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Since most of my maintenance is off peak hours, this makes total sense! Spending only 45 minutes of development instead of 6 hours with the trade off of 10 minutes downtime during off peak hours makes total sense. Thanks for the post with a relevant example.
Fresh out of college, putting as much as allowed in my 401k.
rwhitman thanks for the tip! I don't require the login / signup until the user checkout. You can view all listings, add to cart, view cart, etc. It's only when you click checkout that you are required to login.
Can you let me know how you reached the required login page so I can fixe that?
Thanks again!
I'm still working on improving SEO, but here's some examples for Google:
"buy variegated peperomia plant" #7 / DuckDuckGo #2
"jackson vine" Google #9 / DuckDuckGo #4
"rainbow eucalyptus for sale" Google #22 / DuckDuckGo #6
Apparently I need to start using DuckDuckGo!!! These results are great!
From the attracting perspective sellers (nurseries), the "Buy Plants Online" search has a lot of competing bidders on Google so I'm going to have to get creative there.
Great to see via Google Analytics there there are 6 active users from Hacker News viewing the site right!! Hopefully the Google Analytics E-Commerce Sales Report will show several sales attributed to users coming from Hacker News ;-)
I built an niche e-commerce marketplace called http://doleaf.com.
Independent Nurseries and Garden Centers (the sellers) sign up and can instantly upload their items for sale directly to customers expanding their sales region of their niche products from just their neighbored to the entire USA. Since its niche customers who are looking for specific items customers find the site fairly easy through search.
The site is now doing about $2,000 total revenue per month. I'm taking a proportion of each sale. For now, I'm mostly covering cost, but hoping to work on some automated marketing tools to increase revenue.
As others have mentioned, my best performing referrers in terms of sales completed are often Forums (as opposed to AdWords, organic search etc).
The site does marketing via emails and some top products Google Ad Words, Facebook, and hopefully Titter soon. I'm using Google Analytics with the e-commerce plugin to build Adwords remarketing campaigns and plan to do Facebook rmarketing campaigns soon.
It's not totally passive as there's some support request, but I'm hoping to bring on an on-demand virtual assistant for support requests as discussed by the Internet Business Mastery guys: http://www.internetbusinessmastery.com/ibm-218-work-less-mak...
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All Fixed. Have a look!
DUH! I'll get it fixed.
I've looked at less accounting and played with there free trial. It was kind of mediocre. Most of these posted are invoicing solutions. Here are the other I've looked into:
http://www.freeagentcentral.com/
http://www.clarityaccounting.com/
From here: http://mashable.com/2008/09/21/270-online-business-tools/