What are some good ways to build an on-line business?

Question

I am talking about a business that specializes in selling books, clothes or electronics online.

Answer 1

You will need a source for these products - either talk to wholesalers directly and setup your own website, or use a all-in-one storefront + dropshipping package. Setting up your own website is easy, you can do it for free with Microsoft Office Live Small Business - http://tinyurl.com/officelive . It has a free design tool that allows you to create web pages without coding. It has no ads and has 500mb of web space. MS is giving a free domain name for the 1st year. You will then need to either use an e-commerce payment service, such as Paypal merchant account: http://tinyurl.com/paypalmerchant and either use Paypal's shopping cart or another one, such as the one in office live - Store Manager.

The other way is to have an all-in-one package, which saves you the hassle of stocking up and shipping, as well as having payment processing built-in. Shopster is one such a package - http://bit.ly/pPfFc and includes a 7 day trial.

Answer 2

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