Business expanding advice needed!!! Please!?
Hi.my name is David,im 17 years old and need Some advice about my business.I currently am a verified seller on eBay and have a shop,sales are quite slow at the moment but it’s the month I’ve been told,so I don’t mind.I relise it will pick up,anyway,I’ve bought a large amount of stock which should arrive soon,my eBay store is. http://stores.ebay.ie/One-Stop-Smile-Shop?_rdc=1
So,I feel I have expanded enough with the eBay for the moment and all I need to to keep products up to date.I’m writing this question to ask advice on setting my own site up,it would be called. Www.onestopsmileshop.ie. ,I’ve talked to a designer and I’ve talked hon down to a price of €140 including the e-commence shopping cart and I add the product myself which I have no problem doing,I just wanted to ask is this a good venture,I relise a site would be fairly costly at the start with domain name and building,but I think the lack of fees and listing products for free would help me progress,also,besides word of mouth,how could I Market my new site.I already plan to include a note that I can offer cheaper prices due to no fees on my site and the website link.,and am considering google add-words,yet I don’t gully understand this concept yet in full.I also have a Facebook follower page for my business in which I would also show my new site,hope some people can give me some advice,much appriciated,thanks all
Well, I would say hold off on creating your own store for now. I know it seems as if you would save money by cutting out the eBay fees but think of all the cost involved in marketing your own online store. I can tell you from experience that AdWords can be quite expensive and depending on the site it can have a low rate of return. I would focus on growing your business on eBay first, maybe start a blog to market and brand your store. You want to get a large base of customers you can transfer over to your own store. The facebook fan page is a great idea, keep growing that list. Also, I wouldn’t pay a designer there are many other options available, do a search on magento stores and bigcommerce. You can create your own store with a cart without hiring a designer and paying a premium.
Hi
I think your approach is 100% right. If you get yourself a decent and well designed website through magento or your designer then you can plan a lot of strategies to increase your traffic. Its no harm in having a website running beside your ebay. Blog is definitely a good idea but it wont show results immediately. Personally think you should complete your website on a different domain and then start marketing through facebook. For example if you pay fb £50 a month then roughly you can get 500 to 1000 likes or recommendations depending purely upon your product line. Honestly fb marketing is top quality these days. For any further help, give me a shout.
Best Wishes
Ali
1st of all, good for you. Very wise 17 year old. I think you are taking the right steps. Have you thought of advertising door to door or in people’s mail boxes, also international sales
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Well, I would say hold off on creating your own store for now. I know it seems as if you would save money by cutting out the eBay fees but think of all the cost involved in marketing your own online store. I can tell you from experience that AdWords can be quite expensive and depending on the site it can have a low rate of return. I would focus on growing your business on eBay first, maybe start a blog to market and brand your store. You want to get a large base of customers you can transfer over to your own store. The facebook fan page is a great idea, keep growing that list. Also, I wouldn’t pay a designer there are many other options available, do a search on magento stores and bigcommerce. You can create your own store with a cart without hiring a designer and paying a premium.
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