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Ask HN: Opinions on New Business Launch

7 点作者 eli_s超过 15 年前
Hi all, It's not my intention to spam HN. I posted a story about my new business and it disappeared very quickly on the list (maybe wrong time of day to post?). Anyways - if this get ignored then i'll assume ppl are not interested and i'll scurry away with my tail between my legs hehe :)<p>I've been developing an ecommerce startup in my spare time over the last 2 years.<p>Ecommerce site builders are a-dime-a-dozen, so i tried to differentiate myself by including a fairly feature rich print catalogue builder.<p>I'd love to hear your opinion on a few things: 1. What do you think of the product/site? 2. Do you think there is a market for <i>another</i> ecommerce product (the shopify guys seem to be doing well - this gives me hope)? 3. Do you think that the catalogue builder can be enough of a draw card to get people to try wizifi? 4. Any marketing advice for a total marketing noob?<p>Thanks for your time - I value HN opinions.<p>site: http://www.wizifi.com<p>demo store: http://www.wizifi.com/nexus_login un: hn pw: hn<p>ps: you;ll need to use a webkit based browser to log into the admin the reasons for this are another story altogether :)

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patio11超过 15 年前
Who is the customer that you identified who wanted "e-commerce with printed catalogs that don't suck"? If you haven't identified someone who said that, DROP WHAT YOU ARE DOING and DO NOT CONTINUE until you have verified that there is at least one actual person who sees the need you are trying to fill. If you have, in fact, talked to a person who was willing to rip out their existing e-commerce solution and replace it with a new one just to get a printed catalog which does not suck, a) get their money and b) start identifying other people who want a printed catalog which does not suck.<p>Marketing advice: you will find that "e-commerce" is extraordinarily, extraordinarily broad and, as a wee little guy on the virtual corner of Nothing St. and Nowhere Bldv., it is impossible for you to penetrate through the din. Start by digging into niches. For example, if you have that customer who wanted the printed catalog that does not suck, start banging virtual doors in their industry because presumably other merchants have the sort of tech-negative clients who respond well to printed catalogs. If for example you find that it is impossible to sell, I don't know, porcelain dolls without a printed catalog, then you could try dominating the "porcelain doll e-commerce" niche, which shouldn't be nearly as hard as e-commerce proper.<p>After you get a bit of traction and the porcelain doll merchants are eating out of your hand, you can expand horizontally into related industries. Additionally, the bigger the snowball gets the better your chances of attacking the fat head from the Long Tail are.
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rms超过 15 年前
I have an ecommerce site running on Prestashop and the features of your site are not particularly compelling to me. However, if there was a good hosted ecommerce site builder available at the time I installed Prestashop that only charged a monthly fee and not a percentage of sales, I would have used it.
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tjoozeylabs超过 15 年前
i would have uploaded vids to vimeo.
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