Poshmark is an app usually available on Apple and Android devices (as well as a website) that allows users to list their new with tags clothing items or their gently used clothing items and accessories for sale online. Here’s how to sell on Poshmark.
Selling Your Clothes
Poshmark offers you the best avenue to sell clothing items you no longer need or wear. Poshmark easily connects you with people whose styles you adore and allows you to shop boutiques and closets easily. With 25 million items and 5000 brands, you can be sure to get many pleasing pieces that you will love.
For the people who started using Poshmark some years ago, they made huge sales shortly after starting their closets, and they did not struggle in making their sales. However, the platform has grown, and nowadays, you have to work hard and smart to make your sales.
This means that the quality of items on the platform has equally improved to a higher standard and you can be sure of getting the best items and accessories from the platform.
The social market place is accessible through the palm of your hand through an easy to use App. Nowadays, the App is even accessible through desktops.
The users of the App are known as “poshers” and they offer clothing for sale via a virtual “closet.” It takes just a short time to list an item on Poshmark. The buyers usually cater to the shipping cost, and immediately the item is purchased, Poshmark will deposit the cash from the clothes sale directly to your PayPal account.
The best thing about the App is, it is easy to buy or sell on the Poshmark App. The listing of an item will take a few minutes, and the instructions from the Apple version App will show the item images clearly. You can quickly sign in for Poshmark through an online web browser (poshback.com) and immediately sell or buy items from the Poshback login web browser.
This article looks at the instructions when selling items on Poshmark, systematically. Here’s How:
Sign Up for a Free Poshmark Account
The first step to join Poshmark for any individual interested with the platform is to download the App to your phone or desktop and sign up for an account. After signing up, you need to create a username (the username is just as a social media handle), then you need to create your password and make an entry of some basic information such as your name and the city you live in.
The account creation process will also require you to have an email, and your two names will be a requirement. The process of account creation will take a short time, and in a moment, you will be just steps away from listing your items on Poshmark platform.
Fill Out Your Profile
At this step, you can fill out more information on your account to create more color and personality to your profile. This will be one way of making people know and understand the person they are engaging. Some prospective clients on Poshmark will require to know more details of the person they are engaging and at least see your face, and the only way to achieve this is to fill some more information about you.
This is, however, not a mandatory requirement.
It’s crucial to note that Poshmark users are shopping primarily second-hand clothes and accessories. However, new clothes with tags can also be sold on the App. Most customers on the App tend to shop from the experience of buying from another individual versus a corporation. Another reason for their shopping is to reuse and to find items that are no longer made or challenging to find.
Some Additional information needed include, uploading your profile photo, a header image ( just like having a header image on facebook) and about filling out the About page for your Poshmark account. The process is elaborate and straightforward, and you will take the least time possible to complete.
How to List an Item for Sale
After filling all the required information, I know you are now eager to list your first item on the App and make the first sale. At this stage, you need to have gone through your closet and identified some few clothing you are no longer using or wear. It is recommended that you take up to 8 photos of your item to facilitate a proper viewing from all the angles.
The best idea is to take photos from the front and the back, the materials tag, the label, the size of the item, and it is recommended you take pictures of the measurements. It is a brilliant idea to have natural light and clear non-distracting background for your photos to enhance clarity.
The next step to undertake is to upload your photos. You have the freedom to rearrange your photos and flip them from side to side. Use of filters on your photos will not be a good idea because any shopper would want to see the real photo taken without any manipulation. Shoppers want to see the actual item truly and not distorted in any way.
Describe Your Item
At this level, you will be needed to fill out the item title. It is essential to include the brand name of the item, the name of the item itself and any suitable describing factors such as the color, size and style. You are supposed to use as many characters as possible in the descriptions. You will fill out the description box, and at this point, it is essential to use as many characters as possible and at the same time make sure that you are accurate with information.
Additional information about the item such as whether it is loose or tight when fitted, interesting features, the styles, colors, how you might use or wear the item and a proper description of the item will play a significant role in winning the prospective customers. At any point, do not ever try to deceive customers because eventually they will realize the truth, and you might end up losing more. Honesty is the best policy when using the App to list your items and accessories.
At this last stage of this step, you will need to fill out more information about the item in the provided fields and the information may include, the name of the brand, the garment type, size and color. These fields are vital to fill in the sense that they help shoppers to find your items easily.
Pricing and Fees on Poshmark
This is the final step when selling on Poshmark and it involves entering the price for your item. The App will require you to enter the original or the retail price of the item. Where you are not sure of the item price, you can make a guess or just enter $0. $0 is the preferred entry, especially where one is not sure of the item price because it would be wrong to deceive the prospective buyers in any way. Poshmark will always advocate for genuine deals even when it comes to pricing of your items.
Below are the considerations you have to make before deciding the price you are going to sell your item.
You need to be aware that Poshmark will take 20% of the selling price of your item and you need to have this fact in your mind when deciding the pricing for your item. The buyers are supposed to cater for the shipping of the item upon buying. You have to note that Poshmark buyers can buy your item outright for the price you have indicated as the selling price, but at the same time, a prospective buyer will send you an offer that might be lower than the one you have suggested for your item.
It is therefore, up to you to decide and agree with the interested buyer on the price. You are now all done! Go ahead and tap the list button and your item will be officially listed for sale. That is how simple Poshmark is to use and make you some cash at the palm of your hand.
Shipping Your Item and Receiving Payment
When you make a sale of one of your items or accessory which can be either through an offer or outright, you will therefore need to ship the item. Poshmark will be the ones to email you a PDF label for the item. Upon getting the label from Poshmark, attach it to an envelope. In this case, you can reuse a clean envelope or box that you have used before, or you can use your unmarked shipping supplies without any problem. At this point, you are required to put the item in the package, label it clearly, and you can now drop it directly at your local postal office.
In ensuring that your package is secure, it is essential to use some packing tape and a tape gun to secure your labels properly, and at the same time, you will save your time. Upon the item arriving at the buyer’s address and they accept the package, your amount will be released immediately to your Poshmark account. You are presented with the option of requesting the money with direct deposit or by cheque. If the payment is released to your Poshmark account, you can use it in your next Poshmark purchase.
Poshmark App is here to make your work easier as far as the purchase of clothing and accessory items is concerned. You just need to move around, clicking different buttons on the App and learn more about it in the process. The platform allows you to follow other closets, share items from separate closets, and to like items for later use. Poshmark features and design enables it to be a very social platform just the same way as twitter and facebook. The interactions and the purchasing process is fun and broad. You will find some items you would not have gotten anywhere but available on the Poshmark platform. The best thing about purchasing on the App is you can shop from anywhere and get the best value for your money.
Apart from following all the required steps so that you are in a position to use the Poshmark App effectively, it is at the same time important to learn the simple things you need to put in practice so that you can make many sales on the App. One of the primary reasons for joining Poshmark, especially for those aiming to sell items is to make profits. What should you therefore do to ensure that customers come your way all the time. Below we look at some of the considerations you have to make all the time.
Sell What People Want
Just like any other fashion business in your town, Poshmark is not any different. If you stock your fashions and style shop with old and outdated clothing designs, you can be sure that very few people will be interested in what you are offering. They will walk in your shop and will not purchase anything. The same case applies to Poshmark, if you are only selling outdated fashions and designs, you can be sure that you will make very little sales.
What sells first on Poshmark are items that are in demand. When an item is on-demand, make sure you stock your closet with the items, and you will experience very high sales. For example, when cold-shoulder tops were in demand, many sellers on PM stocked their closets with the tops and they made a great reap out of their sales.
Another statistic that can significantly help you is taking note that men sales are growing faster than women sale! If you are in a position to get in-demand male clothes in your closet, then you are good to go, and you will have opened your stock to a whole new audience. However, it is crucial to note that there are a few customers who love the out of style and oddball clothing, therefore you can have a few of them but trust me they will take a while before that kind of buyer comes through.
Use Keywords in Listings
This aspect might sound simple, but not everyone does it the right way. A good number of people prefer using Google when searching for information online. Google uses its algorithm to find the best results. Writers of the resulting articles have made proper use of this aspect. They use keywords that will make their articles appear more on Google searches also referred to search engine optimization (SEO).
The same is similar for Poshmark. The best listings have the brand names and style names in their titles. You can be sure that taking some more of your time to look for the style name pays at the end. Use of keywords in listings will help your listings to come up more on Google searches, which will be a great benefit to your PM closet. You will have done a great job in using keywords, as Google will be able to find them easily during particular searches.
Price Items Smartly
Most sellers take pricing as one of the easiest aspects in Poshmark business, but I tell you it is not as easy. Actually, most buyers will run from you upon realizing that you have a poor pricing strategy. Some pricing strategies will make buyers feel manipulated and will not buy your items, you therefore, need to be careful when doing your pricing. You can quickly sell your Poshmark items by simply under pricing them.
Some sellers will hold on to very high prices when it comes to certain items. Sometimes, it is better to underprice your items, make little profits but make huge sales. This way, the huge sales will have compensated for the small profits, and you will end up making massive profits at the end of the day.
Another strategy you can use to price your items is by leaving a room for negotiation. Some customers will prefer a place where their offers are also considered, so when pricing your items, give some room for negotiation with your potential buyers.
Increase Your Number of Listings for Sale
The most crucial aspect of Poshmark is based on numbers: profit, shipping cost, dropping prices, followers and much more. When considering your closet size, more listing is better for better sales. According to how Poshmark works, you need to have at least 10 available listings in your closet. Anything less than that will not help you in terms of the sales you want to achieve.
Develop your closet immensely if at all you want to make your dream number of sales. You will realize that most top sellers have hundreds or even thousands of listings available for sale, and this eventually promote their sales to significant levels.
Join the Poshmark Community
You need to learn from the beginning that selling is not a passive affair. If you are planning to make a significant impact on Poshmark, then you need to be active from the start. This will involve: sharing your items- the sharing can be to your followers, your online parties, or to individual people.
If you have interacted with top sellers, they will tell you that they most likely share their items thousands of times in a month and you should follow suit. You also need to be responding to questions as soon as possible, and this will make the potential buyers know that you are serious on your business and they can rely on you.
There are also other ways to be active on PM, like holding PM parties, welcoming new users, and commenting on other people listings. Under all circumstances, one should remain active on Poshmark to make significant sales. You do not necessarily need to be active 60-80 hours a week, but you certainly need to be more active on Poshmark.
Professional Looking Listings
You have to ensure that the pictures of your items are taken using a high-quality camera to make sure they impress the potential buyers. Remember, this is a competitive field, and you need to deliver the best shots to attract more buyers to buy your items. You can take your pictures at a place with enough natural light to enhance their quality. If you take your pictures with great lighting, the images will come out clear, even without being a professional photographer.
If you do not have those suitable options, you can go for some editing tools. Some of these tools are free while some are used at a cost. However, this does not mean that you go on and use filters! You will have gone wrong. Editing the pictures will not in, any way modify the original appearance of the pictures, but when you apply any filter the original presentation will be lost, and the buyers might not be getting the appearance of the original item.
At some point, it is good to identify the items that are moving slowly as compared to others and retake their pictures from time to time. This eventually gives them a new look, and this means that they will get new people to look at them. In most cases, you will find items that sell better after they are relisted with better pictures.
Use Promotional Features
Once you have decided to make sales the Poshmark way, you need to learn that making sales at PM is not a list-it leave-it deal. You need to do more to promote your sales. Make maximum use of any promotional feature available, either provided by Poshmark or making them your own. This is one of the secrets top sellers use to hit their targets, and you should try it soonest possible.
Poshmark is focused on offering you one of a kind experience in connecting people and their closets. You can be part of this awesome community that thrives on respect, trust, and shared affinity for discovering fashion.