Hey guys, my wife and I recently started an exotic pet supply store out of our home. We have our website published and running but we are hoping to get a few people with more experience than us to check it out and give us some tips on layout and advice for making it more user friendly or changes we should make. Also what does everyone do for their social media? Schedule? strictly business posts? Fun engaging posts?off topic posts? Thanks in advance.
Website Https://grexotics.com
Lastly, don’t be afraid to get some supplies sourced from Alibaba. Zoomed is legit and all but some Products can be sourced for 1/5th of the price and are near the same in quality. Ex, any rocks for terrariums. You can order a sample and eventually buy low MOQ’s and save a lot. Not sure how good the vendor pricing is for Zoomed but look into that when things come into place. All the best to you and the wife 🙏💚
As a past owner of turtles (2 red eared sliders, had them for 15 years before passing them off to my cousin who still has them), I love the business idea 🙏
Website is okay to start for a home based business but with time would need to be optimized to look more modern / professional. Ex. Sign up for our newsletter box doesn’t look visually appealing.
In terms of social media I would rarely post just products unless it was a cool new idea of a product or something most people have never heard of. I find that fun content will get you more views, and will ultimately lead to more people clicking the link in your bio (when you add it).
Example, if you made a TikTok video of “asking strangers if they’re afraid of snakes” and then the ones that say yes you said “I have 5 bucks if you pet this snake “friend / partner walks up behind holding a snake” that would do very well. You would get some laughable reactions that people would eat up online.
I just helped my friend film a video downtown Toronto asking people “sell me this pen for $10” Wolf of Wall Street movie line And the ones that came up with a very unique pitch got the 10 bucks. He had 80 followers and got 15k views in less than a week. Just checked and he’s at 3.2K followers now. I should have taken my own idea 😂