Tips for Creating an Online Store

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Kristen Nicole, a writer for Popular Tech Blog Mashable wrote a great piece on our new social aspect to Flying Cart.

This week we are excited to announce that our CEO, Rishi Shah, is featured in Business Week as one of the Top Young Entrepreneurs of the Year! It is a huge honor for him to be featured among all the talent in the field. Way to go Rishi!
View the article here.

Go to the slideshow and view slide #23. Then make sure to vote for him as having the most promising business

Social networking is a huge web phenomenon, linking people to other people with similar interests on sites like Facebook and MySpace. My friend Jeremy’s life (an 8th grader) seems to revolve around his Facebook profile. That’s some powerful stuff.

In pondering the ubiquitousness of social networks on actual social real-life social lives, I wondered, can I bring the benefits of social networking to Flying Cart? In the world of online retail, it would not only help store owners meet and talk to each other, but it would also help bring in more customers by linking stores. Stores would no longer be islands, they would be part of a retail network. Voila — store networking was born!

We just launched this new feature on Monday and we are already seeing lots of our stores putting up their public profiles and finding other stores to connect with. It’s an instant hit.

Alot of Collectibles just wrote us a nice note: “hi ! just wanted to let you know I had my 1 st sale in my new store ! My customers love it b/c it is much easier to see everything than ebay. I got an immediate order email and it works great !”

Do you have a hot product that you want people to know about? Get one of the top posters on stylehive.com to bookmark it, and get ready for some free marketing. StyleHive is a social networking site where users can bookmark and rate products that they find online. Then other users and visitors can track and buy what their favorite trendsetters like.

Want to check it out for yourself?

1. Go to Stylehive.com
2. Click on People at the top to see the top trendsetting users
3. Click on a person to see his/her favorite products
4. Some users list their email address. Send them to your Flying Cart store to look at a product that you think he/she might like to bookmark.

Getting a Flying Cart store is a great way to sell handmade arts and crafts. If you want to get a worldwide online audience for your stuff and don’t want to pay a big price for an ecommerce website, Flying Cart could be just the thing you need.

I have developed websites for lots of artists, and I know that most of them have little to no budget. This is so often the case that I have done many jobs in trade for art. Most artists I know want a way to get their stuff seen, and they want it cheap with no initial investment required. I hope more artists will catch on to Flying Cart and how useful it can be as a marketing tool.

Right now, some of my favorite crafty sites are: TJ’s Kreations and Babylicious Design

Batman Bottlecaps at TJ’s Kreations

We just noticed that one of our stores is using SitePal, an automated voiceover creation tool. Take a look at how they are using it on the about page of babytownusa.flyingcart.com.