Selling products online can be quite the challenge, particularly if you are building your first site and have no brand awareness/recognition. A big mistake many newbies make is they try selling products before they have the traffic and credibility.
Building a store is not a guarantee people will just flock to your site. You must give them a reason. More importantly, you must give sites like Google a reason to bring free traffic to a newcomer such as yourself.
The best way to succeed with an online store is to build content first and the store last. And if you don’t understand what I mean, read this article on building online stores.
Sandra Marie says
what do you think about the niche on energy drinks? my old fashioned father has no idea how to sell online, and i have been trying to get him to get started online.
also, i want to compete with http://www.energytin.com , www,amazon.com . and like you said how do I help him create a neiche for this category?
Sandra