#025 – 5 Places to Setup Your Online Shop
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So you have something to sell, either physical or digital. Where do you go to set up your online shop? This week, Glen gives you his top 5 ways to get your product out the door and money in your pocket. It’s a longer episode, but there’s a lot of info in it.
Kimba offers up this weeks latest and greatest new stuff available in the social media world.
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Show Notes
Where to Sell Your Online Stuff
Ok, I didn’t do the comparison table I promised. It looked really messy, so I decided to put the info in our usual format.
Square
- Good for in-person and online sales
- Easy setup of the online store
- Can do gift cards and loyalty programs
- Price: only pay when you make a sale. 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction
Shopify
- Some publicity through them, but there’s a lot of others selling on Shopify too
- Price: $29/month PLUS 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction, or 2.7% for in-person transactions
LITE plan – sell on Facebook, use Messenger to communicate with customers, take credit card payments: $9/month (same credit card rates as above)
Gumroad
- Digital, physical, subscriptions and pre-orders
- Handles shipping charge calculations, sending tracking numbers
- Generate software license keys
- Discount codes, sizing/color variations
- Calculate sales tax
- Price: $10/month, 3.5% + $0.30 transaction fee
Gumroad Discover – If a customer finds you through it, add 10% transaction fee
Selz
- Have Buy buttons, Facebook store
- Discount codes, tax calculations
- Paid tier gives you a website with them
- Price: Free – basic features, up to 5 items. 2.9% + $0.30 (cc fee) + 2% per transaction
LITE – Pages & blog, themes, remove their branding. $11.40/month, same cc & transaction fees
STANDARD – $17.50/month, same cc fee but 1% transaction fee
PRO – adds abandoned cart feature, use your own domain name, the PayPal payments. $23.50/month, same cc fee, no transaction fee
Store Envy
- Marketplace and individual store
- “Awesome Indie Brands”, claims over 52,000 brands
- Order fulfillment, inventory management
- Stripe or PayPal for credit card processing
- Up to 500 product listings
- Discount codes
- Price: Store – only credit card transaction fees. Marketplace – 10% fee
What’s New In Social This Week
- Facebook releases augmented reality effects platform.
- Twitter rolls out in-stream video ads.
- Youtube opens mobile live streaming for smaller accounts (1k)
- Facebook launches new social VR platform, Facebook spaces in beta.
- Snapchat introduces world lenses. Paint the world about you in 3D. Virtually interact with 3D grapics.
- Facebook workspaces, CRM integration with Salesforce, Onedrive and a few others. Very close to Basecamp.
- Facebook launches automated insight for analytics.
- Google Analytics has a new home page.
- Instagram rolls out collections for saved post, private and new updates.
- LinkedIn new privacy policies to roll out on June 7th.
- Google testing new job platform called Hire.
Links from the Show
Square – https://squareup.com
Shopify – https://www.shopify.com
Gumroad – https://gumroad.com
Selz – https://selz.com
StoreEnvy – http://www.storenvy.com
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