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Friday, December 26, 2008

Some other sites you can sell your stuff at

If you want to sell beyond eBay and Amazon, there are other places where you can sell your products.

You can go to a site called MyStore. It is an e-commerence provider offering selling support including hosting, design, marketing, fullfillment, inventory management, and customer management. What makes MyStore different from other marketplaces is you (the seller) will deal directly with your customers. You will have complete control of your stores content. There are no seller fees. If you want to check it out go to mystore.com.

Another option is ProStores. It is owned by ebay, so you will get the same features you get on eBay but you will have complete control over your site. You have 4 options to choose to from. The first one is starter. It cost $9.95 a month. If you want to have your own domain, it will cost you an additional $8.95. You can display between 20-250 products. You will have SSL security (so your customers info will be safe and secured). You can choose from 13 themes and layouts to give your store a professional look. You can use the logo generator to create your own logo in a matter of minutes. You can cross-sell your products to increase your sales. If you don't know how much to charge for tax you can use the tax caculator. You can create your own shipping rates and configure your own shipping methods and rates for each product. You can use ebay Sync to simutasly sell your products on ProStores and eBay. ProStores will automatically manage inventory on both sites. Your product catalog will be automatically submited to Google base You can upgrade your store without interuption.

The second level is Business. It cost $29.95 a month. You get all the feautures of starter, plus you can display up to 10,000 products. you get 24/7 technical phone support. You can create multipule user accounts if you have employees. You can use 3rd party feautures like
Adobe Dreamweaver to spruce up your site. You will have mutiple payment methods (real time credit card processing plus store card, check and money order payment options) . You can create a mailing list so your customers will know when you added new products. You will get SEO tools that will fine tune your store for maxiumum search engine visibilty. You can send your catalog feeds to Yahoo Shopping, Shopzilla, Shopping.com, and Google Base. You can automatically hide products that are out of stock. And you can utilize sophisticated web anaylics to analize traffic activity on your site.

The third level is Advanced. It cost $74.95 a month. You get all the options of starter and business plus you can display up to 50,000 products. You can offer coupons to your customers. You can create and manage promotions and merchandising programs for registured store members. You can sell electronic downloads like MP3 music, PDF documents, and JPG images. You can sell informational products, services, subscribtions, memberships, and downloadable content.

The fourth and final option is Enterprise. It cost $299.95 a month. You get all the features of starter, business, and advanced plus you can display up to 100,000 products. You can create mutiple buyer groups including retail and wholesale while providing unique discounts or pricing. You can create an affiliate program (you pay people to drive traffic to your site). If one of these packages intrigue you, you can sign up for the one month trial.

I had plan one writing about a couple more places you can sell your stuff at but ProStores took up most of this post. So I will write about those on the next post. As always leave me feedback on how well (or not) your doing on these sites.

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