I find ecommerce hard to start. Does anyone else feel this way?

Been a while since I last posted! I'm glad to see all the members here now.

So I've always wanted to start doing ecommerce but I find it hard to start. Like let's say I want to sell handmade stuff on Etsy, I don't want to have to go down to the post office and ship stuff every week. Not sure if there's an easier option for this but that's the part that puts me off.

Or maybe I want to sell stuff on Amazon. No idea how that one works lol.

Anyone got any advice on starting this? I'm in the US btw.

There are logistic centers similar to those Amazon have, you can probably save some of the headache that way.

The New Guy said:

Been a while since I last posted! I'm glad to see all the members here now.

So I've always wanted to start doing ecommerce but I find it hard to start. Like let's say I want to sell handmade stuff on Etsy, I don't want to have to go down to the post office and ship stuff every week. Not sure if there's an easier option for this but that's the part that puts me off.

Or maybe I want to sell stuff on Amazon. No idea how that one works lol.

Anyone got any advice on starting this? I'm in the US btw.

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Your going to find it hard if you can't be fucked to post off 1-2 manual orders.

Doing 3PL only worth it on volume.

Unless your dumping 10-20k into the start up to cover set up and ads. Ecom is a long game.

It's not going to be easy its hard and gets harder. If you can't do the little things now dealing with growth later, customer services, cash flow, logistics, storage, warehouse, staff and so on isn't going to be for you.

I'm saying this coming from a fairly established ecom business of 11 years 24th of Oct this year!

The New Guy said:

I'm in the US btw.

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If I lived in US I would be a gazillionaire

t2van said:

Your going to find it hard if you can't be fucked to post off 1-2 manual orders.

Doing 3PL only worth it on volume.

Unless your dumping 10-20k into the start up to cover set up and ads. Ecom is a long game.

It's not going to be easy its hard and gets harder. If you can't do the little things now dealing with growth later, customer services, cash flow, logistics, storage, warehouse, staff and so on isn't going to be for you.

I'm saying this coming from a fairly established ecom business of 11 years 24th of Oct this year!

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Maybe you're right ecom might not be for me if those manual orders are too much. I've always been curious about it and can see it's hard.

Skyrocket said:

If I lived in US I would be a gazillionaire

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Haha probably not with all the deportations and other crazy stuff going on!

The New Guy said:

Maybe you're right ecom might not be for me if those manual orders are too much. I've always been curious about it and can see it's hard.

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Posting a few orders is just the easy bit to start.

There's more required to get it going and up off the ground, if thats a mission then maybe being self employed isn't for you?

Not trying to be funny, just never heard anyone complain about something so trivial being a challenge or wanting an easier way.

There's nothing easy in business.

Find a job.

t2van said:

Posting a few orders is just the easy bit to start.

There's more required to get it going and up off the ground, if thats a mission then maybe being self employed isn't for you?

Not trying to be funny, just never heard anyone complain about something so trivial being a challenge or wanting an easier way.

There's nothing easy in business.

Find a job.

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Totally agree with you.

@The New Guy it sounds like you should probably just look for a job. It doesn't mean you can't do IM on the side but maybe ecommerce isn't right for you.

Well, you have to do something... Never did ecom, but I assume since there's no service, there's no service delivery, but there's item delivery . And you need to source the stuff from somewhere. And store. And then, there's marketing, you need to do that regardless if it's service, items, digital items... Hell, even if you want to infect computers with malware you need to spread it somehow so marketing again .

Like, it's ok if you don't like certain type of work, then do something else that doesn't bother you. But either way you'll have to do something.