e-commerce site

[ginasj]

I am thinking about selling my shop items on line.I live in Scotland,near Edinburgh.Can you suggest anyone who can help me with this please i have a very very low budget of around 150 pounds but it probably won,t be enough.Would be grateful of any advise.Thanks
Georgina

[quikshop]

I am thinking about selling my shop items on line.I live in Scotland,near Edinburgh.Can you suggest anyone who can help me with this please i have a very very low budget of around 150 pounds but it probably won,t be enough.Would be grateful of any advise.Thanks
Georgina

Hi Georgina,

One of the choices available to you is to use a hosted service. This is similar to renting an office; you pay an initial set-up cost of £39.95 and a low monthly subscription to rent your online shop. The subscription also includes a host of inclusive services such as support and advice on all aspects of getting up and running.

I'm putting this choice first because this is the type of Ecommerce service (http://www.internetretailer.biz) we provide to over 400 shop owners including a fair few forum members :D

Alternatively, if you prefer that face to face contact with a local business you can search Google for 'web designers in edinburgh', look for a website that has a good portfolio page full of live examples of recent work.

You should be able to find a web designer who can configure an open source shop software within your budget.

[Steve2507]

I am thinking about selling my shop items on line.I live in Scotland,near Edinburgh.Can you suggest anyone who can help me with this please i have a very very low budget of around 150 pounds but it probably won,t be enough.Would be grateful of any advise.Thanks
GeorginaI personally don't like monthly paid for shops. Personal choice, nothing against them personally, just would never use them.

However in your case with such a low budget a hosted option as mentioned above would probably be the best option for you. I can't give you recommendations so you will have to do the legwork yourself for that.

Some may mention oscommerce, but by the sound of it you are not technically minded (no offence meant if you are technically minded) so building your own will be a problem.

You could look at a designer, but getting a decent one for that price would be hard.

Go with a monthly option where they have a number of templates for you to play about with.

:eek:I've just realised I've recommended a hosted monthly ecommerce service, time for an early night methinks.:D

[PointandStare]

£150 will get you less than a day's time with any decent development company.
Take a look at Dave's offer or even 99 Website Rental (http://99websiterental.com).

[JoeySmyth]

http://www.blitzwebdevelopment.com

Also we offer discounts for UKBF members :)

Have a look, if your anyway interested, contact me and i could give you advise and demos.

Regards,

Joey.

[edman]

I am thinking about selling my shop items on line.I live in Scotland,near Edinburgh.Can you suggest anyone who can help me with this please i have a very very low budget of around 150 pounds but it probably won,t be enough.Would be grateful of any advise.Thanks
Georgina


Open source is a good way to begin for free, it also depends on the type of host you have if they do ave cPanel where you use fantastico to install scripts that will make life easy... However easy this is, for a newbie all I have said above will be jargons:) except someone is willing to help set you up

But that leaves you with marketing, the site is just the beginning... what do you do to get the clients in?

So based on your budget, I would say you should opt for using eBay for now.. You already have a ready market, easy platform to use and you're ready to go... This is the first step I'll take.

When you see that you are selling enough to be able to afford your own shop, then you can start looking for a good developer to help you.

[quikshop]

:eek:I've just realised I've recommended a hosted monthly ecommerce service, time for an early night methinks.:D

Come over to the dark side Steve, you know you want to :p

[Red Eye Media]

£150 will get you 5 months hosted shop with us.
Rackspace hosted, easy to use and search engine friendly.
Happy to go that extra too and help you if you haven't done this before and need advice / help.

Hopefully speak to you soon.

Regards
Richard Grove

[quikshop]

£150 will get you 5 months hosted shop with us.

I'm not sure the OP is looking to pay £150 a month for 5 shops :eek:

[Red Eye Media]

Thanks for pointing out my gramatical error Dave.
What I really meant was that £150 will get you 1 Shop Maker shopping web site hosted on our Rackspace servers for 5 months as our monthly cost is £29.99

[sellitbytext]

Hi All

new to the forums, but already signed up as a premium member

creating your own online shop is a good idea
but you have to think about traffic !
You need visitors that buy!

check my signature
i run a UK Classifieds site (advertised on prime time UK TV)
plenty of traffic and a low cost way to advertise :)

just a suggestion!

[ADFLB Creative Ltd]

Do you have ur own shop on E-Bay or somewhere else?