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#1 ·
I recently started a clothing line and need help with my website. I come to you all for
Your experience with different companies. As I don't want to waste any money making a newbie mistake.

I haven't bought a domain name yet.
I just need a website that's visual pleasing and allows consumers to choose a shirt and buy it.
I don't need any shirt building tools as I'm only selling my orginal designs.

There are so many platforms, it gives me a headache just trying to chose one.

I keep hearing woocommerce and shopify over and over again...

Also what budget should I look at getting everything up and running?

Any additional info you think I should know would be awesome. Thank you.
 
#3 ·
You can get wordpress with woo commerce for free as mentioned above. You can grab a domain name for about $11.99 and hosting is about $2.5 per month but you generally pay for a year or 2 up front. Hostmamas.com has some good deals on hosting last time i checked.

You can probably get a web designer to do it all for you for around $1000-3000 depending how many items you have for sale and how much of the content you already have rcreated.
 
#4 ·
You can get wordpress with woo commerce for free as mentioned above. You can grab a domain name for about $11.99 and hosting is about $2.5 per month but you generally pay for a year or 2 up front. Hostmamas.com has some good deals on hosting last time i checked.

You can probably get a web designer to do it all for you for around $1000-3000 depending how many items you have for sale and how much of the content you already have rcreated.
 
#5 ·
I use Shopify and love it. It is very easy to use. Their free templates aren't bad but I got mine on Theme Forest. I had the site set up within a week but adding products is taking time of course.

They have good support and a lot of free and low cost plugins to help run your site or add extra features. I use their basic $29 a month plan. Only issue is you have to set up your email seperately. They'll give you a subdomain ie yourdomain.myshopify.com but you'll need to register a domain do all the pointing etc. I got mine via Go Daddy. Got my email via Go Daddy thru Microsoft Outlook 365. It costs very little and makes you look professional.

One of the best things about shopify is that it has a lot of 3rd party integrations. You can have buyable pins on Pinterest with ease, a Facebook shop without any extra work, Wanelo shop and Twitter integration with no need for you to do a lot of extra work. They have a free app for Google shopping PLAs too. They have apps to push to eBay, Amazon and others that integrate with them. You'll need UPC codes if you sell on Amazon via Shopify. (or anywhere via Amazon) so a good place to gt those is Barcode Love. Cheapest I've found.

If you know how to to use WordPress and WooCommerce it is a cheaper option. A great host for WordPress sites is Blue Host. We use them at my "day job" for hosting a couple different blogs for different areas of the buisness and all under the same account. Makes it easy to manage.

So I've given you some options. :)

One thing i will say, slow and steady, you arent' going to get a lot of sales right away. It takes months to get registered all over the web.

It take a LOT of time to get your SEO going so don't get discouraged. I've been making websites since 1995 and it takes months even years to get the backlinks and good ranking to happen.

So....there is my advice. :)

If you want to check out my store visit www.southofmemphis.com to see how it is set up since I use Shopify. If you have questions about any of the "bells and whistles" on the site just ask and I'll help any way i can.

Powers that be...hope it was okay to list my URL it was only for advice not promotion. :)

Good Luck!
Tam