How can a small (3-5 employees) brick and mortar/e-commerce B2C retailer survive and thrive in an increasingly competitive market (outdoors/sports products) when it cannot compete on price? Any good examples of small companies doing just that?
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posted by Foci for Analysis
on Apr 15, 2013 -
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Am I being scammed? Philippines-based distributor wants to import products (DVDs) from my site and sell to their retail clients over there. They asked to purchase "one of every title" in two categories of interest. Is there a risk they just take those and copy them? YANML
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posted by Elminster24
on May 29, 2011 -
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My magazine wants to sell small-scale online access: day passes, week passes, month passes, maybe per-article, etc. What web services exist to facilitate this process?
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posted by waldo
on Mar 2, 2010 -
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What kinds of ecommerce solutions are available for a business selling services?
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posted by jrholt
on Feb 21, 2010 -
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What are some examples of Medium-High Traffic websites that have successfully started to make money and how did they do it?
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posted by anonymous
on Jul 28, 2009 -
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Help me find something to sell online. My current site was de-indexed and while I'm working on getting that back in the rankings I'm looking for something else to sell and would like to experiment with sourcing a product myself versus going the affiliate route.
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posted by Elminster24
on Jan 1, 2009 -
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My wife has designed and produced several items of clothing for girls which are available online. She's interested in getting her items placed and sold through specialty shops and boutiques. She is trying to determine the best way to go about this without breaking the bank. (For example, the expense of a booth at a trade show is outside of our budget).
She's thinking about working with an independent sales representative and/or cold calling shops directly.
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posted by braveterry
on Sep 8, 2008 -
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I'm working on a website/business model that requires me to not only sell my products, but to also
buy certain items from customers. I need to know if I can do this with my current CMS (
Shopify.com) or any other CMSes out there
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posted by rckites
on Apr 3, 2008 -
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Online payments: I need a way to invoice and have clients
pay invoices online. Not with Paypal because that requires too many hoops for the client. Preferably with something that will allow payments via a credit card using Authorize.net or Paypal Web Payments Pro.
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posted by letterneversent
on Jun 16, 2006 -
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Does anyone have any experience running or building a Yahoo! Store? How long do they take to set up? Can you enter in orders that are taken offline? Other comments welcome.
posted by Ostara
on Sep 20, 2005 -
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Ecommerce filter: Here at work we are attempting to understand/define the default business rules for taxation calculations within an ecommerce app. Specifically we are all tied up in knots over the application of rates, reporting issues, etc. Is there an industry standard for handling this aspect of a transaction? Who defines the standards, and how can I find out more about it?
posted by lilboo
on Aug 12, 2004 -
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Can someone recommend a book or a resource for the small business owner, especially in regards to tech/eCommerce? Not a tech book, but something that can clue me in to 'businessy' stuff like advertising, accounting, employee issues, etc?
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posted by skallas
on Mar 12, 2004 -
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