Bonanzle tips : How to calculate shipping cost base on weight?

Hai there , today im going to show you step by step how to calculate your item shipping cost base on it's weight. Bonanzle platform supports 2 shipping companies UPS and USPS. It is easier this way because you dont have to calculate seperately and put one by one via fix shipping cost.

Lets how to do it.

Step 1 :



First of All open your listing window , choose buyer pays calculated and fill the form for lbs and oz , select wheather you use normal package , big package or etc. save the listing and update your booth.




When buyer visits your listing , he/she will see get price link on the listing page.





When he/she click on the get price link the calculated shipping will be shown automatically.

How to use one gmail account for all your bonanzle accounts?

here is the trick , by using gmail you can forward automatically from other gmail accounts to the one you use. By doing this you can open only 1 account in order to monitor other accounts.All sales and message notifications will be fowarded to your main account.

This tutorial will show you how to do it step by step with screenshots.

Step 1 :


Login to Gmail account and click setting at the top right of your page.


Step 2 :



Click on " forwarding and POP/IMAP



Step 3 :



Fill in your main gmail account .



Step 4 :


Save it and you are done , now everytime you recieve an email , that particular email will be sent to your main gmail account. Do this to all your other gmail account registered with Bonanzle and you can monitor all bonanzle accounts with one email.

How to use description to increase your sales conversion

Everytime you list a product you have to remember the description you write is for human being. When you deal with peoples you have to secure their confidence first before you can get into their pocket . In order to write a good description all informations must be in place such as

who are you ?

• Write about yourself , your business experiences and stuffs.

product informations (as detail as you get)
Every single aspect of the product such as

• product model
• New or used
• how to use it
• who will need it
• manufacturer's name
• date of release
• is there any defect on the product

Shipping informations

• What is the shipping company
• When are you going to ship the item
• When the estimate time of delivery
• when are you going to release the tracking number

Payment informations

• Type of payment that you accept
• who will qualify to buy the product.

Return policy

• how are you going to handle return and return process.
• Who will qualify to return the product.

Photos

• Photos must be as clear as you can get.
• Take close up pictures with clear backdrop.

You have to remember , buyer makes a decision base on the informations in the description. The more comprehensive your description is the higher chance for you to make a conversion. We got to have the buyer's brain , think like them then the sales will come along.

How to manage multiple Bonanzle account at the same time?

If you have more than one booth , it is really hard to manage them all because you can only open Bonanzle account under one email. The notification of sales or new message is only send to the email you registered with bonanzle for that particular account.

The solution is register your Bonanzle account using gmail email. By doing this you can install your gmail manager firefox add-on to login to all email accounts at the same time to check any new sales or message notification.

here are some screenshots of gmail manager add-on








You can isntall your gmail manager add-on here
Click here to install

Drive traffic to your booth through Forums

This is the easiest way to gain traffic to your booth. The best forum is on bonanzle itself. Why? this is because lots of product browsers are on bonanzle forum communicating with each other and browsing products. You have to remember most of sellers on Bonanzle are also buyers as well.

By creating an interesting topic you will have temporarily traffic surge to your booth.For example by creating a promotion or selling competition topic on the forum. Sellers will start flooding their booth or item links and driving huge amount of traffic to your booth. This will gurantee your topic will be on top of the forum for a while.

You also have to heavily active on replying the topic you created. By doing this you can increase your booth visibility. Out of 100 visitors who are browsing your booth maybe 20-30 are your potential buyers . Out of 20-30 maybe 2 or 3 will endup buying your product.

I really suggest you to use signature for every post on the forum.


If you look at the screenshot , the signature link is more visible compared to the green default link at the bottom right.If you are heavily active forum user who made hundred of post every day , can you imagine the visibility of your booth on Bonanzle itself?

How to zoom and crop any part of your product

In this tutorial i will show you how to zoom into any part of your product's picture and crop it out using Bonanzle crop tool.




When you click on add product button , you will be taken to the product listing window.




Click on Crop/Rotate link and you will be taken to the crop tool window





Drag to the left the zoom button to zoom our your product and drag the picture to the left ,right , bottom or up to go to the exact part of the product you that you wanted to crop.save it and you got yourself a cropped picture for your listing. You have to use high resolution picture to make sure the picture wont blur when you do the zooming process.

How to create your own bonanzle banner

There are alot of software that can be used to create banner. In this tutorial i will show you how to create a simple banner using Adobe photoshop.




First of all create a new file.



Set the image size to 692 x 104 pixels according to bonanzle standard banner size.




Open any picture you want to put on the banner and set the height less than the height of the banner for the picture fits well. In this case i put 103 pixels.





Drag the picture into your banner.





Type your slogan besides the image .





Save the banner as jpeg




Open Bonanzle banner uploader




Upload the banner and you are done , you got yourself a new banner. Banner creation is quite subjective , you can use your imagination to create any kind of banner that makes your booth looks attractive.