how long did you get your first sale?
- Thread starter finejewellerys
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I'm sorry, maybe it's just me, but bloody stupid questions like this are simply a waste of time for everyone. How can knowing how quickly a number of other sites took to get their first order have any bearing whatsoever on how long it will take you to get your first sale. Note that's first sale, not success. The two, frankly, have little to do with each other.
Success is likely to come from reading, listening, learning and working very hard on the design, functionality, visibility and marketing of your site aligned with excellence of customer service, customer trust and recommendation.... all quite probably to the detriment of your social life and family and friends for the foreseeable future.
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I think you are really misunderstand this words.we al know if our products are hot cakes,we will get orders very soon after we list our products in the shops.so if you get your first sale in a short time when your business is open,it means you will get much profit on it.so what is more,the success is waiting for you in the near.lol
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AndyP is quite correct to say comparing other experience is no indicator as to how well you will do. You need your own strategy and less beleif that simply uploading a site will result in sales.
Apart from a website that ticks all the ecommerce tick boxes you need marketing, page 1 seo results, and a good product that no one else is selling
Apart from a website that ticks all the ecommerce tick boxes you need marketing, page 1 seo results, and a good product that no one else is selling
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As others have said. Just putting a web site up does not mean you will get any sales, indeed you may not get any visitors. It does not matter how good you think your products are, nor how cheap they are. There is a lot more to e-commerce than just building a web site.
Creating a web site is like building shop in the desert. Until signposts point to you, and roads come your way, you are not going to get any visitors. Even then converting visitors to customers is not always easy.
Success is not measured by the time it takes to get your first order.
Creating a web site is like building shop in the desert. Until signposts point to you, and roads come your way, you are not going to get any visitors. Even then converting visitors to customers is not always easy.
Success is not measured by the time it takes to get your first order.
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You might know your products are hot cakes, But if no one knows where the "hot cakes" are your not going to get business, It takes good marketing to get your brand out their to gain customers.
Then you may ask, how do you turn customers into repeat customers, but thats for you to work out
Regards,
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depends what kind of business you are in too, far too many variables
a newsagent will sell 20 copies of the sun before most of us will sell anything "exclusive" as folk know what they are busying with the sun (a crap paper, but hey) whereas if you are selling "hot cakes" in your sense of the phrase, people may wish to deliberate a bit before purchasing said products
a newsagent will sell 20 copies of the sun before most of us will sell anything "exclusive" as folk know what they are busying with the sun (a crap paper, but hey) whereas if you are selling "hot cakes" in your sense of the phrase, people may wish to deliberate a bit before purchasing said products
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The number of sales is neither here nor there. As others have said, it can be as much a measure of your signposting and pricing as much as how "hot" your products are.
A former client was making in the region of 2,000 sales a day from day 1 with an average "basket" value of £450 or so. They were still maintaining this sort of level 3 years later and still haven't broken even.
The above example is naturally extreme, and the project was never designed to make large profits as it was a tactical play against a competitor, but does show that none of what you are asking gives a complete picture. You can get millions of pounds of sales a day but still make thumping losses and have poor products
A former client was making in the region of 2,000 sales a day from day 1 with an average "basket" value of £450 or so. They were still maintaining this sort of level 3 years later and still haven't broken even.
The above example is naturally extreme, and the project was never designed to make large profits as it was a tactical play against a competitor, but does show that none of what you are asking gives a complete picture. You can get millions of pounds of sales a day but still make thumping losses and have poor products
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McKellar - They sell car insurance.
Due to the very high acquisition costs, low retention rates for new brands (or a relaunched brand in this case) and escalating claims costs almost all motor insurer's are currently losing money on new business with some not even making money on a large and established back book of business
Due to the very high acquisition costs, low retention rates for new brands (or a relaunched brand in this case) and escalating claims costs almost all motor insurer's are currently losing money on new business with some not even making money on a large and established back book of business
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