I started being a Taobao customer on March 15, 2009. Before that, I dismissed it and thought: How can I make any money doing this? But there was nothing else to do after work, so I started to do it with the mentality of giving it a try.
1. Newbie to Taobao
It took me more than half a month to start from thinking about it. After carefully analyzing Taobao customers, I found that there are many promotion models suitable for different groups of people. There are single product promotions, store promotions, search promotions, and later there was an API promotion. Single product promotion and store promotion are suitable for people with blogs, wide social network, and plenty of time. I work 8 hours a day and want to play games after get off work, so it is not suitable for me. Search promotion is suitable for people who have a website and a certain amount of visits, and it is not like me. So I can only think about API doctrine. API is equivalent to transferring all the products promoted on Taobao to your own website. This has a very good advantage: search engines can search many web pages of my website. This can bring a certain amount of traffic through search engines, which is just right for people like me who don't know how to promote, don't have time to promote, and are too lazy to promote.
2. Build a website using API
Because I have taught myself ASP before and used ASP websites. After I looked at the API, I found that I could use ASP to call the API, so I applied for Taobao and bound my Alipay account. Because these are the necessary conditions for applying for API, I applied for API after finishing it. Unexpectedly, it was approved the next day, and an API manual was also sent to me (like it~the speed service is quite good). It took half a month to complete the website (Falling in love with Taobao: http://www.23taobaowang.com/. Moderator, please don’t ban me, I will AD, haha~~), it’s done, debugging Okay, I will upload it to the website space and take a look at it myself every day.
3. The waiting process
In order to make my website crawlable by search engines, I posted on the forum and added my URL to my signature. Sure enough, it was quickly indexed by Baidu and Google. I was very happy to see that my website was indexed in the search. Because then I can wait for others to buy things through my website, and I can make money as long as others buy things through my website. So I went to check the traffic statistics every day, and I went to Alimama to check the income every day. I was very disappointed in the first month or two because my income was basically zero. Only in the second month did I earn more than 40 yuan, and I didn’t even make back the domain name fee.
4. Sudden surprise
By the middle of the second month, my website began to generate income within a day or two. Sometimes it was a few yuan, sometimes it was dozens, and sometimes it was more than 100 (of course very little). But I have seen hope, and I am very happy! From this time on, I decided to continue doing Taobao. Although the income is not very high, I believe that if I stick to it, the income will gradually increase! Now my monthly income It's only about four or five hundred, which is not very high. Compared with those awesome people, it's really not worth mentioning. But the more I do, the more confident I become, and I hope everyone can support me and persevere!