Business - Store Optimization Series
E-Commerce Best Practices, Wednesday October 14th at Noon Eastern

SEO Tips & Tricks For Yahoo! Merchant Solutions, Wednesday October 14th at1:00pm Eastern

More Yahoo! webinars can be found here.

LGC Commerce

Open Source Ecommerce: Hype vs Reality, Wednesday, October 21st at 1:00pm Eastern

Lionbridge

Culturally Customizing Websites for Succeeding in the Global Online Marketplace

Part 1, Thursday, October 8th at 12:00 PM Eastern

Part 2, Thursday, November 5th at 12:00 PM Eastern

Merge

Best Practices of E-Commerce, October 21st at Noon Eastern

Omniture had a "Make Black Friday Green" webinar which is available for download. It includes 10 tips to prepare for the holiday season.

MarketLive had a webinar to improve holiday sales with special tactics tailored to the challenging economic climate. Click here to replay "Maximize Holiday Sales during a Sluggish Economy".

Infopia has a slew of recorded past webinars to catch up on. They focus on practical ways you can improve the way you sell online and have a "Amazon Webinar - Jump Start Your Holiday Sales" worth checking out.

Update: Sellit Metrics and Reports

We want to make you all aware of some irregularities in our AdPAK metrics reporting that has been brought to our attention through some members of our customer base. We are checking into things as we speak, but wanted to take this chance to be as transparent as we can and let all of you know that we're aware of the issues.

We have been serving advertisements (a lot more than the AdPAK Metrics report). Thus, we believe the issues to be within our metrics reporting systems and not in our ad serving systems. We are however exploring all the possibilities and if we, in fact, do find out we did not serve what we said we were going to, we will more than make up for the loss for each and everyone one of our customers.

Special thanks to Jim at the Irregular Times for the slew of posts, some good, some not so good, on our products and especially for one of his more recent posts pointing out the very issues we're addressing. 

What we can promise you is that when we know more, you'll know more and want to thank you all for bringing this to our attention and apologize for the massive inconvenience this has caused you all.

Featured Sellit Merchants: NCBI ROFL, Bagalicious & The Nation

CafePress Merchant: NCBI ROFL

NCBI ROFL is the brainchild of two Molecular and Cell Biology graduate students at UC Berkeley. Like most grad students, they procrastinate a lot. Real articles. Funny subjects. @ncbirofl

Etsy Merchant: Bagalicious

Bagalicious is owned and operated by a former computer programmer and user interface designer, turned stay-at-home mom and bag maker/accessorizer. Handbags, belts, headbands & more! @EtsyBagalicious

Yahoo Merchant: The Nation

The Nation is a weekly journal of opinion, featuring analysis on politics and culture. Founded in 1865. @thenation

We’d love to hear about how you're using your Sellit mini-shop. Email us at blog[at]sellit[dot]com to be a featured Sellit merchant and we’ll do a story about you!