| taerese | 05-01-2015 11:59 AM |
Has anyone launched a standalone ecommerce site on the back of their ebay success
Guys, I am looking to start an ecommerce site outside of ebay. It will be a sort of a discount store and I will be sending out nearly 700 printed postcards to invite everyone who has bought something from me on ebay before. I will be offering them free delivery on their first order as well as a year X% commission whenever someone sign upto my site using their referral fee.
I want to know if anyone has tried this approach before and how successful was the venture.
While I have been in the Voucher code business before, Infact, I still own one such site here in the UK which have been operational for many years. I think depending on google for success is no longer the way to go so, for my ecommerce site, google traffic would generally be a plus but I dont want to make it my primary source of traffic. My traffic will be exclusively via advertising, referral, social media as well as through a popular facebook group which I am planning to aquired from its previous owner at a price.
I just want to hear all of your input on this, or does anyone think its purely a waste of energy to go outside of ebay? | 
