Get my free Facebook Marketplace Jumpstart Kit!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nWith these things in mind, let’s go ahead and try to rewrite this listing. For this one, I title it, “Unique Brown Bookshelf, like-new condition, living room furniture.” The reason why I do this, instead of just saying bookshelfs for sale, I want to include some more keywords that could potentially come up if somebody were, for example, to just be looking for brown bookshelves or something like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From here, we might go ahead and start running a description like, “Looking for great bookshelf to add to your living room? This Brown Bookshelf holds more than 50 books enough for the bulk of your library. Bought new two years ago, for $350, meaning you save a hundred dollars. It’s a real wood shelf, dimensions are 121 by 11 by 180 inches. Shelf length is 81 inches, which carries around 20 books each. Pickup only any day of the week after 5:00 PM and Venmo only.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So by just taking a couple minutes to improve our listing here, we’ve made it much more clear what the savings are versus buying a bookshelf new here, as well as how many books this bookshelf can hold. And some other key things that weren’t in the original listing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Example #3: HP Pavilion Laptop Core i7<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
In this example, we have an HP Pavilion laptop with a core i7 processor, and the description reads as follows. “8th generation Intel i7-8550U processor, 512 GB SSD, 16GB SD Ram DDR4, Nvidia GeForce 940MX. It’s listed with an electronics and laptops, which is great. And they use like-new condition as well as, they list the brand of HP. You’ll notice as we go through these pictures as well, that they include the original box in this listing, as well as just a breakdown of some of the other features that weren’t listed in the description.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So in thinking about ways we can improve this, one of the first things we could do is share how much we spent on this laptop retail. This way, we just have a better sense of how we are pricing this listing when we are putting it up on Facebook Marketplace. Aside from just talking about the retail price of the laptop, we might want to talk about the condition a little bit more. I understand that it’s listed as like-new, but it would be relevant to include anything. If there’s any nicks or dings that have happened over the use of this laptop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because this is an electronics purchase, it’s important to know how old it is, whether or not you’re going to be including all of the relevant power cables as well as if the laptop will be coming to you wiped or if the hard drive will need a hard reset when you are purchasing from them. So with these considerations in mind, let’s go ahead and rewrite this listing to make it much more compelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For this one, I’m going to title it, “HP Pavilion laptop core i7 processor ,like-new, 512 GB SSD, 16 GB RAM.” Again, you’ll notice here that what I’m doing with the title is I’m being as specific as I can and getting as many opportunities to keyword optimize it for the search results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From here for the description I wrote, “Whether you’re a student looking for the perfect laptop for school or just a great performing gaming laptop, this laptop might be for you. Excellent condition, no dents or scratches on any of it. Comes with power cable and the original box. Laptop specs: 8th generation Intel i7-8550U processor, 512 GB SSD. Already factory reset, 16 GB Ram DDR4, Nvidia GeForce 940 MX graphics card, DVD optical drive. Bought new three years ago for $1,100, meaning that you save 45%. Pickup only any day of the week after 3:00 PM. Venmo only.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So hopefully by looking at this improved listing, what you can tell is that I’ve answered way more questions that any potential buyers would have for my Facebook Marketplace listing here. And I’ve also made it really clear what condition the laptop will be when we arrange for a meetup in the case where I am truly interested in buying this laptop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Something that I also think is great to include in the improved listing is just the retail savings because if you were to tell somebody you’re about to save 45% off a laptop, it would make somebody more likely to perk up their ears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Aside from this improved listing, the two other areas that I could potentially improve this listing would be by including some more compelling pictures. These pictures that were taken are not necessarily bad, but they also could be brightened up or just given a little bit more contrast and made to pop a little bit more. Because this is a higher end purchase, having some really great pictures can be a great way to help your listing stand out from the rest of the pack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another thing that could potentially be helpful would be to run a speed test on this reset laptop. That way somebody could just get a general sense of how fast they can expect this to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Big takeaways<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
There are two things I want you to remember from this article:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- The first thing is that sales is all about positioning and the same goes for Facebook Marketplace. It’s ultimately how you position your listings versus all of your competitors that will make the difference between you selling today and you selling two weeks from now or not at all.<\/li>
- The second thing to remember is that you should always aim to be better than average on Facebook Marketplace. As you can tell from the examples today, there are a ton of average listings and it only takes one or two minutes to really improve your listing to make it stand out from the rest of the pack. When you take that extra one or two minutes to improve your listing, it makes a huge difference in the amount of time it takes for you to sell your items.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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