As Taobao's transaction volume continues to increase, webmaster friends have seen a market, namely intra-city shopping and industry shopping. Intra-city shopping refers to transactions between the same city, and industry shopping refers to certain types of electronic products or certain types of clothing products.
In 2009, I also devoted myself to the e-commerce industry. Want to build a local intra-city shopping network. I was 18.9 years old at that time. Reporting many dreams. Imagine this market goes undiscovered. But in the end I found out I was wrong. As someone said. If there is no one in a market, or the market has not been discovered, there is another possibility that the market cannot work.
So, I looked for website building procedures on the website. At that time, I met the webmaster of Hubang Shopping Network. He recommended the ECMALL program to me. Rely on your basic knowledge of HTML code. After I started to slowly explore and get everything in the program space, I started to go online. Because of an 18.9-year-old boy. No money, no resources. So now that I think about it, failure is inevitable. Due to the update of the ECMALL program, more and more people want to be a city shopping website, so a large number of XX Taobao or XXX malls have appeared, and I finally learned about them. XX Taobao's nomenclature is infringing.
At that time, the name of the website I built was "Anhui Taobao.com", and I tried every means to promote my website. Baidu knows. Baidu Tieba. There is also a big video website. Not bad though. It was promoted to PR3 in one month, after three months of development. The website has a certain number of members. However, no profit was made. Because there is no profit model at all, charging advertising fees? No one will advertise. Traffic is low. Collect store rent from the seller. They are all small individual sellers. They won't play on your website if you collect money. Collect merchant transaction fees. Many people passed by this platform. After the buyer and seller contact each other offline. Go to Taobao to trade. So there is no profit model for this site. Keep it here. I'm also very helpless. At that time, I went to the webmaster website to look for people to post. There is a team that says they can post. Say you are a professional team posting. Relatively fast. Negotiate the price at that time. I think it shouldn't cost much to post. Because of the posts, these advertisements will definitely be deleted by the administrators of other websites in the short term. At this time. Tragedy has occurred!!
at night. The poster contacted me. Tell me the post has been posted. 500 yuan. It didn't really shock me at the time. I said you should give it a few days to complete the distribution. How can I finish posting a post so quickly? Then they told me not to make excuses and told me: "We are a professional posting team. If you don't pay us, we will scold you on major websites!"
Just like that, posts scolding me were flying all over the major webmaster forums. I imagined that all the webmaster friends wanted to be famous through their websites and make themselves famous at the same time. I never wanted to be famous again. It was too scary. I decided to go to the forum to explain. . I found that the more I explained, the more confusing it became. And the moderator came forward. At this time, I feel that the moderators like to follow the trend. Then the moderator used his own privileges to publish a post, and then combined all the posts in the forum that criticized me. I am silent. I would like to advise all webmasters to keep a low profile in their work, because being low-key is the best way to show off. Posts on the Internet in 2009 that scolded me have been reprinted in various collection forums.
In the end, I decided to give up on "Anhui Taobao" which was not profitable. Because my home is relatively close to Nanjing. And I am relatively familiar with Nanjing. Registered njc2c. cn this domain name. Name it: Nanjing C2C (Nanjing Taobao), print business cards and run the market. I found out. The merchant doesn’t believe you at all. Because you are not famous. No traffic. Another question that merchants are concerned about is "Has the merchant next to us done anything on your website?" What was the effect? In the end, it was powerless. Because I did C2C in Nanjing, I didn’t see any signs of improvement. What’s the use of increasing PR? What can you do if you want Alexa Rank to increase? What can you do to increase website ranking? Without customers, everything is in vain.
So from then on, I became more determined. Without customers, no matter how good the website’s functions or artwork are, it will be useless. Customers are the basis for your survival. With customers, you can expand your functions and work hard on your art. I often see new people. Join our ECMALL mall QQ group. Yell when you enter a group. Who can do secondary development? I want to develop a mall that is the same as Taobao Mall, and I want to develop a mall that is the same as QQ Mall. Of course, ECMALL can do it. But what happens when the functions and art are in place? It seems that it cannot be ridden on a horse!
Some things, maybe everyone, like me, imagines them very beautifully. Two years of development. After five years of being famous and ten years of being listed, I am afraid that 99% of websites cannot even take the first step. I have counted thousands of websites using ECMALL. There are less than ten companies that are actually making money, and those who are making money are all following some basic routes. They do not innovate, but copy the old model. They have funds and resources. Therefore, for novice webmasters, I suggest you be realistic. Shopping in the same city or in the same industry is not as simple as you think. You need to solve a series of problems such as payment, delivery, refund, dispute, transaction, and evaluation. If there is a problem in any link, your website will not be a trading platform, unless from the beginning, you are positioned as a merchant display platform, and through display, you can bring customers to physical stores. Then you need to reposition, plan, and determine a new profit model!
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