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spiredigital

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About spiredigital

Love e-commerce, online marketing, SEO and all things online business. Learning to become a better programmer. Contact me at andrew@ecommercefuel.com.

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    I've worked on my own remotely / out of an office environment for years, and definitely miss the banter and the camaraderie, but would never trade it back for the typical 9-to-5 I …

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    Very nice! Will this work with complex forms I already have built on my site, or do I need to create the form with special code/markup for it to work properly?

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    Cool listing, Dave. Shared it as I think it will be interesting to see how this pans out. Quick question: Do you guys have the processes for this store well documented? IE, written…

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    Comment #6922599

    OP here. Happy to answer any questions on the process, the auction or the closing. And thanks for submitting, akcreek!

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    Didn't use them right from the beginning, no. Have been using them to sync inventory for about 6 to 9 months now, and just recently started using them for order routing and sending…

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    Unfortunately, the trailing six months isn't a meaningful figure given the annual seasonality of the niche. Value would be over stated in the spring (when profits are high) and und…

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    Appreciated, thank you. And congratulations with the success you've had pairing your web app and eCommerce - very original! Best of luck with it in the future.

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    Good question. It's really a personal decision based on risk. Technically, I think consumers can go after anyone in the supply chain so, even retailers or stores. So it's not a bad…

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    No worries! :-)

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    Absolutely. It's run on the Magento OpenSource shopping cart, and it's a LAMP environment.

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    Thanks! And, yes, will definitely be doing a follow-up post when everything is finished.

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    Sorry, "elicit". Thanks for the catch mvkel.

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    OP here! This is not the only drop shipping site I run, and I talk about the others on my blog. This specific site (TrollingMotors.net) doesn't make six figures annually - that's c…

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    Starting with $0 would be difficult. I think having at least $1,000 or $2,000 would be helpful for web hosting, some basic design / logo work, and a small advertising budget. I sta…

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    Thanks! I picked the niche purely based on where I thought I could make money. When I started it, I had been running another drop shipping site for a few years already and wanted t…

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    I will if you will offer me a 60 day options contract to sell bitcoins at a fixed price after close! Otherwise, the volatility cold double or half the purchase price. :-)

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    Good question! I was actually wondering about that when I was drawing up the financials. I don't honestly have a good answer for that. Speculating here, but it could be minor chang…