How does your customer map work?
Our maps help you merchandise your experience selling domestically and overseas.
We want international buyers to buy more from you — over
and over. What's more, we guarantee they will.
To merchandise your experience, we create your own customer map which demonstrates
the depth of your selling experience anywhere in the world.
Have you already sold internationally? Show off your experience!
Just starting to sell internationally? Start right by merchandising
yourself to your international buyers.
Getting started is simple.
When you register, you will choose the world map -- or regional maps where you
sell. Most sellers choose the world map because they ship
to buyers all over the world. Others focus on just one geographic
area.
Whatever map(s) you choose, you can choose to start simply or more advanced.
If you want to start simply — we automatically set your map account to start tracking
sales from the day you add them to your listings. You can
also start by entering the current number of shipments you
have made to the countries, states or provinces covered by
that map. For instance, if you have shipped 54 packages to
Ireland since you began selling on eBay, you can enter "54"
in the box next to Ireland. You can always start simply and
go back and add your historic counts by country later.
Each map also includes an area for
you to enter your own personalized shipping, payments and
returns policies for international sales. International buyers
want to see these policies in one place, and your map is
the right place to merchandise your policies.
After you enter your number of shipments
and your policies, you are done.
Next, our service will create your
customer map for you highlighting all the areas where you
have customers. We will send you HTML text which you can
place on your listing template or within any of your listings
manually. Your customer map is like a picture image, and our
service is the host of that image. We constantly update your
personalized map based on your real-time sales. For those sellers
who use a non-eBay checkout or do not use PayPal payments, you
will need to mark your items as paid and sent so our system can
add them to your map
You should also know that your buyers
can click on your map from within your eBay listing page
and a second, more detailed map of your customer counts can
be viewed by your buyers. The detailed map optionally shows
the actual customer counts you've made to each country, state
or province. Giving your buyers the actual counts of your
shipments helps you merchandise the depth of your international
sales experience.
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