Hula daddy
Member
Hello all,
I hope this is the right forum for this. Being fairly new to pen turning there are very few folks I have interacted with on this message board. One of my other interests are building websites. I ran and built a fairly successful one for my wife's business for 10 years until she became to ill to continue the business.
One idea that I always found intriguing is the niche online marketplaces. For small businesses it is very time consuming and sometimes difficult to maintain a web presence, let alone to draw the traffic to make sales. I think a central place for potential customers to find niche products would help in exposure and time savings for some niches.
I was wondering if I could get your feedback on a few initial questions and maybe continue a conversation to develop such a marketplace. It will be a significant investment on my part up front, so I would like to get a better feel.
Good or Bad feedback is welcome.
Thanks,
Brian
a few highlights the way I see it :
I hope this is the right forum for this. Being fairly new to pen turning there are very few folks I have interacted with on this message board. One of my other interests are building websites. I ran and built a fairly successful one for my wife's business for 10 years until she became to ill to continue the business.
One idea that I always found intriguing is the niche online marketplaces. For small businesses it is very time consuming and sometimes difficult to maintain a web presence, let alone to draw the traffic to make sales. I think a central place for potential customers to find niche products would help in exposure and time savings for some niches.
I was wondering if I could get your feedback on a few initial questions and maybe continue a conversation to develop such a marketplace. It will be a significant investment on my part up front, so I would like to get a better feel.
Good or Bad feedback is welcome.
Thanks,
Brian
a few highlights the way I see it :
- It will not be a classified type site but a well designed central shopping cart on the lines of amazon or others
- No listing fees
- Niche for Pens or other woodturnings
- You control your inventory, shipping rates, return policies with your own login
- Commission based, initial thought would be 10% you process the transaction 15% if I process to cover card fees.
- I take care of the SEO, site maintenance, advertising .. Ect..
- Possibly an invitation only for vendors to keep the quality of product high.
- Do you feel selling handmade pens and wood turnings on the internet is viable? It seems that most would want to touch and feel a $100 pen before purchasing.