New Trend for Etailers, Start a Chain of Stores for Free!

When I first started my store it was around the Holidays, I thought, "we are going to be sooo busy and everything is going to be great!" Let me just say, I quickly learned that I was being eaten alive by all the other competition out there. I thought, "How am I going to compete?" I tried everything, sales, promos, buying leads, not much came from it, a few sales but not consistent.
Then one day I came across Shopit.com, which is a social ecommerce network. I had put a page on Facebook, (which I might go into some other time) so I thought this would be another way to get my web page known. Needless to say, I love this place, it has given me access to so many more people who would have never found me organically or even on my CPC campaigns. Also, listing is UNLIMITED. Giving me the ability to to expand my business into other product lines that didn't seem to fit at my main site.
I have now 4 stores (I have my own chain, haha) my main store, a store on Shopit, eCrater and BluJay. All of these stores are free to list and support PayPal and Google Checkout, a selling point for potenial buyers. You also have the choice to accept other forms of payment.
Now one tip I want to give you that is VERY IMPORTANT, whenever you start another store, use your web sites URL as your storefront profile. The reason for this is to improve your ranking in Alexa, which in turn makes you easier to find! For example, My web site URL is fireflygn, my stores all have the same name as the profile. When I go to Alexa and put my URL in, all the store pages come up, and I noticed my rank improve almost 2 million!
The other benefit to having these other stores is people who are searching for a product you sell, will see your Shopit store or eCrater store BEFORE they see your main store because these stores rank higher than yours! Now your getting to be a bigger fish! Swim on :D


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When I first started my store it was around the Holidays, I thought, "we are going to be sooo busy and everything is going to be great!" Let me just say, I quickly learned that I was being eaten alive by all the other competition out there. I thought, "How am I going to compete?" I tried everything, sales, promos, buying leads, not much came from it, a few sales but not consistent.
Then one day I came across Shopit.com, which is a social ecommerce network. I had put a page on Facebook, (which I might go into some other time) so I thought this would be another way to get my web page known. Needless to say, I love this place, it has given me access to so many more people who would have never found me organically or even on my CPC campaigns. Also,listing is UNLIMITED. Giving me the ability to to expand my business into other product lines that didn't seem to fit at my main site.
I have now 4 stores ( I have my own chain, haha) my main store, a store on Shopit, eCrater and BluJay. All of these stores are free to list and support PayPal and Google Checkout, a selling point for potenial buyers. You also have the choice to accept other forms of payment.
Now one tip I want to give you that is VERY IMPORTANT, whenever you start another store, use your web sites URL as your storefront profile. The reason for this is to improve your ranking in Alexa, which in turn makes you easier to find! For example, My web site URL is fireflygn, my stores all have the same name as the profile. When I go to Alexa and put my URL in, all the store pages come up, and I noticed my rank improve almost 2 million!
The other benefit to having these other stores is people who are searching for a product you sell, will see your Shopit store or eCrater store BEFORE they see your main store because these stores rank higher than yours! Now your getting to be a bigger fish! Swim on :D
Here are some of the sites I talked about in this article:

shopit.com
ecrater.com
blujay.com

here's some other sites to think about using:

http://members.freewebs.com/index.jsp
bigcrumbs.com
yuwie.com
facebook.com
ipromote.com

I hope this information is useful to you, let me know what you think, also please feel free to share places you have found useful.