Successful vendors make a successful marketplace. 868.Market wants your store to be a success. However, just having products available online, doesn’t necessarily mean sales will roll in. We extensively promote our marketplace to ensure that the site gets in front of the maximum number of customers.
With many vendors in overall, and with many vendors selling in the same product category, if you get customers to land on products, then they should be compelling enough to close the sale.
Many vendors may be experienced or savvy enough to ensure that they have the following:
1. OPTIMAL VENDOR STOREFRONT
This is achieved by ensuring that your Store Settings page is properly filled out, which includes:
- Well designed banner image
- Use of profile image
- Setting your store categories
- Providing your contact info- phone, email
- Writing a compelling About section in the Biography area
2. OPTIMAL PRODUCT CATALOG
Assuming you do a great job with the above that the customer can learn enough to have confidence in you as a vendor. The other equally important element is your product catalog. Your products must be positioned optimally to be attractive to the shopper. This includes elements such as:
- Product titles- In addition to keeping our standard of being in Proper Case, your title text itself must be attractively phrased
- Short and Long descriptions- very general and factual product info isn’t always compelling, it is always helpful to add verbiage that ‘sells’
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO)-The product entry page has an SEO section where you can configure product specific info search engines pull if a customer searches for your product keyword, which you also specify.
DO IT YOURSELF
You can do all of the above yourself; the vendor area is designed to be intuitive and self explanatory. As a vendor, your monthly subscription provides you with access to our marketplace and ability to manage your store and products on your own, with the requirement that you abide by our terms and conditions.
Refer to the New Vendor Guide which has information about our minimum standards and helpful tips to operate your store.
LET US DO IT FOR YOU
If you’re not such a seasoned vendor or online savvy, or just don’t have the time, 868.Market has optional value added packages to give you a LITTLE or a LOT of assistance as you may need.
ONBOARDING PACKAGES
Essential Onboarding
General Vendor Orientation
Included Monthly
Phone Session(s) with Supoort Team
Continued Vendor Assistance
Guidance and Product Supoort
Online Store Refinement
Multiple session up to 1 Hour Max
Premium Onboarding
Full Vendor Orientation
Step by step vendor area session
Product Upload tutorial
Product Optimization tutorial
Catalog refinement
Marketing advice and strategy
Multiple sessions 8 hr max total
IMAGES PACKAGES
Editing Supplier Photos
Photos from manufacturers/brands
Vendor uses supplier pics
Pics of web quality
Send images to us
We resize and optimize
Return images to you
Editing Vendor Photos
Photos you take
Vendor photographs own pics
Use our photo guidelines
Send images to us
We edit to standard
Return images to you
We Photo & Edit
Photos we take
Bring to market location
Or drop off at 868.Market office
Our team photographs
We edit to standard
Return images to you
DESCRIPTIONS PACKAGES
YOUR SHORT DESCRIPTION
Made from home grown robusta coffee
OUR SHORT DESCRIPTION
Enjoy our home grown, made right here in T&T, 100% pure, Robusta coffee! From the fields of Rio Claro, our medium roast coffee provides a fresh, rich aroma you can enjoy hot or cold.
Description Refine
You write, we refine
You write in your words
We review
We refine to Amazon level
Short and long descriptions
We write meta for search engines
Description Write
We write from scratch
We consult with you
We write from scratch
We write at Amazon level
Short and long descriptions
We write meta for search engines
PROFILE/BANNER PACKAGES
Essential Profile Banner
Basic store banner image
We design your banner
Use your photos etc.
Design profile avatar
Basic but professional design
Premium Profile Banner
Premium store banner image
We design your banner
Use your photos etc.
Design profile avatar
More complex, professional design
Profile plus Facebook Banner
Matching banners
Matching profile/Facebook banner
Use your photos etc.
Banner/Facebook profile avatar
More complex, professional design
More packages coming soon… keep checking this page