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Show HN: My new side business

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Re: Show HN: My new side business

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Post by yataa »

My first thoughts were: 1. Don't make customers login to make a purchase, allow guest checkouts and this will improve your conversion rate. 2. The homepage is too crowded, reduce the number of call to actions/buy now choices.

Re: Show HN: My new side business

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Post by devcom »

yataa wrote: post #3

My first thoughts were: 1. Don't make customers login to make a purchase, allow guest checkouts and this will improve your conversion rate. 2. The homepage is too crowded, reduce the number of call to actions/buy now choices.

Ok guest checkout is a good idea, totally overlooked that. Thanks.

With the homepage do you mean just have the single deal. And remove the deals on the side?

Re: Show HN: My new side business

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Post by jere »

devcom wrote: post #2

If you wouldn't mind I would love some feedback on this. I haven't made a sale yet and I am not sure why. ANY feedback is appreciated!

My first thought was "hope you're good at baking cookies."

>I haven't made a sale yet and I am not sure why.

Is "14 OFFERS SOLD!" BS then? One small thing: the "what's hot" products on the right looked like third party ads. Maybe it's just me.

Re: Show HN: My new side business

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Post by devcom »

wildcardww wrote: post #5

How does this differ to the 20+ other 'daily deal' sites in Australia? Is there a particular niche you are targeting?

We wanted to make ours more fun for the buyer and have a 'theme'. All our marketing has been aviation themed, such as "fly in for a great deal".

At this stage we kind of went broad, having a bit of everything to see which products sold more. We are a little limited to what our suppliers have at this stage. But the prices are still cheap

Re: Show HN: My new side business

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Post by devcom »

jere wrote: post #6
devcom wrote: post #2

If you wouldn't mind I would love some feedback on this. I haven't made a sale yet and I am not sure why. ANY feedback is appreciated!

My first thought was "hope you're good at baking cookies." >I haven't made a sale yet and I am not sure why. Is "14 OFFERS SOLD!" BS then? One small thing: the "what's hot" products on the right looked like third party ads. Maybe it's just me.

Yeah the 14 offers sold is just to make the website not look like a ghost town. Put some activity on it.

That's great feedback on the sidebar thanks.

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