No sales since business started (1 month). Want opinions of my site. Thank you.

[TMW]

For the slow loading problem I'm going to zip all the photo files and upload it again so hopefully it can help for the speed at the mean time.

 

[TMW]

I got average 70 visitor a day since I started this post but still.... no order...

 

[fisicx]

...but we don't have any budget at the moment as we spend most of it to start up the business and its not selling any at all...

I got average 70 visitor a day since I started this post but still.... no order...

Those two statements sum up everything that is wrong with your new business.

If you aren't getting any orders you need to invest in fixing the website and your marketing. The website is core to your business so you need to go find some money and start again. And it's not just the cost of the website, you need money for marketing. At the moment every penny you have invested in the business is wasted, so you need new money. I'm only guessing at costs but £1000 for the site and £5000 for marketing would be a rough guess.

 

[Paul Norman]

It is a gritty reality that faces you.

You have to invest to get the business going. But there is nothing to invest.

So you are dependant on feeling your way through, and that means that instead of cash you will invest time. Possibly years of it.

There are people who can help - but you are competing with people throwing big piles of money at their online presense.

However, as a first step, at least find out how much a site that is not on wix, and is build by someone experienced, will cost. You know then the initial mountain height, and it might be less than you fear, or it might be something with which you can gain some assistance - grants, for example (not my area of expertise)

 

[Alex Watkin]

My Advice would be to run tests via Google Search console, GT metrix, and ping tools dot kingdom

What is your bounce rate?

Have you got effective email marketing campaign set up? Automated emails, and most importantly, are you capturing emails of these 800 visitors a month?

Social media is very hard to gain a strong following organically. Especially facebook. I prefer insta or twitter for engaging with potential customers

 

[fisicx]

My Advice would be to run tests via Google Search console, GT metrix, and ping tools dot kingdom

What is your bounce rate?

Have you got effective email marketing campaign set up? Automated emails, and most importantly, are you capturing emails of these 800 visitors a month?

Social media is very hard to gain a strong following organically. Especially facebook. I prefer insta or twitter for engaging with potential customers

None of this is going to work. It's a wix site. They are getting traffic, it's just not converting. Ergo, the site needs fixing. But they don't have any money to do this.

 

[Mark_Taylor_]

Yep scrap Wix, get a proper website, get good analytics. Then run a full on-page SEO and Speed audit (which is easy to do and free).

I and many others on this forum can give you a load of real and actionable advice (both free and paid for).

Start with fixing the fundamental errors, then think about stepping up to the next level.
It's amazing what a few sales can do for your confidence

Feel free to PM me or anyone else who to know their stuff, for more in depth and professional advice.

 

[Mark_Taylor_]

I will add that it is impossible to offer a complete solution to all problems via a forum, big fixes to big problems require a lot of time to be invested, we are all willing to offer good, free advice but I personally can't offer a full website audit for free as to doit properly takes many hours (or even days for large sites).

 

[Nochexman]

I got average 70 visitor a day since I started this post but still.... no order...

Lots of good advice here - have you decided what you are going to do next?

 

[Wood Flooring Guy]

We started doing the social media thing last year for our wood flooring business and it is very very slow to produce any buyers, but it does give your business a better image when someone starts to check you out.

When you do get a few customers make sure and collect their reviews, it will help build confidence with potential customers later on. We started focusing more on our reviews and a year later we have improved our turnover by about 25%-40% a month...varies depending on the time of year for use (run up to xmas is the busy time for flooring). As uur business is wood flooring each sale is a large amount, just 2/3 extra customers a month is a lot of money annually....reviews help us convert potential customers.

One thing to remember when startign out, dont buy likes or followers, if you ever decide to do marketing on social media it will be wasted money as your followers will be fake and will suck up all the impresions for the ad campaign......in the words of a famous Staines man, "keep it real"...

You might also consider blogger outreach, takes a while to see any benefit, but you will hopefully get some good backlinks for your site as well as posting content about your business.


Good Luck
Dave
TheWoodFlooringShop.com

ps.

We use Eooro.com for our reviews, check out our site and you will see the reviews widget at the bottom, pretty cheap to use too and gets reviews to the top of google.

Also, Fiverr.com is good for finding freelancers for any work you may need...some not so great freelancers though so be careful, make sure you check their reviews first.

 

[Wood Flooring Guy]

forgot to say.....not sure you can use cloudflare with a wix site, but if you can it may help with the speed of your site......very easy to set up.....you just need to redirect to their nameservers as far as i remember.....no coding involved

cloudflare with cache your site and should make it faster......

not a techie so dont quote me on this....

regards
dave

 

[TMW]

Aww thank you very much for the advices and telling me your experience! I'm working hard on networking at the moment but not those likes for likes type and I'd never buy likes as the reasons you've mentioned. My Facebook page had above 300 like now and the posts is reaching out better because I got some ppl like and comment on it... but still... no sales yet. I have recently added a blog section on my website featuring article from mum bloggers (I sell children clothing), hopefully it can brings me some followers. Thank you for telling me about cloud flare and the others, I'll give them a go!

 

[TMW]

I'm concentrating on get my Facebook page/post reach more ppl and added a blog section hopefully It can gains me some followers/customers...

 

[TMW]

Thank you for the reply xxx

 

[fisicx]

Forget facebook and forget blogging. Neither of these are going convert into sales.

Nothing is going to change until you bin wix and get a proper site developed.

 

[Adam-Smith]

As per my experience, I know well that as you start your online shop or eCommerce business, first 2 or 3 months you are going to face this issue that people belongs to different fields are visiting your business site and they do not make any sale because they are not going to trust you. Which is a quite disturbing and desperate for the site owner.
But if you are doing its proper SEO including On-page and Off-page then you can get better results.

 

[Chris Ashdown]

Before you do any changes just sit down and study your market who buys what, when, how

Baby gets fast moving low cost items for first year with occasionally someone buying something mid priced

Where do many buy visiting shops and supermarkets in their local town at low prices and the odd shop that has high price designer gear (i hate that word everything is designed )

As kids grow they keep there clothes for a bit longer and willing to pay more Aunty and Nanny may go online to buy some nice items that are different

The rich will buy on price just they expect a high price as they value it more than common sence

Where are you marketing to and how many competitors do you have on e-commerce and do you match the others pricewise

Images mean a lot especially to ladies so use the best you can, they cannot pick up and feel the fabric online so you need to tell them as much as possible