gargonzo
06-23-2005, 08:02 PM
hiya..
well, today i was offered an interesting business venture.. i've recently built a site (ecommerce) selling higher end bathroom fixtures, showers,sinks etc.. Items range from 300 -10k.
I was mostly a project manager - i implemented the shopping cart(xcart), helped/trained them on getting the products into the cart..and doing some basic adminstration when they were unsure of what to do next.
now, the site is built and they want to start making money.
I was offered today a base salary and 5% commision on all products sold on the website. The base salary is less then i'm making now.. but the possibility of the 5% could be fantastic. Where i currently work, we can knock out a website in aweek or two, build an estore and setup google/overture accounts and the new site could be selling within a few weeks of being signed up..
I've expressed that PPC (google& overture) should be setup and would help generate traffic/money. I've also thought about building some other sites that will send traffic there.
My questions to chris or other ecommerce gurus are as followed:
- how would you approach this situation?
- how would you formulate a good keyword/bidding structure?
- xcart sells an affiliate module, if i could offer 50$ per sale to affiliates, would this get lots of affiliates to signup thus sending alot of inbound links to the site and boost traffic/rankings? (granted its not as targeted as ppc would be)
- what could/would you advise?
- if you were in my shoes what would you do to make it a sucess?
- what are some pitfalls to avoid?
They will supply funds for marketing via PPC/inclusion, but i doubt it'd be thousands of dollars so there would be a semi limited budget. I'd be handling the website, and NOT doing fullfillment ( thank god ).. Work could be done from my SOHO or their location, up to me.
oh by the way i HATE my current job!
Ok.. i'm all ears!
regards
garz
well, today i was offered an interesting business venture.. i've recently built a site (ecommerce) selling higher end bathroom fixtures, showers,sinks etc.. Items range from 300 -10k.
I was mostly a project manager - i implemented the shopping cart(xcart), helped/trained them on getting the products into the cart..and doing some basic adminstration when they were unsure of what to do next.
now, the site is built and they want to start making money.
I was offered today a base salary and 5% commision on all products sold on the website. The base salary is less then i'm making now.. but the possibility of the 5% could be fantastic. Where i currently work, we can knock out a website in aweek or two, build an estore and setup google/overture accounts and the new site could be selling within a few weeks of being signed up..
I've expressed that PPC (google& overture) should be setup and would help generate traffic/money. I've also thought about building some other sites that will send traffic there.
My questions to chris or other ecommerce gurus are as followed:
- how would you approach this situation?
- how would you formulate a good keyword/bidding structure?
- xcart sells an affiliate module, if i could offer 50$ per sale to affiliates, would this get lots of affiliates to signup thus sending alot of inbound links to the site and boost traffic/rankings? (granted its not as targeted as ppc would be)
- what could/would you advise?
- if you were in my shoes what would you do to make it a sucess?
- what are some pitfalls to avoid?
They will supply funds for marketing via PPC/inclusion, but i doubt it'd be thousands of dollars so there would be a semi limited budget. I'd be handling the website, and NOT doing fullfillment ( thank god ).. Work could be done from my SOHO or their location, up to me.
oh by the way i HATE my current job!
Ok.. i'm all ears!
regards
garz