Found a new love for eCommerce

Nice looking site - although I would test having such a large image taking up so much space on your homepage.

Would be worth testing a small image
and perhaps a strong headline making it easy to navigate to the various categories.

£100 for a cap! wow

How much of your sales are coming from affiliate efforts or is it mostly from direct referral as a result of advertising or SEO?

None have been from referrals yet, purely just from tweeting myself and few shares on Facebook etc

At £2800 now


Very easy money

I'd love for you to lay out how you found your market that you are targeting? what research you did? and what's the best way to find suppliers for such luxury apparel? I really want to get a site set up but can't get past the first stage yet of finding what to sell as I want to stick with selling something for years into the future and not just ride trends. Could you give me some pointers? Love the site and congrats on your success. I'd love to be able to replicate some of your success.

Nice looking site for sure. I would put a phone number up there on the top right. It will increase your sales.

Great stuff. Starting an online clothing site as well different niche though. Curious on how you go about doing shipping, and returns etc. I was going to use PayPal but there are no sales final things there. I was also going to purchase the USPS plugin to make it more pro

Thanks for letting us pick your brain

Your site looks great. Amazing professional design exactly for apparel.

Hi guys

Sorry for the slow reply


The idea for the market actually came from just browsing facebook, and i noticed a few "promoted" posts of a company that offers similiar clothing,


From there i decided to contact each of the brands said company sold aswell as a few i found myself through research etc

Surprisingly you will find that most designers on their site have a "Become a distributor" option, which once you've sent them your gameplan they will be more than happy to bring you on board and forward you their pricelists which is amended for you to make a profit


From there i got the site up, added products payment methods (I am using paypal purely because its easier for me)

Advertising way, i may have had a bit of a headstart than some of you as i have a fairly big following on all social networks which are actually based around MYSELF as a brand i did this purely because i launch numerous ventures throughout the year and by building a brand around myself whilst doing the networking for my companies

I can always put a "I just launched NovaeApparel.com use PL10OFF to get a special prelaunch order just for my friends on facebook!"

It makes people feel more exclusive in a sense and like they are getting in on something noone else is, which they are


Honestly i have not marketed this site as much as i should do, but its making a nice amount of money and once i've got more free time after this weekend i will be going full ahead with my marketing plan

This basically involves using Instagram as my main platform as people like pictures of clothing... ALLOT


I've actually had a few people PM me about having me set them their dropship site up, as i run a design agency aswell so have been pretty busy lately

I would get your strapline in the header, "LA brand clothing, and clothing that celebs wear". Actually, if you can, I would shorten it to "LA brand clothing the celebs wear" (if it still conveys the right message).

Great job, but I would include more contact details and social media links so people can feel a little safer buying. Best of luck!

Wow! That's a really good looking website. The only thing I'd change, IMHO, is to make the image on the homepage a little smaller.

My general first impressions are:

- A high-end boutique site that targets a very specific consumer group.
- Prefessional design. I'd feel comfortable making a purchase.
- Good product selection.

Keep at it. I can see a site like this doing very well.

Sounds great. It is fun building eCommerce stores and websites too. Please keep it up.

Thanks for the comments guys,

Patrice, I am not too sure what to suggest tbh i always prefer to go with self hosting as i design most if not all my sites myself and i like the "freedom" i have with using a site host as opposed to a builder type site for my online shop

Thanks for the comments again guys, i've responded to everyones PM

Kai

now it's a good business selling cheap products from china

Hi Kai,
Nice website. since you are a web designer, i suggest that you take a look at your Big competitors websites in your niche and imitate their layout by using your own colors and design. i am sure that spent a lot monet and testing to have the layout design of their websites look like that.
At least, this is what i do when i want to create a site for me.
Good Luck

Just a update,

Novae is going so well, that i have began working on a second ecomm site which will sell Luxury Watches, Pretty competitive but good niche!

Update again

Site is making almost £3650 a month basically hands free now, only done a small bit of SEO

Actually updating site tonight

"hands free" - does that mean you are using an API to have orders sent to the dropshipper? If not, I would expect that an ecommerce store selling clothing would be the opposite of hands free!

I assume the supplier takes returns? We've found that "touchy feely" products (like clothes) have a pretty high return rate. Has that been an issue for you?

BTW, great looking site. I'd say in general it's too graphic-heavy for an ecommerce store, but with this being a "style" website, I think you are right on target! Nice work!

Man, that's a great looking site. I really don't know if I can think of anything I'd change.

Great job!

Also I'm guessing you're doing drop shipping.

How many different distributors are you working with?

$7.50 flat rate shipping to the USA or UK, I would think this would be tricking if you had more then one or two distributors drop shipping for you.