cantwin
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posted on December 23, 2007 06:02:43 AM new
hi can anyone recomend the best place to start your own website? and set it up to get good exposure? or is it best to pay someone or make the site ?
thanks for any help
larry
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ST0NEC0LD613
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posted on December 23, 2007 07:04:59 AM new
Go to ecrater.com
It's a free site and set up is quite simple. I have decent sales there and they also have many templates if you wish to use them.
They will also guide you through on how to get set up to accept Google Checkout Payments. 1000's of times safer than PayPal and you will find that most customers that buy there, will use it.
Good luck,
SC
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cantwin
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posted on December 23, 2007 07:07:39 AM new
thanks stonecold can you actually put your ebay paypal acount on your website to have payments made right in to your account from your website ?
thanks again
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on December 23, 2007 07:28:34 AM new
Putting up a website can be a huge amount of wasted effort unless you plan ahead of time where you're going and how to get there.
Some basic questions anyone in your situation should ask themselves:
What am I hoping to achieve with this website?
How do I plan to drive traffic to the site?
How do I plan to promote my website?
Why would someone want to visit my website?
What are my dollar goals and where will the revenue come from?
I am sorry to say that most Vendians don't know much about this topic, so before plunging off into the vast wasteland that is the Web, do a lot of research first.
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cantwin
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posted on December 23, 2007 08:28:57 AM new
thanks fluff do you klnow if anyone uses the vendio website creator and if so how do they like it ??
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hwahwa
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posted on December 23, 2007 08:32:59 AM new
I found it hard to believe Google is much safer than Paypal?
May be it has a short history of accepting credit card payments or we just dont hear about the problems .
Both accept credit card payments on internet,unless Google has all the honest merchants selling flawless merchandise and accept returns with no question ask and the customers are the most gracious,honest buyers who never complain or always get issues resolved without filing chargeback OR
Google is digging into its own pocket to compensate either the buyer or seller or both.
AMZN offers free shipping and sell their products at deep discount,they call it marketing expense,Jeff Bozo said instead of spending dollars on advertising,we give our merchandise away!
Only time will tell!
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hwahwa
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posted on December 23, 2007 10:11:44 AM new
You can call Paypal and they will show you how to accept payment on your website.
Take a look at Sierra trading and Danskin,they both accept paypal.
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dadofstickboy
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posted on December 23, 2007 10:28:07 AM new
Log into PayPal.
Go to merchant Tools, and you'll find what your looking for.
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ST0NEC0LD613
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posted on December 23, 2007 09:19:22 PM new
I found it hard to believe Google is much safer than Paypal?
Don't knock it until you know about it.
To answer cantwin's question, yes you can link your PayPal account to it. But don't bypass Google because of PayPal. In your case, I would accept both.
SC
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hygron
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posted on January 10, 2008 07:46:18 PM new
I learned to build my own. It took a while, but I am able to administer it myself without outside techs/expense. Good Luck.
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on January 10, 2008 08:06:30 PM new
I was hoping the original poster (cantwin) would come back and respond to the questions I posed so we could steer him in the right direction.
I think it would be helpful for others thinking of putting up a website.
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pixiamom
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posted on January 10, 2008 08:14:26 PM new
I've thought of having my own site, probably would start it as a mirror site of my eBay store. It would be primarily for return customers who would get a nice discount via promotional code by linking to my eBay store through my site. I would get 75% of FVF's refunded by eBay. Also, Fluff has me really intrigued by the eBay affiliate program. I don't see too many affiliates who have locked into my niche, could be very profitable.
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hwahwa
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posted on January 10, 2008 08:28:18 PM new
Driving traffic to your site is the most difficult part,especially if you are trying to drive from Ebay ,since there are so many items available on Ebay,why go anywhere else?
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ggardenour
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posted on January 11, 2008 01:42:41 AM new
I have given some thought about starting my own website and posted a similiar question. Got the same resopnse from the Fluffster.
Someone suggested ValueWeb but that ended up being a waste of time because I have the same thing with my Vendio store. After I registered my domain with valueWeb and decided not to use them they will not let me redirect my domain to my vendio store. Customer Service blows so steer clear of that one.
ggardenour
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deichen
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posted on January 11, 2008 11:31:34 AM new
I had just under $2200.00 in sales on ecrater last year. I hope this year is better yet. I also list on ebay very occasionally.
I love google checkout. I accept both paypal and google on ecrater.
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tomwiii
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posted on January 11, 2008 12:17:40 PM new
Has anybody tried buyitsellit:
http://www.buyitsellit.com/
Which, like eCrater, is...FREE?
[ edited by tomwiii on Jan 11, 2008 12:18 PM ]
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on January 11, 2008 01:02:39 PM new
Greg, if you think those questions are irrelevant or pointless, you are (I'm afraid) doomed to waste a lot of time on a learning curve.
There is absolutely no point in putting up a website unless you know in advance how you will drive traffic to it. You cannot depend on Google, MSN, Yahoo, etc. to get visitors for you via organic search.
Folks can knock eBay all they like, but most apparently don't comprehend that it drives traffic to your listings for a very small fee. If you go out in the real world and try to duplicate that with paid search and your own website, you will wonder why you ever complained about eBay fees.
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gasolineguys
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posted on January 11, 2008 01:09:53 PM new
Fluff, I am not cantwin but can you give us some hints/pointers as to what to watch for and be aware of and get sellers to your site??
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ggardenour
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posted on January 11, 2008 02:03:02 PM new
"Greg, if you think those questions are irrelevant or pointless, you are (I'm afraid) doomed to waste a lot of time on a learning curve."
Fluff what I meant was that you gave me the same bits of wisdom when I ask the same question a month or so back.
I agree with you that the learning curve is brutal and getting traffic to your site is tough, but I still had to try the whole starting my own website thing and I should have left it well enough alone.
I know, I know should have listened to you and saved myself a whole bunch of needless non-productive stress.
I am working more on getting more market share out of eBay along with trying to get more sales out of my Vendio Store and the auction sites I use is time better spent then building a website.
Greg
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on January 11, 2008 02:05:59 PM new
It all depends on what you are trying to achieve.
You might think it's obvious. It's not. For example, I have four websites where I have nothing for sale, yet they bring in money.
If your prime objective is to sell the same stuff you sell on eBay without incurring eBay fees, obviously the scenario I use for these sites won't work for you.
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on January 11, 2008 02:17:54 PM new
Greg,
I came to the same conclusion you did about getting more sales out of auction sites vs. setting up a website to sell stuff.
Even though my websites don't sell my jewelry, there's enough of a tie-in that intrigued customers can go look at the sites and noodle around.
People want to be entertained, they want to have fun. If you don't put up a website (and I think your decision not to is a wise one) maybe you can think about ways to make your auctions snappier and grab more eyeballs.
Notice I didn't say "make your auctions more professional-looking." There's a real hunger out there for the Good Old Days of eBay where everything looked homemade, descriptions were folksy and you definitely got the impression this item might just be a fantastic deal. I'm going to start a separate thread about this topic.
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