neerdowell said:
Slimebeast said:
neerdowell said:
Slimebeast said:
Will you be typing the product descriptions yourself? Well, obviously the raw material is copy-pasted from publisher material, but will you personally edit the final text?
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I'm hoping to avoid even copy-pasting. I would like to feature hundreds of games to start and continue expanding. i think I'll have larger responsibilities than entering descriptions manually, like promoting, accounting, and expanding the site's features. The final text will likely not be edited.
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Aha, so that's what wordpress or Amazon associates is for? (among other things)
This all seems so complicated to me lol, what modern retailing has become.
In my imaginary world an online retailer orders a bunch of games from a distributor and then types the info about them into an Excel sheet and just posts it on the website lol.
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Yeah, well this would be a lot simpler if I were just purchasing from a wholesaler; however, that requires a great deal of investment capital, not to mention that the advent of ebay and amazon has made it extremely difficult to compete.
Amazon actually allows you to create a store with their automated software where you can either sell your own or their products and it handles the details for you; however, I'm positive it doesn't allow you to sell other's products and it requires you to have the products beforehand.
I could also write my own software specifically to handle product descriptions (it could scrape amazon's site and then populate a database); however, once again that requires the initial coding. I was hoping someone already knew an application that had these features in mind.
Thanks though, I'm probably just overthinking this.
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I don't think you are overthinking it.
It's interesting that a big trend in business lately are all these middle-ware solutions who specialize in services. Instead of launching a site that simply sells the end product they launch a service that guides the consumer in finding the right products (or guides the seller at some level of the distribution chain, but as a regular consumer I seldom get to see that end of it).
It's probably the only way as a newcomer to compete with the already established and with the giants.
