How to Make Money on eCrater.com

After expanding to Blujay.com market place, I expanded my online business of selling authentic beauty supply to eCrater.com as another step on my quest of financial freedom. eCrater is pretty new but it soon gains its popularity as an eBay alternative but its greatest advantage is 100% FREE martket place and moreover, you can create as many eCrater store as you like.

eCrater is designed as a store front and it also has feedback system as eBay does. It's traffic is pretty good and it auto submits your listing to Google products. It's simple to get started selling on eCrater: here are steps I took:

1. Register on eCrater with username/password. If you sell on many martket place, it's best to use the same user name so your customers can recognize you.
2. Select payment options: it's best to offer both google checkout and paypal
3. Setup Category and select represent category pictures to show on your store's home page
4. Create Product and upload upto 10 images/product. Your product image is best when it's in square and min 250x250. If you don't see the images after uploading, it may because your browse is not configured to show temporary files stored at port 8080. After a few days you will see these images after they are moved to a permanent place on the server. Only a few users face this issue and I am one of them. 
5. Configure shipping policy, US sale tax, etc. 
6. Upload your logo and put some text on your homepage to tell what your store is about
7. Then you are ready to take order.
8. To promote your store, you can join eCrater community to promote your store and learn different ways to promote your store from other sellers
9. Another cool feature of eCrater is you can create a widget and add it to your blog or other website.

If you like to see how an eCrater store looks like, visit my store: http://sofiashop.ecrater.com/. I also have other stores http://sofiashop.blujay.com and of course my blog where I write journal of financial freedom steps I tokk: http://financialfreedomwish.blogspot.com/ I would appreciate any feedback for improvement.

How to Make Money with Blujay.com

As part of my journey to find financial freedom, I have started a small online business to sell beauty supply and my goal is to sell authentic products with reasonable price. I first listed my products on ebay.com but then decided to find ebay alternatives because ebay costs more than the profit I could make. It does not mean that I am totally against ebay. It is still a very good marketplace that I can use to promote my product. I will discuss this in another article.

In this article, I'd like to introduce blujay.com as one alternative to eBay.com . It offers many advantages including but not limited to 100% free market place, no listing fee, no commission, no charge of any kind. It's designed as a store front where you can list as many products as you like. You can offer both google checkout and paypal as payment methods.

The design is so easy and straight forward to work with and you can give it a try by following these simple steps:

1. Go to blujay.com and click on Login/Register where you specify your user name, password, etc.
2. After register completes, you can list your items immediately.
3. You can create custom categories for your store or select universal ones from the list
4. Add product description and image. Blujay does not have strict restriction on image size or dimension. It allows you to add up to 4 images per product.
5. To save time, you can select 'Copy Ads' and modify the ads so that you don't have to enter data many times
6. Blujay will submit your listings to Google product and it's a plus because your listings can be found easily with search engine.
7. You will get email notification when an item is sold. And you can view your order and update your status and contact your customer, etc.
8. Blujay is simple, but sufficient for you to start your business. You don't need a sophisticated tool to start your small business while you have not made enough project to cover the cost piling up on the other side.
9. One drawback of blujay is that it does not have feedback system where buyers can rate sellers. This feature is really a must for some sellers and who need that would also try ecrater. I have an article on ecrater as well.

If you have shopping mood today, visit my stores and my blog and let me know what you think: http://sofiashop.blujay.com or http://sofiashop.ecrater.com/ or http://financialfreedomwish.blogspot.com/