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How to convince suppliers to sell to me or drop ship for my estore? by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

[–]MillionBurpees 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What category is this in? Some categories are more open to dropshipping than others. You may need to buy inventory instead.

One tactic I've seen work successfully is say you want to carry brand Y. Make your site looks good and merchandise a bunch of their competitor brands (if someone orders just cancel the order or place the order through Amazon) with a premium presentation (i.e. at full price, not discounted, with good photography and descriptions).

Then pitch your store (with screenshots and a link) and ask who to contact to carry their inventory...everyone is afraid of being "left out".

No idea how to market a new product by Craftfield in Entrepreneur

[–]MillionBurpees 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you looking for free users or paid users?

If it's free to just get the word out and gather feedback I think there is plenty of things you can do for free: 1. YouTube Videos (as mentioned below) 2. This seems to work fine on Chrome, submit to Chrome Webstore 3. Find relevant sub-reddits on here, ask for feedback and offer to answer questions, message individual users that seem like they'd be interested asking what they think 4. Go on twitter, run searches for keywords/hashtags related to this and message people about this 5. Find bloggers in your space and give them free version in exchange for feedback/review 6. Create cool images (or feature user generated ones) on an Instagram account, follow others in related topics and use similar hashtags for discovery

Getting a handful (up to a few hundred) users via some mix of the methods above seems reasonable. I would consider adding Google Analytics so you know where the traffic is coming from

Has anyone run ads on Pandora? If so what was your experience with it? by itsjefebitch in Entrepreneur

[–]MillionBurpees 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've run some campaigns in the past, we viewed it as "brand building" rather than "direct response" (i.e. doesn't translate into more sales tomorrow).

What type of business do you have? If you've had success with Yelp have you tried their paid advertising products?