Ill be the first to tell you im a greenhorn. I never even realized you could buy turnkey sites ready to go. I have been intrested in a site that sold muscle building supplements. I realize there are already a lot out there, im not trying to my 50k a year just a lil small project to learn about ecommerce and maybe make a lil $ while im in college. I have been looking at TurnkeyNation.com and like some of what theyre selling. Thanks in advance for any ideas or insight that you guys have! Im all ears:bigear:
Any Advice on Turnkey sites??
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Good Morning.
I am not an expert so these are just my own experiences and suggestions.
I prefer to do my own thing and I have found most turnkey offerings to be either too expensive or restrictive. If they offer order fulfillment, you're not going to realize much of a profit because they aren't extending true wholesale prices (as many of them claim) and by the time they charge you dropship fees, shipping and handling, monthly membership, and/or hosting fees, you'll be lucky to make anything at all. I would suggest that you hang here for a couple of days, you'll get some great money making ideas from the posters here, you can learn about the affiliate business and you can set up a website of your very own.
Okay. Good luck!!!
I am not an expert so these are just my own experiences and suggestions.
I prefer to do my own thing and I have found most turnkey offerings to be either too expensive or restrictive. If they offer order fulfillment, you're not going to realize much of a profit because they aren't extending true wholesale prices (as many of them claim) and by the time they charge you dropship fees, shipping and handling, monthly membership, and/or hosting fees, you'll be lucky to make anything at all. I would suggest that you hang here for a couple of days, you'll get some great money making ideas from the posters here, you can learn about the affiliate business and you can set up a website of your very own.
Okay. Good luck!!!
I agree that almost all of the turnkey sites I've seen aren't likely to be very profitable. Right now I'm helping a couple of people with such sites that they bought into before they talked to me. They're virtually impossible to SEO effectively so getting traffic is an issue. They're overly restrictive in what you can do and in how you can organize things. They're usually poorly programmed for customization as compared to open source e-commerce solutions like Zen Cart or OSCommerce. They're cookie cutter so yours will look like everybody else's site so getting repeat customers by generating a memorable impression is more difficult.
The basic problem is that they're designed to make the turnkey provider money and not make you money. Some even run their own adsense or affiliate offers on your site and you can't remove them.
IMO, you would be better off to simply find a good dropshipper and run an eBay store or hire a reliable coder to put together an OSCommerce site for you on your own site. Or you can get into the turnkey racket yourself and make money that way.
The basic problem is that they're designed to make the turnkey provider money and not make you money. Some even run their own adsense or affiliate offers on your site and you can't remove them.
IMO, you would be better off to simply find a good dropshipper and run an eBay store or hire a reliable coder to put together an OSCommerce site for you on your own site. Or you can get into the turnkey racket yourself and make money that way.
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