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startup an ecommerce question

by cenii
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hello i want to start an ecommerce website with woocommerce for start i will do dropshipping for payment PayPal , but i have a few question

1.can i do dropshipping with ebay seller that sell brand name like (apple,samsung etc).
2.should i use cloudflare for ecommerce?
3.how to get traffic?
4.should i use DNS or my nameservers? if yes from which?
#ecommerce #question #startup
  • Profile picture of the author FarNext
    Originally Posted by cenii View Post

    hello i want to start an ecommerce website with woocommerce for start i will do dropshipping for payment PayPal , but i have a few question

    1.can i do dropshipping with ebay seller that sell brand name like (apple,samsung etc).
    2.should i use cloudflare for ecommerce?
    3.how to get traffic?

    1. Yes.

    2. No, stay away from CloudFlare.

    3. Targeted media buys (PPC - Pay Per Click) are the best. For PPC I would suggest
    Bing PPC ads and Facebook paid ads.

    If you are on low budget, setup a blog and drive free traffic from your Blog, Facebook and Twitter.


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    • Profile picture of the author cenii
      Originally Posted by FarNext View Post

      1. Yes.

      2. No, stay away from CloudFlare.

      3. Targeted media buys (PPC - Pay Per Click) are the best. For PPC I would suggest
      Bing PPC ads and Facebook paid ads.

      If you are on low budget, setup a blog and drive free traffic from your Blog, Facebook and Twitter.


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      i will not have problem with law if i start to sell iphone or samsung on my website ?
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      • Profile picture of the author FarNext
        Originally Posted by cenii View Post

        i will not have problem with law if i start to sell iphone or samsung on my website ?
        There will be no problem. You have to be their certified merchant/seller.
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    • Profile picture of the author Oziboomer
      Originally Posted by FarNext View Post

      2. No, stay away from CloudFlare.
      Just curious...

      Why stay away from Cloudflare?

      Have you personally had a bad experience?

      Thanks,

      Ozi
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      • Profile picture of the author FarNext
        Originally Posted by Oziboomer View Post

        Just curious...

        Why stay away from Cloudflare?

        Have you personally had a bad experience?

        Thanks,

        Ozi

        Yes. I've seen that CloudFlare is often "too good". It takes your website into an endless loop; the website loading times become terrible. Sometimes the website doesn't load at all giving connection related errors to the website visitors.
        It asks people to submit in the Capcha verification codes when they
        are not spammers.

        One cannot afford all that non-sense (not at least on a business website).

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        • Profile picture of the author [/root.]
          Originally Posted by FarNext View Post

          Yes. I've seen that CloudFlare is often "too good". It takes your website into an endless loop; the website loading times become terrible. Sometimes the website doesn't load at all giving connection related errors to the website visitors.
          It asks people to submit in the Capcha verification codes when they
          are not spammers.

          One cannot afford all that non-sense (not at least on a business website).

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          I use cloudflare across all of my projects. There are no issues so far. Captcha and other stuff should be configured while the initial set up, it won't make any issue and normally, you shouldn't loose any customers.
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          • Profile picture of the author FarNext
            Originally Posted by [/root.] View Post

            I use cloudflare across all of my projects. There are no issues so far. Captcha and other stuff should be configured while the initial set up, it won't make any issue and normally, you shouldn't loose any customers.

            Yes. It depends upon one's experience.

            I used CloudFlare a few years back and it was a nightmare.

            I never used again.
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            • Profile picture of the author Oziboomer
              Originally Posted by FarNext View Post

              Yes. It depends upon one's experience.

              I used CloudFlare a few years back and it was a nightmare.

              I never used again.
              that's why I was asking earlier..

              We've been running a few stores and several other sites like lead gen stuff through cloudflare and we haven't experienced any issues.

              I was surprised to hear that you had problems but I know I've used things that were un-usable when sold but over time they worked it out.

              We've been testing good servers close to our target market against good servers coupled with CF.

              I'd say just looking at the revenues that we've done significantly more since, than before, when looking at speed.
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  • Profile picture of the author violet0176
    Originally Posted by cenii View Post

    hello i want to start an ecommerce website with woocommerce for start i will do dropshipping for payment PayPal , but i have a few question

    1.can i do dropshipping with ebay seller that sell brand name like (apple,samsung etc).
    2.should i use cloudflare for ecommerce?
    3.how to get traffic?
    4.should i use DNS or my nameservers? if yes from which?

    Unless you become an Authorized Dealer, there is no way (repeat: no way) for you to *legally* sell new Apple and Samsung products -Unless you plan to sell used products which are more accessible.
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    • Profile picture of the author cenii
      Originally Posted by violet0176 View Post

      Unless you become an Authorized Dealer, there is no way (repeat: no way) for you to *legally* sell new Apple and Samsung products -Unless you plan to sell used products which are more accessible.
      what about Manufacturer refurbished
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      • Profile picture of the author FarNext
        Originally Posted by cenii View Post

        what about Manufacturer refurbished

        The easiest way would be to ask the AppleStore and Samsung straightaway. They should have no problem in clarifying all that stuff.
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