(this post is a feed post from my comments on reddit)
r/business
Speaking as a VC, and someone who previously worked in affiliate (digital marketing and e-commerce)
Start with a simple website, make sure it’s mobile enabled, link it to your personal what’s app.
Make sure you have flyers and stuff which have the website URL and qr code to website and WhatsApp
Website is a simple intro to you, your products and your plans. Don’t bother with the e-commerce function in the short term, just do it manually via whatsapp (have a catalogue PDF that you can forward to ppl) for payment just use PayPal or whatever
Focus instead on all your offline – markets; pop ups etc- use that to build an audience and a following.
You can basically do this until you’re getting like 20 orders a day or the kind of revenue that justifies the cost of dealing with an e-commerce site and it’s related issues (uploading product images and SEO and all that other crap) – make proven money first before sinking it into digital stuff
Currently working on opening an online store… what all do I need?
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