Your Expert Guide to E-Commerce, Online Retailing & Internet Marketing
TweetAs the economy continues to limp along, now more than ever, people are beginning to explore the idea of starting a home-based, low overhead business. There are a ton of ideas out there for starting home-based businesses. Most home-based businesses are started based upon a skill set that an individual already possesses, often times from [...]
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TweetDuring the lazy late summer months, the last thing you might be thinking about is the upcoming holiday season. Yet, the notion of Christmas in the summer time really isn’t that far off base when it comes to your e-commerce shop. We all know the holiday shopping season can quickly turn chaotic so, particularly if [...]
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TweetShopping on the internet is certainly a popular past time, an efficient time-saver, and a great way to comparison shop on virtually any kind of item you’re interested in. The history of e-commerce as most people think of it has a short but interesting time line. Most people don’t realize that e-commerce and its underlying [...]
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TweetI’ve recently posted several times about the concept of bootstrapping your first online business or any business for that matter. I believe that bootstrapping is the only way you should go when starting your first business. I’m also a huge advocate of using WordPress in general, but particularly for those individuals looking to bootstrap their [...]
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TweetUsing WordPress, you can build your own fully functioning, customized e-commerce website with a customized theme and logo design for less than $150. I’m not talking about a cheesy, poorly designed site either, but a clean, well-designed, professional looking e-commerce site. In fact, Sell It! on the Web was re-designed exactly in this manner. Here [...]
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TweetLet’s face it, traditional sources of financing for most new business ventures such as angel investment and venture capital are a long shot, at best. The fact of the matter is that far less than one percent of all start-ups see any type of venture capital funding. Even traditional bank loans are exceptionally difficult to [...]
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TweetBy Paul Lang, Editor, Sell It! May 23rd, 2002 I regularly receive correspondence from people who are keen to start their own Web business, but simply can’t think of a product or service they could sell. One piece of advice that I always give them is to simply open their eyes as they go around [...]
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TweetBy Paul Lang, Editor, Sell It! April 10th, 1999 With annual revenues in the neighbourhood of $8 billion, the US gift market is not surprisingly a tempting opportunity for many Web entrepreneurs. Take for example Jeff Swearingen. Although he only opened his Web store, TheGift.com back in March 1998, he is already looking forward to [...]
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TweetThe first step in the process of developing your own online business is to develop an idea or a concept for the business. For those of you, who have already decided on your idea, you can skip down to Step 2 for “Developing a Business Plan”. For those who are undecided or maybe a little [...]
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