The Cake Show Podcast 001 – Build an Automated E-Commerce Empire
Hey everybody, Nickycakes is excited to announce the first episode of The Cake Show Podcast!
You can subscribe on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cake-show/id818482020 (please leave a rating for the show if you have time, it would be a big help).
If you use Android, there are a bunch of podcast apps. Nicky uses Podkicker, and you can just search for “nickycakes” in there to find the show.
In the first episode, guest Patrick Kelly talks about how you can start up your own e-commerce shops with very little initial investment. Also discussed are the benefits to living in southeast asia as an online business guy.
The basic steps for starting up a new e-commerce shop are:
- Sign up for Shopify (free trial, about $30/mo after that), hosts the shop, handles payments, etc, or woo commerce if you want a wordpress plugin solution.
- Register with Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA)
- Order a small initial quantity of product, from anywhere that can put the correct labeling on it, and have it shipped to FBA. A good place to start is Alibaba
- Connect your Shopify store with FBA (very easy process), which automatically handles all inventory counts, etc, and ships your product automatically when someone buys.
Nicky is in the process of setting one up himself to try it out, and will report back later with the results.
Did you like/hate the episode? Want to hear from a specific person or about a specific topic in an upcoming recording? Please leave a comment below!
@Patrick explain what you mean about buying traffic. I assume its more than Adwords and Facebook?
hmmmf
i’ll throw up the pat-signal
Hey Ken,
Sorry about the delay, was with limited internet for the last week.
Buying traffic is where you’re paying a website or company to run your advertisement and flowing visitors through that advert to your store/listing/website. Adwords and Facebook to 2 places of many to buy traffic.
Patrick,
I don’t think you fully read his question, haha.
I did misread it. Adwords and Facebook are more than sufficient. You’re basically an affiliate for your own company. So anywhere where the customer may exist, you try to buy traffic and if it works, keep buying, otherwise move your money. Also note that Amazon has 2 different advertising platforms: 1 where you can buy traffic to listings within Amazon and 1 where you can buy traffic on Amazon to an external website.
At the end of the day, your goal is to generate more revenue through the traffic (via a sale) than the amount you’re paying for the traffic.
Tis is the nice oneeeeeee!
Good stuff Nick. Keep up the blog postings and podcasts.
thanks dude
Can you explain the 3rd step please?
which part did you need explained? you order some of the product you want to sell, and send it to your fulfillment company, in this example Fulfillment by Amazon, as per their instructions.
Oh ok got it, my bad didn’t get it at first.
Thanks dude!
Hardest part is finding a niche that you can compete in. Takes a lot of testing.
Honestly I don’t buy that excuse. The internet is huge and nothing is ever too saturated to make money in.
The guy/interviewer blabbing in and out about what he 'knows' about Thailand, what sucks, where he sees hilarious T-shirts etc etc is very very annoying…we want to hear Patrick Kelly…edit the rhubarb out please…
that’s a really cool story bro
lol – came to say the same thing – clearly you know nothing about ecom but felt the need to interject whereever you could — parasite hosting?? – is it 2009 again bro?
First a John Chow aweber tutorial as your comeback post and now this turd of a podcast – havent you been at this for like 8 years? This is just embarassing.
It warms my heart to know I wasted at least an hour of your time
What about merchant accounts? Heard they can be tricky to get by.
Well, shopify handles all that for you, but a merchant account in the US shouldn’t be too hard to get for an e-commerce shop. If you’re starting an acai berry rebill, that’s a different story.
Keep it up Cakes. I can’t tell if these are haters or internet azzhats, but I’m secure enough in my manhood to throw some positive vibes your ways. There used to be a bunch of useful aff marketing podcasts, now there are none that I’m aware of. I hope you keep making them.
Hey Nicky! Enjoyed your TV show in the past, glad to hear you have a podcast now!
We talked about your post on the Daily Blogcast for internet marketing podcast. You can find it on Episode 067 – Largest WordPress Brute Force Attack Going On Right Now, When Publishers Pay for Ad Views, Slimy Protip for the Lazy Affiliate, Matt Cutts, NickyCakes Podcast, Link Building is Obsolete?, and more!
http://dailyblogcast.net/2014/02/11/067-when-publishers-pay-for-ad-views-slimy-protip-for-the-lazy-affiliate-link-building-is-obsolete/
Thanks again for sharing!
you guys are awesome
This is cool man. I actually like this format better vs cakes tv – seems more focused, so more info, better info.
Thanks!
hey nick like this format too brotha man seems like youre more focused on the questioning and keeping some of it noob friendly thanks for making it process oriented….
Good job, ug/zander.
You’ve managed to take free information DESIGNED TO HELP YOU MAKE MONEY and turn it into ‘you know nothing about economics…this is just embarrassing’
You’re a fucking idiot, and all of your online business ventures will fail because of it. I’m happy you exist so that the rest of us can actually apply this and turn profits. Get lost.