Do you use Kelkoo, shopping.com and other feeds like this? do you see a good return?

[Rydalcommunications]

Hi Forum members.

We are currently in two minds of using shopping feeds.

We currently deal in business telecoms, and have a ecommerce site about to launch (within the next 4 weeks) selling all sim free mobile phones and accessories.

At the moment to drive traffic we are concentrating on using Google BASE/Froogle, and Ebay (more to divert traffic to our site then close sales).

Google PPC will be used for special items

We are unsure of the return and the success of using shopping feeds, which cost. When i search these sites i see allot of ebay and amazon products. Does this mean eBay already market the items for you?

All feedback is greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards
Steffan

 

[banskoo]

I had an e-commerce site selling DVD movies about 6 years ago and wanted to pump it up before a major film release came out on DVD, so I shopped around and decided to use kelkoo as they gave me all the sales speak and sounded pretty good.

Two weeks before the movies was due for release I got a huge spike in traffic to the site which continued pretty much up to a few days before the movie was out.

Now knowing that people wait literally for the day before to order the film and get the best price I ordered in a ton of this movie as I expected to start seeing orders.

Well my shelves were full and my baskets were not.

I did not get one order on that particular film and it was the only one that I marketed through them.

Then I got the whopping bill for the marketing.

There were lots of arguments with me refusing to pay on the principle that I did not believe it to be genuine traffic as not one order yet lots of clicks that I would pay for.

In the end they said that they resell a lot of the links and that a company in Germany had misused the information so they were going to half the bill. I told them to go and jump.

Eventually they dropped the bill and as a gesture of good will decided to let me advertise the next big release with them for free up to so many hits.

Guess what... Not one sale.

 

[Blagger]

Steffan I would start off with what you have already mentioned, once thats rolling you can then venture into other shopping feed sites.

Why not try an affiliate programme, a lot of the affiliates put your feed on their site, you then only pay commission if you get a sale.

 

[MagnifyB]

Steffan I would start off with what you have already mentioned, once thats rolling you can then venture into other shopping feed sites.

Why not try an affiliate programme, a lot of the affiliates put your feed on their site, you then only pay commission if you get a sale.

Totally agree with the above!

Affiliate marketing may be the better option for you. Look for a good network and one that doesn't have too many competitors. The set-up fees and monthly commission to the network can vary from network to network but there is usually a bit of room to haggle on these prices.

Suggest you look at the below networks:
Affiliate Window
Commission Junction
TradeDoubler
Paid on Results
Affiliate Future
Afform
Buy.at
Silvertaphttp://www.affiliatefuture.com/default.asp?id=1http://www.silvertap.com/

 

[Rydalcommunications]

Guys,

Thanks for the iput. I will look into these.

has anyone tried godatafeed for the submitting process of your feeds?

 

[Blagger]

The set-up fees and monthly commission to the network can vary from network to network but there is usually a bit of room to haggle on these prices.

Totally forgot about the set up fees, but I suppose once you only pay them once.