Partnering with medium/big size websites

At the moment you really haven't got much of a proposal. You can't offer a prospective partner much in the way of brand reputation or visitors, nor a realistic indication of the sales potential of any partnership.

Your "strength" would appear to be the ability to seek out craft items from around the world that nobody else has found. That's all well and good, but you haven't yet demonstrated that the products you've sourced have sales potential. And the larger sites you want to partner with will already have their own in-house sourcing departments.

So your best options, as I see them, would be:

1) Concentrate on building your site's reputation for sourcing and collating unusual products. If you go this route, be careful not to spread your product net too wide. A smaller, more defined product range will make it easier to establish your brand.

2) Approach businesses that are active in your field of expertise and either offer your services as a freelance product-sourcer, or apply to join them as an employee. This might not be what you want to do long-term, but you'll acquire industry experience and important contacts that will help you in the future.

If you go for option 1, it will take time and effort to reach the stage where you'd be an attractive partner to an already successful business. You'd almost certainly need to have a strong presence in the market, and/or a demonstrable record of success.

By the way, congrats on at least getting your site up and running. However, I found quite a few dead links as I browsed. Oh, and it's "stationery", not "stationary".

Whatever you decide, good luck.
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Depending on where you operate from. here is another strategy that can get you 1) quick conversions 2) New Subscribers :

GROUPON ( or Groupon Like Sites) - Offer your products to Groupon's users. WHen these users buy, they become your customers. Earlier I read that you are willing to offer 50% commission - you can do the same thing with Groupon.
But make sure, before you do that - you should have an excellent process in place to eventually sell these people - so capturing the details of this users important.
Use Groupon as a marketing platform - to get traction.

If i were you, I would do this before going to groupon:
1) My social presence - FB, Twitter, Instagram, (LinkedIn doesn't harm either)
2) Email system is fully automated (or not). Use mailchimp or your fav system to regularly remind your visitors you exist.
3) Use Retargeting. (a lot of people will come and leave your site - the best way to get them back is thru retargeting.)
4) Have a review system in place as well


When you approach groupon - there'd be two way to sell. 1) list a product on their site and users buy directly - then you ship the products to them
2) Offer coupon codes on groupon - for a batch of products - then let those users come and buy products on your site.

This way you get visitors and some real action on your site rather than just sales.


Happy to help!

You have had my dream job Bud ! I always wanted to become a pilot and I will someday, even if it means to fly a single engine cessna.

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Your site is wordpress - so you can use Retargeting plugin. use it with FB.
I sent you more info in a message.

Great info!!! Checking... Almost all the sites are italian. How did you know i am italian ehehhe?

Thanks!!!

It stands for Fulfillment by Amazon. You basically send your products to amazon they warehouse and ship the product for you.

You should look at the amazon seller forums which you can access from your seller account or just google amazon seller forums. You can get all your questions answered there.

Also look up blogs by Skip Mcgrath, jordan malik, jim cockrum, to name a few.

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