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Why am I selling?
This site was launched in April 2009. It is designed to be manageable
remotely, indeed I successfully managed grocery delivery for Houston,
TX from my home Austin, TX for 18 months. What I did not anticipate was
the amount of management time that would be required. I have experienced
what are probably normal levels of shoppers mis-scheduling themselves,
not responding to emails, needing help or advice, quitting and going dead(inactive)
without telling me, and forgetting to close their orders within 24 hours,
which is causing me to spend more time than I had anticipated on managing
the dispatch of orders. In addition the rate of new customer orders has
not been what I had hoped. While we have achieved significantly better organic search
engine ratings and increased web traffic over the past 3 months we are still
not seeing nearly as many orders I would have expectected by now.
How can a buyer make money by managing
this site remotely?
The owner of this website (ie - the new buyer) will earn commissions
on each grocery order that goes through the system (usually $4-$6). In
exchange the new owner of this website will need to staff 1 person (possibly
himself/herself) to act as dispatch manager. When shoppers do what they
are supposed to do there is not a dispatch problem. But sometime shoppers,
who are human, forget to change their schedule before going out of town
for instance. Then the dispatch manager has to call other shoppers and
fix the problem, etc..
What is the price?
I am selling the 2 domains, custom ASP web pages, customer database
(access), employee database (access), high search engine ranking, around
700 unique visitors per month, EVERYTHING for the incredibly low price
of $3800 FIRM. You can easily pay more for just a DOMAIN
NAME folks, this is priced to sell. I have spent more than 200 hours designing
these custom web pages. This is an incredible deal.
What is for sale?
Two domain names:
- www.lonestarshoppers.com
- www.lonestarshopping.com
Over 50 custom designed web pages that include:
- Home pages that include how it works, getting started, order status,
contact us, staff, etc...
- Customer new account creation system AND database (.mdb)
- Shopping cart with over 8000 common grocery items found at most HEB
grocery stores
- Several thousand Photos for products
- nutrition information for hundreds of products (availble to customers
online)
- a custom feedback rating system for customers to provide feedback on
how the shoppers did
- zoning: our software divides houston in 5 zones. Shoppers can work all zones or just one, and they can set different delivery rates for each zone online using our back end system:
- back end shopper pages that includes: change my schedule online, change
my pay rates online, change my delivery fees online, check labor coverage
reports, end of month sales reports, change order status online, and more
High search engine visiblity:
A google search for "houston grocery delivery" reveals that we are now alternating between the #1 and #2 results for 'houston grocery delivery'. Our search engine optimization for organic (free) search engine listings is excellent.
Web Traffic:
We've been seeing a lot more traffic lately. Here's our latest traffic report:
How to Contact Me to buy, or for more
Info:
Please email any questions to cs@lonestarshopping.com
I will monitor email, please use an appropriate subject line so I don't
miss it. Please do not waste my time, which is very limited. Serious inquiries
only please. You can create a customer account online (click get started
to your left) to see just how this web page works.
If you buy the web site I am including 10 hours of my time to help you
get get this web site setup on a new web server, help you transfer domain
names to your name, answer training question, etc... After that I will be available by email to answer questions, or you can hire me to do custom web design and modifications for $60 / hour if you want me to make some changes to the site for you..
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Our Founder 
LoneStar Shoppers 
