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oscarttt
Joined: 25 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 2:15 pm Post subject: PSU vrs other venues |
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New to PSU and my first post.
I have sold mostly books over 8 years, and am looking to move and add inventory to another site and thought about a PSU website. Besides, a personalized domain, what other advantages do you think I would have vrs. other sites. My inventory would eventually be up to 3,500 books. I am trying Ecrater and Blujay. Have sold on Ebay for 9 years, but sales are not anywhere what they used to be. Amazon is a steady venue with good sales. Any suggestions?
http://daysofoldbooksadsandmore.ecrater.com
http://www.blujay.com/tommyttt |
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psunite
Joined: 27 Jan 2005
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Location: Columbus OH
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| Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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| you will also get personalized email and complete control of what your site looks like. Both Ecrater and Blujay have a set look with them. What the PSU stores you can create as many custom pages as you like since it is built on a content management system. |
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RiverRat
Joined: 20 Apr 2006
Posts: 818
Location: Riverbanks of Tennessee
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| Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 7:36 pm Post subject: Re: PSU vrs other venues |
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Do the PSU stores have a RSS Feed?
I assumed they did, but I haven't been able to located it on one yet and we need it when they list their store on our CHShops. |
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tfw
Joined: 20 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 8:35 pm Post subject: Re: PSU vrs other venues |
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Yes we do get rss feeds. We also have a newletter capability that the visitors can sign up for. I try to send one out ever month. I do my own promoting so I know it is getting done. It is easy to export my product feed and upload it to google base. I can track my traffic. It is very easy to have information content to interest your visitors. Easy PP and GC intergration. There is a learning curve but the people here are very helpful. I have had my store for about a year and a half and I love it, best move we ever made.
Terry :D |
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lightning_lash
Joined: 22 Jul 2006
Posts: 365
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| Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 9:04 pm Post subject: Re: PSU vrs other venues |
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oscarttt wrote (View Post): › docWrite("quote")New to PSU and my first post.
I have sold mostly books over 8 years, and am looking to move and add inventory to another site and thought about a PSU website. Besides, a personalized domain, what other advantages do you think I would have vrs. other sites. My inventory would eventually be up to 3,500 books. I am trying Ecrater and Blujay. Have sold on Ebay for 9 years, but sales are not anywhere what they used to be. Amazon is a steady venue with good sales. Any suggestions?
I seem to be a similar type of seller. I mostly sell books on Amazon, my own site, ecrater and blujay. I have deemphasized ecrater and blujay in favor of my PSU store over time.
Having a PSU store is having your own web site. After you get your domain name, PSU becomes your web host provider for a small fee each month.
There are so many things you can do with your own website that you cannot do with a store on ecrater or blujay it would be too numerous to list.
The only advantages Blujay/eCrater have is simplicity and cost. You can create a store faster with Blujay/eCrater than a website. But it is not that much faster. And the cost of free vs. $9.99 is nothing when you look at what you get.
I would suggest giving a PSU eccomerce site a chance. With Blujay/eCrater you will have to promote to get people to your store, you might as well spend that time promoting your own web site. |
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RiverRat
Joined: 20 Apr 2006
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Location: Riverbanks of Tennessee
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| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:18 pm Post subject: Re: PSU vrs other venues |
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tfw wrote (View Post): › docWrite("quote")Yes we do get rss feeds.
Terry :D
Hi Terry!
Is that something you had to add yourself on your site or is it built into it? If it's something you added yourself, could I ask how/where you did it?
Like I said, the reason I ask is on our shopping site, we use RSS feeds to create a scrolling display of our included websites products. We have a couple of PSU stores listed, but I can't find an RSS feed for them.
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated! :D |
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kathykld123
Joined: 04 Sep 2006
Posts: 163
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| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 7:27 pm Post subject: Re: PSU vrs other venues |
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It is easy to export my product feed and upload it to google base
Gee, my PSU Store feed doesn't work. I hand typed 200 items into googlebase, one by one. |
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jjjcollectibles
Joined: 22 Apr 2008
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I'm interested in the answer to that question too. We will definitely be needing an RSS feed if it can make us a scrolling display ala Auctiva.
(We think our Auctiva scroll is the neatest store tool we ever saw. :-) ) |
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kathykld123
Joined: 04 Sep 2006
Posts: 163
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| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 7:29 pm Post subject: Re: PSU vrs other venues |
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| CH Shops - the feed is located in the store section of your admin panel. I can't look because the servers are down right now. |
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kathykld123
Joined: 04 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 7:31 pm Post subject: Re: PSU vrs other venues |
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You should be posting your questions of the PSU Stores board here:
http://www.powersellersunite.com/viewforum.php?f=39 |
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tfw
Joined: 20 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 8:21 pm Post subject: Re: PSU vrs other venues |
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RiverRat wrote (View Post): › docWrite("quote")tfw wrote (View Post): › docWrite("quote")Yes we do get rss feeds.
Terry :D
Hi Terry!
Is that something you had to add yourself on your site or is it built into it? If it's something you added yourself, could I ask how/where you did it?
Like I said, the reason I ask is on our shopping site, we use RSS feeds to create a scrolling display of our included websites products. We have a couple of PSU stores listed, but I can't find an RSS feed for them.
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated! :D
RiverRat I can't get into the store right now it seems to be down, so I am going by memory and it is not what it use to be. In the module section I believe the is a rss feed module you have to publish to activate it.
Terry |
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tfw
Joined: 20 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 8:26 pm Post subject: Re: PSU vrs other venues |
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kathykld123 wrote (View Post): › docWrite("quote")It is easy to export my product feed and upload it to google base
Gee, my PSU Store feed doesn't work. I hand typed 200 items into googlebase, one by one.
kathykid If you go to store> products> Froogle feed export and the check enable offer id . then got to the bottom left of the page and Click export froogle feed. I save mine to the desk top and then change the file name to the one I have set up on the google base upload and upload it. I do it twice a month this way and have never had a problem getting my items on google base.
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RiverRat
Joined: 20 Apr 2006
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Location: Riverbanks of Tennessee
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| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 8:28 pm Post subject: Re: PSU vrs other venues |
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tfw wrote (View Post): › docWrite("quote")RiverRat wrote (View Post): › docWrite("quote")tfw wrote (View Post): › docWrite("quote")Yes we do get rss feeds.
Terry :D
Hi Terry!
Is that something you had to add yourself on your site or is it built into it? If it's something you added yourself, could I ask how/where you did it?
Like I said, the reason I ask is on our shopping site, we use RSS feeds to create a scrolling display of our included websites products. We have a couple of PSU stores listed, but I can't find an RSS feed for them.
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated! :D
RiverRat I can't get into the store right now it seems to be down, so I am going by memory and it is not what it use to be. In the module section I believe the is a rss feed module you have to publish to activate it.
Terry
Great!! Thank you so much! I'll pass that on to my PSU site owners. |
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RiverRat
Joined: 20 Apr 2006
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Location: Riverbanks of Tennessee
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| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 8:30 pm Post subject: Re: PSU vrs other venues |
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kathykld123 wrote (View Post): › docWrite("quote")You should be posting your questions of the PSU Stores board here: http://www.powersellersunite.com/viewforum.php?f=39
I don't have access to that board. :wink: |
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angelsolutions
Joined: 08 Mar 2005
Posts: 3286
Location: Corpus Christi, TX
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| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 8:43 pm Post subject: Re: PSU vrs other venues |
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The product RSS feed is here:
http://www.yourstorenamehere.com/productrss.php
The google base feed is produced in the back end by virtuemart and this is how you get that:
Quote: › docWrite("quote")kathykid If you go to store> products> Froogle feed export and the check enable offer id . then got to the bottom left of the page and Click export froogle feed. I save mine to the desk top and then change the file name to the one I have set up on the google base upload and upload it. I do it twice a month this way and have never had a problem getting my items on google base.
The joomla rss content feed module should not be published UNLESS you are consistently publishing JOOMLA news or newsflash content on your site, which i don't believe any of us are.
There's a difference between the three. :D
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