I broke my own business rule and decided to invest time and money into “me too” products in my The Hobbyist Machine Store. A “me too” product is a non proprietary item purchased at dealer discount and then offered for sale near the retail “street” price which is always less than the factory price. The problem is I am just one of many other “dealers”, including the factory that sells the exact same product. So...
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The Hobbyist Machine Store Blog
I created a new information blog for my eCommerce site, “The Hobbyist Machine Store” I am putting more effort in providing a small computer controlled machine tools (CNC) to my customers and I need a place separate from my personal web sites and blogs where I can concentrate on customer facing information. I have tried to not be commercial in my existing sites including here in Rambling Dan but it is hard to walk that...
Continue reading...Little Fish – Big Sea
I intend to expand my E-Commerce business, The Hobbyist Machine Store . It has been in operation selling small machine tools since 2007 and I have enjoyed a small return in profits for the time spent. I decided it is time to take operation up a gear or two and become a more serious player with small CNC hobby type machines. I am not getting any younger and I need to stay with what I...
Continue reading...The New THMS Look, Bombed
In my last post I explained how I updated my The Hobbyist’s Machine Store website using WordPress and a plug in store software call WP e Commerce. The plugin is published by some blokes in New Zeland. I was extremely pleased at how the new layout looked and spent considerable time in loading all the products into the web site. I spent some cash for the Gold update package. There were some quirks in getting...
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