Questions related to buy and selling of products or services via electronic means.
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Can a company outside the US gain accreditation by the US Better Business Bureau?
We run an e-commerce business which has many suppliers in the US and many clients there. For this reason we would like to gain accreditation with the BBB. Is this possible unless we have a physical ...
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Sales Tax on Digital Purchases
Are you required to charge sales tax for digitally downloaded content? (e-book, video, etc)
Location: Florida
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Good app for monitoring ecommerce site?
I might be looking for the impossible. What I want is a program that will allow me to track my ecommerce sales (wordlwide), graphically, create goals, charts, etc, and maybe even have a google-earth ...
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First time credit card processor?
Does anyone have any experience when it comes to jumping directly into your own credit card processor and merchant account with an online startup? I know some merchant accounts require you are already ...
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Advice on starting a drop shipping business
I want to start a drop shipping online shop. The products can be anything that could be profitable.
I'm thinking about stuff like:
Latex clothing
Toys for children
Japanese electronics like ...
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Show competitors prices on e-commerce site, legal issues?
I am starting an ecommerce site selling electronics in the UK. I belive I can compete with price against others in this field, and was considering have a 'price compare' table on the product pages ...
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How to sell software through third-party distributors online
I'd like to sell a software program (that my startup developed) through third-party online sellers.
Any tips about how to approach the other sellers and structure the transaction? Is the best way ...
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How to declare income when most/all your income comes from Paypal?
How do I declare my income if all of it comes from paypal ? Most accountants in Portugal (where I live and where this company will be based) don't know how it works... Do I declare it only when I ...
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Best way to sell tickets online?
I am throwing a dinner party. I want to sell tickets online and obtain the funds before the event.
How quickly can I retrieve funds?
I don't want to use PayPal or Google Checkout - I understand ...
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What is the smoothest solution you've seen for small payments?
We have a site where visitors can pay 99 cents for a service. It would be cool if the user experience were similar to iTunes: the user clicks one button, doesn't have to type in credit card info, ...
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What are some services that allow credit card payments on behalf of another company (i.e. Groupon, LivingSocial, etc)?
My startup operates in a similar fashion to that of the typical daily deal sites - we accept payment from our users, take a cut off the top, and pay out the person\company providing the goods or ...
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How do I find out the Tariiffs and taxes on International Shipping
I run a small on-line retail store in the US and have a TON of requests to ship to Canada. How do I go about calculating the taxes and tariffs prior to shipping. When I called and talked to Fed-Ex ...
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How to do marketing for a shopping comparison site like shopzilla?
Google Adwords or any other?
A website like shopzilla.com, how to do marketing ?
by the way , anyone know how does shopzilla do the marketing?
thanks.
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online marketing compared
i'm with a startup looking to intensify online marketing.
we want to sell a physical product over the web and are trying to figure out how to invest our time and money in online marketing.
we've ...
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How to analyse products to sell online to make the most profit?
As a developer myself, I've set up an e-commerce website in England and hired 2 people to help me package and invoice etc..
In terms of choosing the right and most profitable products to sell what ...
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How many users use Google, Yahoo, MSN and Outlook Calendars? [closed]
I'm working on a product and needs to check how many users are using web based calendars. Or how many users create calendar events per year. I need this to figure out the market size. I tried to ...
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Building First Version of a Startup Website
So, I want to start an e-commerce startup. The problem is that I'm a designer (HTML, CSS, a little bit of Javascript, Photshop, Illustrator), not a programmer. So I can build a design from scratch, ...
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Starting up an online book store
I want to start an on-line book store and exploring the options on hand. Till now, I have gathered the list of website hosts, budget of dedicated server machines(in case self hosted) and a list of ...
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Good ecommerce website for small transactions? [closed]
I want to sell some software online for about $10-15 per unit, probably very few units will be sold initially. Does anybody know any good ecommerce website for this kind of small and infrequent ...
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Approach Investor without business plan but you are building what he said he would invest in?
I was just watching some interview of an investor. I was shocked to hear when he described the idea he would invest in is very similar if not exact thing to what we are developing. He said send me the ...
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Foreigner opening online store in the USA
I'm from Europe, don't plan to move to the USA
I will open an ONLINE store ONLY (no physical stores)
Goods will be imported from Europe
Shipping will be handled by the fulfillment company
I am ...
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how to find advisor for your startup
We are very early stage startup with protoype in the works. We need and advisor on raising financing, and marketing. Just wondering how do you go about finding someone and then ask them to be your ...
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Affiliate of an Affiliate
This maybe a really dumb question, but i wanted to know if it was possible/legal to do this.
I would like to offer affiliate partners a chance to take a piece of my affiliate sales. For example Apple ...
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If your startups is in B2C space, then how to get feedback from users before building product?
We are in B2C space creating a product for consumers. I'm wondering how can we engage average users to get feedback? What would be our starting point?
Thanks,
Gagan
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What is the most affordable combination for taking credit card payments online from around the world?
I have looked at the similar questions posted and believe mine is different - please read the specifics of my question below:
Assuming we do not want to use PayPal (or Google Checkout etc.), it seems ...
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Integrating Online and Physical Point of Sale
Is there any robust software solution that could integrate an ecommerce site and a physical point of sale?
My father has an established small business in a specialized industry. He's asked me to help ...
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What is the best way to ship large orders overseas?
I have a customer who would like to make a large order and have it shipped from the US to Japan. It will likely ship in 2-3 packages and weigh between 75 & 100lbs total. They will be paying me ...
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Would you (Java Developer) learn PHP? if management decided opensource (PHP) projects could fulfill business requirements
(Apologies for the long post. I'm really keen to get sound and balanced advise. The only way to do that is to provide you with a good overview of the situation.. :) ..)
I would like to say upfront ...
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Do I need a Market segment?
When starting a On line Retail store that uses drop-shipping services, will I still need to choose a market segment? Or can I just market and sell to anyone all over the world.
I mean the ...
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competing with Amazon, how to, the smart approach
For a number of months I have been thinking how to create an e-commerce solution that competes with Amazon. I came up with an idea that is probably lame, but i'd like to understand why it will not ...
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Starting a new business and building a website
I want to start a business selling food items, such as green teas. How can I go about building a website for it? I have no prior experience with selling items or building a website. I am motivated for ...
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How to start online business to sell Cartoon Characters official Merchandise
I would like to start an online business to sell cartoon characters Merchandise? I found some websites already selling such.
My question is how to source the merchandise for retail sales? do I need ...
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Outsourcing sales calls for online business
I am about to acquire a US online dropshipping business.
Most orders require the clients to fill out a detailed contact form and then a sales person calls them back to close the configuration and ...
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Your experiences outsourcing product fulfillment?
I am looking for feedback from people who outsource their product fulfillment on the pros and cons of their service providers! I think the information will be helpful to the community. What should ...
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to create blog/forum under a separate site or build under current site
inspired by hubspot, we're dedicated to creating more remarkable content. we think it can be engaging and relevant for our customers. we feel mass-customized apparel is an area that doesn't have that ...
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How to make customers eager to give comments about products which they bought from us?
I have an online store which sells baby products. Thankfully, some customers have already bought my products, although my startup is just 2 months old. One of my plans is to make my customers come ...
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Is there a service like chargify that will do recurring billing, but allows variable monthly charges?
This is a hypothetical question, but say I run an email hosting service and I want to charge my customer a fee per month for each email account that he has set up. Let's say that the email accounts ...
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Average e-commerce income and revenue statistics
I'm interested to find out these statistics (below), or estimates per sector for e-commerce websites in the united states.
If you have access to this kind of data, sharing it will help us alot ...
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Is it a bad idea to have a direct credit card buying option on my website?
I'm preparing a digital product that I'm going to sell in the days to come. I am a programmer, so I don't have any problems in preparing my website and even setting Paypal to handle my payment system.
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What are the best analytics tools?
we are using Google analytics and clicktale to improve our conversion
what are the best tool other than those two?
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Should I join a startup or go to Amazon?
I have a two job offers:
Amazon - Merchandising Specialist. I would be working with vendors, managing inventory and analysis of sales, and marketing the products.
Ecommerce Startup - I would be the ...
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'active affiliate' program for direct sales
I would like to hear people opinion about outsourcing direct sales to affiliates.
We expect our affiliates to do cold calls to prospects and close deals, we will do the actual delivery and provide ...
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New ecommerce site! I want to do this RIGHT!
O.k. I'm NEW at this, so I ask that who ever answers, be helpful, direct, but Not treat me like an idiot.
This is the deal: I'm a fashion designer who started an ecommerce site a few weeks ago with ...
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Question about how much informaiton I should collect for my digital downloads store. Paypal is the only payment gateway!
Paypal is the only payment gateway!
so, my current system only collects seller's PayPal email addressed and create buttons based on that email address.
since its all digital downloads, there will be ...
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Is There A Recommended Method for Software Protection?
What method of software protection do you recommend simply to make sure your software is not too easy to use without paying, but is not too annoying for honest paying customers?
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How big is the cake of handmade crafts market？
Like the etsy. I noticed that it has been profitable for years. many users sell handmade carfts on it.
I'm living in China now and I want to build a ecommerce website to sell some chinese handmade ...
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What are the most important variables you would look for on a website selling engagement rings to convince you to trust the retailer?
I am hoping this question will start a conversation on trust in e-commerce, in particular for e-tailers selling high value items where this is very important. By "trust" I am referring to:
trust ...
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When does it make sense to use an automated Affiliate Sales Platform?
I am working with a client on the launch of their company. Yeah!
They would like to use ClickBank as a platform for selling membership in their online resource center. We would be supporting this ...
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Single Speed Bicycle Startup - Looking for manufacturing suggestions
I am in the early stages of starting up a single speed/fixed gear bike company. There are a few smaller bike companies out there already that offer lower priced bikes in the $400 dollar range but they ...
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As an international student on student visa in US can I sell goods online? if yes how?
Can I signup for a merchant/seller account of either Paypal, Google Checkout , Amazon Checkout using my credit card info and receive payments for the products sold online ? Would my credit card ...
