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Community Driven Web Shopping

Internet tends to be an open system where consumers are in the same way important as the product makers and sellers. Success is measured by community support and it is assured by complete transparency, trust.

Marketing your online products also cannot be done well without a strong community. A future webshop must be completely user and community driven, your duty as a webshop owner is to build trust and make your existing customers to connect to your next customers.

A Classic Store vs. Auction Based Stores

Following years will be about a 180 grades shift in e-commerce. Now you are presenting products to customers as a classic store, later customers will ask you for products and services.

Yabe.hu -- Race. For you -- is a new approach to shopping. As a customer you log in and tell your desires then vendors are racing to offer you the best solution. This is the only way to assure yourself you'll get the best deal.

You don't have to choose, listen to commercials, browse social shopping sites and do research to find what you want; just spit out a desire and let the others do the job for you.

Until this approach to shopping hits mainstream you'll have to do the classic way. Look for a shop who makes you feel comfortable, do the shopping, show your items bought and generate trust for other users and would-be-customers. Wait for your cut offered by the webshop as an affiliate program.

A Classic Webshop In Modern Clothes

   1. Browse to your favorite online (gadget) store.
   2. You are sure the frontpage is already taylored to your shopping needs (via an Automated Recommendation Engine)
   3. Select your products to be bought and check for the best price gathered from other (gadget) stores.
   4. Make shopping and later add comments, recommendations, how-to's, FAQs to your products bought.
   5. Other users will see your value added to existing products and when buying you'll get a fair cut from every sales.
   6. Too boost your revenues use widgets with your products bought on your blog or favorite social network, do the marketing and sales for the webshop you like and which pays back your efforts.


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