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We recently joined amazon and find it a lot more difficult than eBay. We got into the top 2 within about a month on eBay but on Amazon we are pages down. From my very limited amazon experience so far it seems like you need to pay for some advertising to get your product noticed. After a few...
Hi Viv, Food sounds like a tricky one to start with. I'd imagine there's lots of health & safety requirements ect.
Are you set on food or would you look at importing other things too?
Hi Jack, we started a few months setting selling toiletries. So far we've found the online side of the business difficult trying to get our website up to scratch.
Any house to house jobs would be easier with a Van.
You could buy some cheap cleaning equipment, and ask people in your neighbourhood if they would like to hire your services.
We went for TSOHost - https://www.tsohost.com/
All we wanted it for was a cheap platform to host a website which we could link up with Wordpress. So far so good.
They were good with their customer support, I was able to screen share with someone on a Sunday night to get an issue sorted.
This is very interesting. I would have guessed that not many people just Paypal but clearly I was wrong! Looks like I'll be investing some time to set it up.
Hi All,
We've just started out as a company. We sell toiletries on eBay and are currently in the process of setting up our website. The idea is that we will service local hotels & B&Bs passing on the low delivery costs straight to them.
I dare say I will become slightly addicted to this forum...
I think it's all about supply and demand. There will always be a demand for physical stores however this has decreased drastically over the past 20 years. We are seeing some companies suffering for this but eventually it will plateau IMO. Physical locations can be more cost efficient than...