Worksheet #9 Expanding Market Reach

Personalized eCommerce, Auction Selling and Item selling are ways to reach more customers, expand your market and give customers more ways to find you.

• Personalized eCommerce sites let you take a logo, graphic or design and put it on items for sale ranging from t-shirts to mugs, mouse pads to postage stamps and promotional items in general. Example This allows you to promote your website and its products.
  http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/tour/index.aspx or
  http://www.zazzle.com/
• Auction Selling allows you to sell almost anything, one item at a time and may allow merchants to link back to the merchant's main website. This is a lot like a classified add.
  http://www.ebay.com/
• Item selling requires that the website already sells that item or will allow you to add it within their product categories.
  • Sell Your Items at Amazon Auction
  • Sell Your Stuff at Amazon.com

Write at least three paragraphs (at least 200 words) for each of the three choices below. Your answer should include but are not restricted to the following: How do you sign up and are there restrictions or requirements?What options are there? What is the price or prices for this service or its options? Do they have a demo or free trial offer? Are there initial and ongoing fees. Does it seem easy to set up? How do you get paid?

1. Personalized eCommerce sites - choose either:
http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/tour/index.aspx
or
http://www.zazzle.com/

2. Auction Selling
http://www.ebay.com/

3. Item selling - Sell Your Stuff at
Amazon.com