How do I start an Online Business?

Question

I want to start an online clothing business.

Where I can sell my designed shirts, pants, etc.

How do I receive the money and ship out the ordered items?

And how do I setup the online website?

Answer 1

I think it would be better for you to hire a webdesigner.

Answer 2

Use this basic checklist to make sure all the important steps are taken before you launch your new venture. This business checklist will make sure that you cross all your t's and dot all your i's before your business launch.

Steps to Starting a Business -

http://www.developer-resource.com/starti...

Other sites you might find helpful are:

SBA - http://www.sba.gov/

SCORE - http://www.score.org

Small Business Resource - http://www.small-business-software.net

Business Link - http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/act...

Goodluck!

Answer 3

First is to buy a good domain name for your business. That should represent your company on the internet. For your payment you have paypal and carriers for your shipping. You also need to increase the traffic of your website to gain more customers and broadcast your online business.

Answer 4

Try searching for 'shopping carts' in Google. That might get you started. There are plenty of companies out there that will do all of the work for you in setting up an online store.

Paula

http://www.squidoo.com/make-money-online...

Answer 5

"Where I can sell my designed shirts, pants, etc."

----- You can set-up a blog on blogger or Wordpress and sell them on your blog. You can set-up also using free-hosting sites. You can sell them on eBay.

"How do I receive the money and ship out the ordered items?"

----- Sign-up on PayPal or any online payment merchant account.

"And how do I setup the online website?"

----- Blog have cool designs and easy to manage. You may use CMS also for your site, it has cool plug-ins/modules to choose from.

"where do i go and how?"

----- You can ask Google for some help. ;) Good luck!

Answer 6

yahoo has an online business service, they will set everything up for you and provide you with a URL, for like $11 per month. My girlfriend just started an online business to help her get into college, and it was relatively easy.