E-commerce, my take on things.

Hi Cactus,

I know what you mean, a $40 sale can be alot of work to make $10-$20. I have some cheap items in my store also and I pretty much hate the single orders. But my sales are usually over $100 just because of my product.

Are you willing to PM me your store? I can take a look at it. Maybe there are some combo products that you can put together that will make people order more.

This is what I did. I have a bunch of $25 products that I don't really like selling alone. ABCwidget is $25. When someone orders a $130 product, I have as an option to add-on the ABCwidget for $20 (SAVE $5). This is how the bulk of my cheap products sell.

Another thing you can do is make shipping so expensive that its not cost effective for them to order a $25 item and pay $12 for shipping.

Just found this thread...WOW!

Speed +++ to Perry for the information and opening up the Q&A!

I took Alot from this thread, thanks alot guys and let keep it coming.

I am personally starting an E-biz in E-commerce, starting off at Ebay, (trying to get powerseller status) then I will start a Standalone site.

Since I am only starting out (not to thread jack), Can anyone experienced in Selling Niches online, please contact me on PM, I have some questions.

Thanks Alot

Just start a new thread and ask your questions there. I'm sure many people will answer.

hi buddies...

I must say it's a great place with lot of useful interesting information regarding business/economics...

thanks to all the members for posting lot of info, idea, links and write-up.. etc...


keep posting


take care

Perry,
Do you think it is necessary to incorporate into a LLC?

If you want to do a search for a specific niche idea, go to www.keyworddiscovery.com/search.html. enter the code, then enter your keywords or phrase and hit search. it will show you the amount of searches in the last month. you want to have search numbers between 1,000 and 100,000. Then go to google, enter the same phrase as above and hit search. you want the google results(your competition) to be under 5 million. If your product falls in between the numbers above, it has a good chance to be successful. I hope this helps.

Michael.

Thank you for your contribution. A backup in case of a disaster is a great idea. One criteria that is important is the target customers. If you offer a product or service that is more specialized it can make more money if you market it correctly. It is kind of like Doctors where the specialist makes more than the general practitioner. Thanks again for the input.

Thanks for this post. Very useful for those of us toying with the e-biz idea.