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I saw on the "how can we make NP better" thread this category has been neglected.
I am more a developer than domainer and monetize sites with AdSense & EPN. I want to start selling my own stuff and have been exploring shopping carts. I tested Shopify extensively, have a Jimdo account, looked at Volusion and fooled around with my own PayPal buttons.
Real carts seem to license on a per domain basis so you are forced into a model with the cart site at the center (hub) and niche sites (spokes) around it attract traffic you can drive to your hub.
I have started using Weebly to build these niche sites because it lets me build them so fast. Weebly also lets me design on the fly as I test which presentation works best.
Two days ago I found ShopIntegrator.com which takes a whole different approach to handling the shopping cart problem. You open an account with them and load your products (including digital downloads) to their site. You pick a product you want to sell and their system generate the JavaScript to make a Buy Now, Add to Cart, Checkout on whatever of your sites you place it on.
If you put the same item for sale on more than one site, as soon at it sells all the other sites immediately show Out of stock.
That means I can start offering my one of a kind antiques and collectibles for sale on a lot of different sites. This changes the whole way I am looking at generating traffic and sales. I don't have to put completely different product categories onto the same hub website. I can spread them around where the fit the best.
I am still working though the implications but it is going to make a huge difference in how I structure my business.
I am more a developer than domainer and monetize sites with AdSense & EPN. I want to start selling my own stuff and have been exploring shopping carts. I tested Shopify extensively, have a Jimdo account, looked at Volusion and fooled around with my own PayPal buttons.
Real carts seem to license on a per domain basis so you are forced into a model with the cart site at the center (hub) and niche sites (spokes) around it attract traffic you can drive to your hub.
I have started using Weebly to build these niche sites because it lets me build them so fast. Weebly also lets me design on the fly as I test which presentation works best.
Two days ago I found ShopIntegrator.com which takes a whole different approach to handling the shopping cart problem. You open an account with them and load your products (including digital downloads) to their site. You pick a product you want to sell and their system generate the JavaScript to make a Buy Now, Add to Cart, Checkout on whatever of your sites you place it on.
If you put the same item for sale on more than one site, as soon at it sells all the other sites immediately show Out of stock.
That means I can start offering my one of a kind antiques and collectibles for sale on a lot of different sites. This changes the whole way I am looking at generating traffic and sales. I don't have to put completely different product categories onto the same hub website. I can spread them around where the fit the best.
I am still working though the implications but it is going to make a huge difference in how I structure my business.
