Questions related to buy and selling of products or services via electronic means.
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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 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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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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Affiliate Marketing Sales Statistics
How do i go about forecasting sales for a new affiliate marketing / e-commerce website? Are there any relevant statistics for this industry available for free?
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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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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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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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Automated shipping from warehouse or stock my own inventory for eCommerce site?
I'm about to start up an eCommerce site for health products. However, I'm unsure of how to structure the company, in particular reference to shipping of product. Should I buy my own product, stock it, ...
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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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How to market in a heavily saturated field
I've recently launched an ecommerce startup which I've been working on in my spare time for the last 2 years. Now that I'm finally ready to market I'm not sure exactly how to proceed.
I think it's an ...
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What are the best resources for registering users?
We are a gift baskets company and part of our business is through our web catalog, which is custom-built in WordPress. I've heard some people saying WordPress is not secure and we should not keep our ...
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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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Launching a tiny local online store
I have a small boring (Boring in a way that it's not an innovation or anything, but it's still exciting to me of course) idea.
So, what I want to do is to create a "Experience gifts shop".
So, we ...
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How to deal with negative reviews on an e-commerce website?
I'm building an e-commerce website. On this website one can pay a membership to get a profile where he/she can show his/her portfolio.
The website visitors can leave reviews on profiles.
My main ...
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Should I partner with shipping companies?
I am Starting an E-commerce marketplace , my website is under the design process as of now, at this stage should I approach shipping companies asking them to partner with us to provide fulfillment ...
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Terms & Conditions for Ecommerce
I run a new apparels ecommerce business and I manually pieced up a terms & conditions page from various sources. I was just wondering if it is at all crucial to have these drafted out by a lawyer ...
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I want to start an ecommerce apparel line, how should I structure my company, and what are the legal requirements to sell online?
I already have an LLC, however, It's not the brand name I want to use for my business. Should I do a DBA under that LLC? I would like to apply for a trademark on the brand, so would this structure ...
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How should you approach manufacturers when looking to source products for a new business?
I am planning a new E-commerce business and will be selling products that are only available from specific manufacturers. How should I approach these manufacturers when I currently have no live ...
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Measuring customer satisfaction in ecommerce business
One of the toughest questions that ecommerce businesses face concerns what is at the heart of a business –customer satisfaction. At first glance, anyone doing ecommerce business or having an interest ...
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Bookkeeping practices for a website using electronic payments (e.g. Paypal)
I am in the process of setting up an accounting "system" (well set of procedures etc). For most businesses, the books of original entry include:
Sales Day Book
Sales Return Day Book
As I ...
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price comparison business model
I would like to know how price comparison websites make money. Do use pay per click or other revenue models? Please be as detailed as possible and cite your sources.
Thank you!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 bases are to be covered when opening an online store in India?
What are the things one has to consider when opening an online store in India besides the website itself ?
Where all one has to register ?
Registrations Fee ?
Which state/city is most friendly for an ...
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ecommerce and pci pa-dss, is it legal to sell/distribute with out it? many o/s carts are not certified
There are many open source shopping carts that don't have any PCI compliance certification.
Is it legal to sell/distribute ecommerce related software that isn't compliant?
It makes no sense, since ...
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Pricing model for sellers in an online store
I just finished setting up an online store that involves selling digital content, tangible items like clothes, events tickets etc. However, I have a little challenge on how to charge sellers to add ...
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E-commerce startup without a location?
I'm a resident of California and will be starting a company this year but will not be living in California as I'm teaching English in China.
So that means I don't have a address in the USA to start ...
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Is there a free, open source inventory / order control system? [closed]
I am looking for a free and preferably open source system to deal with order processing and stock/inventory control, that can integrate into amazon, ebay, and our own website sales.
At the moment ...
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Online payment processing options in Australia [closed]
Are there payment processors for Australian businesses that processes payment without a merchant account?
Stripe is an example of payment processor without a merchant account but it only available in ...
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Merchant account for receiving and sending money
I am setting up an application where an user has the capability to send and receive money (somewhat similar to paypal).
I have been researching online for the last few weeks and have only come across ...
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How would you design navigation for a specialty marketplace? [closed]
My friends and I have recently launched Midtown Row, an online marketplace focused on acclaimed specialty brands. We want to make sure navigating the site is easy for our users, and that we're also ...
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Trade shows / suppliers / samples… for e-commerce?
I was wondering if someome could help me with some starter advice: I’d like to start selling merchandise online – I’ll probably start selling on Amazon, hopefully learn the ropes, then move onto my ...
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Web Application Technology
My startup idea involves a web application that has the following requirements:
will need to charge my customers securely using someone else's service
must scale easily
must be cheap to deploy
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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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e-commerce provider for an EU based startup
I am starting a software company located in the European Union. I wrote a B2B product that is in beta test at the moment. Based on my market research and analysis I expect to make 50% of sales in USA, ...
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Marketing to a female demographic
I've a product/website in Family/Relationships segment and so far it attracts 80% women and 20% men.
Mostly adults(age 25 to 55) actually pay for it. Younger users generally want it "free".
I'm ...
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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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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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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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getting reviews on a new website?
I am starting a price comparison website of a niche product category. when I go live I want reviews of the products and the vendors to exists. I see a lot of reviews on yelp and other review sites, ...
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Good Host in US and UK [closed]
I plan to set up an ecommerce website in the US and am thinking of going with a all in one package. To be specific what are the top few providers of reasonably priced ecommerce website and hosting ...
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May I use content from Foursquare in commercial purposes?
I really hope this is the right forum, if not you have to excuse me.
I am planning to build a commercial service (in this case a mobile app) that uses content from Foursquare and presents it to my ...
