Oh, you getting an IM from me right now....I just built sites for single products last week
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Free registration at the forum removes this block.Oh, you getting an IM from me right now....I just built sites for single products last week
I think I might try it with a Website Tonight simple 5 page web site and a Paypal button. It will be clean, functional, and simple. We will see how it goes.
Wow, I just finished reading the whole thread(all 20 pages!) and there is definitely a lot to learn from it.
I have a question for you Biophase.
I just started a store selling products from a very famous apparel brand. I am able to sell ALL the products that I've listed on my store for at least 20% cheaper than the official store of this brand, however all the keywords that I want to rank for have HIGH competition and seems like it's very hard to rank them on Google.
I am thinking of using the following strategy to get traffic, and it would be really helpful if you can tell me whether I could get some traffic or not, based on your experience:
-Make a youtube video for each one of the products with a short review, linking to the product listing on my store
-Create Facebook notes for each item
-Import all my product feed to Google Shopping and other such websites
-???
Each product gets at least 200+ searches per month based on the Google Keyword tool. There are about 300-400 products that I could list total.
Profit margin for me at the moment is 10% per each item sold which is OK because all the items sell a lot...
If you could suggest me something else to get traffic(PPC would work maybe but a free option would be better obviously).
Thanks
Hopefully someone can give us some kind of strategy or tips on getting traffic in our situation. I just don't know how to get the traffic to the site, otherwise I'm sure people will be buying a lot of my stuff because my price is unbeatable, even when compared to the brands official store!I'm in the same boat at the moment. My niche has a high margin but the competition looks intense.
Hopefully someone can give us some kind of strategy or tips on getting traffic in our situation. I just don't know how to get the traffic to the site, otherwise I'm sure people will be buying a lot of my stuff because my price is unbeatable, even when compared to the brands official store!
Hey Johnathan even though you didn't ask me i would still like to give you some advice.Bio,
My website is up and running, the drop shipping accounts are set up and I am also stocking custom manufactured inventory.
Now comes the SEO and Marketing question:
I am running an Open Cart theme,
what type of add-ons can I use to track traffic, video captures, and your reccomendation on a paid or unpaid SEO course?
I want to do the SEO myself, and just wanna see what the pro's reccommend to start learning
Thanks a bunch
Johnathan
Well you should learn about seo and internet marketing overall. With good seo you will be able to get free traffic (besides the time you put into seo which obv is also worth something ) and also pay pay click advertising is possible. Just read a lot about seo/ppc and try it out yourself. That pretty much all you can do to get targeted traffic online.Hopefully someone can give us some kind of strategy or tips on getting traffic in our situation. I just don't know how to get the traffic to the site, otherwise I'm sure people will be buying a lot of my stuff because my price is unbeatable, even when compared to the brands official store!
Just read a lot about seo/ppc and try it out yourself. That pretty much all you can do to get targeted traffic online.
Do you guys have a process you use to nail down a viable product or niche to build a store around? I've got plenty of idea's but I want to be a little more confident I'm not investing loads of time and energy into a lackluster niche. I am fully confident I can handle just about everything else but the potential product ideas I have are keeping me awake at night. I don't trust them and would like to know how to dig deeper into a niche.
I've read through the entire thread, this is fantastic. I'd like to offer a big thank you for helping out all the little guys with questions.
biophase... any recommendations for an eCommerce platform for a single product web site? I am using BigCommerce for a larger store effort, but just wondering if you have any efficient recommendations to build a site that includes a single product. I am thinking about just putting up a couple of pages with a paypal BUYITNOW button. Might do the trick... but wanted to see if you had any best practices recommendations for a focused site with a single product.
Wow, I just finished reading the whole thread(all 20 pages!) and there is definitely a lot to learn from it.
I have a question for you Biophase.
I just started a store selling products from a very famous apparel brand. I am able to sell ALL the products that I've listed on my store for at least 20% cheaper than the official store of this brand, however all the keywords that I want to rank for have HIGH competition and seems like it's very hard to rank them on Google.
I am thinking of using the following strategy to get traffic, and it would be really helpful if you can tell me whether I could get some traffic or not, based on your experience:
-Make a youtube video for each one of the products with a short review, linking to the product listing on my store
-Create Facebook notes for each item
-Import all my product feed to Google Shopping and other such websites
-???
Each product gets at least 200+ searches per month based on the Google Keyword tool. There are about 300-400 products that I could list total.
Profit margin for me at the moment is 10% per each item sold which is OK because all the items sell a lot...
If you could suggest me something else to get traffic(PPC would work maybe but a free option would be better obviously).
Thanks
because my price is unbeatable, even when compared to the brands official store!
Bio,
My website is up and running, the drop shipping accounts are set up and I am also stocking custom manufactured inventory.
Now comes the SEO and Marketing question:
I am running an Open Cart theme,
what type of add-ons can I use to track traffic, video captures, and your reccomendation on a paid or unpaid SEO course?
I want to do the SEO myself, and just wanna see what the pro's reccommend to start learning
Thanks a bunch
Johnathan
Biophase do you know how many of your sales are from word of mouth if any at all? I imagine that you could assume that new visitors which type you domain into the browser and don't come from se's or other websites will likly visit your site because of the word of mouth.
Just curious to here about your experience but i guess that word of mouth isn't a favorable marketing tool for very targeted single product niche sites??
ps: also one more question which i hope you didn't answer already... i read the thread 2 1/2 times but can't remember this.
What kind of a conversion rate can be expected with very targeted niche shops? I know that usually 1% is avg and if you are good at split testing you can get up to 3-4% (which i as a newbie obv couldn't aim for at the beginning) but this are mostly the avg numbers for big stores with big product ranges so there traffic is likly not that targeted as if you are only selling a singel product... what are the numbers you can expect with this highly targeted single product stores?
Right now i am doing my math with a 1% conversion rate but maybe i should/could calculate with higer numbers? What conversion rates are possible in your experience?
Most importantly, where did you vacation?
Hello Biophase! Thank you for doing this!
How do you suggest is the best way to handle customer calls if you still maintain a 9 to 5? If the phones are not answered by a live person, I think it will reveal the size of my company. Is there low cost or free solution for this problem?
Enjoy your vacation!
It's a shirt shop with only one shirt in store, pretty specific, I'm using Storenvy since I find them to have the cleanest looking interface and they are very well socialized (facebook, tumblr, twitter etc) and that sort of caters to my target audience.
I launched the store minutes ago, placed 2 facebook ads with chump change just to test the waters, I don't expect too much but deep down I hope for some action. I've also looked for t-shirt fulfillment companies in the US over some t-shirt forums, since I'm literally 1000s of miles away. I found couple of very good ones, just need to sort the communication speed.
Question for biophase - have you ever tried single or low inventory stores, for pretty specific niches and did you have any success? Also, the shirt I'm trying to sell could be described as "niche" but its based around a very popular website, so that kinda sets me off in all my SEO plans, I don't see how I can compete with it, since the website is Top 10 in the US.
Also, when working with shops that do printing and drop shipping, should I expect they also handle return orders? Or should I disclose that all sales are final, since it's not a very expensive shirt, under 20 bucks.
Thanks to all
Hello Biophase! Thank you for doing this!
How do you suggest is the best way to handle customer calls if you still maintain a 9 to 5? If the phones are not answered by a live person, I think it will reveal the size of my company. Is there low cost or free solution for this problem?
Enjoy your vacation!
In the book "the four hour week" it is suggested to outsource this to call centers. As much as i unterstand you have to give the call center a script with alls the possible questions and the answers to that question.
Maybe you should look into that a bit more. Also fullfilment companies offer this if i remeber right.
But no first hand knowledge on my part.
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