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Wholesale Guide: What You Need to Know About Resell
March 27th, 2009
I’ve got items to resell, so how do I find customers?
Customers frequently visit sites where they can find what they need. Get your product out there — on review sites, price comparison sites, etc. On your own website you may ask your webmaster to arrange your product pictures and details in such a way that it is in general form. For example, when your product is soap display it in a cosmetic icon.
What is the normal rate for pricing my resell items?
What you charge for your items depends on the price of the items when you purchase it. One of the biggest mistakes people make is to try to resell an item for a small amount over their cost of purchasing the item. There are many administrative costs involved in sales, and you’ll shoot yourself in the foot if you do not have a sizable increase.
With that said, for low-priced wholesale costs from only a few cents to $20, plan on at least doubling the price. For costs above $20, a 40% increase is common. And, for high ticket items above $100, anywhere from $20 to 40% is a commonly-used percentage increase.
If you cannot increase within those ranges for a sizable profit, you should either re-negotiate the price with the wholesaler or ask them if they will drop-ship for the price, thus avoiding your overhead costs.
Where do I look for photos and descriptions of wholesale items I want to sell?
Generally, your wholesaler source with be able to provide pictures for the items you wish to sell. If you call their support phone number, someone should be able to help you with this. These images or icons may be printed or may be dragged and be saved in a saving device. Sometimes, images are provided in a reseller membership area online, or they may be provided in a catalog. Most commonly, your supplier will send you a CD with product images.
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Niche Blueprint: The Site Platform And The Potential Of SEO
March 17th, 2009
Niche blueprint, a product by Tim Godfrey and Steven Clayton which gives anyone the knowhow and the resources necessary to set up and run a successful e-commerce business online, will be relaunched on 16 March, in this article we will go over modules five and six (part one) out of the nine available in the course.
In week three of the course module five will be presented to you and then in week four part one of module six will be given out. Module five will enable you to get your web e-commerce store up and running. Then in module six part one you will learn how to drive traffic for free.
No less than eight videos as well as 5 PDF’s will be presented to you in week three for the content of module five, this content will include everything you need to get that first site set up.
Achieving that first fully functional niche blueprint store with full product catalogues
The goal for module five, and this week is for you to have a complete understanding of how to implement the niche blueprint e-commerce platform. How to set up your PayPal payment gateway, produce a logo and toll-free number for your store.
As we have come to expect from this course, the videos in this module are excellent in that they tell you what you need to know in a very clear and precise manner, they include the following:
- Overview.
- How to get your sites hosted online.
- How to, if you choose to do so, make or outsource your stores main logo.
- Exactly how you set up the provided web e-commerce platform you will be using for your website.
- Configuring your niche blueprint store.
- Setting up PayPal on your store.
- Your shopping carts and other elements.
- The product catalogue set up.
- Making some optional adjustments to your site to improve conversion rates and ultimately bring in more sales for you.
The videos really are great, however there’s nothing like having the info in written form as well and that’s why there are five PDF’s also included. These videos and PDF’s have been put together in such a manner that even the least technical minded person could follow them.
Traffic, Customers And Cash
Right, you now have a functional website that is ready to go, but you probably haven’t got anyone visiting the site. No website is successful without promotion and this is where part one of module six is going to come in.
Part 1 of module 6 consists of four videos and three PDF’s and shows how to get paying customers to come to your store using search engine optimization strategies (SEO) first to get free traffic.
Your three PDF’s supply you with a sample search engine optimization plan as well as list places to promote your site. Steve Clayton is your host in the four videos and in them he reveals everything you need to know to put together an effective search engine optimization plan for your website and indeed future websites.
In the first video he gives a very good understanding of SEO concepts, which for the beginner is a must watch, although seasoned pros may want to skip it.
He goes on in other videos to talk in more detail about different strategies and ways to promote your site in the search engines, one of the methods being article marketing (something we ourselves have a lot of success with). Nevertheless he covers a lot of strategies here and article marketing is just one and optional at that.
Right, so once you have made it to this stage within the niche blueprint course you will be ready for profits. In the next modules of this course you are shown where to go and how to go about outsourcing the work and then ultimately should you decide to cash in on some of your websites, how to sell them.
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What’s Inside Niche Blueprint’s Fifth-Sixth Units?
March 16th, 2009
In this article we will be pulling apart Modules 5 and part one of module 6 of the highly anticipated niche blueprint e-commerce course from Tim Godfrey and Steven Clayton being re-launched on 16 March.
Okay, let’s take a look at week three which is module 5 and week four, which is module 6 part1. By the end of week three you will have your niche blueprint e-commerce store up and running. Week four teaches you how to get people to visit your store for free.
Week three is devoted entirely to module five, which is about building your Niche Blueprint Store and is very complete as it consists of eight videos and five PDF’s.
A complete working Niche Blueprint store with a complete product catalog
The goal for module five, and this week is for you to have a complete understanding of how to implement the niche blueprint e-commerce platform. How to set up your PayPal payment gateway, produce a logo and toll-free number for your store.
Each and every video of the eight in this module do an excellent job of explaining what you need to do, their contents is as follows:
- Introduction.
- How to get your sites hosted online.
- The creating of a store logo.
- Installing the provided e-commerce website platform.
- How you must configure your site in order for it to work correctly and optimally.
- Setting up PayPal on your store.
- Some additional elements related to paying and shopping carts.
- The product catalogue set up.
- How to tweak the way your site looks to best suit your niche.
The videos really are great, however there’s nothing like having the info in written form as well and that’s why there are five PDF’s also included. These videos and PDF’s have been put together in such a manner that even the least technical minded person could follow them.
The obtaining of visitors and converting them into buyers
Okay, so now you’ve got your new shiny store up on the web, but now we need somebody to actually visit it other than yourself and your cat. This is what week 4, and module six (part one), will do for you.
Part 1 of module 6 consists of four videos and three PDF’s and shows how to get paying customers to come to your store using search engine optimization strategies (SEO) first to get free traffic.
The 3 PDF’s give sample SEO plans and lists of shopping portals. The 4 videos, with Steve Clayton, once again give very clear and precise instruction on how to put together an effective SEO plan to guarantee first page positions on Google.
Steven Clayton takes a moment with the first video to explain search engine optimisation to those who are not experience in any of these things, for beginners this video is excellent though I can see it may be unnecessary for most pros.
He goes on in other videos to talk in more detail about different strategies and ways to promote your site in the search engines, one of the methods being article marketing (something we ourselves have a lot of success with). Nevertheless he covers a lot of strategies here and article marketing is just one and optional at that.
Once you have carried out all the steps in the six modules up to this point you will have a website ready to make money. In the modules that follow you will learn PPC (paid advertising), how and where to outsource and how to sell your websites (naturally totally optional).
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Niche Blueprint - Unveiling The Secrets Of Outsourcing
March 13th, 2009
What you are about to read is a full review of the final modules eight and nine from the web e-commerce course and system from Steven Clayton and Tim Godfrey called niche blueprint. This course will be available once more on the 16th of March 2009 for five days.
Finally we are at the sixth and final week in the niche blueprint course. Those who have completed all of the steps in the previous modules will now have one totally functional online store. Five weeks will have passed to get to this stage and a lot will have been accomplished.
So what’s next in our journey?
The most obvious thing to do would be to build more online stores, but obviously that would mean a lot more work on your part. Money is all good and well, but if you haven’t got time to enjoy it what’s the point? The course creators luckily have taken this into account and dedicated the eighth module of the course to this subject.
Module 8 - Outsourcing Secrets.
There are many reasons why this module is a favorite of mine. However naturally everything in this module is optional. There is nothing to stop you doing everything yourself slowly but surely.
But for some of us, the more greedy and lazy or some would say smart, module eight is the cherry on the pie. The aim of this module is that once you have a profitable store, to show you how to outsource the day-to-day operations of that store. This way you can literally have an autopilot income and make money while you sit around in your pyjamas.
So would you really have no work to do?
If you’re smart you won’t just do nothing at this point. It would make so much more sense to build an additional e-commerce store and then another and another and outsource each one of them as well! That is the mentality you want to have if you really want to make it big.
This module includes one video, and 2 PDF’s which show you what to outsource and how and where to do it effectively and cheaply. It shows you in great detail, the different outsourcing models and introduces you to all the outsourcing resources necessary to make this a reality.
Module 9 - Selling your site.
Again this is completely optional but in some situations may be a good idea, like maybe if you had a particular store that was too tedious for you for whatever reason. Some people also do this in order to receive a large amount of money all in one go in order to invest in something else or to pay off debts.
There are three individual PDF’s plus a video which tackle the question is of how and where to sell an online web e-commerce site for the best profit. The PDF’s are great because they also include many sample auction postings so you can see exactly what an expert would write.
In my time I have built up and then sold a number of businesses and looking at the contents of this course all I can say is that it really is very well done and complete.
It is without a doubt, the best course of this type that I have ever seen and I believe the best chance that a newcomer to business has of achieving results fast and first-time provided they are determined and willing to put in some time of their own.
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