Online store,good idea?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by mrshhh, Oct 1, 2012.

  1. #1
    Hi,
    Aftre that I did some reaserch I've decided to sell items online,
    So I have a few questions from where to start.

    - Should I sell only 1 uniqe item or alot of them
    - Should I open a website for the item/s or use eBay/Amazon (I know that if I chose to sell only one I should make a website)
    -[The most important one] Where do I get items[I know that it is really basic]

    As I said it is all very basic stuff and I don't really know how to make a store so if I'll need to open one I would buy it or pay someone to make it,
    So asuming that I'll use ebay/amazon how can I get buyers to it,I don't see myself refering people to an eBay sell page using SEO.
     
    mrshhh, Oct 1, 2012 IP
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  3. mrshhh

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    Thanks, but how do I get started?
    From where I get stuff to sell?
     
    mrshhh, Oct 1, 2012 IP
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    ChickenMan Well-Known Member

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    If you know what you are doing, then just open up your own eStore.

    eBay and Amazon have a few fees involved, which you can still make a handsome profit, but I think its better to have your own store.
     
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    I get that but from where I should get somthing to sell? I can't eally compite with places like dx.com
     
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  6. James Byun

    James Byun Active Member

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    Theres sites like squarespace.com or other sites that have pre-made sites for you. As for the "something to sell" part, go check ebay and see whats selling more and make sure these are getting sold.
     
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    Yes is excellent idea but get ready you need to read and learn and stay ahead of the curve!
     
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    giteshtrivedi Well-Known Member

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    It is nice idea to open own estore. Target some unique products for selling. You need attractive theme and nice seo and advertisement to attract visitors. If visitor found something attractive with unique product at your site then you would definitely start earning very soon. There are lots ecommerce opensource scripts available at any hosting company's cpanel. Using 2-3 simple clicks it would be installed at your site.
     
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  9. JerrickYeoh

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    It depend on what kind of product you sell. If in services the best is to target only one. If selling products then the best is have some variety so you can upsell and cross sell.
    Since I believe that you have nothing to sell and you don't know what to sell. The best is you resell people products or promote people affiliate to earn money . I believe it would be best to resell people of affiliate more suitable to you because you do not have own product to sell and you only can do resell or affiliate and its much easy to sell other people product because their brandname is usually quite wellknown, product usuage and benefit already stated .
     
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    traxport121 Active Member

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    Initially try focusing on a handful of items. In order to promote your items, write articles about those items, reviews about them etc. Share their videos on facebook, and then share them to your website's facebook / Google Plus pages. If you use this strategy, you'll actually notice that the sales start to increase. :)
     
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