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Friday, August 2, 2013

How To Get Your Flags In A Website

By Abe Johnson


Many people out there are of the mistaken belief that selling custom flags online is incredibly easy to do. The thing is, it can be easy if you know what you're doing. We're here to get you up to speed on starting up and running a web store of your very own that can be successful and thrive.

Do not stress too much about your photo shot, you always have the editing process to retouch your images. And you don't need a fancy photo editing software. Many people personally love to use picnic. It has many of the cool features that expensive photo editing programs have, but it's completely free.

Hearing feedback and answering questions from customers are very important. Make sure you try to attend to the customer as soon as possible to make them feel welcome and wanted. If a customer is from another country make sure to find someone that can translate for them.

By cutting out the middle man in every transaction you can exponentially increase your profit margin. This is because you can concentrate on keeping more of the money from your sales rather than paying someone else a percentage.

Two different sales channels exist in the online world. The first is a direct sales channel which sells custom flags directly from your site to the customer. The next is an indirect sales channel. This is when you use a middle-man or third party site such as Amazon to sell your custom flags. Normally this costs you a cut in profits or you need to give the third party site an incentive.

If you have a physical store front sometimes its preferable shoppers come in versus place orders online to save on shipping and handling. Plus a personal shopping experience can go a long way and you have greater opportunity to really sell your custom flags to them.

Studying different companies in the same market as you is a wise way to form a business plan. That's because most online custom flags businesses are just a simple variation of an existing business with a couple of added perks. Try to find a way to set yourself apart so you don't seem like a copycat business.

Always make sure that your custom flags are placed in the right category when using third party sales sites. This way people will easily find your flag product when they search in the category of custom flags they are interest in and it will also save you from getting into trouble with the website for falsification.

It's better to use tools to assist you in updating your stock. By this, your customers will always be sure of the availability of custom flags and the quantity available, which would enable them to place their order. There are software tools available which are handy to help you during peak season sales.




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