u/Confusedmind75

I recently started a small online niche fragrance store with one goal in mind, to sell niche fragrances cheaper and make it more accessible! Most reliable stores for niche fragrances are physical stores charging full prices.
I wanted to offer customers authentic products and good rates. But the one thing that has really stood out to me is how difficult it is to build a competitive catalog as a smaller business.

A lot of the products are spread across completely different suppliers, but many suppliers also have fairly high minimum order requirements. So even if I only find a few products from a supplier that actually make sense for my store, I still need to place a much larger order just to check out.
I hardly have room for marketing, shipping, maintenance for my website and everything else that comes with running an e-commerce business.

What I’m trying to figure out is how smaller stores approach this long term. I want to just make 20€ per item so I can spend on marketing and bills but it doesn’t looks like it’s going happen. I am feeling so hopeless. I work all day and don’t even earn after I sell.
I need to expand my catalog but I don’t know how.

Anyways would genuinely love to hear perspectives from other people in e-commerce or small business.

Here is the thing: the other moderator has been inactive on the subreddit for 11 days. They chose a project for the sub themselves and said they would work on it, but then suddenly went offline. A few days later I checked in to ask if they were doing alright, but I still haven’t received any response.

When I appointed them, we agreed they would moderate for 3 weeks first and then decide whether they wanted to continue the role. That 3-week period is now over, and during this period they haven’t been active on the subreddit for 11 days.

I’m thinking of waiting another 3 days, and if there’s still no response or activity, quietly removing them as a moderator. The whole situation gives me a strange feeling and I honestly don’t know what the right thing to do is.

At the beginning we had several discussions about ideas and plans for the subreddit since it’s still very new, and then they suddenly went completely radio silent. At this point, I’m wondering if I should just assume they lost interest.

I have one shopping and 1 search campaign running for my products. I am tracking heatmaps with Microsoft Clarity when visitors who land on page.

I have a strong feeling that google is scamming me! Visitors who land on my page and spend only 1-2 seconds doing nothing. No scroll no movements. It’s like click and exit. If it happened few times I would understand but it’s happening at a rate I would say I am being spammed and google is charging me for this. I am wondering if they are bots?
I feel awful and am thinking to quit ads altogether!

Is this normal guys? I have a bad feeling here and looking for advice 😭

I shortened some of my blog URL handles on my website a while ago and just realised something weird 😭

The original URLs are STILL showing up on Google search results, and one of my readers clicked it and got hit with a 404 page.

I assumed once I changed the URL handle, the old one would just stop existing completely. But apparently Google still remembers it and continues displaying it?

How is this even possible? It's been few days since the links were update!

I genuinely thought changing the URL would automatically update everything everywhere

Ich besitze mehrere Parfums, die ich gekauft habe, bevor ich Miss Dior ausprobiert habe, und habe ein weiteres geschenkt bekommen: Gucci Flora Gorgeous Orchid. Die Flakons sind fast voll, und ich wollte sie auf eBay verkaufen.

Ich habe gesehen, dass viele Privatverkäufer dort ihre gebrauchten Parfums anbieten. Also habe ich es auch versucht, aber eBay hat mein Angebot entfernt, weil es sich um einen gebrauchten Artikel handelt. Das verstehe ich, aber warum werden andere Parfums, die schon seit Wochen angeboten werden, nicht entfernt? Das verstehe ich nicht.

Wo kann ich meine Parfums außer auf Vinted und eBay noch verkaufen?

I have one shopping campaign running for my website products. I am tracking heatmaps with Microsoft Clarity when visitors who land on page. There are visitors who spend time reading about the items and checking things out which is all good but then there are Visitors who land on my page and spend only 1-3 seconds and exist. No scroll no movements. I am wondering if they are bots?
If so am I paying for bots clicks? 😭

I have one shopping campaign running for my website products. I am tracking heatmaps with Microsoft Clarity when visitors who land on page. There are visitors who spend time reading about the items and checking things out which is all good but then there are Visitors who land on my page and spend only 1-3 seconds and exist. No scroll no movements. I am wondering if they are bots?
If so am I paying for bots clicks? 😭

After moving to Netherlands I have the increasing urge to apply makeup when I am bad at it. I make a mess and it makes me feel stupid.
I never applied makeup in my home country but here every woman applies makeup and always looks their best. Where I mostly feel like a mess everyday. I tried applying makeup to look nice before appointment once and missed my appointment because I didn’t end up liking the way i looked.

I sometimes do a decent job (if luck favours me) but most of the time. I don’t think i look nice.

I don’t know how to stop and feel okay with my skin 😭 I feel people judge me if I have a bare face with acne marks and pores. It’s overwhelming and crippling.

I installed clarity and blocked my ip address (both wifi and external ip addresses for my mac and iphone) but my traffic keeps showing up in the stats and dilutes my data. How do I stop it from happening? help!

I installed clarity and blocked my ip address (both wifi and external ip addresses for my mac and iphone) but my traffic keeps showing up in the stats and dilutes my data. How do I stop it from happening? help!

I installed clarity and blocked my ip address (laptop and phone) but my traffic keeps showing up in the stats and dilutes my data. How do I stop it from happening? help!

I got the sample at the store and it smells like rose and coffee. The bottle (it’s a authentic bottle) unfortunately smells very intense (to an extent harsh) coffee with no sweet rose 😭

I waited for 2 months and that hasn’t changed infact the coffee got stronger.

Has anyone else experienced this? Why is this happening?

When I was creating my shops I had add pages to it which I later deleted. But they are appearing on my shopify. I found it on my traffic analysis tool. What’s going on? I don’t understand

*Please do not send me messages saying you would like me to contact you or consult you for your services.*

I got the sample at the store and it smells like rose and coffee. The bottle (it’s a authentic bottle) unfortunately smells very intense (to an extent harsh) coffee with no sweet rose 😭

I waited for 2 months and that hasn’t changed infact the coffee got stronger.

Has anyone else experienced this? Why is this happening?