I Have Had The Mall Open Since Nov, Tried Search Engines, Pay Per Click, Yellow Pages, Adds in the News Papers. Nothing Seems to Work. I Have Cut Prices To The Bone, Added New Products, Threw Out Lots of Stuff. Doing The Best I Know How.
HELP! Thanks, S J
2007-01-31 09:46:27 · 5 answers · asked by SJ 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Small Business
November wasn't that long ago. It takes a long time to break into a market as large as the internet.
On that note, I took some time to go through your site and noticed that you didn't have anything I could not buy locally for about the same price. To have an effective online store you have to fill a need or be able to offer products at a great discount. For example, I have an online wedding accessories store and we offer items that brides can't find at most brick and mortar bridal stores and the items they can get elswhere (like veils) we sell for about 1/3 less than the suggested retail price.
I hopes this helps. Good luck.
2007-01-31 13:28:35 · answer #1 · answered by Mommy-of-Twins 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You started in Nov after the shopping season was well underway. google and yahoo both know you're out there. You need to be getting over 1000 hits per day. Your rank with Alexa is 3,600,000 so you won't be getting hits from the search engines until you move up the ladder a bit. The retail season is dead right now unless you can take advantage of Valentine's Day with some ads. After Valentine's it will drop off steeply until Easter. When you advertise now, use the name brand stuff that you sell instead of your name with a link back to your site to buy it. Try blasting to the ffa and free ad sites and spread your link around as much as you can.
48% of all sales are made via email campaigns and most of the balance is made by search engine optimization. If you can buy email services, it's the way to go.
It's not your pricing. It just takes a while doing the things that you are doing. If you can keep doing it, you should see some return about mid August.
2007-02-02 02:45:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure - the answer is simple. How many people do you know that go on the Internet looking for ads. Out of 56 million websites - what are the chances of finding you?
Tackle this from the perspective that people search the web for Information - right? Don't you?
How do you bring targeted traffic to your website that you can pre-sell into a warm market (remember - they are looking !! for you!!!!!!!!)
Enough emphasis - send me an email and I'll be very pleased to send a very helpful link along to you.
2007-01-31 17:54:17 · answer #3 · answered by smiling_freds_biz_info 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi Steve,
You e-mailed me the other day (1 Stop Shop). Sounds as if we been scammed by internetspeedway.com. Mine is not doing anything either. HELPPPP!!!!!!!!!!
2007-02-01 18:14:10 · answer #4 · answered by CLOW 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's your domain name. try to change it. it doesn't fit with what you are trying to sell. your web site is nice, very professional. just change the name that's the only problem.
2007-01-31 18:16:55 · answer #5 · answered by ♥!BabyDoLL!♥ 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋