Today I speak with Padma Pandya from GreenDoggieBags.com.
Green Doggie Bags is a niche e-commerce site, specialising in, well, green doggie bags 🙂
This is a great interview for anyone who is considering starting an online business. We cover many tips and tricks that will help out new business owners, and many deadly mistakes that will save you loads of time and money.
Listen to the interview below:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/Eshopwiz/Interviews/Padma.mp3
In this interview, we also cover:
- How Padma selected her product (and an important lesson for all who are still undecided)
- A huge time and money saver when selecting a domain
- The important elements when selecting an e-commerce platform and when hiring help to implement it (plus mistakes that cost Padma thousands of dollars and how to avoid them)
- Some marketing strategies that you might just not have thought of
- The often neglected but oh so important factor of customer service
- Plus much more
If only l had heard this before l went down the same path and went with outsourcing my site to a company in India. Wow l could of said it word for word, they were good at promising the world and handing me an atlas. Finally we managed get the site finished after sacking them. A reverse auction site was not something we could purchase off the shelve, so if you are planning to build your own site l would definiately recommend using open source existing software and adapting it for your needs. Please feel free to check out our site and send me any feed back, http://www.123yabe.com.au
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Hey Craig,
Yes, it seems to be a similar story for many… Glad to hear your site worked out in the end. Looks like a great project you got going there!
Hi Vinay and Padma – thanks for the interview! Very helpful. I’d like to learn how Padma created her product, found a manufacturer, and how it ships. Can you share more about the product?
Thanks,
Leah