Shopping Directory Sites

My sales suddenly boomed after I placed a few ads at shopping directory
sites, and my socks are knocked off. The results are incredible.

Since I have all the data for 20,000 items, I can just add it in a CSV
file - it takes about 5 mins.

I paid £70, and got about £10000 in sales in the first 4 weeks.

Does anyone have a list of shopping directory sites?

I am using uk.shopping and shopzilla. I looked around and saw
pricegrabber and pricerunner, but I have not tried them.

I dont want kelkoo as they use ebay links, and the ebayers selling at
cost+7% - I would earn more at my local hamburger restuarant.

__/ [Logician] on Sunday 16 October 2005 06:17 \__

My sales suddenly boomed after I placed a few ads at shopping directory
sites, and my socks are knocked off. The results are incredible.

Since I have all the data for 20,000 items, I can just add it in a CSV
file - it takes about 5 mins.

I paid £70, and got about £10000 in sales in the first 4 weeks.

Does anyone have a list of shopping directory sites?

I am using uk.shopping and shopzilla. I looked around and saw
pricegrabber and pricerunner, but I have not tried them.

I dont want kelkoo as they use ebay links, and the ebayers selling at
cost+7% - I would earn more at my local hamburger restuarant.

Back when I was shopping on-line (I don't buy anything these days), I used:

http://www.2020shops.co.uk/

http://www.dealtime.co.uk/

They are still in my personal portal and are probably some of the first
links to be embedded in it.

For computers (in the States particularly?) I recently added a link too:

http://www.pricewatch.com/

I found it somewhere among the portal links of someone whose credentials are
very high, but he lives in California

Hope it helps,

Roy

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Roy Schestowitz wrote:

__/ [Logician] on Sunday 16 October 2005 06:17 \__

My sales suddenly boomed after I placed a few ads at shopping directory
sites, and my socks are knocked off. The results are incredible.
.

Back when I was shopping on-line (I don't buy anything these days)

I cant believe the impact of shopping directories. I see the main
difference:
- shopping directories sites list PRODUCTS and not sites.

Google ads dont work for me. I have been paying Google 100-200 pounds
for months and it brings in sales, but not that much.

But this shopping directory aspect is amazing. Last night alone over
£1000 orders were made.

This is very good for me, as I have been working 16 hrs a day to build
the data models and to make my company work (I do all the work alone
with some help from a man in India for data entry - but I have to
correct a lot of his work). It has never been listed well (not since
Dec 03).

, I used:

http://www.2020shops.co.uk/

http://www.dealtime.co.uk/

Dealtime is linked to uk.shopping (shopping.com) and one feed covers
it, also others like ishop.

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On 15 Oct 2005 22:17:35 -0700, "Logician" <sales (AT) logicians (DOT) com> wrote:

My sales suddenly boomed after I placed a few ads at shopping directory
sites, and my socks are knocked off. The results are incredible.

Since I have all the data for 20,000 items, I can just add it in a CSV
file - it takes about 5 mins.

I paid £70, and got about £10000 in sales in the first 4 weeks.

Does anyone have a list of shopping directory sites?

I am using uk.shopping and shopzilla. I looked around and saw
pricegrabber and pricerunner, but I have not tried them.

I dont want kelkoo as they use ebay links, and the ebayers selling at
cost+7% - I would earn more at my local hamburger restuarant.

This is your domestic appliance site, yes? Have you tried Froogle at
all?

BB
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Big Bill wrote:

On 15 Oct 2005 22:17:35 -0700, "Logician" <sales (AT) logicians (DOT) com> wrote:



This is your domestic appliance site, yes? Have you tried Froogle at
all?

No I am selling mainly bathrooms. NOw I have 20,000 online items, and I
have about 300,000 items to add - I am just waiting on the data. The
products range from showers to steam units.

I read somewhere that even Google admitted that Froogle had failed.

Anyway what is happening now is truly fantastic in terms of my sales.
It is really doing me a lot of good, this month has been £20K.

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__/ [Logician] on Sunday 16 October 2005 10:36 \__

Big Bill wrote:
On 15 Oct 2005 22:17:35 -0700, "Logician" <sales (AT) logicians (DOT) com> wrote:



This is your domestic appliance site, yes? Have you tried Froogle at
all?

No I am selling mainly bathrooms. NOw I have 20,000 online items, and I
have about 300,000 items to add - I am just waiting on the data. The
products range from showers to steam units.

I read somewhere that even Google admitted that Froogle had failed.

Anyway what is happening now is truly fantastic in terms of my sales.
It is really doing me a lot of good, this month has been £20K.

http://www.merrows.co.uk/

Nice! Now I know where to buy goods for the house... (bookmarked)

Good luck,

Roy

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Roy Schestowitz wrote:

__/ [Logician] on Sunday 16 October 2005 10:36 \__



Nice! Now I know where to buy goods for the house... (bookmarked)

Good luck,

Nice of you to say. It is difficult for outsiders to understand that
when something works after you have spent thousands of hours banging
your head against a brick wall, it is a sort of vindication.

There is a lot more to come, and the whole site (now it has 41,000
pages indexed in google) is automatically built using .NET systems I
have written, including all receipts, purchase orders, indexing
internal, accounts (VAT), etc. Its own engine will associate products
as well - currently it just references - there are 300,000 references.

So I just need the data. I have also offline modules to enter data
which I also wrote.

I have just one guy doing the data entry, so we are a bit slow now. I
have a hope to expand to more people. The site is already probably the
biggest UK bathroom site.

Prior to my PPC I was really struggling as I am up against
bathstore.com (which has millions of pounds) and a string of medium
size companies. There simply outbid me, paid for links etc, and I could
not get anywhere.

Since the PPC campaign it has been terrific. The phone always rings,
and there are a stream of orders. I am so tired, I cannot even write
the .NET upgrades I have to write.

Roy

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__/ [Logician] on Sunday 16 October 2005 14:23 \__

Roy Schestowitz wrote:
__/ [Logician] on Sunday 16 October 2005 10:36 \__



Nice! Now I know where to buy goods for the house... (bookmarked)

Good luck,

Nice of you to say. It is difficult for outsiders to understand that
when something works after you have spent thousands of hours banging
your head against a brick wall, it is a sort of vindication.

There is a lot more to come, and the whole site (now it has 41,000
pages indexed in google) is automatically built using .NET systems I
have written, including all receipts, purchase orders, indexing
internal, accounts (VAT), etc. Its own engine will associate products
as well - currently it just references - there are 300,000 references.

So I just need the data. I have also offline modules to enter data
which I also wrote.

Hmmm... I don't want to toss that coin in the fountain, but that's what Open
Source is good for. You needn't have implemented anything. Such content
management systems come out of the box without bugs and are free. They also
generate pages on-the-fly, not offline.

If you ever seek some links, just ask. Free systems for secure payments,
helpdesk management, cataloguing, carts, etc. all exist already. Then
again, the user never gets the satisfaction of being the 'brain' behind
his/her own CMS/package, which can later be sold or distributed among the
community. Webmasterworld, for example, have spawned a forum software out
of their site's homebred code (which is cr** to be honest).

I have just one guy doing the data entry, so we are a bit slow now. I
have a hope to expand to more people. The site is already probably the
biggest UK bathroom site.

Prior to my PPC I was really struggling as I am up against
bathstore.com (which has millions of pounds) and a string of medium
size companies. There simply outbid me, paid for links etc, and I could
not get anywhere.

Since the PPC campaign it has been terrific. The phone always rings,
and there are a stream of orders. I am so tired, I cannot even write
the .NET upgrades I have to write.

Is that an offer (apologies if it's a complete misinterpretation)? If so, I
should point out that I only do Open Source stuff, but you might as well
have a look at the site of a fellow newsgroup participant:

http://www.nerdlance.com/

A bunch of us gave him some free links a few months ago as he had rather low
PageRank. Consequently, he did not have a sufficient number of SE
referrals, but he seems to be growing very strong now.

Roy

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On 16 Oct 2005 02:36:28 -0700, "Logician" <sales (AT) logicians (DOT) com> wrote:

Anyway what is happening now is truly fantastic in terms of my sales.
It is really doing me a lot of good, this month has been =A320K.

Congratulations, what's your normal monthly turnover (if you don't
mind me asking)?

Have you determined the cost per sale yet for this source of traffic?

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On 16 Oct 2005 06:23:07 -0700, "Logician" <sales (AT) logicians (DOT) com> wrote:

I have just one guy doing the data entry, so we are a bit slow now. I
have a hope to expand to more people. The site is already probably the
biggest UK bathroom site.

What's your prices like and delivery times?

In the process of buying a 8ish bedroom house with 2 current full
bathrooms that need updating and plan to add an on suite to at lest
one bedroom, then there's a couple of toilets and a kitchen that needs
updating. So will be spending quite a bit on bathrooms a couple of
months or so from now.

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