How to sell your products online?

Written by Nowshade Kabir


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That’s why, if you are new to e-commerce and do not want to spend a fortune in your first endeavor, you should think about making your online presence by choosing one ofrepparttar available, onrepparttar 105043 Internet, Web Store services. There are enormous advantages of using these services:

- You can build one for a fraction ofrepparttar 105044 cost, needed to create an e-commerce website.

- You can chooserepparttar 105045 design of your web store from numerous available templates.

- Simple editor allows you creating your web store all by yourself.

- You can be up and running within days.

- You can choose a merchant account fromrepparttar 105046 one offered by repparttar 105047 service provider.

There are many Web Store service providers onrepparttar 105048 Internet like Yahoo! Store, Bigstep, Rusbiz, etc. Compare and choose repparttar 105049 one, which best suits your requirement. As an added advantage, some ofrepparttar 105050 Web Store service providers will integrate your store with a shopping mall or e-marketplace free of charge. This will instantly expose your web store to a large targeted prospective customer audience. Create an online catalog

If you sell only one or couple of products and do not add products or services often, you don’t require an online catalog. However, if you have a product line of over 10 products and you constantly add or change products, you should consider a web store withrepparttar 105051 facility of an online product catalog. This feature of a web store service allows rapid developing and maintaining of you electronic catalog without spending large sums on creating one by yourself.

Look for a web store service provider who offers wizard or form base product adding method torepparttar 105052 electronic catalog and use some kind of standard product classification codes. At later stage, if you choose to sell products through e-marketplaces, this will allow you to integrate your products to e-marketplaces and make sales offers with ease.

Choose a payment method

If you are planning to sell ebooks, reports, whitepapers etc. I would suggest you to consider using clickbank’s marketplace. That way, you don’t have to worry about getting a credit card merchant account.

Around 90 percent of all sales transaction occur online are by credit card payments. To accept credit card payment over repparttar 105053 Internet, you must first have a merchant account. A merchant account allows a vendor to process credit card transactions. If you built a web store online with one of repparttar 105054 web store service providers, you will see that they offer gateways to one or several merchant account providers and have partnership with them. In general, you get a better deal with them. However, as charges vary significantly from one merchant account provider to another, make sure you shop around before committing yourself to one.

Promote you site

To sell your products through your site, you must draw traffic. There are number of ways of promoting your site onrepparttar 105055 Internet. This includes:

- Search engine submissions - Adding your site to different online directories

- Opt-in email campaign

- Link exchange

- Banner and link ads

In you effort to promote your site, you should combine as many offline and online promotional methods you can come up with. The more traffic you can generaterepparttar 105056 better chance you have of selling more products from your Web Store.

Nowshade Kabir is the founder, primary developer and present CEO of Rusbiz.com. He has Ph. D. degree in Information Technology. Dr. Kabir has over 12 years of experience in International Trade and has worked as an advisor to several government projects. You can contact him at mailto:nowshade@rusbiz.com, http://ezine.rusbiz.com


4 Reasons to Work for Yourself

Written by Arthur Cooper


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3.Security

This may seem a strange reason for going self-employed. Surely you are more secure in a salaried job than you are working on your own account? These days it is not so obvious. The days of working all your life for a single blue chip employer have long gone. No company is immune fromrepparttar storms of national and international affairs. No company is free fromrepparttar 105042 effects of economic downturns and international competition. You are as secure asrepparttar 105043 length of your notice period. A month? Three months? A year even? None of these are very long compared to your working life.

At least as your own boss you are in control of your destiny. You do not have to watch helplessly as bad management wrecks your company. You don’t have to sufferrepparttar 105044 consequences of short term pillage ofrepparttar 105045 company torepparttar 105046 detriment of long term viability. You don’t have to put up withrepparttar 105047 consequences of others’ imcompetance. You alone are in change.

It is for you to decide your own strategy. You can decide your own balance between security and risk. You can base this on your own criteria, and these may change over time. You may start off prepared to take high risks to achieve your initial aims. As time goes by you may prefer to lock inrepparttar 105048 gains and build up a level of personal security to safeguard your achievements. As you approach retirement you may be a lot less inclined to take risks than you were when you were younger - or maybe your still are. The point it that it is entirely in your own hands. You decide. 4.Satisfaction

The satisfaction gained by doing something yourself can never be equalled. To know that you have achieved something worthwhile by your own efforts alone is enormously satisfying.

Those ordinary people who decide to run a marathon will never berepparttar 105049 fastest orrepparttar 105050 best, but their pride in their achievement knows no bounds. A man who builds his own little boat in his back yard over many years has a product that to him is fabulous even though probably no better than one bought fromrepparttar 105051 supplier. Their satisfaction and sense of achievement is ofrepparttar 105052 highest simply because they did it themselves

How much more so with your own business? In business you really can aim to achieverepparttar 105053 best. You can makerepparttar 105054 best product or giverepparttar 105055 best service. You can do things a better way. And each step alongrepparttar 105056 way you can say ‘I did that’, ‘that was my decision’, ‘I am responsible for that’, ‘I did it my way’.

Arthur Cooper is a writer and publisher. For more of his articles go to: http://www.arthurcooper.com/ For articles ebooks and courses go to: http://www.barrel-publishing.com/


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