posted on August 22, 2003 07:18:11 PM new
I have only used Vendio and have some traffic at my store site. I like the ease of integrating inventory and auction and maintaining intventory - much better than other third party systems I have used.
I am wondering about actual customer traffic though and two other venues - Ebay Stores and Yahoo. Do either of these stores get alot of business? Do they ever get business just off the internet and not ebay related?
Thinking about maybe trying ebay stores... but heard yahoo had great marketing on the internet...
posted on August 23, 2003 07:59:08 AM new
I'm going to give ebay stores a try when Vendio supports them. I want to say that I read once that yahoo stores are expensive and there's a lot of red tape to go through to list there to prove you're a business if you're selling new items (I could have dreamed that, though) - I never looked into that and decided to go for the website on my own instead.
posted on August 23, 2003 10:05:04 AM new
You're marketing Vendio.com or eBay Stores if you use their store service. What happens if any of these companies ever go under? (Its not like it doesn't happen). Where are you going to be then?
posted on August 23, 2003 10:20:39 AM new
if it goes under,it goes under.
you can always open your store somewhere else.
now if you go under,thats a different story.
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posted on August 23, 2003 10:33:48 AM new
I havent tried a store yet, but been considering it. What I do notice is if I do a google or any other SE search, the ebay stores seem to come up pretty readily and usually always in the top of the search.
(I dont recall too many pointing to yahoo stores.)Whether you pay for that, or ebay pays -- dont know.
Tend to agree with dacreson. Not convinced for the cost, it's much different that just listing and relisting.
posted on August 23, 2003 11:05:36 AM new
> if it goes under,it goes under.
Then you have to start over again in terms of promotion and marketng. I think its smarter to promote your own store and domain name. This way you don't have to be concerned about a third party service going under. eBay store costs you $10 a month... a domain and web hosting service costs the same.
> Whether you pay for that, or ebay pays -- dont know
Its neither. How well you place in a search engine for keywords is a whole other game. You can pay for clicks using Google AdWords and your links will show up on the right side of the results.
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posted on August 23, 2003 01:04:26 PM new
yahoo shopping used to get much traffic from google.Then google decided to reindex its database and yahoo shopping lost half of the traffic.
there may be other reasons involved-alliance etc,thats why yahoo bot overture.
both google and overture offer pay per click.
ebay has been paying google to show up top of the list on many keywords.
you can have your own website and shopping cart,register your domain name and drive traffic to your site with pay per click.
every time someone click on your URL,you have to pay the agreed price ,and it can cost you a bundle and just because some one click ,does not mean they are going to buy from you.
if you are selling vintage collectibles,ebay auction is still the best place to sell.
does anyone know if TIAS is a good venue??i notice there are many shops there.
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posted on August 23, 2003 02:00:24 PM new
> you can have your own website and shopping cart,register your domain name and drive traffic to your site with pay per click.
Or you can learn how to make your web site number one for keywords that buyers are searching with. No pay per click here. I'm number one on several keywords that is bringing in free clicks and converting to sales! Much better prices than eBay. Of course, it is not the only strategy - but it helps to DIY when one has pay for all these necessary services already (CC, Paypal, eBay Listing/FVF).
posted on August 25, 2003 08:49:43 AM new
I thought the eBay Store would be a waste of time, but decided to give it a try over a year ago, and we have been thrilled with the results, lots of sales, and well worth the price and exposure. To me the key to sales in your eBay store is promotion of such (visually) on every eBay auction post.
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Pay Per Click and/or paying someone else to promote your web site is certainly un-necessary - as Sue said, the use of proper key word, all links working, fast loading, these are areas that the Search Engines like Google, Alta Vista, Yahoo, etc., spiders seek out.
Last fall my husband opened our 4th web site, and within 9 months had it listed #1 in a number of its specific fields on Google....but such takes time, serious work on your web site, and it can't be accomplished in one day through a auto-web program that doesn't require serious input.
BUT, bottom line on web sites, the idea that "built it and they will come," doesn't work with web sites, they have to be constructed correctly, and unless you are experienced in such, it will take time to become established unless you are offering a very rare product.
Second bottom line on web sites, are they worth it? You bet your sweet derrière they are, when you get the hang of such, get them functioning well, get a good placing on some of the major search engines, etc. We LIVE on our income from our web sites, neither my husband or I do anything but on line sales, although we do have a brick and mortar store, it is minor to our sales on the WWW, and the store is handled by our store manager, we seldom if ever go in, we are much too busy on line. BUT, it didn't happen over night.
posted on August 25, 2003 08:59:20 AM new
I think the personalized selling websites is the trend of the present and future. More and more ebay sellers are constructing and promoting their sites and some are merely using ebay as a place to get more customers for their website. As it becomes easier and less expensive to make and maintain websites their should be more and more of them on the interenet.
Anything that pressures ebay to keep its fees down is a good thing.
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