The best-kept secret to selling consumer electronics is to niche it.You may have stars in your eyes to think you can build a consumer electronics business like Amazon.com. As a one or two-person entrepreneur, sole proprietorship, or partnership, how can you compare to the Amazon.com organization that spent millions and millions to build the online business that took 6 or 7 years to come into the black with a profit? They obtained their operating and advertising money from capital investors and did a great selling job convincing the investors to pour in money year after year.The small business that wants to sell consumer electronics needs to concentrate on selling the items with which they can capture a percentage of the market and make a decent profit margin.You need to research your products for your supplier price and availability, and the market price that you can sell at then calculate your profit margin. Many retailers of consumer electronics pick popular items and cut their prices to the bone to compete head to head with the big guys like Best Buy, Amazon.com and Circuit City.A better track to run on is choosing higher end products that better informed customers might prefer and build a value-added mini-market around those special pieces. Provide the consumer electronics product, specialized accessories and related items making a profit center.Or provide a service center around one product type, like a camcorder battery replacement service for every type of camcorder on the market. With the right wholesale supplier you can have easy access to the camcorder replacement battery grid and they will drop ship to your customer their particular camcorder battery.I did very well with items like Photo Printer Paper for the Canon CP-100 Photo Printer. There were four varieties and each had a profit margin of 40-60%.I had two very good drop ship suppliers that always carried these items and either one of them or both always had them in stock. You can access the same consumer electronics drop shippers with my Wholesale Secrets Revealed How To Manual: Consumer Electronics Website available at http://ebook.endeavorsonline.comAnother secret is to set up your web page for these items with maximum search engine optimization. Use the brand and the item number with description, like Canon KP-36IP Photo Paper for the Canon CP-100 Photo Printer.This utilizes these keyword phrase combinations for a total of 1406 hits. Canon Photo Paper had 1096 searches in July 2004 on Overture. Canon KP-36IP had 107 and KP-36IP had 161. Canon CP100 had 42.Go to http://inventory.overture.com and https://adwords.google.com/select/tools.html to check out the best keywords to use in your description, limiting the keyword phrases to two for optimizing your shopping cart page.Use the keyword phrase in the page title, meta tag description, meta tag keywords, in a Heading Title - H1 through H3 - on the page, and again in the product description.Then use the same keyword phrase and description in your Adwords or Overture ad campaigns.With this strategy I maintained first and second positions in the Google Search Engine and had many profitable sales.
BULID A PC
Many people simply go to the retail store and get sold to when it comes to computing equipment. You would be very surprised how easily you can pick up all the core components and assemble yourself or get a friend or family member in the know to do it for you. All the top brand PC manufacturers such as IBM, HP and Fujitsu Siemens offer you pre built PC’s, Dell on the other hand will take your order and build to your own style. Off them all Dell will come across more flexible with the specification, however, building your own will not only save you many dollars but make you aware of just how much profit these guys are making.
What are the core components of a PC?
Well let’s start with the basics you will need no matter how high or low spec you want the computer:
PC Case – Motherboard – Processor Chip – Fan – Power Supply – Hard Disk Drive – Memory (RAM) – Power Cord – Keyboard & Mouse – Graphics Card (may come on the motherboard) – Sound Card (if you require one). All these components will get you started. Remember build the PC to your own needs. Gaming PC’s generally need a good graphics card with 3d capabilities while general office PC’s do not need such powerful cards.
Processors:Intel and AMD are the key players when it comes to processors, Intel offer the Pentium chip or Celeron while AMD have their range such as the AMD Athlon and Sempron. While both companies have their benefits Intel’s being that they are the largest selling globally but AMD seem to have the faster processing capabilities. When looking at the processors think sensibly and ask yourself do you really need the latest and greatest or would you notice the difference in point two of a processor e.g. 3GHz compared to 2.8GHz.
Remember keep the cost down, basic components such as the PC case comes in a number of different styles such as Mini Tower, Desktop. Choose what suits you. RAM (memory) will depend on what you plan to do, some games and simulators require large amounts of memory so check before you buy, and the graphics card will also depend on your PC plans. If you are generally using the PC for home and Internet browsing remember to purchase a modem or if you are planning broadband arrange with the installer and get yourself on the waiting list.
What are the core components of a PC?
Well let’s start with the basics you will need no matter how high or low spec you want the computer:
PC Case – Motherboard – Processor Chip – Fan – Power Supply – Hard Disk Drive – Memory (RAM) – Power Cord – Keyboard & Mouse – Graphics Card (may come on the motherboard) – Sound Card (if you require one). All these components will get you started. Remember build the PC to your own needs. Gaming PC’s generally need a good graphics card with 3d capabilities while general office PC’s do not need such powerful cards.
Processors:Intel and AMD are the key players when it comes to processors, Intel offer the Pentium chip or Celeron while AMD have their range such as the AMD Athlon and Sempron. While both companies have their benefits Intel’s being that they are the largest selling globally but AMD seem to have the faster processing capabilities. When looking at the processors think sensibly and ask yourself do you really need the latest and greatest or would you notice the difference in point two of a processor e.g. 3GHz compared to 2.8GHz.
Remember keep the cost down, basic components such as the PC case comes in a number of different styles such as Mini Tower, Desktop. Choose what suits you. RAM (memory) will depend on what you plan to do, some games and simulators require large amounts of memory so check before you buy, and the graphics card will also depend on your PC plans. If you are generally using the PC for home and Internet browsing remember to purchase a modem or if you are planning broadband arrange with the installer and get yourself on the waiting list.
Building the పక్ : Building a PC is not as daunting as it seems. If you have not attempted to do this before it is a good idea to have supervision. Some of the components such as the memory need careful handling due to static electricity. Get an anti static wrist strap to protect the components, they cost very little and could save you a lot of money. There are plenty of cheap books out there to guide you in assembly but you will also find free articles online with diagrams for assembly.
Software:Hardware is one thing but you also need the software such as the operating system and anti virus software for protection against viruses. Depending on what you want and what you are used to using before you can get free operating system such as Linux. Most of us are used to Microsoft Windows but you will require a licence to use this software. You may also need some office software such as Microsoft Office XP or 2003 standard or Professional edition. The anti virus software is essential and Norton’s or McAfee are some of the better known brands. There are also free downloads that will help protect your PC such as Stinger and Ad-Ware.
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