e-store: yahoo, ebay or else?
Hello.
I'm planning to set up an online business. Is parking your site at yahoo or ebay a good idea for starters? I realized that yahoo is charging $150.00 a month for a basic service (selling 100 items) which I thinking is a little steep. And ebay's image which people think is mostly auctions which is not the nature of the products I'm planning to sell. The reason that I consider yahoo and ebay is I think they have a higher exposure which might attract more potential consumers, am I right in this case? Any comments or inputs are very much appreciated! Thanks in advance!!
Using a storefornt service.
A few years ago I set up a client who wanted to sell used CDs online, so in addition to doing his website I quickly set him up with an Amazon storefront.
We used Amazon because it was the cheapest and seemed to have the market segment that we were targeting.
With SEO and the Amazon Store the traffic was also directed to his website and sales were made by both.
Since Amazon initially limited the number of listings (100) his website sales quickly grew to outstrip the Amazon sales as he had close to 150,000 selections, but the Amazon sales were quite good, and usually in the hundreds of dollars a day (gross) range.
I am assuming you would like to keep your expenditures to a minimum so why not check to see which of the major shopping portals are the cheapest and use it as a sounding board?
Your portal storefront can be used as an interactive medium and point at your main site as it will probably be more profit in selling from that.