Giving a Heads up
Originally Posted by Santhology
good service is the key i think. Good Luck!!!!
good luck
Originally Posted by steveevo8
If you have not read my last post ( several weeks ago ) about throwing around the idea of starting my own business, well heres an update for you who have read the prior post, and for of you who haven't i'm sure you can pick up just fine from here.
Me and my friend are sending in our fictious name form tomorrow and we have a lot going for us. My uncle has his own business ($200,000+ a year s-corp) so he's helping us A LOT in terms of legal matters. My girlfriend's dad is a CPA so he will help us as well.
Our company name is GnV Motorsports. My partner already registered GnVMotorsports.com and will be designing it over this semester. It stands for our last names. G is for Stephen Gerwel, me. The V is for my partner, Christopher Viccaro.
Our plan is to gather as much money as possible to safely start this business ( loans from family, and our jobs).... I don't want to unleash all the details, but we are going to buy some parts and pay ClubWRX and Evolutionm.net whatever they ask for to becoming a vendor. In May or June, we will have a Grand Opening sale, all of exhausts, intakes, BOVs, intercooler hoses, etc. We will have limited quantities, like 5 or so of each. It will be up to you guys to help make this work.
Look in May/June for our Grand Opening Sale! We will offer very competitive prices, compared to places like Gruppe-s, Lancershop, and Machevo. We will start off selling small things like exhausts, intakes, Intercooler pipes, and various small items. We will sell all of the parts then start all over again, until we make decent money to get our own warehouse and buy way more parts in bulk. I will eventually retire this name, SteveEvo8, in return for GnV Motorsports and vendor status on a few forums.
Any comments/suggestions on what I just posted would be GREATLY appreciated.
Me and my friend are sending in our fictious name form tomorrow and we have a lot going for us. My uncle has his own business ($200,000+ a year s-corp) so he's helping us A LOT in terms of legal matters. My girlfriend's dad is a CPA so he will help us as well.
Our company name is GnV Motorsports. My partner already registered GnVMotorsports.com and will be designing it over this semester. It stands for our last names. G is for Stephen Gerwel, me. The V is for my partner, Christopher Viccaro.
Our plan is to gather as much money as possible to safely start this business ( loans from family, and our jobs).... I don't want to unleash all the details, but we are going to buy some parts and pay ClubWRX and Evolutionm.net whatever they ask for to becoming a vendor. In May or June, we will have a Grand Opening sale, all of exhausts, intakes, BOVs, intercooler hoses, etc. We will have limited quantities, like 5 or so of each. It will be up to you guys to help make this work.
Look in May/June for our Grand Opening Sale! We will offer very competitive prices, compared to places like Gruppe-s, Lancershop, and Machevo. We will start off selling small things like exhausts, intakes, Intercooler pipes, and various small items. We will sell all of the parts then start all over again, until we make decent money to get our own warehouse and buy way more parts in bulk. I will eventually retire this name, SteveEvo8, in return for GnV Motorsports and vendor status on a few forums.
Any comments/suggestions on what I just posted would be GREATLY appreciated.
Don't cut corners on your website. Make sure it's simple, functional, and updated as much as is humanly possible. Things like price changes, inventory issues, and product images are so important. Nothing generates repeat online business like a good website. Good luck dude. Anything is possible if you bust your a$$.
Originally Posted by Steiner
Nothing generates repeat online business like a good website.
Good luck! IMO, I think you're going to get slaughtered. There's alot of competition in the marketplace that has resulted in razor thin margins. The supply side is oversaturated with dormroom ******. Customer service is in the shi tter. BTW, the resale vendors that have higher prices are generally the ones that are eeking out a decent living.
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So are you gonna sell domestic performance parts too... say Mustangs? 
Might not be your cup of tea, but there's billions of mustang's out there so you'd have a large customer base, especially with the recent redesign of them!
Might not be your cup of tea, but there's billions of mustang's out there so you'd have a large customer base, especially with the recent redesign of them!
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Hey guys thanks for the comments, me and my partner realize this isn't going to be a cake walk, this will be a very challenging and time consuming thing, but we are willing to devote however much time and money it takes to make this work.
I know what many of you mean by doing certain things, i do have strong plans to make GnV Motorsports stand out from the rest..
Some of our key aspects will be: easy shopping ( finding product, paying for products and such ), Affordable parts, because I am a big car guy as well and truely hate looking online at parts then realize " wow i don't have enough money to afford this ", punctual service, responses within the day or next, and hopefully no later then that. and Shipping, being able to ship out asap will be our main goal.
Like my partner GFX said in this thread, we will specificly start off with WRX products, we be in the Evo market as well as quick as we can after that... so please guys hold your horses... lol if you can....
Well guys thanks for the comments. If anyone has more comments on how to stand out better then other companies. or what you the consumer would like to see please tell us, so we can take all of your considerations to heart and really base our future jobs off of this...
Thanks a lot guys.
I know what many of you mean by doing certain things, i do have strong plans to make GnV Motorsports stand out from the rest..
Some of our key aspects will be: easy shopping ( finding product, paying for products and such ), Affordable parts, because I am a big car guy as well and truely hate looking online at parts then realize " wow i don't have enough money to afford this ", punctual service, responses within the day or next, and hopefully no later then that. and Shipping, being able to ship out asap will be our main goal.
Like my partner GFX said in this thread, we will specificly start off with WRX products, we be in the Evo market as well as quick as we can after that... so please guys hold your horses... lol if you can....
Well guys thanks for the comments. If anyone has more comments on how to stand out better then other companies. or what you the consumer would like to see please tell us, so we can take all of your considerations to heart and really base our future jobs off of this...
Thanks a lot guys.
