I am planning to setup a online store using associate - o matic. I have many sites which gets good traffic. i want to create 10 differnet categories in one store. example books clothers electronics i have sites on books clother and electronics , i want to diverts people to my store. OR. should i set up the store with the existings site itself. that means i have to create 10 stores for 10 sites or create one store with all categories and link to it ? share your experiences ?
I am not expert but just want give some suggestion for your plan. Good choice with associate-o-matic scripts.If you have good traffic from main site and want to use it,just set your store to niche what main site about,don't forget to categorized it. By the way expert advise should not free for this day.
Either or, sources say that it is better to have a niche.. But the best way to do it, the way I did it. Is I'm going to have a main store (with every product under the sun) and links to other niche stores. It would be more economical to set up the main big store first, and have price comparisons set up (and in these price comparisons link to your other niche stores ) The thing to remember if you are on a tight budget, within about 3-4 months you should be making $400 per month per store, but focus on one store at a time, once you start making say $50 a month, you can start up the other niche stores. Every store for optimum impact you need to do a general broad spectrum promotion (about $180 one time) and then social bookmark the deep links once a month ($40). But at this point in the game you should be making roughly $100 per site per month, so you'll cover your costs and be making some profit.
Malls are filled with some large stores which try to serve many customer with many products. However most shopping malls have many many niche retailers who focus on one segment and do it to the best they can. I am setting up a full network of sites now, and then the beginning of 2009 I am setting up a mall site which will filter traffic to all of my niche sites and which I can advertise without having AMs copying my sites they find.