Isis opening an online store worth it? or should i stick to ebay?

Question

ihave a store on ebay but i am sick of there high fees.am i better of staying there or opening my own online store?

Answer 1

Hi,

While having your own online store is an option, you always have to remember that eBay is the one giving you the traffic -- i.e. - the visitors.

If you set up your online store you have to do loads of work to start making it visible to people.

You have to advertise. You have to write articles and submit to directories to get backlinks. You have to do all the webbuilding and payment processing stuff. On eBay you don't have to do anything of the previously mentioned - eBay takes care of it. So probably at the end it will take away from your profit margins even more if you leave eBay for good.

So a good advice would be - start building your own online store as an additional stream of income and then you'll see what happens. But don't leave eBay yet.

Rgds,

Robby

Answer 2

Hello,

Great post.  The most important part of business is advertising.  This makes or breaks a business.  Some of the best ways to advertise I've found are:

1.  Offline promoting (business cards, flyers, newspaper and other print advertising).

2.  Online promoting (buying banner ads, forum posts, email auto replies).

The best method that's worked for me so far is handing out business cards.  I don't do this in the usual way.... I buy them in bulk from a place online (they give the cards for free, I just  paid shipping and handling...they also give a really nice free business card holder, it looks impressive).  They're really high quality.  I just put all of the info about my business on the cards, and I hand them out on cars at bus stations, malls, etc.  It's worked out really, really well for me, and it's completely inexpensive =)  

http://www.cards-free-2-biz.info

Good Luck with your business!