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42 views

Getting coupon partners - help!

I have a coupon website and I have approached a few online stores and offline stores to partner with them to offer their coupons. Very often I get this answer from them "coupons are unsustainable. we ...
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4answers
44 views

Length of Sign-up process- help?

I am starting a website consisting of info of local shops. now I am in a dilemma over the vendor sign-up process, I want to know should I do it one of the following ways - 1 - just ask for contact ...
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2answers
66 views

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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3answers
131 views

Do we still need to have our own ecommerce website?

8 months ago, my wife and I were starting to build our own business. We didn't create our own products, at least not yet for now, what we do is just reselling others product. We didn't open offline ...
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3answers
217 views

Do you think it would make a difference if customers knew you were a one-man-band?

I'm having a dispute with someone who has a commerce website, they want to maintain a professional image and prefer not to reveal to [potential] customers that they are in fact an entrepreneur working ...
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5answers
680 views

Selling products online in the US from India

My Business is to have an to sell products online (online store). My business name has just been approved and I have also purchased the company desired domain. I am in the process of taking my first ...
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2answers
268 views

What effect(s) does Google's Panda 2.5 update have on new websites in the SERP?

I recently launched 3 websites (within the past 7-10 months) that had been steadily increasing in the rankings on Google search up until this past weekend, when I noticed a huge drop across most of my ...
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5answers
1k views

E-Commerce Website for Retail AND wholesale

I work for a clothing designer company (Kit + Lili) that has been in business for 5 years. We currently sell our product wholesale using a company called Groupe BDM and retail through Shopify. It is ...
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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. ...
2
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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
111 views

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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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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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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2answers
117 views

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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3answers
136 views

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 ...
3
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4answers
470 views

Should I get a .co or .com?

I'm currently deciding if I should get a domain name of my 1st choice but with a .co (instead of a .com) or if I should get a less preferred domain name with a .com (because my 1st choice of .com is ...
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2answers
107 views

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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13answers
823 views

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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7answers
318 views

How can eCommerce (catalog) sites increase conversions?

How can sites that sell consumer goods in catalog eCommerce shopping cart websites improve conversions? Would love to hear your tips on what you feel would encourage users from simply searching for a ...
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4answers
4k views

How many ecommerce websites are out there?

Our company is providing a service to ecommerce websites, and we're struggling to find reliable stats on how large our potential base is. Does anyone know where to obtain a reasonable estimation of ...
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5answers
323 views

What is a good resource to find entrepreneurs in the early planning stages of their business?

My company Merchants Choice Payment Solutions provides credit card processing for businesses. Our main focus is to first and formost educate the merchant on how the industry works and how to set up in ...