bryanpham Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 Hi, My store went live for two weeks and I have about 100 page load per day average... but not a single order so far. Anyone see anything wrong with it, please let me know... I'm start blaming on my the "bad" nitche which I hate to admit. Please look and help. Thanks. http://www.etchedmirrordecor.com Bryan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥14steve14 Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 My only concern is that there appears to be no ssl installed. That would put me of straight away. REMEMBER BACKUP, BACKUP AND BACKUP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxtel Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 Hi, My store went live for two weeks and I have about 100 page load per day average... but not a single order so far. Anyone see anything wrong with it, please let me know... I'm start blaming on my the "bad" nitche which I hate to admit. Please look and help. Thanks. http://www.etchedmirrordecor.com Bryan. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> stop blaming you "bad" nitche (whatever that is) and start blaming you lack of patience. 2 weeks is nothing and so is 100 page loads per day. Give it some time to have you site listed properly on the search engines and see the page loads rise to 5000 per day and then you may start being concerned when no orders are made. Treasurer MFC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 It may come down to your prices, have a look at other suppliers in your country. Are your prices more expensive/cheaper/same, what are your shipping charges like in relation to the competition etc. When I look for items on the web to buy, if there is no discernable difference between suppliers and the product I will go with the cheaper supplier (and thats looking at the whole cost, item, delivery etc) Your site looks nice and professional enough, so I wouldn't say that was your problem. As Steve says SSL would be an issue for myself. All things being equal I would always choose the supplier using SSL. If a non-SSL site is cheaper than an SSL site I would still use the SSL site, as I feel they are taking a more professional approach to caring for their customers. And 2 weeks isnt enough time to judge things, patience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥bruyndoncx Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 with such bulky items, you should be clear about the shipping upfront. I suppose it's not as expensive as people might think. If it is expensive, then you might be better of increasing your price and lower the cost of shipping a little. I don't think it is the typical product to buy on the web, but it is niche, and if people are into it, they will buy it if they have the guarantee it will arrive in one piece and at a reasonable price ... KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON I do not use the responsive bootstrap version since i coded my responsive version earlier, but i have bought every 28d of code package to support burts effort and keep this forum alive (albeit more like on life support). So if you are still here ? What are you waiting for ?! Find the most frequent unique errors to fix: grep "PHP" php_error_log.txt | sed "s/^.* PHP/PHP/g" |grep "line" |sort | uniq -c | sort -r > counterrors.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bryanpham Posted July 31, 2005 Author Share Posted July 31, 2005 Thank you every one who take the time to visit and greatly appreciate to those putting down comment. bruyndoncx, can you be more specific? I have free shipping for order over $100 stated on every item and on the top of the page... however, I may need to put down $15 for any order less than $100. Was that what you mean? with such bulky items, you should be clear about the shipping upfront.by bruyndoncx mikeq, I have done lots of research and found many site carrying these items. Those I found could not compete with my price as a whole (includes shipping and tax). I would greatly appreciate and will take action if you point me to any site that has a lower price on any of my item. It may come down to your prices, have a look at other suppliers in your country. Are your prices more expensive/cheaper/same, what are your shipping charges like in relation to the competition etc. Steve, I know ssl is an issue now for me. I would like to see one or two orders first before spending any more money on this site. Thanks for your suggestion though. My only concern is that there appears to be no ssl installed. That would put me of straight away. Bryan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AverageJoe Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 I would bite the bullet and buy a $30 ssl certificate. I use godaddy's without a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WisTex Posted August 1, 2005 Share Posted August 1, 2005 I would bite the bullet and buy a $30 ssl certificate. I use godaddy's without a problem. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> He needs to get a merchant account first. He is using PayPal, which is a turnoff for some people. At the very least, I would suggest using PayPal's logos in this format: Since PayPal no longer requires registration to pay, it's better to emphasize the credit cards instead of PayPal. But even so, 2 weeks and 100 page views a day is nothing. Especially when you realize that half of those is probably from you checking on your own website, and the rest are probably friends and family who you told about the website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bryanpham Posted August 1, 2005 Author Share Posted August 1, 2005 He needs to get a merchant account first.? He is using PayPal, which is a turnoff for some people. At the very least, I would suggest using PayPal's logos in this format: Since PayPal no longer requires registration to pay, it's better to emphasize the credit cards instead of PayPal. But even so, 2 weeks and 100 page views a day is nothing.? Especially when you realize that half of those is probably from you checking on your own website, and the rest are probably friends and family who you told about the website. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thanks for the helpful hint. I will take those logos to my site. I will leave it alone for a while... I was very shine about the number when I first posted it... but it's not that important now and... no, they are all new members... if statcounter doesn't lie about IPs. I took it down from bizrate caused I could not afford $20 per day for that anymore. Just FYI. WisTex. If http://www.kyperfumeandgifts.com is your site, just FYI. I saw this on the footer: Catalog | My Account | Shipping & Returns | Privacy | About Us | Contact Us PHP Warning: getimagesize(http://www.kyperfumeandgifts.com/catalog/Images/Celine Dion.jpg) [function.getimagesize]: failed to create stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request in D:\inetpub\wwwroot\wistex customers\kyperfumeandgifts.com\www\index.php on line 447 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizardsandwars Posted August 1, 2005 Share Posted August 1, 2005 You might want to give NexTag or Shopping.com instead of bizrate. They both are much, much cheaper than bizrate, offer comparison price shopping, and give great conversion ROI. Also, you should be advertising pretty heavily with Google's Adwords. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: As of Oct 2006, I'm not as active in this forum as I used to be, but I still work with osC quite a bit. If you have a question about any of my posts here, your best bet is to contact me though either Email or PM in my profile, and I'll be happy to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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