How successful have you been in a niche market when it comes to selling online.

**armenh** · 08-18-2008 11:01 PM

I was going to take my fathers business online, pretty much create an online store. We had sold on ebay and been very successful, it was probably from the exposure you receive from selling on ebay. We do have pretty much the lowest prices in the industry, near warehouse, which I have learned from selling on ebay is the most important thing in our industry (telecom) WHEN IT COMES TO SELLING ONLINE. I researched into the market and it seems to be very little activity in the online market. I am definately looking forward to expanding my fathers business and obviously my father is too, both locally and globally. I was thinking maybe a standard website might work better than an ecommerce one because of the lack of people buying those products online. Its more of a business solution than a necessity for small businesses. It also depends on the size of the business. A small business most of the time would maybe just use 2-3 lines and thats about it but more larger ones with around 10-50 employees would need a phone system. So I am in a quarrel between what we could do. A professional site is a must especially a very informative one. I feel like I am not asking a question now, but what do you all think...I guess according to you what are the best ways to growing a business, better to have local or global growth??

**flnazrael** · 08-19-2008 12:33 AM

I'm confused - you guys did really well on eBay, but there is a "lack of people" buying products online through ecommerce channels, so you'd rather have a standard site?

**armenh** · 08-19-2008 12:57 AM

Yea, many people just would go to ebay and find our product, because ebay is known as a marketplace...Optimizing a site to ebay standards take around how many grand...

**operaentre** · 08-19-2008 01:31 AM

Yeah ! Iam not that much successful inthis market but I know how to develop our market online.

Not only some people almost all the peoples who are in the marketing filed use ebay only because it is the best site to store our products and sometimes we can get new products also.

**flnazrael** · 08-19-2008 02:29 AM

Originally Posted by armenh

Yea, many people just would go to ebay and find our product, because ebay is known as a marketplace...Optimizing a site to ebay standards take around how many grand...

Not really.

There are plenty of PHP/SQL based eBay scripts out there with all the same functionality of eBay.

**armenh** · 08-19-2008 03:06 AM

What kind of functionallity are you talking about?

**MoneyMagnet** · 08-19-2008 04:35 AM

you can have a quality site set up for under 500 with an awesome shopping cart. The only issue you will have is marketing to get customers to visit your site.