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lezinterracial · 11-25-2012, 05:37 PM

I been planning on building my first mainstream site. I would like to sell water filtration equipment (portable camping filters and stuff for preppers).

Not sure where to get started. Should I buy a bulk amount of filters off Alibaba and sell them, Should I just open a site and become an affiliate, or try an ebay store and see if it works? How do I know if I am looking into a niche with too much competition?

AdultAudiences · 11-27-2012, 01:45 AM

I haven't done this myself yet; so take my advice with a grain of salt. But I would begin as an affiliate or focus on drop shipping. That eliminates the overhead costs, hassle, and risk of purchasing and warehousing the products. Once you have a smoothly running, profitable, drop shipping website, you can change the business model to handle the merchandise yourself.

lezinterracial · 11-27-2012, 06:23 AM

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Originally Posted by AdultAudiences

I haven't done this myself yet; so take my advice with a grain of salt. But I would begin as an affiliate or focus on drop shipping. That eliminates the overhead costs, hassle, and risk of purchasing and warehousing the products. Once you have a smoothly running, profitable, drop shipping website, you can change the business model to handle the merchandise yourself.

Thanks AdultAudiences. Looks like I chose a competitive business. But on the bright side, I should be able to find affiliate sponsors and drop shipping suppliers.

SmokeFetishGirls · 12-03-2012, 05:43 PM

You should look into partnering with a company that is local. Look for registered distributor deals. Ebay is a waste of time - the fees will end up killing you. + you are shipping something from wherever and that will kill your retail pricing. Ebay + shipping = bye bye.

Start a store - use a free cart system.. do a little seo, get a keyword rich domain. See what happens in 4 months. Here is an idea for you, get a cart solution, set it up, put some products in it, keyword and onpage seo the shit out of it... but dont integrate paypal or a payment solution.. just let people get to the checkout and it will error out. Then you start getting emails, then you get some data to analyze and then you will know what you should do.. until then, dont drop too much $ on it.

Jaeger · 12-04-2012, 12:57 AM

Hi I just launched my first real mainstream site recently, it is a prepper site.

http://www.howtobeprepared.org

I had similar thoughts to yours, I decided to go down the affiliate path, although as the site is new, I have not gotten around to adding any actual ads. At the moment I am just trying to get traffic / links. I think the affiliate path is probably useful to get a feel for the particular market but take my advice with a grain of salt because i am new to mainstream.

javinder_mn · 12-05-2012, 04:27 AM

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lezinterracial · 12-05-2012, 11:51 PM

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Originally Posted by SmokeFetishGirls

You should look into partnering with a company that is local. Look for registered distributor deals. Ebay is a waste of time - the fees will end up killing you. + you are shipping something from wherever and that will kill your retail pricing. Ebay + shipping = bye bye.

Start a store - use a free cart system.. do a little seo, get a keyword rich domain. See what happens in 4 months. Here is an idea for you, get a cart solution, set it up, put some products in it, keyword and onpage seo the shit out of it... but dont integrate paypal or a payment solution.. just let people get to the checkout and it will error out. Then you start getting emails, then you get some data to analyze and then you will know what you should do.. until then, dont drop too much $ on it.

I like that idea. I actually bought 2 domains. One that is just a list of widgets from Amazon. I want to use that for my market research.

I also bought another and am gonna play with agoracart to see if I can get that working. I may just do like you say. Set the cart up and just let it error out on checkout.

lezinterracial · 12-06-2012, 12:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Jaeger

Hi I just launched my first real mainstream site recently, it is a prepper site.

http://www.howtobeprepared.org

I had similar thoughts to yours, I decided to go down the affiliate path, although as the site is new, I have not gotten around to adding any actual ads. At the moment I am just trying to get traffic / links. I think the affiliate path is probably useful to get a feel for the particular market but take my advice with a grain of salt because i am new to mainstream.

Like your site Jaeger. I want to reach out to that niche with my backpacker/emergency section of water filters.

I am trying to use key phrases that I read in magazines. Like "pocket survival kit" and "bug out bag".

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