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Have Anyone Make A Living With eCommerce?

Discussion in 'eCommerce' started by dynamichost, Sep 4, 2011.

  1. #1
    Hey guys, i want to know if any of you make a living with your eCommerce site yet? and is it worth starting one??
     
    dynamichost, Sep 4, 2011 IP
  2. joelchrist

    joelchrist Banned

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    Can you make the question, even more clear. What is mean by living here.. Do you mean live chat. ?
     
    joelchrist, Sep 5, 2011 IP
  3. Donutella

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    Oh yes, plenty of people can make a living through their eCommerce website. Marketing their business and driving traffic to their site's just one step. One will have to convince the visitors to buy as well. Successful stores do both, and do so very well.

    Whether it's worth starting one depends on how lucrative the niche is. Electronics are very saturated and you'll find huge competition. Amazon sells everything so what will make you stand out? Choosing to be an authority in a non-competitive niche can get you places, but you'll have to work hard. There's not much in life comes free (or easy).
     
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    quite a few friends living on just by opening shop on ebay

    and have some hosting a blog shop.

    and if you count groupon as ecommerce, lots of deal sites these days, not just make a living.

    go coupark.com and you know just how active is ecommerce now
     
    funseeker, Sep 6, 2011 IP
  5. classicsports

    classicsports Greenhorn

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    yes i make a living online
     
    classicsports, Sep 7, 2011 IP
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    aditd Well-Known Member

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    Yes making a living from online affiliate marketing in the last 8 years. And quite a good one!
     
    aditd, Sep 11, 2011 IP
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    Some people tends to have 2 jobs. 1 full time, 1 part time. Most of the times, part time gains more money.
     
    xixe, Sep 11, 2011 IP
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    catmma Greenhorn

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    You have to have marketing seo skills
     
    catmma, Sep 13, 2011 IP
  9. GlobeNat

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    If you think that your idea is really nice and worth investing your time and efforts - try it and not ask from people whether or not you should so it. There is lots of money online, there are lots of niches. Better to do then not to and regret about it after.
     
    GlobeNat, Sep 15, 2011 IP
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    I know people who do actually make a living through there Ecommerce website, and you can if you pull the right strings etc
     
    bhch10, Sep 16, 2011 IP
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    I own 5 eCommerce sites, and they each profit around $5,000+/-. The down side is you need to hire people, and have alot of headaches such as shipping, taxes, returns, out-of-stock products, customer complaints hiring people, buying a building, buying for lifts, buying racking, buying boxes, I could go on for days.

    If you have a nice product, and you can get it to rank top 3 in the SERP you are going to make alot of money. Dont let anyone tell you it is going to be easy though.

    I actually started the ecommerce business, and then learned the internet marketing side of the business. You cant have one without the other.
     
    Bottom Feeder, Sep 19, 2011 IP
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    Bottom Feeder is correct. We have many clients that make a very nice living with ecommerce, but they are in business and work very hard at it. It is more than just getting rankings and watch the money roll in. It is customer service, brand building, inventory management, etc. It also takes a decent amount of time to build a business like this up.

    http://www.activewebgroup.com
     
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    30oser, Sep 21, 2011 IP
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    here there are experts in eCommerce platform come n visit to this site adolmedia.com for better freelancers...mostly recommended:)
     
    sasmitha, Sep 21, 2011 IP
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    i live from ecommerce site, but actually not the primary.
     
    gryvendore, Sep 21, 2011 IP
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    It is really hard at first, takes some dedication. but it is definitively possible!
     
    busterbuzz, Sep 30, 2011 IP
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    half the people on here lie about there income. Can you can you can you. YES you can buddy.
     
    GettingmoreprofitNAJ, Oct 5, 2011 IP
  17. nexushigher

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    it is easy to make good flow from ecommerce, if you dropship using a real dropship supplier, and/or buy bulk directly from manufacturers, and use good inventory management software.
     
    nexushigher, Oct 6, 2011 IP
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    Of course you can have a try.
     
    JimGreenseo, Oct 13, 2011 IP
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    Definitely, incomes from affiliates for starters will be the best way to learn.
     
    rickyfantana, Oct 15, 2011 IP
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    do you have a site where you sell only digital products, or are they all involved with shipping?
     
    contentmegaguru, Oct 15, 2011 IP