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Spaces: A platform from where you can sell almost anything Online

Here’s a question – what is the biggest positive of the Internet? No guesses? If you were to ask, it is the ease to do business. Because of the Web & its fairly easy reach across the global, newer markets have opened up where there were none. Almost anyone with a modicum of an idea & an Internet connection can get going, selling his/her product, solution, service or tool on the Net.

There’s still 1 hurdle, though. If one does have something to sell, the seller still needs to grapple with payment gateways, landing pages, etc. Indeed, these pose a different set of problems, & many wannabe entrepreneurs get turned off.

But there’s a solution. A startup called Spaces is just what the doctor ordered, especially if you are getting into selling anything Online for the 1st time. What Spaces does is give you an easy to use platform to help you create landing pages integrated with payments. + it’s free.

The Payment Checkout Page

The Payment Checkout Page

To give you a real world analogy, it’s like someone sets up a store for you in a shopping mall, complete with furniture, credit card machines & a teller. All that you need to do is to move in with the goods you wanna sell.

Spaces is good for real world & digital products. And you can sell almost anything, evident from the categories on Spaces – Designers, Developers, Artists & Authors. As an artist who needs a place to sell your works, or an author looking to sell your 1st book, Spaces offers you a fully-functioning, e-comm-ready landing page.

You can sell 1 single item or many; you can offer subscriptions or curate related articles to sell. Spaces’ USP is that it offers the essentials of doing Online selling for free. No need for you to set up a Website or enter into an agreement witha payment gateway or get involved with any of the security hazards involved with e-comm. It’s not only about building a Web page but an entire business, like they have said on the Spaces Website.

This new startup can also work wonderfully for those who want to try out some business ideas before going the whole hog. Spaces has been started by Dan Schultzer, Founder & Kasper Christensen, Co-founder of Dream Conception, both of whom claim to have strong expertise in Web development, entrepreneurship & design.

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Uniqly offers a platform to sell your products without the accompanying tech headaches

The e-Commerce boom happened some time ago. One of the early starters was Amazon, which in 1995,  launched the world’s 1st Online book store. Today, the same Amazon is one of the world’s largest digital stores. Over the years, due to advancement in software & of course the Internet, Online retailing no longer remains the purview of large corporations but individuals, too. Almost anyone can now sell their product or service  on the Web using some rather advanced selling software & payment gateway. One such platform is Uniqly, which offers individual sellers to setup an Online shop for their products.

There are others like Ebay that do offer a similar service, right? The answer is, a ‘Yes’ & a ‘No’. Ebay & Amazon do offer a platform for individual sellers but these comes with some restrictions. For example: Some sellers can’t deliver to certain places. This is where a platform like Uniqly may make a difference by offering “a no worries solution” to individual sellers. Essentially, Uniqly takes care of all your back-end worries that come with Online selling while you concentrate on the business of selling.

So how does it work? The potential seller has to 1st sign up & provide information about the product along with  some photographs & the pricing. Once the process is complete, the seller can log in, go to the dashboard to tweak the rest of the things. There is no direct interaction between buyer & seller. As a consumer, the user will interact with Uniqly. It’s like buying directly from Best Buy or Wallmart Website.

The technical part like consumer feedback, payments & logistics will be hled by Uniqly. The seller just has to be ready with their product to be delivered. The seller can request logistics to pick up the package at desired time. The payment to the buyer will be done after 14 days on the seller’s PayPal account. Sellers can get notification of new orders on their dashboard & via email.

This platform makes it easy for sellers to focus only on business & leave the technical part to Uniqly. This service is free of cost & sellers can start their Online shop immediately after sign up. Sellers can also post a link to their blog or Website so that users can also access it. For the services it provides, Uniqly keeps a 5 % transaction fee from the seller. Uniqly also has some restrictions on the selling of  products such as alcoholic beverages & perishable goods.

Uniqly.net is a product of Philippines-based 88DB Philippines Inc., which claims to have 8 years of expertise in Online marketing & retailing.

Click here to know more about Uniqly.

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