3 Safe Selling Strategies

Posted by Edward Grey on October 8th, 2021

While the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic has decreased across the US, it hasn’t been eliminated altogether. As the risk lingers, people have been struggling to sell their products to local customers safely. Over the past two-and-a-half years, interest in “safe selling” and “safe buying” has increased significantly across the board. Today, we’ll focus on the former.

As a seller, how can you display your products to a wide audience and make successful sales without worrying about the safety of everyone involved? The answer may surprise you: through a virtual garage/yard sale. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the popularity of virtual sales has skyrocketed. People can easily buy/sell products from the comfort, safety, and convenience of their homes.

In this blog, we’ll walk you through three ways you can make safe, hassle-free, and lucrative sales without exposing yourself and your customers to the menacing virus. Continue reading!

1.Use a Virtual Garage/Yard Sale App

As virtual garage/yard sales gain more traction across the US, many people go about things the wrong way. As a seller, you should have a razor-sharp focus on marketing your upcoming sale. Fortunately, you don’t have to do this physically.

As a safe selling strategy, using a virtual garage/yard sale app can help you reach a wider audience and make better sales. If you forgo this step, you’ll struggle to reach potential customers in your vicinity. Not only will the turnout be disappointing, but your upcoming garage/yard sales will also fail to perform as well as you’d like them to.

Nip the damage in the bud by using an online yard sale platform that enables you to reach and convert local buyers. Today, millions of people are running straightforward searches like “yard/garage sale near me” on Google. As you join an app, you’ll manage to engage these people and get your products off the shelves at a faster rate.

2.Let SEO Work in Your Favor!

SEO (search engine optimization) is considered a seller’s best friend, and rightfully so. Today, Google is inundated with billions of web pages. As you set up your garage/yard sale, it’s important to note that hundreds of people are doing the same thing in your vicinity. The more you branch out geographically, the higher the number gets.

Simply put, the competition is way too high. If you fail to stand out among the crowd, you’ll struggle to reach your target audience and sell your products.

This is where SEO comes into the mix. As its name implies, SEO is a great way to optimize your listings to help them get recognized by the most popular search engine out there: Google. Using the right strategies, you can appease Google’s hard-to-please algorithm. As a result, your listing will rank higher on Google SERPs.

If you excel at SEO, you may also make your way into the Google Local 3-Pack. The outcome? Better visibility, more clicks, more conversions, and great sales.

We recommend making the most of a garage/yard sale app and doubling down on SEO. Collectively, these strategies will help you launch one successful yard/garage sale after another.

3. Master the Art of Online Customer Conversion

When it comes to safely selling products during a global pandemic, learning the ropes of successful online customer conversion is imperative. Since you can’t physically meet buyers, make sure you master the art of converting them online.

Be professional, polite, courteous, and responsive. You should possess the ability to walk potential customers through the benefits and unique selling propositions of your products. In other words, you should be able to a) turn casual browsers into serious buyers, b) retain old customers, and c) turn negative experiences into positive experiences.

This is an intricate balance that can ultimately help you make great sales and keep your business booming in the long run. Since you can’t physically meet your customers, you have to rely on calls and/or messages to help shape their opinion.

Avoid going overboard; provide the information that’s required and step away to help them make informed decisions on their own. However, make sure you provide comprehensive, accurate, and flattering details about your products when asked.

This is your golden opportunity to showcase your products and turn a click into a sale. Utilize it wisely. When employed collectively, these strategies can help you become a successful online seller with a great track record.

About the Author

The author is recognized for designing and developing one of the most popular garage sale apps in the US. The online marketplace is popularly used to buy and sell items at local yard sales.

Using the application, people can sign in if they wish to a) sell stuff through a garage/yard application or b) buy goods from local yard sales. Sellers are required to pay 99 cents per product, while buyers can register online for free.