About Tipzu

Tipzu provides everything you need to start your own web store in minutes. If you're a blogger, run a small business, or just have a hobby that you love, Tipzu can help transform your passion into profitable website.

How Does it Work?

Just choose a name for your store and hit "Start Selling!" We do all the rest. Tipzu's powerful software will build everything you need to run an online business, including a store, a newsletter, a community with profiles of all your followers, a place for blogs and pictures, and a way to generate leads.

We even host your site for you for free (if you have your own domain name, you can keep it, too!)

Learn more about Tipzu's features

How is Tipzu different from selling on a site like eBay?

1. Tipzu does not charge a listing price (no fees ever to put products in your store).

Ebay charges up to $4.00 to list an item -- even if that item never sells! At Tipzu, you are never charged a listing fee. In fact, you can add thousands of products to your store (both your own and from our catalog of millions of brand names) for free.

2. Tipzu gives you the tools to make more sales.

At Ebay (or other similar marketplaces), the 99% of visitors who don't buy from you when they bump into your page are generally gone forever. This is a disastrous way of doing business, especially since research shows that the majority of sales do not occur when someone first encounters a brand, they occur after trust has been built up over a few interactions.

At Tipzu, we take a proven approach to selling. When people visit your site, we don't rely on a one-time impulse buy (although some people certainly do that). Instead, Tipzu includes tons of features that inspire those who aren't ready to buy to revisit your site (a free offer combined with a newsletter, registration to post comments in the discussion boards, and more). In this way, you can follow up with casual browsers, build trust with your readers, and dramatically increase your sales and profit.

Selling on an Ebay-like marketplace is like standing in a crowd with one product and one chance to make a sale; at Tipzu, its like having a storefront at the gates of Grand Central Station.

3. Tipzu knits together its users in a community that increases sales and profits for everyone.

When you join Tipzu, your products will be advertised in other Tipzu newsletters that are in similar industries (if you choose to participate), we'll recommend followers at other sites to visit yours, and your articles and/or blogs will be distributed to other sites in the Tipzu network.

At Tipzu your site is not an island, it's part of a vast archipelago of helpful neighbors.

How is Tipzu different from other hosted ecommerce sites?

1. Tipzu has a free service.

If your budget is small or you want to test out the system, Tipzu lets you do it for free. Try it now.

2. Tipzu links you to a community of other sellers in your niche.

At Tipzu, we don't just provide you a website that no one will ever visit (much less buy anything at). We provide powerful tools to bring interested users to your site (including search engine optimization), proven systems to inspire them to become a member at your site (a free offer, social networking features like discussion boards and profile pages), and tools to increase sales (a newsletter and lead management statistics).

In addition, Tipzu connects you with other relevant sites in our network. So your products can be sold at other stores, your blogs can be linked from elsewhere in the Tipzu system, and announcements for your site can be placed (for free) in other member's newsletters.

Finally, Tipzu's homepage promotes the content and products of all Tipzu users.

3. Tipzu is highly customizable.

Tipzu is built on the open-source Drupal platform. By being a part of this community, you will have access to thousands of add-on modules to your site (and growing every day) - at no cost.