Income Ideas ( not surveys)

geordie_joe

judith1 wrote: »

can anyone give me some advice. I recently bought a U.K Drop shipping web site in the hope that it might earn me an extra £100 a month. So far have sold nothing! The site itself is fine, got my hubby to order something and it turned up O.K. The site sells what everybody seems to be looking for ie Wii, xbox, Playstation etc at very low prices. I have done SEO, targetted traffic, and targeted emails, have also had about 5 ads on Google Adwords. I'm getting about 50 clicks a day but no buyers. I don't know if this whole dropship thing is a bit of a con or if I just have to be patient?

Not exactly a con, but you have fallen for the old line of getting a web site and follow what people tell you (SEO etc.) and you'll get customers.

It's not that easy to get visitors and even harder to get them to part with their money, especially when you are new.

Also, selling the things everybody wants to buy also means everybody else is selling the same thing. So you have a lot of competition.

No doubt your shop is similar to the shops of all the other people who bought one. Again more competition.

I don't mean to be harsh, but your 50 visitors per day are looking at your site and deciding not to buy from it, so you have to figure out why.

Can they buy the same items from ebay? If they can that's what they'll do, buy from an ebay seller that has 8,000 sales and a 99% good record. They prefer that to buying from a web site they have never heard of and have no way of checking how good it is.

To buy from an unknown site they need a good incentive, and that usually means cheaper prices. I suspect that your prices are much the same as other sites that use dropshippers.

Now for the advice.

Try selling on ebay, even if you have to sell at rock bottom prices. Get your site known on ebay and mention your ebay auctions in your store. Doing this will get your site known, but also give potential customers a way of checking your reputation.

It may take a while, but I've known sites grow into very good businesses simply by selling on ebay then mentioning the web site in the emails they send to auction winners.

judith1

Thanks for advice. I might try this if I can get my head around ebay!

mateypeeps

geordie_joe wrote: »

Not exactly a con, but you have fallen for the old line of getting a web site and follow what people tell you (SEO etc.) and you'll get customers.

It's not that easy to get visitors and even harder to get them to part with their money, especially when you are new.

Also, selling the things everybody wants to buy also means everybody else is selling the same thing. So you have a lot of competition.

No doubt your shop is similar to the shops of all the other people who bought one. Again more competition.

I don't mean to be harsh, but your 50 visitors per day are looking at your site and deciding not to buy from it, so you have to figure out why.

Can they buy the same items from ebay? If they can that's what they'll do, buy from an ebay seller that has 8,000 sales and a 99% good record. They prefer that to buying from a web site they have never heard of and have no way of checking how good it is.

To buy from an unknown site they need a good incentive, and that usually means cheaper prices. I suspect that your prices are much the same as other sites that use dropshippers.

Now for the advice.

Try selling on ebay, even if you have to sell at rock bottom prices. Get your site known on ebay and mention your ebay auctions in your store. Doing this will get your site known, but also give potential customers a way of checking your reputation.

It may take a while, but I've known sites grow into very good businesses simply by selling on ebay then mentioning the web site in the emails they send to auction winners.

It is also possible the 50 hits are all from search engine "bots".

Using Google Analytics on the site may tell you if they are human or scripts accessing the sites.

JennyJewell

Hi there,
Lots of fab party plan companies out there - fun, flexible and good earning potential Personally I am a Party Lite consultant - love the products and there's no start-up cost, woop woop
Good luck everyone
Jenny

nikki2804

JennyJewell wrote: »

Hi there,
Lots of fab party plan companies out there - fun, flexible and good earning potential Personally I am a Party Lite consultant - love the products and there's no start-up cost, woop woop
Good luck everyone
Jenny

Only if you can get £300 in your first party, and several bookings!! I was dropped as my first party took just over £100 but this wasn't deemed enough. To risky an investment.

JennyJewell

Hi nikki2804
I checked that out hun - all that happens is that the rest is taken out of your hostess's parties til it's cleared This doesn't affect your hostess's benefits which is what I was initially concerned about and ok you don't earn until it's cleared but once it is you're earning and you haven't paid anything out of your pocket
Jenny

vickib1238

Hi, have you tried opt2xcel? I was looking about on the net and came across this. They do charge a monthly fee but thats for the online training and all their costs. The training you can do in your own time, they show you how to set up your own website-they give you all the infomation and tell you where to go for everything you need for Affiliate marketing, look into into it, and if it pays what they say it pays you will be quids in.

Petlamb

RE the banners/affiliation stuff... I couldnt go for google adsense, as the blog I run is '18+' - thats all that needs to be said about that... either way they dont allow that.

I use Paid on Results, Commission Junction and Affiliate Future. Trade Doubler is supposed to be good and has some well known brands, but doesnt like the naughty stuff either. I also affiliate directly with some companies. Hope that is of some help.

CAPMguy

take up writing jobs, they always help to earn a good amount .... people pay lots of money for writing blogs, ebooks and stuff, you can try that

liamcov

I do surveys/cashback, looking into the daily scratches that lots of people do, is it 100% fool proof that you get your money back?