ECommerce: Making e-Business Your Business

Making e-Business Your Business

Written by Greg McNeil

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word "e-business" may be a little intimidating. But it doesn't have to be if you take it one step at a time. Here are a few tips that can help in building and promoting your e-business.

·There are many ways to leverage repparttar 109082 Internet in business, so start with what you do best. For example, if you are known for putting out an excellent newsletter in print, make your first e-business application an online newsletter. Surprisingly enough, in many cases this will also help to increase your overall circulation.

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How To Effectively Develop An Online Storefront And Start Selling MORE Products Online Quickly!

Written by Mike Blacktop

The Internet, for us, is an absolute dream come true.

As my wife Anne and myself are disabled it meant relying on repparttar Government to provide us with state handouts. This not only left us physically disabled and on a very low income, but severely restricted any chance of being able to secure a steady real-world job.

If fact we had not been able to earn any money for over 10 years. Being stuck in this position, what could we do?

I heard so much about repparttar 109080 Internet that I just HAD to try it out... maybe it could provide repparttar 109081 answer I was looking for? but I found so much marketing hype that I just wasn't sure... How could I start trading online? What could I sell?

Then it hit me.

I Was In The Perfect Position To Turn Anne's Hobby Into A Proven Internet Money Spinner.... Here's How:

Anne had always liked collecting thimbles and with repparttar 109082 Internet revolution, maybe I could find people of similar interests who would purchase our findings.

With repparttar 109083 help of my family, friends and a few online sites, I developed my own Internet storefront, which soon became one of repparttar 109084 UK's most popular and widely used collectable products websites. Here's how I did it:

1) I started with PASSION. Being disabled meant that this was my one real chance of ploughing FULL energy into a project... I chose something that was based on a hobby, ensuring I kept 100% motivated at all times.

2) I knew I had to put together a collection of products that people would purchase. I had to find something that I could see a market for... virtually anything can be sold online, but it had to be a market I KNEW or at least could easily research into... I knew repparttar 109085 "thimble" market inside out, I also knew I could quickly learn about plates, bells, mugs and other collectables, so my sights were set.

3) Now came my Internet presence... forget free sites or unprofessional web space. I got my own domain, hooked up to a credit card processor and set-up an online shopping cart system to handle all orders. It needn't cost repparttar 109086 earth... for less than one hundred dollars, our Internet presence was ready to go live.

Here's my checklist for starting an online store:

* The right products... do you know repparttar 109087 market? If not, can you easily associate and learn about repparttar 109088 market?

* Grab your domain name today. You can register them for as little as $6 per year from names@blacktop.org. Then hook it up to a professional web host (for as little as $10 per month).

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