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Most people don't understand that a webshop is like a normal shop: hard and lots of work: Writing good text Taking good pictures Handling sales and deliv
by pasta 8y ago
Most people don't understand that a webshop is like a normal shop: hard and lots of work:
Writing good text
Taking good pictures
Handling sales and delivery
Handling returns (yes people will return sometimes)
So I agree with most people here: don't roll your own shop but invest time in running your shop.
- mattkevan 8y agoAlso marketing. Running a successful online shop is 70% marketing, 30% everything else. Mucking about with technology should be a fraction of that. As someone who loves mucking about with technology, I got the balance very wrong with my first shop – spent so long getting it working and keeping it working I had no to time to tell anyone about it.
- gav 8y agoI would suggest that you want to get that marketing number as close to 100% as possible. Spending time on anything technology related at the start is really a distraction from the important goal of understanding products, pricing, and customers. Any time spent on technology beyond that of doing the minimum required to make selling possible is a premature optimization.
- bo1024 8y agoBut those all sound like things that have to be done regardless of whether you code your own website or use something like etsy. So are you just arguing that coding a site takes time away from doing those things?