Online shopping vs. Store fronts
The world of Facebook is a magical and technical realm where small businesses can promote their products and services. Paying for ads can come at quite a cost to sell items though. With twenty bucks you can promote ads where Facebook sends sponsored links on peoples timeline. The effects of promoted ads is a hit or miss. Most people ignore ads that are sponsored because I know that I do.
The new way of selling products are not in a multi vendor, brick and mortar, or a store front. With technological advances in this generation everything is speeding up to online stores. Shipping and handling is sky rocketing. Sure there are still lots of people who go to the malls but everybody is unique in their own sort of way and retail store cannot cater to every style. Online stores is the new way of shopping according to individuals taste of style. From online clothes store to even book stores like Amazon, America is taking to online only shopping.
In contrast to what statistics say the average person buying online knows where to go to shop online. Would Facebook be a good spot to find quality items or services? I wouldnt see why not. The market place has been implanted into the Facebook app. Its usually the middle button on the home scree and you can search any category you want. Its a way cheaper place to shop because everything is mostly used but sold at a depreciated price. If you havent seen this yet on Facebook you may need to update your apps. This new way of buying is killing corporate sales and putting more money into the pocket to consumers. Large corporations who own the industry are always finding ways to make things trend so that people can continue to keep buying instead of keeping things the way they are. That also is a good thing because that shows that we have a flowing economy. Having both online stores like Amazon and store fronts such as Academy, we as consumers will have to make a big decision this decade to either put big stores out of business and give our money to some unknown store online. Many people will not look at it like that but the way business works is if you take one over the other the one you didnt choose takes a loss.
With Facebooks marketplace there is no fee to get in. All you need is a facebook account and some mula. You will be well on your way to searching items that people locally and nationally are selling. From baby strollers to cars to houses. Your average Facebook user can make money flipping items such as a Playstation 4 but if your not buying at wholesale price your ome time feel good sale comes to a end. Definitely I can see corporations using Facebook as a way to sell more.
The corporations are already coming to Facebook spending thousands in advertisement. The cost to advertise a post has everything to do with location and your budget. High budgets and not much location to market your business is a win win situation. Although corporations make it look easy, the small businesses are struggling to make a dent in the audience it caters. Twenty dollars roughly will get your products to approximately only 1,500 people. Less than 10 percent of the peoplw will engage, meaning they will take a glance at what your selling. Less than 5% will be interested but only 1% will be willing to buy. These statistics are not reported by any business buerau but from me personally.
Instead of relaying all the information of the technological advances of online shopping, the advantages of store fronts still exist. There is nothing like going to the local antique mall or gift shop and seeing all those unique knick knacks that you cant seem to resist. There is a big difference in seeing an item online and seeing it with your own very two eyes. Observing an item or product personally leaves a memory in your mind that will help remind you where to go to find similar items. That is why when you visit a store your a repeat visitor. Workers in the boutiques, antique malls, and gift shops are somewhat arrogant and if you dont know what your looking at you find yourself being ignored. That is one disadvantage of shopping at retail store. Seems like the vendor or shop worker is not interested in educating passer byes of the uniqueness of a piece of furniture or lamp.
Although, the workers seem cocky the vintage pieces and antiques are one of a kind. You wouldnt be able to find a Hot Wheel remote control car made in the early 1990s without the outrageous pricing online. One thing about online shopping prices is if the owner knows that some old person doesnt know exactly what they have in their basement mixed in without the knowledge of putting a item on Craigslist, the owner to the item will sell it online for an outrageous price. Visiting local stores is an advantage of inflated prices online. It may stink to the owner at the store because they need to stay in business to pay overhead prices. The cost for a store front is an average of a dollar per square foot. Thats usually the smallest space you can get without partnering up and getting a headache.
With tax cuts trickling down and hurricane victims rebuilding their homes, will shoppers for furniture be heading to the retail stores or will they be shopping online? America is great! Facebook, Amazon, and Craigslist seem to be having a good time making money off of advertisements while store fronts are shutting down. Will the local economy of Corpus Christi recover or will remain flat? 2018 seems like a wonderful year to find out.
Instead of relaying all the information of the technological advances of online shopping, the advantages of store fronts still exist. There is nothing like going to the local antique mall or gift shop and seeing all those unique knick knacks that you cant seem to resist. There is a big difference in seeing an item online and seeing it with your own very two eyes. Observing an item or product personally leaves a memory in your mind that will help remind you where to go to find similar items. That is why when you visit a store your a repeat visitor. Workers in the boutiques, antique malls, and gift shops are somewhat arrogant and if you dont know what your looking at you find yourself being ignored. That is one disadvantage of shopping at retail store. Seems like the vendor or shop worker is not interested in educating passer byes of the uniqueness of a piece of furniture or lamp.
Although, the workers seem cocky the vintage pieces and antiques are one of a kind. You wouldnt be able to find a Hot Wheel remote control car made in the early 1990s without the outrageous pricing online. One thing about online shopping prices is if the owner knows that some old person doesnt know exactly what they have in their basement mixed in without the knowledge of putting a item on Craigslist, the owner to the item will sell it online for an outrageous price. Visiting local stores is an advantage of inflated prices online. It may stink to the owner at the store because they need to stay in business to pay overhead prices. The cost for a store front is an average of a dollar per square foot. Thats usually the smallest space you can get without partnering up and getting a headache.
With tax cuts trickling down and hurricane victims rebuilding their homes, will shoppers for furniture be heading to the retail stores or will they be shopping online? America is great! Facebook, Amazon, and Craigslist seem to be having a good time making money off of advertisements while store fronts are shutting down. Will the local economy of Corpus Christi recover or will remain flat? 2018 seems like a wonderful year to find out.
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