Pibs - 7:02 pm on May 8, 2007 (gmt 0)

To both customers AND businesses?

Then you're either tempting customers with the prospect of getting a single case at wholesale prices or you're running 2 different websites under one domain!

If I'm buying wholesale I want a clear bulk-discount structure, I'd like info on what is selling well, I want to know how quickly and efficently you'll handle my orders, what you'll do if things go wrong, a no-nonsense site, preferably with a log-in client area where I can easily manage the basics myself.

As a customer I need a darn good reason why I'd buy small edible widgets from you online when every corner shop on the planet has some?

For that I want personal attention regarding my high quality beautifully gift-wrapped and very special widgets which I'm almost certainly buying as a gift for someone else, with reassurance of fresh products delivered fast, with great presentation and which will make my beloved feel not only special but that the person who ordered such discerning widgets from such a specialist company must be kinnda special too.

2 totally different markets.

For the price of a domain name I'd build a 2nd site and optimize both for their intended clients.

Hope that helps?

But no way would I go online to buy a small edible widget.

P.

[edited by: lorax at 11:45 pm (utc) on May 8, 2007]
[edit reason] widgetized [/edit]