Hi all,
One thing I haven't seen anyone bring up is advertising for the new site. There are untold number of websites out there on the web and over 3.6 million under the search criteria of "handcrafted wood items for sale".
One thing we must be ready to do is to advertise to the point that everytime you you type in a search in Google, Yahoo, MSN, ALTAVISTA, and the rest of the top 10 search engines, your site comes up in the top 10-20 sites brought up. People don't want to go thru page after page of returns.
This kind of advertising can be expensive, but it will give you great returns. After the site is up and running, and the sales are coming in, the money will also be coming in to support continued advertising, and so on.
This is just another outlay that will have to be made
BEFORE while the site is starting up!
Another thing that we need to think about is are we going to take sales from this site or act as a referral site to the owner of the item up for sale.
If we are going to sell it right from the site, how is payment to be made and in whose name? I will let you guys debate that one! It opens a number of large cans of worms.
Just a few thoughts I thought I would throw out there.