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More often than not, a new ecommerce entrepreneur is thinking about a cool invention for solving problems somewhere around the house. Or maybe they're considering ways to source products for their online stores from China and amaze customers with service, speed, and quality.

Yet, it's not too often you hear about selling food online.

And since this is the case, there's a limited amount of information on learning how to sell food online.

Grocery stores are beginning to figure out ways to deliver batches of food to doorsteps.

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Product listing ads are also known as PLA ads or Google Shopping ads. In short, they're online advertisements that companies pay for on a cost per click (CPC) basis. Therefore, if your online store were to take out a product listing ad on Google, you would only pay for the times when a user clicked on that ad. No payments are made when users see the ad but don't decide to click.

In general, merchants purchase these product listing ads through Google AdWords. It's the most popular ad network in the world, but there are some smaller ones you can also look into.

You don't have to pay anything to signup for AdWords, so the only costs that come in are when users make those clicks. As for the location of the ads, they're placed on the side of Google search results and on the top.

Here's an example:

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Building an ecommerce store is easy.

Getting people to buy is hard.

Or is it?

The fact is:

It all boils down to your customers.

This is how most marketers and business owners play it out:

They ‘think' that people would be interested in cat socks. No problem.

Then they imagine that girls in the age range of 8-16 would be interested in buying cat socks.

They build out an entire business targeting girls with an age range of 8-16. They then wonder why they're not making sales.

The fundamental issue here is that the thought process is flawed.

Everything you see and hear is perspective.

Such perspectives may not be correct all the time. And building business based on perspectives is a bad idea.

Business and marketing business should be data-backed. You need real data showing you where and what your target audience is.

And in this post, I'm going to show you how to get that data- step by step.

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How to start an online boutique store is one of those questions that will never get old. Fashion constantly changes over time, and clothing allows you to choose from a large collection of different items, for both women and men. By the end of this guide, you'll know how to start an online boutique using Shopify, along with the Oberlo app- the ins and outs of the business, ways to find good dropshipping suppliers, while also exploring the supplier vetting process.

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