How to Start an Online Store that YOU ACTUALLY OWN (GoDaddy Online Store Review)

About this video

In a video she discloses is sponsored by GoDaddy, Kate Hayes argues sellers should build an online store they own because marketplaces like Etsy, Amazon and eBay can change algorithms or fees or close a shop. She tours her own GoDaddy store for her wreath shop, showing a template-based site with shop name, hero image and Shop button, welcome message, scrolling photo gallery, shop section with categories, About Us, social section and a chat widget, plus search, cart and account links. In the Website Builder she shows Next Steps guidance for beginners, section-by-section editing, over a hundred templates under Theme > Try a new look, changing cover media, stock photos, brand colors including hex codes, light/dark themes, font pairings and button styles, adding sections such as About, FAQ, countdown timer, gift cards or a PayPal button, and previewing desktop and mobile. Settings cover site profile, analytics, favicon, and a built-in SEO tool via ‘Get found on Google.’ She highlights chatbots — a hello bot and an order bot that can answer order-status questions — and Commerce > Marketplaces and Social, where GoDaddy can sync/link Etsy, Amazon, eBay, Facebook and Instagram, import existing listings, edit visibility and categories, and organize products. She also covers shipping profiles including free shipping, local delivery, pickup and calculated shipping, marketing tools including a domain-tied email and SEO, and GoDaddy Payments at, she says, a flat fee of 2.3% plus 30 cents per transaction for major cards.

Key takeaways

Own your store in addition to marketplaces, because marketplaces can change algorithms/fees or close shops; GoDaddy is presented as able to sync Etsy, Amazon, eBay, Facebook and Instagram
Build section-by-section from over 100 templates, customizing brand colors/hex codes, fonts, buttons, and adding sections like galleries and FAQs
Preview both desktop and mobile versions and use the built-in SEO tool to choose and embed keywords
Use built-in chat with hello and order bots to automatically answer basic and order-status questions
Import marketplace listings into GoDaddy, organize by categories, set shipping profiles, and use GoDaddy Payments — stated as 2.3% plus 30 cents per transaction

Episode details: published November 5, 2021 · 14:14 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Kate Hayes’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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