The Importance of Online Business in Selling Products
Offering an amazing product does not always imply that you have sophisticated products or the best and highest quality products on the market to sell. It frequently boils down to the merchant's capacity to supply the products to the clients at reasonable pricing and on schedule. As a result, online business is a proper way that frequently does this. This is a service provided by many websites and web servers. Some, however, do not assure that all of their clients are equally satisfied (Laudon, & Traver, 2013).
The Success of Amazon
Sites such as Amazon for instance only began as a bookstore where people would buy and read books online, however to date, it has grown to become one of the greatest online selling platforms in the world. Amazon is similar to eBay in the sense that they are both exposed to many customers. However, the cost of selling a product on Amazon is higher than the cost of selling the same product on eBay.
The Role of eBay in Online Sales
Amazon, however, has a complicated algorithm that not only helps to sell the product but also has the same algorithm that proposes and suggests the products to possible buyers in the market. EBay is another site that can come in handy in the sales of the products (Rischpater, 2004). This site is well known all over the world for the sales of various goods and therefore, having this site as the primary setup of the sale of goods can be a good thing. However, the seller must know that eBay sets a price on every item that is listed in the showroom. Therefore, looking at the cost of expenditure, Amazon is better than eBay.
Etsy for Vintage and Handmade Goods
Etsy is another forum that sells goods online. This site is, however, suited for the sale of vintage materials and handmade goods. Therefore, for this site, there is a limited description of items that you can send or post on the website for sale. That is, it has to be a handmade object, and it also has to be vintage.
The Importance of Using a Renowned Website
Therefore, in my assessment of the products and the web developers. It is, therefore, advisable that for the products to sell properly and more efficiently through the market. We have to ensure that they are effectively sold. And their values accurately represented. As a result, since this issue depends on how well the website is also known, the best way to sell the products given that they are still few, is to use a renowned website to market them. That brings me to the fact that using Amazon to sell the products can be the greatest idea as at now. This is because the products are still few and the delivery of the goods can also be easy when an order is placed.
The Benefits of Using Amazon
Amazon is better than the other sites in the sense that it provides sufficient information to the client and suggests the products to various potential buyers and thus increasing the possibility of the product being bought by customers. Besides, the product prices are fixed in the market such that there are no rooms for negotiation by the clients (Simon, & Joel, 2011). This is unlike the setup for eBay or any other sites. Amazon provides after-sale services to their customers, and as a result, they have many regular customers compared to eBay. Therefore, it is advisable to use Amazon as the startup site to deliver the goods to the clients. This is because it is way cheaper than the other sites given that listing charges are not available, and it has a fixed price on the goods that are listed on the site.
References
Laudon, K. C., & Traver, C. G. (2013). E-commerce: business, technology, society. Boston: Pearson.
Rischpater, R. (2004). Understanding the Fundamentals of eBay Development. EBay Application Development, 13-37. doi:10.1007/978-1-4302-0689-7_2
Simon, P., & Joel, M. (2011). The age of the platform: how Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google have redefined business. Las Vegas: Motion Publishing.
