Does selling your products online really enhance your business profit?

If you are not a major deptment store, has your profit increased by having an online business? Let's say you would sell items at school, work, garage sales, to family and friends.. Was there a major difference?

I am selling ladies jewelry and clothing

Do your own calculations:

We live in smaller resort city by the lake. If I was only dependent on local and surrounding population with some increase during the holiday seasons I would be limited to fluctuating 100 thousand potential customers.

By using Internet marketing 95% of a time my product is shipped directly to 10 countries with potential customer base of 750 million. By locating less than a thousand repeat customers I am looking at $7,000.00 a month steady revenue with minimal cost to me. No store front, no overhead, no shipping nor warehousing, no money collecting only the profits.

Big difference! And most of all our orders are on the steady increase every month. Calculate the profits when it reaches 10K steady customers?

So much for the product, now our services are marketed to all English, Spanish and French speaking population worldwide. That is some 2 billion people. Where do you find a local population of that magnitude? Getting the picture now?

Selling on line give you a web presence. Millions of people like to shop on-line. It depends on what you intend to sell.

You also have to draw traffic to your site to get noticed. Paid searches from Yahoo's Overture and Google's AdSence can help put you higher up on the ranking on sponsored searches but you pay for that per click. You can budget a daily amount so you don't get surprised with ad fees.

In contrast, selling at garage sales, etc., you always get the bottom barrel buyers - you get less money.

Selling on-line works for you 24-7, even when you are asleep. You just have to have a site built, and promote it, tell people about it, blogs, put it on your busuiness card, etc.

I would maybe consider stat selling on ebay or Amazon, and see how that plays out. If you do well after a couple years, you can then develop a website and expand your on-line sales.

Good Luck!

yes, because you can make more on the product online than on the garage sale. If it is desirable product you are promoting to million of people online, while you are only promoting to few at home.

all of the department stores have moved toward selling online, it is because more and more people shop online now days.