Sunday, September 30, 2012

How to Sell Online: Made Easy

When starting an online store what do you do first? What should your concerns be, your target consumers, how will you drive traffic to your site?

How do you start a business & how the heck do you figure out how to sell online? Everyone makes it sound super easy or rather intangible. Here are two articles that have helped me immensely in figuring out these topics.

Don't follow your Passion this article explains why it is important to not only sell products that you are passionate about. Rather smarter ways to find products to sell.

Research, research, research this article made researching your competition way to easy. In layman terms after reading this and going over the advice I just sat at my desk thinking that this is so easy anyone can do it!

The step-by-step instructions offered by these articles was way more than I bargained for and hopefully you find them interesting too!

4 comments:

  1. These were some great articles; it provide details and tips that are resourceful. I will be sure to pass it on to my friend's with online shops.
    -Shima

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  2. These articles were very helpful! Thanks for the guidance in the right direction, I feel more prepared for what's to come

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  3. Sarah- I truly resonate with Hayes' article. The first step to any marketing plan is to research & identify your competitors. What can you do better than them? How do they emphasize their value proposition?

    Good stuff. Thanks for the article links. Keep them coming!

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  4. Both articles contained great advice. I never thought about researching what I liked/didn't like about a certain site and building upon that, nor did I think about selling items that are hard to find locally, causing people to use the Internet to find them. With that being said, I now have a new strategic approach when listing items on eBay!

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