Successful Online Selling Tips- Good Quality Photos

Selling on an online markeplace, such as The Baby Burp, can be a lucrative and rewarding business. It is a very competitive business with millions of other products and sellers trying to compete to sell their product over yours. You can become a top seller if you really put effort and time into it and make your product stand out. That is really the just of it. How can you make your product stand out and get sold? If you are just throwing a product in a marketplace hoping to get noticed- that is all that will happen. I'm going to start a series of successful online selling tips outlining what the successful sellers are doing to get their products sold. 

Photos

The number one thing you can do to sell your product is to have a great photo of your product. There are people who simply refuse to buy online because if they can't see it in person, if it's not tangible, they won't dare buy it. So the next best thing is visual. Make sure they are getting a good representation of your product by the picture and description. We will talk about the description later, but for now focus on what you can do to get a good quality photo. 

1. Use a good quality camera that will give you high resolution images.

2. Use good lighting when taking the photo. (outside is always best)

3. Use good props.

4. Hire a professional.

Some of the best sellers take time and spend money to hire a professional photographer, especially if they have models. Sometimes a professional just has a better eye and can direct the models for a good photo that will represent your product.

Photoshop. If you don't have photoshop- there are many simple edits you can use to get a better picture of your product. If Aunt Lisa or the family dog isn't in the photo to help sell it, crop them out. Crop photos to solely have the product in it. Use the autocorrect to brighten or adjust the photo. There are many free photo APPs that can help with photos.  Just don't go overboard with the photo- adding glitter hearts and stickers can do more damage than good. Think clean, streamlined, and clear.

Another important thing to think about is to pay attention to the sites uploader requirements. For instance, on The Baby Burp, there are dimension requirements that best suit the site's photo uploader. Big images should be 283 x 269. For best quality results- take the time to adjust your photo to those specifications. Otherwise- the photo uploader will adjust it for you and the quality of the photo can become distorted. 

Lastly, if you have up to 5 additional photos to show off your product- use them. This goes back to being visual and trying to make up for the fact that buyer cannot have a tangible experience. Show different angles of the product, show the inside, show the back, and show how it is used.

This is just one of many online selling tips. If you're going to do any- this is the most important. If a buyer can't get a good representation of the product you are trying to sell, they will not buy it. Plain and simple.