Ecommerce Questions


2 Votes
4 Answers
2.51K Views
Is this e-commerce launch promotion a winner or loser?

I'm thinking of offering 3 x $50 gift certificates for the first order received from each of the 52 states. The product's range in price from $69.00 to $139.00. Winner or loser?

asked Jul 17 '11 at 18:09
Blank
Bold Rusty
11 points

4 Votes
3 Answers
2.31K Views
How to make customers eager to give comments about products which they bought from us?

I have an online store which sells baby products. Thankfully, some customers have already bought my products, although my startup is just 2 months old. One of my plans is to make my customers come...

asked Jul 8 '11 at 13:28
Blank
Kalingga
245 points

1 Votes
1 Answers
3.93K Views
Average e-commerce income and revenue statistics

I'm interested to find out these statistics (below), or estimates per sector for e-commerce websites in the united states. If you have access to this kind of data, sharing it will help us alot...

asked Jun 29 '11 at 16:00
Blank
Stnal
41 points

2 Votes
8 Answers
3.24K 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...

asked Jun 16 '11 at 06:27
Blank
Mia
111 points

2 Votes
2 Answers
2.35K 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...

asked Jun 19 '11 at 19:49
Blank
Spyros P
132 points

0 Votes
6 Answers
2.87K Views
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...

asked Jun 20 '11 at 08:11
Blank
Liz
1 point

2 Votes
7 Answers
4.59K Views
Should I join a startup or go to Amazon?

I have a two job offers: Amazon - Merchandising Specialist. I would be working with vendors, managing inventory and analysis of sales, and marketing the products. Ecommerce Startup - I would be...

asked Jun 9 '11 at 21:59
Blank
Liss
11 points

1 Votes
2 Answers
2.09K 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.

asked Jun 12 '11 at 18:13
Blank
Christper
6 points

2 Votes
1 Answers
1.94K Views
How big is the cake of handmade crafts market?

Like the etsy. I noticed that it has been profitable for years. many users sell handmade carfts on it. I'm living in China now and I want to build a ecommerce website to sell some chinese handmade...

asked May 3 '11 at 23:38
Blank
Robinshe
116 points

3 Votes
3 Answers
5.38K 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...

asked May 5 '11 at 06:10
Blank
James
123 points

2 Votes
1 Answers
2.62K Views
Question about how much informaiton I should collect for my digital downloads store. Paypal is the only payment gateway!

Paypal is the only payment gateway! so, my current system only collects seller's PayPal email addressed and create buttons based on that email address. since its all digital downloads, there will...

asked May 6 '11 at 16:19
Blank
Andy Carlson
28 points

0 Votes
1 Answers
2.64K Views
'active affiliate' program for direct sales

I would like to hear people opinion about outsourcing direct sales to affiliates. We expect our affiliates to do cold calls to prospects and close deals, we will do the actual delivery and provide...

asked Apr 25 '11 at 03:40
Blank
Shai Ben Yehuda
81 points

1 Votes
3 Answers
2.33K Views
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...

asked May 2 '11 at 01:50
Blank
B20000
126 points

1 Votes
3 Answers
2.92K Views
First time credit card processor?

Does anyone have any experience when it comes to jumping directly into your own credit card processor and merchant account with an online startup? I know some merchant accounts require you are...

asked Apr 24 '11 at 09:44
Blank
Sk24iam
344 points

5 Votes
12 Answers
5.75K Views
What are the most important variables you would look for on a website selling engagement rings to convince you to trust the retailer?

I am hoping this question will start a conversation on trust in e-commerce, in particular for e-tailers selling high value items where this is very important. By "trust" I am referring to: trust...

asked Apr 13 '11 at 19:14
Blank
Nikolay Piryankov
683 points

5 Votes
3 Answers
3.39K Views
When does it make sense to use an automated Affiliate Sales Platform?

I am working with a client on the launch of their company. Yeah! They would like to use ClickBank as a platform for selling membership in their online resource center. We would be supporting this...

asked Apr 15 '11 at 05:01
Blank
Joseph Barisonzi
12,141 points

0 Votes
3 Answers
2.12K Views
Integrating Online and Physical Point of Sale

Is there any robust software solution that could integrate an ecommerce site and a physical point of sale? My father has an established small business in a specialized industry. He's asked me to...

asked Apr 2 '11 at 00:43
Blank
Michaelmichael
101 points

3 Votes
6 Answers
4.97K 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...

asked Apr 4 '11 at 01:08
Blank
Alex G
16 points

3 Votes
2 Answers
2.1K Views
Tracking offline advertising campaigns?

In online advertisements we have Google Analytics, SiteCatalyst, and other web analytics solutions to monitor our campaign’s click-through and conversion rates. How do we keep track those things...

asked Apr 6 '11 at 12:57
Blank
Adib
293 points

0 Votes
2 Answers
2.29K 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,...

asked Mar 27 '11 at 04:25
Blank
Aklin81
125 points