5 resources to market your eCommerce store

 MerchantCircle

MerchantCircle offers free online advertising to businesses. An online business directory that is also a marketing platform and a social business network. Companies have to sign up with the website for free to get a free business listing. Standard business details are required such as business address, website URL, telephone number, company email address, hours of operation, and payment methods accepted. Once you are registered, you can also add categories, tags/keywords, and images to your profile. MerchantCircle features include customer reviews and an activity tracker that provides figures related to ratings and visitors to your profile.

 Craigslist

Craigslist offers ecommerce store owners a platform for promoting their products. Many small businesses that buy and sell products locally use Craigslist solely to advertise their business. After signing up for an account, users can start creating an ad for their product. They will need to select the city where their business is located, choose the appropriate category for the listing, and complete the required information. To promote products, users will need to create an item listing for items being sold on their ecommerce store. Craigslist also provides an option for companies that sell services instead of goods.

Yahoo Local

Yahoo Local provides a number of listing options. Yahoo Local Basic Listing is a free service that displays business contact information such as phone, address, store hours and website at no cost. A paid option called Yahoo Local Enhanced Listing enables companies to showcase their business to Yahoo users and encourage engagement with customers through a business description, tagline, photos and web links. Another paid service called Yahoo Localworks lists a business across more than 40 websites receiving over 150 million monthly local searches including Yahoo Local, Yelp, MapQuest, WhitePages, Superpages, and Bing.

Amazon Store

Amazon Store is an ecommerce platform where businesses can create an online store that features products from their ecommerce store. Users can sign up for an Amazon Affiliate Account in order to create the Amazon store, which can be set up in as quickly as 30 minutes, using their own custom business logo and printed image. It can be customized to meet business needs and the needs of the target market. The Amazon Store can also be incorporated into a website using different methods such as a popup screen. Adding the Amazon Store to a website can likewise lead potential customers to other product options.

Buxoff.com

Buxoff.com is an ecommerce platform where any retail store can come and post their deal for free. The users or the stores can come and sign up in buxoff’s main page and immediately start posting their deals. In this way their deals will be visible to all the consumers and due to this the ecommerce website will  get marketed automatically.