e-commerce question
My website is going to be in the IM niche selling products that IMers would be interested in. So my first question is whether or not it is smarter to have a niche specific estore or a general estore like amazon.
Also how many products in each category would be a good number before launch? Once I launch I am planning on adding new products regularly, but I don't want to launch with too little products as that may stop conversions for my initial traffic.
Another question I have is promotional methods. So far I know for a fact that I will be using articles and backlink building to drive free traffic. I will also be doing forum posts and blog posts in the IM niche and getting some traffic from twitter and facebook marketing. Eventually I will be doing PPC marketing once I confirm that this is a workable idea and once I am done with testing. However I am not entirely sure how to go about doing SEO on the website for an estore.
My final question is simply about the ecommerce idea. Has anyone here had success with an estore? Is it a good idea for me to focus on building this estore in hopes of getting fast conversions without spending months and months getting in the google standings? Or is it better for me to find another method and spend my time on that.
Any ideas would be great and I appreciate all answers to any of these questions.
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