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Starting and running your
own online store business is easy to do.
Furthermore, anyone can do it as well. No
experience is necessary and no special skills
are required.
All you have to do is start from
the beginning and follow the instructions in the
course in a step-by-step manner.
Choose your niche market:
Figure out and decide on which products or
product categories you’re going to specialize in
and then start and build your business based
upon that product market. Make sure that the
products you choose to sell are not only top
selling products but products that you can enjoy
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Create a keyword-rich business name:
Implement your most important keywords into your
business name. Not only will this send a
straight forward marketing message to your
customers but it will also allow you to have a
search engine optimized domain name as well.
Secure your domain name: When
creating your business name it’s also important
to make sure that your business name is also
available as a domain name as well. Matching
your domain name with your business name is
standard practice online. And more importantly,
search engines feed on and favor keyword-rich
domain names.
Register your business: In
order to start and establish your business, you
have to register your business first. And you
can do so by registering your business name.
This will automatically establish you as a sole
proprietorship which is the easiest and fastest
way to establish your business.
Obtain your sales tax license:
You’ll need to have a sales tax license (sales
tax i.d.) to purchase products from
distributors. And to obtain your sales tax
license all you have to do is contact or visit
your local IRS office, obtain and fill out the
necessary forms and receive your sales tax
license by mail. (The following states do not
require a sales tax license as these states do
not have a sales tax: Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii,
Montana, New Hampshire and Oregon)
Establish your website: Start
your website and create a main page with a
company logo followed by the slogan “coming
soon”. And once you’re signed up with
distributors then you can start adding products
to your online store.
Get signed up with distributors:
Start visiting and contacting distributor
websites and decide on which distributors you’re
going to work with. Then get signed up with 1, 2
or 3 distributors in order to gain access to
product inventory.
Add products to your website:
After signing up with distributors you can begin
to start adding their products to your website.
Be sure to build effective and informative
product pages with complete details, features
and product images.
Market and advertise your website:
Once your website is up and running and
virtually stocked with products, then you can
begin to market and advertise your website using
effective internet marketing techniques.
Maintain your website:
Maintaining your website is a simple matter of
adding new products as they arrive on the market
and adding content rich articles to your website
as well. The more pages you have then the more
traffic you’ll receive.
Keep track and documentation of all business
related purchases and business expenses for
record purposes when it comes time to file for
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The rest is just a matter of
effective business management and day to day
business operations while conducting all
business activities in an honest, ethical and
professional manner. And in doing so, you will
succeed.
When orders come in, take and place those orders
as soon as possible and make sure that all
orders are shipped out on time and to the
correct shipping address as well. Leave no room
for errors.
As your website traffic increases, your sales
volume will begin to increase as well. More
traffic means more sales. But in order to build
that traffic, you’ll have to focus on marketing
and advertising your website online. But the
more you do so, then the more your business will
grow, and in time, success will follow. |
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