The Sellit Blog: Plug Your Shop In Everywhere

Sellit Weekend Lag

Some of you may have experienced longer than usual load times for your mini-shops over the weekend.

We were well aware of the delay you may have encountered and wanted to inform you that the issues have been resolved. We had an extremely high traffic weekend and have been working continuously to make sure this does not happen again.

Please feel free to contact us at UserVoice, 24 hours a day, if at anytime your mini-shop isn't loading properly or you are having issues. Someone will get back to you in a very timely manner.

Featured Etsy Merchants: SewArtsy, ZenThreads, GoodToGoJewelry & BizzieLizzie

It's been an exiting time here at Sellit and we wanted to showoff some of our new Etsy mini-shop users! They've been using their mini-shop to drive more traffic to their Etsy store by displaying it on Facebook and using Shout! to post links on Twitter.

SewArtsy...Custom Handmade Handbags and Accessories @SewArtsyAmy

ZenThreads...Custom Vintage Retro & Urban Tees @Zenthreads

Good To Go Jewelry...designed and created for the woman who wants to easily spruce up her everyday (and night) attire. @austenfeld

Bizzie Lizzie...Not just any bag, your bag! @MyBizzieLizzie

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!

Embedded E-Commerce Inside Your Ning Social Network

Hey all you Ning Network Creators out there...start selling on Ning today!

Import your existing shop’s products or create a new one to share with your members. Works with Cartfly, Etsy, Yahoo! Merchant Solutions and CafePress! Manage all of your shop’s social media marketing from one location using Sellit.

If you don't have your own e-commerce store, build your own with Cartfly and start selling goods to your members and visitors. Cartfly gives you the ability to create a store and post it to multiple locations on the web including other social networks, blogs and websites. Why limit your store to one location, when you can have hundreds?

Check out United Earth Network's Sellit shop here...

We’d love to hear about your Sellit shop in Ning. Email us at blog[at]sellit[dot]com to be a featured Sellit merchant and we’ll do a story about you!

Cool Shops Using Sellit

Just wanted to share these merchants using Sellit to help spread their products around the web. Take a look and see what you think!









Send us the link to your Sellit mini-shop for a little extra visibility out there!

Mr. Puggle’s CafePress Shop & AdPAKs

We had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of a furry friend named Mr. Puggle, who has now been a Sellit user for over two months.

The greatest challenge Shopkeepers seem to be facing these days are finding new ways to effectively market their products and drive new traffic to their own shops. While there are many existing online advertising solutions, they are often unnecessarily complex and time consuming. In addition, there are very few opportunities a merchant’s potential customers have to interact with their brand outside of visiting the actual shop website itself.

As a result of the difficulties in garnering new trtaffic and sales, Mr. Puggle was in the market for new ways to market his products and sites. With the help of Sellit, Mr. Puggle was able to see an instant increase in traffic numbers, website visits and page views. Read on for the reBARKable details!

To date, Mr. Puggle was solely relying on existing tools for all marketing efforts concerning his products and services. While there are marketing activities performed by the company during the holiday seasons, there is no sustained marketing effort in place with the purpose of driving continuous traffic to any one shop. Mr. Puggle wanted a marketing solution that was easy to implement and didn’t require a significant amount of time and effort.

RESULTS: Over the course of 10 days, the Sellit AdPAK Program allowed for 220 customer interaction experiences with potential Mr. Puggle customers outside of the MrPuggle.com domain. Out of those 220 interactions, a full 64.09% of them converted to direct traffic driven to MrPuggle.com, allowing these potential customers to fully interact with the shop and all of it’s products.

The Sellit ShopBOT also accounted for at least 18.62% of the overall unique visitors to the Mr. Puggle online shop. When compared to the same time period exactly one month prior, the Sellit ShopBOT contributed to a 33% growth in page-views and a 43% growth in total visits.

"I saw a radical increase in traffic to my shop with the addition of the AdPAK and an increase in the sale of items I advertised in my ShopBOT." - Jennifer A. Owner of the Mr. Puggle Brand

ENTER THE SELLIT SOLUTION: Sellit has developed a marketing solution that allows potential customers to interact with Mr. Puggle’s products and services outside of the Mr. Puggle online shop. This product was developed over the last several months with the purpose of equipping online merchants with the capabilities to market their online shop while utilizing the latest technology available to improve customer interaction and drive new traffic to their existing online shop.

Employing the Sellit ShopBOT in combination with the AdPAK Program, Mr. Puggle enabled his customer’s not only to interact with his products and services away from his online shop, but he also turned them into his own grass roots distributed sales and marketing team.

"The ShopBOT has been the perfect way for me to introduce my Puggle products to my Mr. Puggle blog readers by leading the blog with my ShopBOT." - Jennifer A.

Checkout Mr Puggle's extensive network if you like furry friends! You can subscribe to his blog, follow him on Twitter, check out his official CafePress shop and of course he has his own website!

Introducing the Sellit AdPAK

Get Your Shop The Traffic It Deserves!

The makers of Sellit.com are pleased to introduce our newest value-added service "AdPAK" which turn your Sellit ShopBOT into a Social Marketing machine.

To kick things off, all advertising is FREE during the month of August for the first 200 people registered at Sellit.com...so sign up now!

By adding the AdPAK to your Sellit account, your ShopBOT will be automatically advertised and distributed around the web. Rather than having to do the legwork yourself, Sellit will give your store thousands of eyeballs a month with no more work required on your part, other than giving us up to 10 keywords that accurately describe your shop and its products. Our network will optimize your impressions to help you reach your targeted audience while increasing your website traffic.

Marketing your Shop has never been this easy!

• Let Sellit place your ShopBOT in at least 15,000 different locations.
• All ads lead directly back to YOUR CafePress shop.
• We market your ShopBOT throughout Social Networks and across the web.
• Sellit turns your ShopBOT into an instant advertisement.
• Proven to increase traffic and visibility.

Let us do the heavy lifting for you!

Please join us for an informative webinar on the benefits of the AdPAK on Thursday, August 13th at 11:00am PST. Sign up here.

See our AdPAK FAQ for more info.

Join The Sellit Network!

We are here and want you to join us.

Follow us on Twitter...we tweet sales tips!

Become a Fan on Facebook...look for other merchants using Sellit and how they are making it work for them!

Consult our Squidoo lens for marketing ideas and ways to share your ShopBOT.

Hope to see you out there in cyber space!!

Using Sellit with Facebook & Twitter

We wanted to share a Sellit success story about one of our merchants and her ShopBOT. 

She held a sale over the 4th of July holiday weekend and got 35 additional sales!! This was all done by updating her status on Facebook and Twitter a couple times a day with  a link to her new ShopBOT. Within one hour, she set up her ShopBOT, pushed the word out for the first time alerting her existing network and the sales started rolling in.

You might want to have your own "Post 4th of July Sale", drop the price on a few things and get the ball rolling for your shop!

If your Sellit account is already set up...
1. Write a short, custom message about your shop or sale to use on Facebook and Twitter along with the "link" to your ShopBOT. Get your link easily by clicking the "Share" button on your ShopBOT and clicking the "Email" button.

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EXAMPLE MESSAGES w/ LINKS:
Blowout sale on CafePress t-shirts http://www.sellit.com/shopbots/1994.html

New lowered prices on my products! Check them out here: http://www.sellit.com/shopbots/1994.html

Here are some of my favorite CafePress products for sale http://www.sellit.com/shopbots/1994.html

Help me spread the word by adding my ShopBOT to your profile http://www.sellit.com/shopbots/1994.html Good karma for the day ; )

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2. Add the message and your ShopBOT link to your Facebook status box and Twitter (Don't forget, Twitter requires 140 characters or less).

3. A couple times per day/week, tweak your message just a bit to keep it fresh (for those actually paying attention) and post it again to all your networks.

Sellit Sales Tip:
Did you know that you can actually post your ShopBot in your CafePress header or footer?? For premium CafePress merchants, you may use the "Embed" code (click the "Share" button on your ShopBOT) to place your new ShopBOT directly into the CafePress “header” or “footer” section of your shop.  Loyal customers or shoppers can then add your shop to their profile allowing them to keep tabs on your products right from their Facebook or MySpace profile!

CafePress Partnership Announced

Sellit.com is proud to announce our first official partner, and it could not be a better one! CafePress, the leader in user-generated commerce, has been helping us test our ground-breaking platform in a private Beta program. We were thrilled to have received the priceless feedback and continual support of their fabulous Shopkeepers.

What is Sellit and what on earth is a ShopBOT you might be asking? Sellit is built to work seamlessly with large online marketplaces. With the click of a mouse, CafePress shopkeepers will soon be able to create a shareable version of thier online shop called a ShopBOT. This ShopBOT helps merchants increase revenue by giving them the ability to sell where their customers and fans "hangout." So your band has 20K friends on MySpace, why not have your CafePress ShopBOT right there for the fans to shop and share to their own profile or blogs? That is the power of Sellit.

By empowering their merchants to create a Sellit ShopBOT, CafePress is breaking the traditional destination model of the online marketplace.

For the full press release, please click here.

Sellit.com Beta Unveiling - New Users By Invite Only

Imagine being able to advertise your CafePress products across the web with the click of your mouse. That is the power of Sellit.com. Use Sellit to add your CafePress shop to social networks, blogs and even your own custom website. Friends can add your shop into their profiles as well. Sellit even allows you to quickly turn your CafePress shop into a live advertisement!

At this time, Sellit is in Private Beta and not open to new CafePress shopkeepers or the public without an invitation. Not to worry, hang tight!  Sellit services will soon be available for all CafePress Shops.
 
To get be one of the first notified when they are accepting new users:
1.      Please visit Sellit's Shopkeeper page
2.      Enter the store section URL you wish to use with Sellit
3.      Please submit your email requesting an invite.

What Beta is exactly? Beta is a stage of software product release available to a small audience to test and give valuable feedback. This helps us to better understand our users experience on the site itself while working on improvements and integrating new services and features.

Please visit the official Sellit.com site and submit your information to be contacted when new users are being accepted.