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I've started a new Shopify business but my photography skills are lacking - are there any good online services or marketplaces where I could hire a photographer to take some product pictures for my website?
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Ron Don Volante posted:I've started a new Shopify business but my photography skills are lacking - are there any good online services or marketplaces where I could hire a photographer to take some product pictures for my website? Are the photos provided by the manufacturer not any good? As far as unique content concerns, photos have the least impact in Google's ranking algorithm from what I have seen. I can understand wanting your own, but if the manufacturers photos aren't too terrible just use them. With that said, here is one of my clients snapknot.com. Sure, the sites purpose is for hiring wedding photographers but I am certain if you found one in your area that they'll be willing take photos for you. In my experience, $100 per 10 products is a decent rate.
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Jun 4, 2015 15:38
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This might be the most hilarious development in digital marketing industry in years. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/apple-launching-search-engine-destroy-google-jason-calacanis Apple plans on launching a search engine to rival Google. I seriously doubt that it will be a "search engine" in any sense of the term.
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Jun 15, 2015 23:10
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Snatch Duster posted:This might be the most hilarious development in digital marketing industry in years. "Search Web" well gee I wonder if that opens up a traditional search engine.  "Everyone hates Google" quote:Management at Google stopped listening to, and started grinding, consumers and partners shortly after they went public. Executives at Google were always a little odd, but they didn’t used to be marauders. They were nerds who wanted to spread the wealth and build up huge partnerships.  I'd guess my boss wrote this if it was about Microsoft instead of Apple.
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Jun 16, 2015 01:38
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Knyteguy posted:"Search Web" well gee I wonder if that opens up a traditional search engine. From what I understand, that "search" in the image is actually pulled from Bing. So Apple products are using Bing as the search engine currently. FYI: The guy that wrote that article was an investor of Mahalo which Google de-index a while back cuz Google saw the site as spam farm (which it was.) Snatch Duster fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Jun 16, 2015 |
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Jun 16, 2015 23:30
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I have a question. I am thinking about doing something like this. I already have web hosting, and I can set up sites super fast. In fact, right now, I am trying to grow my company, where one of my services is building web sites. I already have an LLC. If I start doing this, do I need to start a second company, since my first one is registered as a provider of consulting services, not a reseller(other than software) of any sort?
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Jun 17, 2015 21:50
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cptInsane0 posted:I have a question. I am thinking about doing something like this. I already have web hosting, and I can set up sites super fast. In fact, right now, I am trying to grow my company, where one of my services is building web sites. I already have an LLC. No clue, but maybe? I mean it is really easy to incorporate. My company is a Delaware corp which took barely anytime or money to do.
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Jun 17, 2015 21:58
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cptInsane0 posted:I have a question. I am thinking about doing something like this. I already have web hosting, and I can set up sites super fast. In fact, right now, I am trying to grow my company, where one of my services is building web sites. I already have an LLC. If you will be using different names you should be good with just a DBA under your LLC. This depends on where you live and should talk to someone more knowledgeable in your state and county laws for this sort of thing.
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jabro posted:If you will be using different names you should be good with just a DBA under your LLC. This depends on where you live and should talk to someone more knowledgeable in your state and county laws for this sort of thing. Duh. I knew this. Yeah, DBA works in my state.
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Jun 17, 2015 22:16
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Anyone have case studies for cpc success in wide, 300+ SKU rental stores? I have an in at a rental house or two but my searching is weak. (Or nobody has written about such places). They're a geographically succinct retailer, getting most of their traffic from online, but renting things in person. Edit: Sent them a few studies relevant to the bits and pieces (increased conversion, huge SKU #s, easy maintenance). Golden Bee fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Jun 22, 2015 |
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Jun 22, 2015 19:19
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Just wanted to give an update to my unbridled enthusiasm from earlier in the thread. I still haven't launched my site. I spent about $350 on my business license and 3 years of web hosting so I'm in the red. I have been still working on my articles and ebook however so it's not a total loss yet. Seems like the more I write the more research I do the bigger the book gets. I'm hoping to keep at it for another few months and edit it down to a nice concise gem of a book.
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Jun 23, 2015 03:46
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Just wanted to give an update to my unbridled enthusiasm from earlier in the thread. I still haven't launched my site. I spent about $350 on my business license and 3 years of web hosting so I'm in the red. I have been still working on my articles and ebook however so it's not a total loss yet. Seems like the more I write the more research I do the bigger the book gets. I'm hoping to keep at it for another few months and edit it down to a nice concise gem of a book. Dang, keep up the good work. Also, one thing i like to do is jotting down any questions i have in the research process. This way i can go back to the questions and write up a blog post or other smaller pieces of content.
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Jun 23, 2015 05:13
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Snatch Duster posted:This might be the most hilarious development in digital marketing industry in years. he's right that google has basically turned search into yellow pages 2.0. duckduckgo now routinely returns better results for things that aren't basically 'i want to spend money on ____'
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the talent deficit posted:he's right that google has basically turned search into yellow pages 2.0. duckduckgo now routinely returns better results for things that aren't basically 'i want to spend money on ____' Can you give me a few examples? I get the same results or a list of directories/spam sites whenever I use duckduckgo. Snatch Duster fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Jun 23, 2015 |
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Jun 23, 2015 21:56
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I'm starting a business that makes cool clothes and need a 'chop that prints things on quality 'tee's preferably with an API, OP. Any leads? Thank
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Jun 24, 2015 01:01
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I was interested in the publishing eBook line of work for some decent passive money. Was thinking of putting together some ebooks on painting and modelling hobby stuffs basically to support my habit of spending money on the hobby  Is Amazon the best place to do this through? Anyone who does this kind of thing that can give me an idea of what kind of return can be expected and what a decent price point for something like that is? I figure like $5-10?
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Shachi posted:I was interested in the publishing eBook line of work for some decent passive money. Was thinking of putting together some ebooks on painting and modelling hobby stuffs basically to support my habit of spending money on the hobby Are you talking about self publishing ebooks? If so there's a great thread for that http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3639693
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Royal Jeans posted:Are you talking about self publishing ebooks? If so there's a great thread for that http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3639693 none of the heavy hitters in that thread have any involvement in graphic-heavy works, but it couldn't hurt to post about it and see if someone else has some resources
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Jul 1, 2015 01:39
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Aren't they all making soft core porn, or erotica, or whatever 50 Shades of Grey is?
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Jul 2, 2015 07:17
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Jul 2, 2015 08:40
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How the hell do I get a forum started? I got a really, really prime .com for a topic, and I got the forums set up and online; but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to start it going.
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Aug 23, 2015 10:19
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If you have product you are selling already, then definitely look into private label and selling directly on Amazon and using their FBA to help lower your margins, increase exposure, and take out a lot of work on your end. My wife and I are just getting started doing PL FBA stuff but there is definitely room to make a killing in it without having to compete purely against Google rankings. Here is pretty solid blog with some ranking stuff from a guy who created a product to help with feedback, but also does $50k x month selling a few private label products on Amazon. http://www.feedbackz.com/blog/
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Aug 27, 2015 15:07
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Anyone have experience selling other people's products via Amazon? I have blog about backpacking in Europe and I monetize it through amazon commission. But what if I purchased like 50 travel backpacks and sold them via Amazon (and linked to those bags from my site). Maybe I could earn more per sale then just getting the commission alone. Then again, it would be a lot more work and I wonder how much I could actually make.
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Aug 27, 2015 15:34
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Omits-Bagels posted:Anyone have experience selling other people's products via Amazon? I have blog about backpacking in Europe and I monetize it through amazon commission. But what if I purchased like 50 travel backpacks and sold them via Amazon (and linked to those bags from my site). Maybe I could earn more per sale then just getting the commission alone. Then again, it would be a lot more work and I wonder how much I could actually make. I do FBA and you can make money if you know what you're doing. You can link them from your blog, I guess, but you won't beat Amazon's traffic that is already going to them. You need to find product that has high ranking (top 5% of your main category, not sub category, is a good rule of thumb) and not many competitors. Better if Amazon isn't selling it themselves, too.
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Set up a webshop using Volusion and I'm having serious trouble finding an easy affordable way of accepting credit cards. Either what I find isn't compatible with Volusion or it'll cost me a fortune, effectively eating away all potential profits. I'm based in the UK as well, so a bunch of companies doesn't want to touch my site because they're racist towards anything non-US. Anyone have any experience with this?
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Solo posted:Set up a webshop using Volusion and I'm having serious trouble finding an easy affordable way of accepting credit cards. Either what I find isn't compatible with Volusion or it'll cost me a fortune, effectively eating away all potential profits. I'm based in the UK as well, so a bunch of companies doesn't want to touch my site because they're racist towards anything non-US. Anyone have any experience with this? I hate volusion and magneto with a passion as a marketer. I get why devs recommend those platforms, but god are they frustrating if you aren't dev or company with capital. Does your site have north American version? It may seem silly but that is an easy way garner trust from US and Canadian buyers.
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Unfortunately not, and for the time being I'm only looking at the EU market. Though, I'm probably moving to Hong Kong some time soon, so I might just switch to the chinese market (LOL). Honestly though, I might just end up giving up. I've had 1 sale which has been enough to cover all my expenses so far, and it has been fun pastime activity at the very least.
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Volusion is awful, Magento is powerful but not worth it for a shop doing less than mid 6-figures (and then should be considered against heavy stacks like insite, sitecore, hybris, etc.). Shopify kind of has everything on lock right now and they're innovating extremely rapidly.
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Anyone have any experience with using the free ecommerce website from e-sources as the initial tester once you select a product and niche? I'm in the UK and would be marketing to the UK and it sounds like it could be a quick and dirty trialling platform, so I'm curious if anyone else has used them and if they have any experience they could share?
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Can anyone recommend a good firm that builds ecommerce websites? Ours is reaaally outdated and I'm pretty sure it is affecting our conversion rate (even though my boss doesn't think so... the website was designed in 1998 however and has barely been touched since). Looking for something that can handle thousands of products and preferably a custom shopping card and an admin/backend tool. Something good and professional, not one of those $200 template websites for people just starting out.
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Sep 23, 2015 18:12
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Moridin920 posted:Can anyone recommend a good firm that builds ecommerce websites? I can recommend several. Shoot me an email snatchduster@gmail.com.
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Just got your email, I'll look it over and talk options with my boss. Looks like a decent chunk of change is required to build a good website but it sounds like it'll be worth it just from the operating expense savings from not having to host our own servers, not paying for a server farm location, and not having to have a programmer on retainer to fix poo poo when it breaks. Right now (I asked my boss, I think I told you $400/mo on the phone) we're paying $500/mo just to have our servers up and running. Thanks again Snatch Duster you're awesome!
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Moridin920 posted:Just got your email, I'll look it over and talk options with my boss. Looks like a decent chunk of change is required to build a good website but it sounds like it'll be worth it just from the operating expense savings from not having to host our own servers, not paying for a server farm location, and not having to have a programmer on retainer to fix poo poo when it breaks. Right now (I asked my boss, I think I told you $400/mo on the phone) we're paying $500/mo just to have our servers up and running. Sure thing bud. Good sites are costly, but you can find them on the cheap sometimes. However, having a kickass site sometimes isn't necessary. I brought this up a couple times, but peep this guys site. https://americanbeautyequipment.com The guy makes ~$325k per month from it.
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Snatch Duster posted:Sure thing bud. Good sites are costly, but you can find them on the cheap sometimes. However, having a kickass site sometimes isn't necessary. I brought this up a couple times, but peep this guys site. Revenue? or that guy clears profits of $325k from that? That's pretty funny - haven't seen frames in forever.
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So the OP says we want to rank #1 on Google for a bunch of search terms... How big of a time investment is that for someone who knows what they're doing? 40hrs/wk for four weeks? I figure there has to be lots of work since people are employed doing it.jabro posted:I do FBA and you can make money if you know what you're doing. You can link them from your blog, I guess, but you won't beat Amazon's traffic that is already going to them. You need to find product that has high ranking (top 5% of your main category, not sub category, is a good rule of thumb) and not many competitors. Better if Amazon isn't selling it themselves, too. How do you handle the logistics? I heard that you need to order everything to your home, slap your own label on it, and then ship to Amazon. Otherwise you'll get randomly shut down one day since Amazon puts all items together in its warehouses and someone will often grab a competitors item when a customer orders your item, since Amazon considers them all to be the same. Then you're screwed if your competitor cheaped out on fake product, since your customer will complain that YOU sent them something fake, and Amazon will immediately disable your account and demand you stop selling fake poo poo. fruit loop fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Oct 1, 2015 |
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Vomik posted:Revenue? or that guy clears profits of $325k from that? That's pretty funny - haven't seen frames in forever. Revenue, ~30% of that is profit. fruit loop posted:So the OP says we want to rank #1 on Google for a bunch of search terms... How big of a time investment is that for someone who knows what they're doing? 40hrs/wk for four weeks? I figure there has to be lots of work since people are employed doing it. Ranking #1 on Google isn't "hard" or "time consuming," its not exactly knowing what out of the 200+ signals that determine rankings will effect your site the greatest. Sure, there are a lot of people that do SEO as a full time job, but not many sites out there need an SEO working 40 hours a week. So for the sake of this endeavour, if you knew what you were doing, it would take 2 months roughly at 5 - 10 hours a week. In that 2 months you will be spending a lot of time testing what affects your rankings, which search terms are easier to rank on, how long till Google crawls your site, etc.
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I have a short story blog (horror) that hasn't been updated in months but gets about 8 or 9k visitors a month through a #1 Google keyword. 70% is mobile traffic, so I threw a couple of ads up and get about 20 bucks a month from that. Any ideas on how to monetize it more? I'm working on self publishing on Amazon, but was wondering if anyone had ideas for a separate ecommerce site that might synergize with my main traffic and mailing list source.
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laxbro posted:I have a short story blog (horror) that hasn't been updated in months but gets about 8 or 9k visitors a month through a #1 Google keyword. 70% is mobile traffic, so I threw a couple of ads up and get about 20 bucks a month from that. Find products that you could endorse or become an affiliate for, then earn extra cash when your visitors buy products you think they would like. Off the top of my head; horror board games, atmosfx.com like products, or products featured in your horror stories.
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hey businessgoons quick q - anyone know of a website or resource for finding out the bestselling products and services in a local region? overly crude example: enter a post/zipcode, get told which flavour of soup is most popular there
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Back here again. My last niche failed hard and I wondered of sharing my experience would help. Also I need to find a new one! So I did some research (never enough is it) and stumbled upon Ukuleles... The little guitar type things. See I found a couple of suppliers who would drop ship them and the keywords were medium traffic and low competition. I made a shopify site and it looked great. I ran the test and didn't get a sale. I burned the $100 google credit and nothing. So I stopped advertising and worked on blog content, and trying to rank organically. When it eventually ranked organically my traffic was ok but still no one bought them. Turns out people want to strum a uke before they buy and this I hadn't considered... What if it was low competition because people don't buy these types of products online. Everything was golden except the bloody product I chose. So from here I am apprehensive about burning time and effort again for no return. I am looking at perhaps referrals, probably amazon but also interested in other referral systems people are using. Oh and if someone could share their settings from the top of Market Samurai that would be awesome. That software is still confusing as poo poo to me! Would you take this on? http://imgur.com/ZcIvKoi The top one is a the manufacturers website (they don't sell direct), the second is amazon but a more expensive version to the one i would link to, third and forth are resellers and the rest is shite like youtube and facebook... thegasman2000 fucked around with this message at 12:29 on Oct 11, 2015 |
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