Recently I had setup an online shop with bffs, then realised that its not as easy as I thought. Working with people, disagreement will definitely comes in. Thank god, we have know each others for so long and each are very understanding.. and we put our friendship in the first place.
0. Get the website up. Registered domain, platform and web design.
1. Products.. research, contacts, network and travels to ensure the quality of each released are excellent or at least something that we would allow our children to put on before we sells it. We handpicked all items for import.
2. Photo... most of the time, photos from suppliers doesn't look as the actual item, so we would want to take photo of the actual items. No surprise to our customers. Of cos, in order to have the photo looks good, photoshop like remove the background so that the item can stand up. All these all additional effort.
3. Release.. giving name to best description to the items, taking the measurement of actual and pricing would be another round of effort.
4. Marketing. .. most of the time we cant let the product speak on its own sitting on the website. Market becomes the next interesting topic to understand customer behavior and bring customers in.
5. Dispatch... the last but not the least step.. pack and post it. We wanted the item to reach our customers as early as possible, so we are watching up the postage collection time to ensure that each day we didn't want to miss the collect and have the item to be received within the next 2 days.
Its a long process huh... one of the joy from the online shop is i able to pick up the items for janelle and let janelle dress it first. :) and of cos meeting those nice customers and becoming friends sharing the tips of childcare and encouragement.
Would this become my permanent career?
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