Products we have decided on!

At last we have decided on the product that we are going to be selling on the site. The products are, baby care, home and garden, office supplies, personal care, pets, and watches. We have decided on these as wee feel it will give our clients a great range to choose from. What we have done so far is printed out a list of these products with the prices. We have then compared them to the competition and made sure we aren't under cutting ourselves either. The pricing is now all done and it has been edited on to the database.

We also have worked through the categories and on the home page have stated the brand that we sell like, Tomy, Philips, Braun, Wahl, Johnsons, Disney, Morphy Richards, Casio, Baby G, Remington, L'oreal, oh the list goes on. We then linked them accordingly to the products they relate to.

Hompage Layout, Products Argh!

Today has been quite eventful, we have found a wholesaler, signed up with them. They do a range of product and the whole system and programme seems quite easy. They have over 4500 products that we can choose from to sell and they do the delivering as well. Result. So that means we don't have to store a large amount of products.

What to sell!

Looking on the Internet there are so many online shops, so many products, how can we compete? Also we have to figure out what people want. Starting your own business is so scary, its going out in to the unknown. What legal status, who is your niche market, what will sell, prices they will sell at, making a profit. Whoa . . . . there are loads are questions to ask yourself.

So we have started to do some research into products. At this time in the recession, what product will sell, what people are buying. Now we think of what people need rather than want. The necessities. We have made a list of what people need.

Babies! Now babies are always needing products, feeding bottles, bibs, cot mobiles, dummies, soothers, activity mats, toys. A whole variety of things, they are always needing bits and bobs and there are so many births, baby product aren't likely to go out of fashion.

Pets. Now I know what you're thinking, if we are in a credit crunch people aren't going to buy pets, they don't need them. Yes but there are people out there who already have pets and dogs and cats need collars, leads, beds, bowls, toys, training leads, training product,cat flaps, dog flaps. See it wasn't going to an outrageous idea.

Personal care, luxuries, do we only aim at necessities or a whole range of things?

Now do we limit it one catagory or provide our customers with everything they will need.

No1ukshop - Our online store. The begining

Welcome to our blog.

We are a young couple who are trying to start our own business. We are interested in design as both studying it at College and University and I am very interested in web design and optimising. Together we are going to create an online store selling a variety of products, from kitchen ware, Home products, Personal care products, baby care, Pet products and more items but we would just list a few for now.

We are testing out different organisations to help with the whole process of the business and techniques we both feel that will benefit the business.

We hope you follow us on our journey and support us and enjoy the experience with us.