You are at a disadvantage because you are dropshipping products and are competing with lots of sellers (on Bonanza, eBay, Etsy, THE INTERNET) who have similar or even the same products.

Of course, if buyers do a Google search and find multiple sites to purchase the same item, they are likely to consider some combination of the least expensive site AND the comfort level they have with a sales site.

So, you do have to promote your items (Pinterest, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) to help draw traffic to your desired selling platform.

Try this experiment… put a couple items on Bonanza that you DON’T have on any other selling platform. Then, see what Google advertising can do for you. However, you will still have to compete with other sellers that might be selling that item.

How do your prices compare to others?
How are your shipping costs and shipping times?
What is your reputation (feedback, if any)?
How many items are you selling in your booth? The more choices you have, the more chances you have.

Good luck.

Bonanza is a google driven site, and not a destination site like ebay, etsy, or amazon which means if you do not show in google search results you are likely not going to be seen
This does take more work on the part of the seller..mostly ensuring google rules are followed..

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There are hundreds of similar dropship items like yours…competition is high….

Your items are in google but since many do not actually contain the actual title of the item, they do not appear in search results…ie

Your [URL removed] Cat Mug, Coffee Mug, Tea Mug, Cat Mom, Cat Dad, Mug Gift, Cat Lover, Paw, Blue

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Your item could have shown if simply used I like cats mug or Coffee Tea mug I Like Cats and then a few keywords would have made it easier to find
Many of your mugs are almost impossible to find in google..since you did not put it in your title..and I went through 10 pages of google shopping…

Every other I like Cat mug appears but yours, even just searching for Cat mug it did not appear, though your booth is in google shopping your items using simple search words are hard to find. The keyword titles work fine in esty internal searches or even ebay searches but do not work for google searches

Keyword spamming is not a discriptive title
Your Bonanza booth did not even appear as an option

Another example was a little easier…because you had the descriptinve name of the item as the first part of the title

Morning People Scare Me Mug, Coffee Mug, Mug Gift, Sarcastic Mug, Tea, Red

This one appears in google because of the title Morning People Scare Me Mug and as you can see it appears quite high in google returns

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When I started here google rules were paramount and the only way to make sales (bonanza did not even do internet ads in those days..of course fees were very, very low also) and we had to do our own google feeds so I find it is easier to sell here. It has become automatic for me….to make detailed description, try to make the clearest pictures (trimming, editing, etc) and checking google shopping for likely titles that will bring results

And for others who have commented, for google White backgrounds and labeled picture can mean the difference between being seen or not

White/complimentary backgrounds, clean clear pictures..if you have a macro setting on your camera..use it and another great way to get items seen in google shopping and google images also having the pictures label with a title besides …57.jpg…because buyers can search images also for what they are looking for..an image without a title will not show in search results

I also see that items listed here are also on ebay at lower prices ($8.99 ebay price vs 24.99 bonanza price)..so I guess buyers searching will go to the lower priced place first (especially when they are the same picture)

It is a nice place, but can take a lot of work..like having your own independent website (which I also have..not associated with bonanza)

And yes, bonanza does advertise but the ads are internet centric, social media, websites, google, affiliates, but ad blocker software can pretty much block those.
They do not advertise on TV, or other media and I too wish for a TV ad blitz campaign at least to get the name out there…

Welcome to bonanza and good luck…

Bonanza is about 90% hands-on. You really got to bring your own traffic using social media, cross promotions etc. etc., plus, if you are brand new here it takes time to get into the roll both here and on Google. You cannot in any way shape or form compare this to any other site or blame any site for your business failure. You have to remember these sites are just a platform for us to grow our business, if we fail….that is on us. Also, you have to remember the competition out there if fierce, even more so now with all this crazy ’COVID’19’ garbage. One of the many great things about here is you do not pay until you sell something, so, you are really not out anything as you would have put the time into it anyway. I have over 2600 listings and still there are times (this is the slow time across all online sites) sales are slow here and on my other locations (I have 6). Use the time to ramp up for the holidays which are just around the corner. You will definitely want to constantly fill your booth as I said the competition is crazy out there. I would stick with the 9% which gets you into Googles rotation and at least once do a ‘Turbo Traffic’ pack (Be sure to keep track and judge when is best for your booth to use it). Give it a chance and do not rush it. Good Luck!

I haven’t had a sale in way over a year. This is not the best place to sell your items.

You have to promote your booth. That is part of doing business. I grew up in my folks “brick & mortar” store. My dad started it in 1932 until I closed the store in 1994,we advertised it every day, every where. This was before internet. Even “brick & mortar” stores depend on advertising, not just walk in traffic.
I have 4 booths on Bonz and I advertise them on all social media sites. I do pay a small $ amount to a couple of people to this for me. I also advertise on graigs list,facebook, facebook marketplace. And there are a ton of free online ad sites to use. promoting is a part of doing business of any kind.

I’ve been selling here for a few years now & sales are few and far between. I also sell on ebay & things are slow there as well~~I made 5 sales there over this last week end. I started selling on my facebook local county marketplace about a month ago. I’ve made 4 sales there so far. For me, the local facebook marketplace & ebay are the only things that work. This place is dead for me.

Just hang in there… it won’t cost you anything. Better not to put all your eggs into this one basket though. You need at least one other site besides this to stay afloat. This is a good site, but not that well known. Try to mention Bonanza whenever you talk to anyone… even the grocery store cashier… anyone and everyone. We need to promote the site since they don’t do much that I am aware of.

How did you sell on Etsy. Etsy is a platform for handmade and vintage?

What did I do to get sales?

I found that I had to start concentrating on items that were proven to sell (by looking on eBay sold items for example)….looking to sell items that were not in abundance on the internet for sale, offering a deal on [URL removed] Someone may offer free shipping for the one item but then if they buy one more of them their total price is higher if the free shipping is built in. Since I do like to sell “like” items and try to purchase more than one, the deal I offer on shipping is noticable when adding items to their cart

I also write detailed descriptions trying to anticipate buyer questions ahead of time.

I pack my titles, grabbing just about every space I can.

Finally broke down and got an Android 3 yeas ago so that I could research the item I was interested in buying. Because of this, most of the time I put the item back on the shelf while at the same time, some stuff I would have passed up, I go ahead and keep it in my cart,….
All because my phone gave me a window to look through ahead of time so to speak..

I do not like doing social media at all. I do not do it. I found it to be a waste of time personally for myself…instead, I mainly concentrate as I said above. This works better for me.

I know you drop ship and we obtain our products differently but there should be some helpful advice in here somewhere that you can relate to.

Sharon