Brexit
One thing I knew was coming with a while was brexit and the effect this would have on Ireland as we have a lot of intertwined history going back over 900 years.
At the moment 50% of my website visitors are from Ireland with around 40 % from the UK and the other 10% coming from other countries. Most of my products are linked to amazon but Ireland does not have it own amazon store yet and is instead linked to Amazon UK.
The problem is since the start of this year Amazon UK no longer ship a lot of products to Ireland and of the items they do still ship there are extra charges for vat and duty as well as extra shipping charges.
I think this has hit potential sales a lot as the website was only really starting to gain traction over December.
Now I am getting traffic but no longer converting into sales making me question what I am going to write about yet or even who my target audience will be. I would apprecate any thoughts or advice on what I should do next in going forward.
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Is your audience solely based in Ireland, or the UK? Is your domain name .ie, .uk, .co.uk, or .com? Are you writing your posts in British English or American/International English?
It is a .com domain but it was targeted towards Irish rural community. I would write in British English and around 50% of readers are Irish and 40% British.
We are similar enough especially around my niche of farming but a lot of my reviewed products are no longer shipped to Ireland.
I guess I can change to ebay or other affiliate programs going forward.
I was going to suggest that as the first option, to see if you can find the products more locally to yourself.
However, if you can't, and you are able to expand the niche, as you have a dot com domain name, you could convert your writing style to International English, and then signup for the US Amazon program.
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I know you will find a way forward, my friend! This is only a stumbling block!
Jeff
thanks Jeff
You're welcome, DJ!