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* Mike's zencart base
* Mike's zencart base
* New customers!
* New customers!
Back after a hiatus.  We're reducing scope and focusing on [[replaceyourfilters.com] selling filters].
Back after a hiatus.  We're reducing scope and focusing on [[replaceyourfilters.com]].
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.
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Latest revision as of 21:16, 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

  1. Mike: Investigate amazon and yahoo hosting (and possibly inventory) services
  2. Mike: Investigate options at 1and1.com and rackspace.com; get a capable (apache, php, joomla, magento/zencart, coldfusion) server set up!
  3. Mike: Set up magento (or zencart if magento does not prove worthy); either make it cloneable or use multi-store capability.
  4. Mike: Work on Web Apps needed for SCM.
  5. Dan : Investigate "SOE"
  6. Dan : Fire all customers and move to North Carolina.
  7. Gary: Investigate "email marketing"
  8. Gary: Get Michael to do any graphics work we need.
  9. Gary: Harass Mike to get focussed.
  10. Gary: Learn how to spell
  11. Consolidate existing customers
  12. Get new customers
  13. 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.

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