| Merchant News from TIAS.com - February 27th, 2011 |
Merchant News from TIAS.com - February 27th, 2011
In this issue:
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1. TIAS.com (your site included) is a finalist for two major Web awards.
2. TIAS welcomes Tabletopsetc.com dealers to our family of merchants.
3. How to increase your sales - A few marketing tips...
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1. TIAS.com (your site included) is a finalist for two major Web awards.
For the second year in a row About.com has placed us in the finals for two major Web awards.
We need your assistance to win.
To place your vote....
a) Click here: http://collectibles.about.com/od/valuableresources/l/blreaders-choice2.htm
To vote for TIAS as the best place to shop for antiques & collectibles online.
b) Click here: http://collectibles.about.com/od/valuableresources/l/blreaders-choice1.htm
To vote for TIAS as the best place to sell antiques & collectibles online.
About.com allows you to vote once a day, every day until March 21, 2012 when the winner will be announced. Many many thanks for your help. Last year we won "the best place to buy antiques & collectibles online" and it resulted in a very nice spike in traffic and sales. With your help, we can do the same this year.
be sure to tell your friends on facebook and twitter.
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2. TIAS welcomes Tabletopsetc.com dealers to our family of merchants.
Last week, we finalized an agreement with Tabletopsetc.com to acquire their merchants and inventory of over 110,000 items. Since 1995, Tabletopsetc.com has been a major marketplace for fine china, dinnerware, glassware and flatware. These are all very popular categories on TIAS and we've worked with Tabletops in the past, so we felt that their merchants and inventory would be a good fit for our mall. For more info on this story, see: http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/cab/abn/y12/m02/i22/s02 .
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3. How to increase your sales - A few simple marketing tips...
TIAS gets about 700,000 unique visitors every month. Here are some tips to drive some of that traffic to your inventory on TIAS.
a) Go to our facebook page and post something about your store. See: http://www.facebook.com/TIASAntiques don't forget to post to your own facebook page as well.
b) Login to your store on TIAS and in the left column, select "Promotion Tools" then select "Internal Press Release" and post a release about your store. This will be posted to the TIAS.com home page. Just follow the rules when posting.
c) Post a free classified ad for your store here: http://www.tias.com/cgi-bin/submitClassified.cgi and use the coupon code "free123" to get $20 off your classified ad. This will run in the TIAS newsletter which goes out to 15,000 readers each week.
d) Post a micro press release about your store at http://News-Antique.com . Here are some instructions on how to write one.. http://www.bignews.biz/blog/?p=39 That site gets about 20,588 visitors each month.
Need some more online marketing ideas? You can give me a call at 1-888-653-7883 or drop me an email at phil@tias.com
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