Purely Poultry,
Take a look at our website www.fairestfinches.com it may help you in reworking yours.
We breed exotic finches and cater to both commercial and exhibit customers, but all of our stock is show quality. You'll notice on our site we make note of the breeds we work with ourselves and breeds our partner aviaries work with. Most of our customers will specifically request our personal stock for exhibit or breeding for exhibit. You may not be able to compete in the exhibit quality since it sounds like you do not breed yourself. If your not doing the breeding then you have no way of quality controlling the stock to ensure that they are exhibit quality. Just a thought on that since you mentioned you might head in that direction.
We have found that most our commercial customers do not care if we bred the stock or not, but they appreciate us telling them so they can track genetics for there operations. It does not seem to be a big deal with poultry, but with exotic finches most breeders do not load up on breeding stock from one breeder. In other words they like knowing where the stock came from so that they can keep their gene pool diversified. I would consider mentioning your partner hatcheries and that you work with them. You could also mention that drop shipping saves customers money and is reflected in your prices. You'd have to have higher prices if the birds were sent to you and then you sent them back out to the customer. We do this alot when we get exotic finches imported. Our customers appreciate that we make every effort to save them money when we can.
As for the photos, I would make every effort to have original photos for your website. It will help to set your look apart from other sites as many of them are using the same images, and from our experience, having our own original photos of our finches really makes us stand out from some of our competition.
You already sound like your looking into a shopping cart, so I'll skip that.
Finding a niche that makes you different is really the key for success. You may want to cater to christian organizations as previously posted.
For those of you that have issues with the bible versus on his site. Don't read them if they offend you. I'm sorry that you have such a narrow minded perspective.
I have spent the past 16+ years of my life in the military protecting our country, our freedom of religion, and speech. While my views may different than yours or his, he still has the right to speak freely and run his website as he sees fit as long as it's not illegal. He made it clear in his first post how he felt about removing the passages. I personally commend him for his convictions even if they are not the same as mine. Let's keep the religion out of the responses and focus on the nuts and bolts of the website.
That's my two cents for what it's worth.
Good luck with your site.
Sean
Take a look at our website www.fairestfinches.com it may help you in reworking yours.
We breed exotic finches and cater to both commercial and exhibit customers, but all of our stock is show quality. You'll notice on our site we make note of the breeds we work with ourselves and breeds our partner aviaries work with. Most of our customers will specifically request our personal stock for exhibit or breeding for exhibit. You may not be able to compete in the exhibit quality since it sounds like you do not breed yourself. If your not doing the breeding then you have no way of quality controlling the stock to ensure that they are exhibit quality. Just a thought on that since you mentioned you might head in that direction.
We have found that most our commercial customers do not care if we bred the stock or not, but they appreciate us telling them so they can track genetics for there operations. It does not seem to be a big deal with poultry, but with exotic finches most breeders do not load up on breeding stock from one breeder. In other words they like knowing where the stock came from so that they can keep their gene pool diversified. I would consider mentioning your partner hatcheries and that you work with them. You could also mention that drop shipping saves customers money and is reflected in your prices. You'd have to have higher prices if the birds were sent to you and then you sent them back out to the customer. We do this alot when we get exotic finches imported. Our customers appreciate that we make every effort to save them money when we can.
As for the photos, I would make every effort to have original photos for your website. It will help to set your look apart from other sites as many of them are using the same images, and from our experience, having our own original photos of our finches really makes us stand out from some of our competition.
You already sound like your looking into a shopping cart, so I'll skip that.
Finding a niche that makes you different is really the key for success. You may want to cater to christian organizations as previously posted.
For those of you that have issues with the bible versus on his site. Don't read them if they offend you. I'm sorry that you have such a narrow minded perspective.
I have spent the past 16+ years of my life in the military protecting our country, our freedom of religion, and speech. While my views may different than yours or his, he still has the right to speak freely and run his website as he sees fit as long as it's not illegal. He made it clear in his first post how he felt about removing the passages. I personally commend him for his convictions even if they are not the same as mine. Let's keep the religion out of the responses and focus on the nuts and bolts of the website.
That's my two cents for what it's worth.
Good luck with your site.
Sean
