Questions related to buy and selling of products or services via electronic means.
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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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Vendor's License E-commerce site
I am creating an ecommerce site that sells products all across the country. I am based in Ohio and so is the company. I want to know what vendor's licenses that I need to acquire to start selling ...
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Starting an Online E-commerce business
Currently, I am working as a Web Developer and looking to start an online business in my spare time.
My Project is to create an ecommerce website, initially in the UK, for the latest mens and womens ...
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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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5answers
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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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1answer
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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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Is this e-commerce launch promotion a winner or loser?
I'm thinking of offering 3 x $50 gift certificates for the first order received from each of the 52 states. The product's range in price from $69.00 to $139.00. Winner or loser?
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1answer
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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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3answers
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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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1answer
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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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Any experiences with Big Commerce shopping cart?
I am looking to start my first online store for women's beauty/hair products. I am shopping around for a hosted shopping cart solution and came across this one.
Big Commerce seems very good so far. ...
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2answers
177 views
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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8answers
529 views
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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2answers
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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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1answer
302 views
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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1answer
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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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7answers
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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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1answer
191 views
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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1answer
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What are the good online payment providers that return relatively high incentive to developers in Canada?
I am looking for an online event registration solution for a client, and the client is willing share the profit from ticket sale with me. I search around for 3rd party event registration apps. The ...
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1answer
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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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8answers
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Any experience with StartSSL class 2 certs?
I am interested in buying a cert to sign my binaries as well as web server cert. https://www.startssl.com/?app=2 seems to provide it at decent price, but I am not sure if this is a reliable company.
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3answers
549 views
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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1answer
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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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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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1answer
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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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3answers
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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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1answer
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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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3answers
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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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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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2answers
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Tracking offline advertising campaigns?
In online advertisements we have Google Analytics, SiteCatalyst, and other web analytics solutions to monitor our campaign’s click-through and conversion rates. How do we keep track those things with ...
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4answers
332 views
e-commerce store using wordpress
I am considering setting up a e-commerce store for a friend's retailing shop. What I am interested in is a solution that is easy to maintain in terms of administration (insert new products, new ...
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3answers
112 views
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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2answers
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How can I reduce the costs of deployment of my web application on the servers?
I am a Java Web Application Developer. I have an idea for a web application project that I am working on.
I personally believe that this web app has potential to become a widely popular website, (if ...
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Our site sells an expensive product most people only buy once. How do we encourage word of mouth promotion?
Our start-up will sell engagement rings online. We recently discovered that a major source of traffic for the market leader is word of mouth recommendations.
We know that great customer service, and ...
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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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B2B ecommerce portal - transactions information [closed]
Updated Question:
Let's suppose:
Business A - Registers on the Portal and make some products/services available;
Business B - Registers on the Portal and make some products/services available;
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2answers
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Do I need 1099-MISC forms for someone paid via paypal?
If I pay someone via paypal, do I still have to fill in the 1099 and/or w forms?
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2answers
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income in paypal
Does income in my paypal account need to be declared for tax purposes, or does it just have to be declared for tax purposes if I transfer my paypal funds to a real bank account?
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Best way to pay users
Lets say I make the next google ads service (hypothetically speaking), how can I pay my users in more or less real time? with minimal or no additional cost to the company.
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How should I charge web customers for small transaction amounts?
EDIT 1:
So in short, is there a free way for me to get $1 from a customer and send that $1 to my bank account. If free is not an option, what is the cheapest way for me to get that $1 to my bank ...
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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 ...
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Funding Options for my Startup
We have an online shopping portal which is mainly India focused.
We are now 14 months old and deal in multiple product categories like books, electronics, apparels, gifts, movies etc
We are looking ...
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2answers
665 views
How can a company prevent or protect themselves against post-delivery fraud?
How can a compay selling high-value products protect themselves against post-delivery fraud (including but not limited to returns fraud)?
Can we insure ourselves against fraud or somehow pass on the ...
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4answers
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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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Isn't there a standard for categorizing products and services?
I am building a database of products (and services) and need to put similar items in the same category. That's got to be a common need, and I don't want to recreate the wheel.
For example, a ...
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2answers
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I am starting a global e-commerce business - what are the benefits of registering in a tax haven?
Which tax havens would you recommend for this and why? When should we register - early on or once we are earning a certain amount?
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Social Media Auction website startup
I need more vendors to join my startup, likebids.com, but I only have 10 so far. Can anyone give me more information on where to find the right advertisers that would be interested in our concept?
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Putting limits to technical support for software services, is it good?
I have recently established a company to sell ecommerce software as SaaS. There are some leads that request proposals from me. I am in a dilemma. There are two risks that I want to avoid:
I want to ...
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Online payment solution Spreedly vs Authorize.Net [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the best merchant processing solution?
I plan to sell online space for multimedia solution and charge user per month (everymonth) or yearly. This would primarily ...
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What factors will you consider when choosing a purchasing agent in China? [closed]
I'm a purchasing agent in China. What factors will you consider when choosing a purchasing agent in China?
