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Asking for Some Guidance, Internet Marketing for Online Stores

by SoaringServices
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I got involved in internet marketing and ecommerce recently and I feel like I am sort of at a sticking point where I don't have any sales yet, and I'm only getting about 5 visitors a day on each site. I'm feeling like my endeavors are strewn about with no substantial traffic or sales resulting for it so I'd basically like some people to take a look at what I've done and maybe just give me a step or two in the directions of where I can continue on my path to making a living online with ecommerce.

Relevant links:
https://www.alluringshapes.com Alluring Shapes Online Shapewear Store
https://www.facebook.com/AlluringShapes Alluring Shapes FB
https://www.twitter.com/AlluringShapes Alluring Shapes Twitter

https://www.robotbargains.comRobot Bargains Online Robotics Store
https://www.facebook.com/RobotBargains Robot Bargains FB
https://www.twitter.com/RobotBargains Robot Bargains Twitter

I've additionally done some e-mail marketing to about 100 people each for the sites to accounts that I manually found on blog sites with minimal results. I maybe get 3 friends per FB group post to group of about 4000 people. My following/follower ratios on twitter are next to horrible. Did PPC on AlluringShapes and got a good CPC but still no sales. The bounce rate is substantial on both sites. I feel like maybe I just get a bit disoriented with my efforts in different directions so this is sort of just to get a bit of grounding with some good solid advice, I'm thinking. I appreciate this

Britt
#guidance #internet #marketing #online #stores
  • Profile picture of the author arrival7
    Have you ever tried to sell your products on a platform that was getting tons of traffic for you such as Amazon? I think you should sell on a traffic generated platform while you work on getting traffic to your site. Do them both at the same time.
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  • Profile picture of the author jogunn
    Have you thought about utilizing the shopfront ability on Facebook? It would allow you to sell directly from your social media profile. I think creating attractive graphics to post as images in addition to your direct links would help. Right now the link is just pulling the first image it can get, and it isn't actually showcasing the product, so providing all of these links back to back isn't grabbing much attention.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jason Kanigan
    Look into Adam Dukes (member of the forum, too) and his Shopify training.

    adam-dukes.com/smashify-sales

    I'm sure there will be plenty of carry-over of effective methods to ecommerce in general.


    The #1 problem my coaching clients have when we start is insufficient traffic to meet their monetary goals.

    Are you getting enough traffic in to generate the sales you want coming out?

    From what you've shared, it doesn't sound like you're getting good quality traffic or enough of it.
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  • Profile picture of the author SoaringServices
    I want to give my appreciation to arrival7, jogunn, and Jason or reading my post, evaluating the work I've done, and giving insight to me.

    Response to arrival7: I think that is a very good idea and I will look into it. I like the idea of making money while creating relationships with my customers and getting them familiar with using my site in the future as well.
    Response to jogunn: I appreciate the advice and agree that posting images instead of just the link will be much more enticing to potential customers. I am going to do so in new posts.
    Response to Jason: I will do some reading about his methodologies and see if anything will work for what I am attempting to get done.

    These responses are mostly not what I was expecting, which i good. I was hoping for new ideas to get past this sticking point. I appreciate the help and if anybody would like to add more ideas I am looking forward to it
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