Need a push in the right direction.

by vape0311

Posted: 9 years ago 3 replies

ECOMMERCE

Long story short i ventured ito the E-Cigarette business 2 years ago I put everything i had into it financially, mentaly, and physically, and wound up losing everything
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I gained alot of knowledge through this period that i want to monetize somehow.

When i was going out of business i was in a fight to save my business, i moved into my store, and my store was 2months past due on rent so everything that was selling went to keeping the lights on, as the weeks went on products slimmed in the display , unable to re-order what i sold i ran out of what my customers came to me for, word got around and this among other things led to me closing.

Now i am working on my return into business, Currently i still have my LLC, and would like to wholesale to Vape Shops i want to tack on 15% of the price i get from them, and market this as if it is a new company coming into the game.

I need advice on how i present this to potential clients, being i have no clients.
How do i compete with other wholesalers?
Advice on cold calling this to vape shops, and making the sale?

Or should i scratch this and find another way back into business?

I am currently also working on a webdesign business, and might transform this into webdesign for Vape shops ,

i am looking to get back in business from the ground up, through hard work, and wont spend a dime to make a dime, i know its possible just need a push in the right direction.

#business #direction #push #start-up business #wholesale

rumifdx 9 years ago

HI there,

I'm sorry to hear about your non-success story, but it seems to me that you're trying too hard to revamp a love-story long-since dead. The love story I'm talking about is your fixation with your product.

Do you still feel optimistic and strong with your product choice after your bankruptcy story?

Is your Vapo Shop the ONLY viable alternative for you among millions of other kind of products available to resell?

Just saying what I see, and perhaps I'm seeing wrong, but sometimes when I think I learned something is when I'm ready to re-do the same mistakes over and over again...

Good Luck anyway, sincerely
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Adam Yunker

9 years ago

Hey Vape,

Im really sorry about your past.. But with every struggle comes an opportunity right? So maybe this is it! Remember keep your head up and keep trucking! The one way to ensure you fail at business is to give up so as long as you don't give up you'll never fail (things might not workout in the beginning), but in my eyes you only fail when you quit something

With that being said read this below and I hope this can help you out

If you're looking to get into Internet marketing I'd recommend giving email marketing a shot. It teaches the basic skills of driving traffic, improving conversions, & the whole thing can be automated. There's a lot of money to be made in email marketing IF you do it correctly, but what I'd recommend for somebody like yourself is start with email marketing, get the basics, once you fully optimized everything do some forum marketing for your topic to drive traffic see how well it converts, and tweak it from there.

Then once you're making decent money from there go and buy a website that even more automated that's making money on autopilot

Ex: a website that's ranking at the top of Google for certain keywords and makes money through Adsense (something that's fully automated and doesn't require any of your time)

This will be your 2nd source of income. You can buy websites off of a place called "Flippa", just make sure they're legit and get to know the buyer a bit before you buy.

Now you'll have 2 solid and steady income sources, this should be enough to do a rocket solid launch of your e-commerce store you want to build. So use that money to fund the launch of your e-commerce store and once that's steady I'm sure you know where to take it from there

just keep at it and focus and run this plan! It works! Trust me...

You might have some failed sites, but just keep at it (you'll learn so much!)

All you need to get started is:
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$10/month for hosting
$20/month for an autoresponder

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How?

If you use Aweber (autoresponder), they have a free trial for 30-days.. Aweber is most people's go-to email autoresponder, they're great and easy to use.

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Remember just stick to this plan because it actually does work and is real.

I wish you the best of luck with your future success and if you have any questions you can always message me on here

Hope this helps

Adam