Selling online

[Raging Bull]

Evening,

after many months research, talking ideas through etc, I've finally set about starting a new online business. What I have no idea about is the costs involved in selling on Amazon, eBay and of course google. I've search a little but am not 100% sure I've not missed anything.

Please can someone give me the break down of what each of these 3 are likely to cost me.

Thanks

 

[jamieclick]

Have you not thought's about having your own website also? I am not saying don't use the above but I would use them more as an advertising platform and use your own site to make the sales from.

Jamie

 

[J-Wholesale]

The most basic FAQs on all of these sites outline this for you. Have you done any research at all?

 

[Jeff FV]

Amazon is, I think, £25 per month + 15% of each sale.

If you have over 400 products Amazon are currently offering a 'Red Carpet' service to new sellers, whereby they will waive the £25 a month fee for 6 months.

Jeff

 

[TotallySport]

you don't sell in google, you can list products on google shopping, and you can use googlecheckout to take payments, all of the information is available in there docs.

Ebay fees are on ebay, and amazon fees are on Amazon.

You also need to research postage costs, insurance, your time, packing costs, computers, printers, stationary, etc etc.

 

[OliviaSSLGuru]

I don't know about Amzon charges, but you can use eBay and Google to sell your products. eBay normally charge $0.50 for the listing on their store. If you want to go with Google then its easy just create your product feed according to their guideline and submit it for review. Once they review your feed and approve it, then your products will be available on Google shopping section.



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[ChrisMaj]

Evening,

after many months research, talking ideas through etc, I've finally set about starting a new online business. What I have no idea about is the costs involved in selling on Amazon, eBay and of course google. I've search a little but am not 100% sure I've not missed anything.

Please can someone give me the break down of what each of these 3 are likely to cost me.

Thanks

The best way to sell on-line is to do it in Your own store. Of course other channels are good on the very beginning, because You need to get some traffic, but as time goes by and You handle more orders, You need to intercept this traffic to Your shop. There is no better way. Just choose good store solution that will allow You to use all the multi-channel marketing tools You need/want to use and make a good plan of intercepting traffic. I.e. by offering better prices, cheaper shipment and many other small things.

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idosell.com

 

[Raging Bull]

Have you not thought's about having your own website also? I am not saying don't use the above but I would use them more as an advertising platform and use your own site to make the sales from.

Jamie

Hi Jamie, should have been a little clearer, yes I'll have my own website, should be up and running in a couple of months. I guess the question should have been what are the advertising costs of having ones own website on a search engine like google?

Thanks

 

[Raging Bull]

The most basic FAQs on all of these sites outline this for you. Have you done any research at all?

Of course I done my own research but this is all very new to me as I've been doing the same job for the last 17 years and haven't once had to think of things like this.

I want peoples fed back on things I may have over looked (other than basic monthly fees etc) and any pointers that people who have done this might want to give me.

 

[SpuddedDragon]

Be aware that the cost will be different for some items. I sell jewellery on Amazon and they take 25% on my items.

Personally for me, although it is a large % I feel it's worth it to reach the zillions of Amazon buyers. And I guess I would spend something similar to that on advertising with no guarantee of a sales.

If you are going to use Ebay, you should be building your feedback now. Nobody will buy from a seller with a low feedback. This can be done by buying lots very cheap items.

Good Luck

 

[Websitehandyman]

Evening,

after many months research, talking ideas through etc, I've finally set about starting a new online business. What I have no idea about is the costs involved in selling on Amazon, eBay and of course google. I've search a little but am not 100% sure I've not missed anything.

Please can someone give me the break down of what each of these 3 are likely to cost me.

Thanks

Can't give you a breakdown but for price "all in" I would expect both Amazon and Ebay will cost the bottomline 25% less depending on what you sell where you sell it and how you take payments.

 

[LianneCarlaS]

A key thing when using these channels is driving their repeat custom to your website where you aren't being charged fees. The obvious is putting a business card in with their order but doing a small discount/free gift off their first website purchase incentivises them to come to your site. The other thing is build your mailing list straight away so you can keep in contact and drive past customers/website visitors back to the website.

As for website traffic:
Register for Google webmaster tools and analytics
Create content that has the right keywords (research keywords so you aren't just battling for highly competitive ones) Make sure keywords are on pictures and titles as well as any general text.
Create online press releases, articles and guest blogs for links back to your site.
Engage on social media platforms. Not all platforms, choose a couple best suited to target market and expand from there.
Market your business offline too get it on promotion

 

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A key thing when using these channels is driving their repeat custom to your website where you aren't being charged fees. The obvious is putting a business card in with their order but doing a small discount/free gift off their first website purchase incentivises them to come to your site. The other thing is build your mailing list straight away so you can keep in contact and drive past customers/website visitors back to the website.

Against Amazon rules - though many break it

Amazon now only use emails through their own system - so again an issue

ebay is similar

 

[Page]

PLUS

Does anyone know if it still actually works ?

Or are Amazon shopper - essentially Amazon shoppers and ebay shoppers essentially ebay shoppers

Enjoying the protection and other benefits that the sites offer?

 

If you wanted to have your own site to offer a better deal, Amazon could stop you trading on their site. Some time ago Amazon asked all sellers to ensure 'price parity' which means that a customer won't get a better deal from you using any other site (including your own).

 

[antropy]

Evening,

after many months research, talking ideas through etc, I've finally set about starting a new online business. What I have no idea about is the costs involved in selling on Amazon, eBay and of course google. I've search a little but am not 100% sure I've not missed anything.

Please can someone give me the break down of what each of these 3 are likely to cost me.

Thanks

Regarding the selling fees on ebay, it depends how are you going to list your items. For Buy It Now, around $0.05-$0.25. For auction-style listing, around $0.10-$2, depending on the amount that you're selling. Plus there are final value fees once the item sells. For Amazon, around 6-25% depending on the product type. I think Google is free, but I'm not sure about that

It's really a good idea to also sell on ebay and amazon aside from your own website, as you can reach more customers. It's like you have different branches of your store. I wrote a blog about selling to multiple online channels, maybe this could help. http://www.antropy.co.uk/blog/how-to-sell-products-across-multiple-online-channels/

 

[gcmax]

Amazon is a bit of a wildcard in the respect that it reports some prices that just cannot be true and ends up weakening consumer confidence and preventing real businesses from actually making some money. There have been quite a few links that I have personally followed up on Amazon only to find that said items are not available.
I suppose the biggest downside with trading on Amazon and not being in a niche market is being presented amongst other sellers who may or may not be reputable. I think the average consumer once burnt will keep away from an umbrella like Amazon.
As someone else said, try having a dedicated website and promoting it, nothing beats a tailored service.

 

[funkykitsch]

Evening,

after many months research, talking ideas through etc, I've finally set about starting a new online business. What I have no idea about is the costs involved in selling on Amazon, eBay and of course google. I've search a little but am not 100% sure I've not missed anything.

Please can someone give me the break down of what each of these 3 are likely to cost me.

Thanks

after many months of research...wow...that';s amazing to say that when you go on to say about selling on amazon,ebay,google! You should of course be creating your own website and just using these other services to further promote your own website - use them as marketing tools if you have goods which you can sell again and again to the same customer as all these companies take 10% off your sale price and if someone else is competing against you with there own website then you have no chance. Also if you are selling products beware that the wholesalers you are purchasing from aren't already selling on ebay!