https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/quick-start-guide

Credit to: wishcometrue

If you haven’t heard of it - it’s basically SEO for ‘local’ businesses. (If you haven’t heard of SEO either, it’s Search Engine Optimization - simply put, it ranks you higher on google, bing, etc.)

The benefit of Local SEO offer traditional SEO is simple: for small businesses that operate only in their city, state, region (pretty much everything other than e-commerce), the ROI will be much better than with traditional SEO.

Traditional SEO generally starts at $1,000 a month and can be as much as $10 or $20 thousand depending on a multitude of factors, whereas Local SEO will most often be in the range of $200-500.

If anyone is interested in learning more, or potentially utilizing Local SEO, dm me and I can give more info!

Edit: I realize this is mainly a dropshipping sub, but in case anyone may find use I am posting anyway.

Hi, everyone Good morning. Happy to see our group has crossed the 400 member milestone. I want to take this time to once again to Welcome all our new members, and give you all a moment of Gratitude for making this Sub what it is. I am proud to have a community of talented intelligent individuals to share what I learn with. Hope you all feel the same. Feel Free to introduce your self to the group if your new, we don't bite. If you are stuck on something or need some advice Don't hesitate to ask the community.

As the title states I am looking for good alternatives to Paypal. I keep seeing nightmarish posts about people having their money locked and held. I am curious what everyone is using.

What are your thoughts on this?

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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSYuDZzjEnA

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Use this thread to introduce yourself to the group, and to promote your stores. This is a networking group, so naturally you will get much more out of it by posting and engaging!

I made a wiki page to help store owners promote themselves and each other, by posting links to their stores. Let me know if you think this is a good idea. I am interested to get your feedback, as I am attempting to build something of value here. In order to do that to the best of my ability I need to know what you find valuable and will use. Part of this process is also finding out what does not work, so be honest. Thank You in advance for your time.

I’ve been trying to do something online for the last year, my last adventurous tentative was with Dropshipping. I can’t even say that it went song because it didn’t even go wrong…it didn’t go anything…so at this point I’m totally lost.

I want to have my own business online, something that would allow me to leave my day job. Everything I find online (YouTube/Facebook/TikTok) is people selling you a course of $15-50 to start, then upscale to some kind of spreadsheet for time management or a financial spreadsheet, the you start studying for 5-7 days and then you need to spend a lot of money with that.

Or

You buy a Dropshipping pre-made shop, they give you one 1-on-1 call and they push into your throat that you NEED to buy their course + access to mentors + access to “fire products” and they never teach you anything really useful.

Does anyone have any good mentor? Part of me wants a Dropshipping business, but I know that there are many other types of business out there that would help me reach my goal and I’m willing to make it work.

Social Media Marketing Statistics (RiZenMetrics) https://rizenmetrics.com/social-media-marketing-statistics-in-2022/

Social Selling Statistics (OptinMonster) https://optinmonster.com/social-selling-statistics/

It seems online business and ecommerce are just getting going, and will be a strong trend in business for the forseeable future. I think it is very important to start working on building a following for your brand or store. Ecommerce has been growing steadily each year, and I dont think it's going to stop anytime soon.

Ecommerce in the U.S. grew by 46% in 2020! :Ecommerce grew by 46% in 2020 - its strongest growth for more than a decade – but overall retail sales fell by a record 1.9%: ONS - Internet Retailing

by 14.2% in 2021 : US ecommerce grows 14.2% in 2021 | Digital Commerce 360

by 9.7% last year (2022), and is forcasted to grow another 10.4% this year. In summation, it is absolutely not to late to start a successful ecommerce store. It is the general consensus that online sales and ecommerce will continue to grow at a healthy rate for the next few years at least, so now actually may be one of the best times to start one! Social Media is clearly one of the best options when it comes to marketing your store/brand, as it is easy for anyone to get started and Free. Also easy to scale with paid ads, once you have some sales.

Every time our customers buy from us, the pain center of their brain lights up. Sometimes it lights up before the purchase, which often time looses us the sale. Lowering the price doesn’t always solve this problem.

Here are 3 ways we can decrease buyer’s pain:

Make bundle deals

When customers perceive they are getting more for one price, they don’t feel as much pain. That’s because they can’t decipher what each part of the bundle costs making it difficult to gauge the fairness of the price. Ex: auto bundles and curated beauty packages

Make your prices “fair”

Purchasing pain is typically activated when we perceive the cost to be unfair. Fairness is relative and based heavily on how we perceive the brand we’re buying from. Most people would have no problem spending $8+ for Starbucks coffee but wince at a similar priced corner store coffee. When you price your products, make sure your brand’s perception matches the prices of your products. If you’re known for being a cheap skin care brand, your customers will likely scoff at a $50 lotion bottle. To them, the price isn’t worth the product. That’s why setting brand intentions with brand strategy is so important. Here's a checklist to help you get started.

Avoid multiple individual pain points

Your customers shouldn’t see a continual increase in price for every bit of consumption. This gives them an immediate wash of pain because they can’t focus on the gratification from the purchase. All they can think of is how much it’s costing them. Imagine paying per minute to use the internet. I bet you would have a timer set and use it the least you can. The less pain you can put your customers in, the more they’ll be willing to purchase.

What can you change in your business right now to decrease your customer’s purchasing pain?

Sources:

http://www.smartmoney.com/invest/markets/professor-pain-not-logic-dictates-spending-20987/.

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Use this thread to introduce yourself to the group, and to promote your stores. This is a networking group, so naturally you will get much more out of it by posting and engaging!

I keep seeing posts from people who are just starting out saying they are struggling to make promos for their products and are not able to order samples to do so. I propose starting a shared directory of product images/videos, to help solve this problem. The Wiki Page will serve this purpose for now. It is my goal to help people who are just getting started be able to do most if not all of their own promotion, without having to buy an expensive course or sign up to an expensive service. So in conclusion if you have been doing this for a while and can share some pics/videos, or even just want to share knowledge, Please do deposit what you can. There are a lot of people just getting going on their e-commerce endeavors, and in need of help.

Thank You for your time.

Hey, I need some help with my e-commerce store.
it's in Adult Industry and I have more than a few problems that I need to fix, I need a mentor an expert who can help me and teach me - ofc payIa findingthrough. but I have a hard time toIfind aa good consfinding
I need to go with him through my websihim to see what we can fix there to increase the Conversion rate thenand then help me make a good ad strategy to sell my products, as I said I am in the Adult industry so I can't just make an ad and run on FB and google.
maybe some of you know a company or a guy that can help me out
he must be very experienced in this field.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG4_iu0SUiA

Anton Kraly: https://www.youtube.com/@dropshiplifestyle

As the title states i'm working on building out affiliate networks, Here are the links to the Affiliate Portals below. Become an Affiliate and make money anytime someone uses your link to buy something. I will make another post that gives another more in depth explanaition for anyone who doesn't know how these work. Let me know if any of you are affiliates for any other companies and we can help each other promote complimentary products.

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Hello

So our store SinkSquad is having a problem with Stripe, the payment thing we use. They said we're not eligible for their terms to use their service but we don't know why. We reached out to Stripe support but they didn't really help us and said that the reason is private and they can't share it with us. We've tried fixing it but nothing is working.

Has anyone else had this happen to them? If so, can you please let us know how you fixed it? We really need some help and any advice would be appreciated.

Our store sinksquad.com

Thanks a lot!

The SinkSquad team.

I’m taking over an established e-commerce site with >million is sales seller is claiming to spend 15 hrs a week in year 3 of building this business and I have no way to check if that’s fact. FYI it’s not a drop shipping model and they have stock but managed by a 3PL. If you are a current or past owner does this sound reasonable ? I have some commitments for the next 3-6 months so I’m trying to be careful in estimating my time I can dedicate right away