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Monetizing With Ecommerce

April 20, 2012 by Dave

What Is Ecommerce?

For the purpose of this discussion, Ecommerce is the online retail sale of products that you buy wholesale.    Nothing fancy-schmancy, a simple but powerful concept!

This is a time tested and ancient way of doing business.  It has been this way, probably for thousands of years.

You go to the store and buy a product at retail price that the store bought at wholesale.   You might even do this every day of your life.

This is called commerce.   The online version of this time honored business model is Ecommerce.

As funny as it sounds, Ecommerce is nothing new, it is just a modern twist on what has always worked.

You can sell your digital products side-by-side with your physical products if you wish.

I’ve sold both physical and digital products.  I do believe that the physical product side is, generally speaking,  going to be more lucrative than the digital product side.

Of course, there are exceptions, that is why I said ‘in general’.   LOL.

But more often than not, I think a real business, built on real, physical products is an easier rode to ride.

Go ahead and call me crazy (or ignorant) if you wish!

Why Consider Ecommerce?

Many people are looking to monetize their websites and perhaps even build a full time income or to increase the revenue of an existing business!

As I’ve mentioned before it is not easy to build a business.

I also mentioned how it might be necessary to generate additional income streams when you are facing a lot of debt and (just) being frugal still isn’t enough based on current income.

Just do not be blinded to the fact that whatever type of business you end up building, it is likely going to take a good bit of work!

With Ecommerce, you can build a list of buyers who have already purchased a product from you.  If you are into ‘list building’, that is exactly the kind of list that you want.

You can also get affiliates to promote your Ecommerce store products for you!    You can even have a data feed for the affiliates whereby they display your products on their sites.

BTW: If you are really into affiliate marketing.   We have an affiliate program at:  Toothy Grins Store  – just scroll to the bottom of Toothy Grins Store and there you can sign up for our affiliate program.    It pays a little better than some of the ‘big name’ retailers out there do.

You can take (more) advantage of PPC (Pay per click) marketing.  Because you are directly selling a product, it MIGHT be easier to create a successful campaign than with other types of products.   The search engine PPC programs seem to favorably regard Ecommerce stores over some other types of sites.

It’s clear that you are selling a product, so there is less chance for misconception on the part of your readers / site users.  This may be another reason that SEs (Search Engines) like Ecommerce sites.

When people arrive on an Ecommerce site, they can see right away that there are products for sale there, they have no need to fear a hidden agenda.  Indeed, many times they are looking to buy the exact product you have on your site.

How Does Ecommerce Fit In With Blogging? 

That is fairly easy to explain.  You could use your blog to drive traffic to your Ecommerce store.

You Could:

Blog about your products and display images of them.

You can post positive feedback and testimonials from YOUR customers.

You can blog product related stores about the products you sell.  These can be your own stories or those of happy customers.

Ever wonder if you were getting credited for all of your affiliate sales?   Well, with an Ecommerce site, you KNOW if a sale has been made.

That is some of the power of Ecommerce over other forms of monetization that exist on the Internet today.

Some examples of Ecommerce stores, aside from Toothy Grins Store, are Amazon, Barnes & Nobles,  Best Buy,  Dell,  Apple, WalMart,  and many, many others.

You might have better luck selling physical products over digital products.

Ecommerce seems to work for a lot of people.

It may not be right for everyone, but maybe it is right for you?

Comments / Questions are OPEN on this post. 

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Herbal Remedies Affiliate Program

December 9, 2006 by Dave

echinaceaAre you really into natural, herbal remedies and supplements?

If so, you might want to consider writing about your knowledge and making money at the same time.

For example you can sign up for this herbal remedy affiliate program and make money writing about herbal supplements.

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Or you could write about natural healing and do the same thing.

If you have a bent to write about herbs and what they can do to heal yerba-mansathe body, this program perfectly complements you and I can see no reason why you wouldn’t want to make a few extra dollars at the same time.

Besides, whatever you write about you tend to learn even more on that particular subject.

You could write and educate yourself as well as your readers at the same time.

What if you don’t want to write and you would just like to sell products? Can this still work for you?

You could build a catalog of just pictures and short descriptions of the herbal products and link directly to a shopping cart, where you will earn a commission on the sale of each product.

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shipping-prepSomeone else will handle the billing, shipping and returns. They ship to almost anywhere in the world. You can just wait for your check to come in which can be delivered directly to your pay pal account.

 

Not a bad way to earn some extra cash. You can learn more about this loose-herbalherbal remedy affiliate program and find out for yourself whether this is something you would be interested in or not.

 

 

 

 

 

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Tags: herbal, natural healing

Filed Under: Affiliate Programs, business start up, Health, Internet Marketing, Marketing, work at home

Free Video: Joel Comm’s Instant Adsense Templates

October 12, 2006 by Dave

Check out this free video on Joel’s Instant Adsnese Templates.

I have purchased the adsense template package myself – because it is a lot more than just templates.

View Joel’s video here.

This is great for someone just getting started on the Internet or struggling to make a living online.

I bought it because there are a couple of pieces of software in the package that will be very valuable to me!

Comments?

– Dave

Technorati Tags: adsense+templates, adsense, Joel+Comm, monetizing+with+adsense,

Filed Under: announcements, business, business start up, Financial Freedom, Internet Marketing, Money, work at home

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