Nowadays, opening an online store on Taobao is nothing new. As long as you make good use of resources, it is not difficult to earn a stable income, whether part-time or full-time in Soho.
Griswold also opened a store on Taobao in 2003. Compared with the current e-commerce environment, the online store business at that time faced greater distrust. However, it also needs to be admitted that early online stores were better than today. Domestic The increasingly perfect e-commerce conditions have also intensified competition among C2Cs. I personally believe that independent online stores that accumulate personal brands are the future development trend. Compared with small shops that live on Taobao, C2C online stores with the help of mature online payment tools such as Alipay and independent domain names are not only more personalized, but also have further development. The possibility of growth.
If you have the ability to communicate in English and the supply of goods, it will be even more profitable to open an online store in the United States.
Griswold doesn't believe too much in the wealth stories told by many eBay sellers. Most of them are written by soft writers. You must know that eBay is promoting multinational seller certification as a weapon to defeat Taobao and seize the market. But generally speaking, the foreign trade profits of foreign online stores can reach twice that of domestic ones. A friend once joked that there is no need to change the selling price, just change the RMB into US dollars.
Anyone who has opened an online store knows that it is difficult to wait for business by sitting next to the computer all day long. If there is no reply for a while, the potential buyer will have already moved to another place to shop. Foreign buyers are not so fussy. In-site messages and emails are the main means of communication, and there are not so many strange questions. Simple explanations are enough, which saves worry and effort.
Of course, choosing the right products is very important. Selling various handicrafts and objects with strong national characteristics to foreigners is the first choice. This is the core competitiveness of Chinese sellers. If you insist on putting high-quality Nike replicas produced by small factories in Dongguan on eBay There's nothing I can do about it.
Of course, opening an online store in the United States is not as easy and natural as this blog post makes it sound. Behavioral habits and cultural differences have to be considered. The most obvious one is the difference in electronic payment tools in different places. In China, Alipay is the world, and Americans love to use it. PayPal, moneybookers have a larger audience in Europe and so on. If you are opening an independent online store, you will get twice the result with half the effort by choosing an e-commerce program that is more in line with Westerners' browsing habits. You must know that ShopEx does not even have an English version. Griswold is sorting out e-commerce programs that are widely used abroad to help everyone open online stores in the United States!
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