Saturday, May 19, 2007

First Order

We have our first order the next day after we added our auto lights items to Google products. It is really an exciting news for us. It helped us speedup the process to setup accounts with the wholesalers.

Reach out to customers

The first problem is how to reach out to the potential customers. The problem is that our newsite didn't have any exposure to the internet yet. After some research, we decided to put it on froogle first. It is now Google Products. There are several ways to list the items on Google Products. You can list one at a time which is too time consuming for us. You can also do a bulk upload using a csv file. However, after going through the creation of our KingSource Yahoo Store. I have been a little bit tired of working on the files. Surprisely, we found that Google provides a Store Connector which can automatically upload items from our Yahoo Store. Thanks to Google. We were able to list our first 400+ items to Google Products with a few mouse clicks.

Adding Items to Sell Online

The first thing is to add items to sell. We decided to sell only aftermarket auto lighting and lamps products, such as aftermarket headlights, tail lights and after market foglights for cars and trucks parts and accessories replacement and performance. After two weeks of hard work (Yeah, work to 2 am every night), we finally have most of the lighting products added.

Start a Yahoo Store

I helped Carol create her online yahoo store migiCute three years ago. After three years of struggling, her sale is picking up sharply for the auto lighting products. She offered us helps in creating our own stores. We decided to go for it. So kingsource.com - a domain I registered at 2004 finally launched.