Affiliate Ecommerce Sites

chiTown22 · #1 10-19-2007, 03:29 PM

Creating affiliate ecommerce sites appears to be a low cost business. The vendor provides the inventory data feed and handles all order processing. You simply need to drive web traffic to your site. Which is easier said than done, but it does not necessarily have to be done in a manner resulting in a large cost.

Anyone have any experience creating and running an affiliate site? At the moment I am looking at the secondary ticket market.

Thoughts?

chiTown22 · #2 10-23-2007, 11:32 AM

nothing? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

MrBlue · #3 10-23-2007, 03:01 PM

all those old MMB are gone and are now trading stocks like the rest of us here. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img].

j/k. Sorry, nothing to add.

Gugel · #4 10-26-2007, 06:16 PM

Q: What is your competitive advantage sir?
A: I'm speculating here, but I'm guessing "Nothing".

chiTown22 · #5 10-29-2007, 06:24 PM

A. Superior customer experience.

Basically I am interested b/c from what I can see my overall risk is near zero due to the extremely low overhead and start up cost, basically just hosting costs.

If the site makes $17 a month, that is $17 more than I have now. There is no to very little downside.

However, I also have zero experience with running an affiliate site.

BradleyT · #6 10-29-2007, 07:08 PM

So you think you just put crap items out there for sale and then the magic traffic fairy brings visitors who are knocking down your doors to experience your "superior customer experience"?