Where can I find information and tips on opening an online shop?
Posted by admin in Shopping Carts Saturday, 21 August 2010 13:53 3 Comments
My wife and I are looking to open an online shop and dropship products. We are looking at various products right now to consider selling. We need some help in figuring out the various options in terms of website development/maintenance, setup of shopping carts/merchant account, other possible dropship product ideas. Any thoughts? We would like the shop to have a very profession feel so we wanted to do a little more than a basic eBay store or Yahoo store.
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Here are several articles with tips for online stores – everything from start-up costs, to finding web hosting, to finding ecommerce software:
Common Start-Up Expenses for Online Companies – http://www.gowholesale.com/news/view/Common_Start-Up_Expenses_for_Online_Companies
Choosing a Web Hosting Company –
http://www.gowholesale.com/news/view/Choosing_a_Web_Hosting_Company
Choosing Ecommerce Software for Your Online Storefront –
http://www.gowholesale.com/news/view/Choosing_Ecommerce_Software_for_Your_Online_Storefront
The Value of Dropshipping –
http://www.gowholesale.com/news/view/The_Value_of_Drop_Shipping
Researching Wholesale Vendors –
http://www.gowholesale.com/news/view/Researching_Wholesale_Vendors
What You Need to Begin Buying Wholesale –
http://www.gowholesale.com/news/view/What_You_Need_to_Begin_Buying_Wholesale
For more articles, go to http://www.gowholesale.com/news/articles
http://www.shopster.com
Through shopster, you will have access to over 700,000 products to place in your store…a word of advice…don’t try to make a little mini mega store….there are too many “Big” players out there that will crush you.
create an online shop that has a specific niche,then market to that niche using direct mail, and other print advertising …there are shops having great success doing this. Too many work from home types setting up mini-malls on the net…bad idea.
I have a shopster store and my target market is homeschool families, daycares, teachers, students, and parents of school age children.
I am able to use this store to not only sell educational material retail which I get from shopster wholesalers, but it allows me to gather an audience for my newsletter…which sells my own tutoring program.
If you can do something that has a heavy “service” element to it..then you have an advantage …because if you have nothing else to add value to your project…you will have to compete on price only….not a good place to be at.
http://www.aeda.us
good luck
If you are looking at finding the how to’s in setting up an online sotre, there is a gentleman by the name of Andy Jenkins who has a home based business consisting of multiple websites, each making over $1 Million per year. And they are not dedicated to online marketing. One deals with wedding accessories.
Andy has captured the power of YAHOO and its 13 Million visitors a day. Good Stuff…
You may want to check out his site, it is a good source.
http://madeprofitable.com/go?ysp