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Showing posts with label ecommerce website to partner with eBay store. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ecommerce website to partner with eBay store. Show all posts

Friday, March 14, 2008

Finally finished my ecommerce site

I started a website to go along with my eBay store back in '06 when I opened the store. At the time I used Yahoo! Web Hosting and used their free WYSIWYG website building software "Site Builder" and built my own site. I spent AGES designing and had to configure my own shopping cart with html from PayPal and for a good long while I was very happy with it. I guess I was more proud than anything. It was so nice to say "I did it myself" and telling folks that I designed it all. Who knows what anyone else ever thought about it, but I was proud.
The downfall... it didn't do everything I wanted it to and it was very very time consuming. Any time one little change needed to be made I had to manually go to re-design every single page! I have over 400 items!!! Even at 2 minutes each, it would be over 13 hours of work to change one little thing. The other downfall, I could only access it from my one main desktop, so it tethered me to the back room.
I read somewhere that the downfall of most entrepreneur is not hiring someone to do things because they didn't want to let go of control. So, I took the leap. I researched around and since I was already happy with the customer service I got from Yahoo! I decided to upgrade to their Merchant Solutions program. This one uses a template and I just plug in the products much the same way that I do for eBay. I've lost a little creative control but from what I have learned about it so far, it is capable of doing more, I just need to learn how.
For now, it is pretty basic.
It took me a few weeks to set it all up. Mainly because I kept getting slowed down by keeping up with my two eBay stores and regular life getting in the way. Husband broke his jaw... spent a week in the hospital, baby decided that napping was no longer in the daily schedule, etc. etc.
It took a couple of calls to tech support, but the crazy thing is that every single time I called, the solution was overly simple and I was over-thinking the whole thing.
If you wanna check it out and see what you think, it is www.addictedtorockabilly.com