Thread: Does anybody here sell online?

. just throwing this out there ...

thinking of doing a project, setting up a Ecommerse site with paypal first and upgrade if feasible. Half for the learning curve.

I was then thining of buying something and seeing can I flog it, ....whatever, something relativly small that can be stored at home, coffee keeps springing to mind

has anyone else tried this at such a fickle level, would it be worth the time without any marketing budget except time .etc.

So anybody out there selling that does not have a shop, or does not work full time work in that industry .etc ?

If you could find a niche that wasn't well served there's no reason why you couldn't do it ...

The main problem I have (as a buyer) is slow delivery times (ten days for coffee from Dublin to Carlow is insane, when I can get it from the UK in 3 days!)

not exactly sure what you are trying to achieve, is this special coffee you cannot by from a supermarket? Anything can be sold on line but it needs to be a niche to succeed or else bigger and better than whats out there already.

na coffe was just thrown out there, just something I have a little interest in, it could be anything really, even if the sales are quite low, just to give it a go ..

You should consider becoming an ebay power seller, we buy a some American foody type things from a big ebay seller that can't be got on this side of the Atlantic.

yea that's the kind of thing, so do you actuallty get many sales from this or is it more of a hobby

This is really how long is a piece of string type of question or more like "how can I make money on the web :-)))".

If you don't go the e-bay route then setting up a speciallity site is the 'easy' part really. You need to spend a lot of work in making the site relevant and also making it visible on Google Page Rankings. This is where the hard work is as you may design a great site but not have any visitors :-)

A friend of mine set up an Affiliate site last year pushing visitors to Amazon and made some money around the Christmas period but he spent a lot of hours (100+) working on making sure his rankings were high all through the Christmas period. I would suggest htat you try ebay or affiliates first and work on the SEO and rankings below first....

I would read a bit about SEO and page rankings if you are going to try and sell speciallity widgets within Ireland and develop a tester site to see the traffic - and good luck.

Kieran

Originally Posted by Kieran

This is really how long is a piece of string type of question or more like "how can I make money on the web :-)))".

Exactly good points there, would not be looking for a quick fix, and willing to put in time, over time, few ideas knocking about, will let ye know what I go with, will prob be in the new year anyway, have a few small projects on the go until christmas

I buy on ebay, not sell, but those that do can do very very well. I know people who have full time jobs just in selling on ebay.

If your product is very niche then you have a good chance of doing well.

My advice stick a few items up on ebay and see how it goes, what have you got to lose?

Yea good point there, at least that way I would get a handle on the non-web side of things before jusmping in. (order/sending goods, marketing .etc)