Partnership Question For E-Commerce

Discussion in 'General Business' started by Swordfish, Sep 18, 2005.

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    I have an opportuntity to to profit on a product in the fishing industry that would be a perfect product in my popular fishign site.

    The client can't afford to hire me to design a custom site to sell the product on his domain and then do the proper SEO mod work. It would just be too much for him.

    I am going to propose to options to him.

    #1: We sell the product in my store on my domain. Each product sold, I will fax him the invoice and he fullfills it and ships out. I write him a check at the end of the month for 75% of the earnings. 25% may not be enough for my time, but I want to make it worthwhile for him also.

    #2: I setup the store on his domain and do all the seo work on my time. I like to his products from my existing site and have him write me a check for 25% of each sale. I would therefore maintain the site very cheaply maybe at $100 per month. With this option, he could potential give me the boot after a year or so of my hard work with the search engines.

    Am I missing an option?

    I am quite the expert to setting up stores and doing mod rewrite that I should be doing many more of these as side projects...
     
    Swordfish, Sep 18, 2005 IP
  2. Crazy_Rob

    Crazy_Rob I seen't it!

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    Do both! :D
     
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  3. Swordfish

    Swordfish Active Member

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    I thought about doing both, and the products that sell via my site I will take 35% of and the products sold on his site I will take just 20% for maintaining.

    Watcha think?
     
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  4. Swordfish

    Swordfish Active Member

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    Anyone else?
     
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  5. dct

    dct Finder of cool gadgets

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    I would do the first one but give him an option of buying a copy of the store for his own site at a later date. You could also tier the fee, so for example if he paid 500USD you get 20% commission, 1000USD your commission is reduced to 10% and say 3000USD you get no commission from that store (but you would still have your own store :)) Just an idea.
     
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  6. T0PS3O

    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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    I'd do both. It will kickstart sales since you already have the traffic. Then slowly you can build a purpose built site/shop. But you should own it. He can buy it off you.
     
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  7. Swordfish

    Swordfish Active Member

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    Well, he already has a domain that would be easier for to start a link campaign to for the desired keywords.

    Do you suggest I design his site as a factory type site with a listing of products, but no prices and such. To buy everything would have to go through my site?

    I'm meeting with him tomorrow.
     
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  8. Dread

    Dread Peon

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    Personally i'd do the first option, let him build an income and then once he has money to invest in his own shop, then he can get you to build one.
     
    Dread, Sep 19, 2005 IP