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Revision as of 21:13, 20 May 2009
Gary, Dan and Mike get all 1994 and do e-commerce, here are the notes.
Mission
- Provide businesses with websites in a manner that is profitable.
- Make it easy to sell whatever products we come up with.
Tasks
- Mike: Investigate amazon and yahoo hosting (and possibly inventory) services
- Mike: Investigate options at 1and1.com and rackspace.com; get a capable (apache, php, joomla, magento/zencart, coldfusion) server set up!
- Mike: Set up magento (or zencart if magento does not prove worthy); either make it cloneable or use multi-store capability.
- Mike: Work on Web Apps needed for SCM.
- Dan : Investigate "SOE"
- Dan : Fire all customers and move to North Carolina.
- Gary: Investigate "email marketing"
- Gary: Get Michael to do any graphics work we need.
- Gary: Harass Mike to get focussed.
- Gary: Learn how to spell
- Consolidate existing customers
- Get new customers
- Sell shiznit!
Progress
Here are my most-recent SOE Tips...
Here are Hosting options...
Once I have hosting set up, we can start moving over customers. Possibilities:
- Swift Creek Marketing
- Dan's 2 web sites and 6 domains
- Dan's site to be done August 2007
- Mike's zencart base
- New customers!
Back after a hiatus. We're reducing scope and focusing on [[replaceyourfilters.com] selling filters]. Tasks:
- Register to sell on Amazon.
- We looked into Fullfillment-by-Amazon but it looks like a $5-10 or more overhead per item.
- For less than 40 orders per month, an Individual account is available with a per-product-sold fee of $.99.
- For a ProMerchant account, it's $39.99/mo + 15% referral fee for Home and Garden products. Includes tools to manage inventory.
- They also have a WebStore option - $99.98/mo + 15% referral + 7% commission.
- They also have a Product Ads option - they list your product and the customer navigates to your site to buy.
- Check out Yahoo! store options.
- Merchant Starter Plan is $39.95/mo + 1.5% transaction fee. You have to transfer your domain to Yahoo! You have to market your website. Includes tools to manage inventory.