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Working from home could be your
answer if you are looking for a second income and an
online business can be as involved as you want it to
be without the staffing issues and overheads of a traditional
retailer. Most big business today have a web site either
just to let people know who and what the business is
all about and in many cases the web site will have an
online shopping area.
Owning an online business means you can take care of business where ever you are, so taking a break does have to mean that the business stops or you have to pay someone to take care of it until you are big enough to support extra help. |
Many new and existing business
use Ebay shops or online shopping arcade style shops
and these are something that can help along side a shop
that is branded in your own shop name and graphics but
it can also be a step back because you will then have
overheads and limitations far beyond what your own shop
will cost and having your own shop means that you can
sell what you like as long as it is legal without worrying
that you may get kicked off or have a lot of stock that
you can't sell because it is not eligible for sale on
Ebay or what ever site you are listing on, trust us
when we say that many business have problems with selling
their products on other businesses sites, You will also
be hit with repeat listing fees and charges for extra
photos etc. the list goes on.
What
does it cost to work from home ?
You can start you web business
for as little as £1.49 a month, you will be able to
list thousands of products and be able to take orders
for those products without having to watch the checkout
til, leaving you to do what what you carry out a first
job rest an play while the orders clock up.
Basic fully functioning shop DEMO that can be installed
at the touch of a button.
No more re listing fees
! Of course in better packages
you get more advanced shopping carts that are also installed
at the touch of a button from your own control panel
at no extra cost and all of them are fully customizable
and are able to accept ready built graphics templates
that customize the software layout and design to your
needs for very little cost or you can just use what
is in the package and simply add your web site name
and details and make it your own that way to get you
started and then just add your product and configure
the admin so you can take payments and then your off
!
What are the main things
that will help me have a successful online business
working from home ?
The first and probably the most
important part is a basic knowledge
how to use a PC, this can be gained by trial
and error by playing or you can take a quick course
at you local college and in many cases Schools offer
night classes for very little cost which can star around
t £25 and upwards, the reality is that if you have searched
and found us more or less on your own you probably already
have the right skills as our hosting packages have an
control panels that allow you to install software at
the touch of button with no need for programming skills
just push the button and type a few details in as required
by the software that you installing, like the name of
the business and address, if you want to take online
payments, this can be achieve by having a paypal account
and adding the paypal account email address to the admin.
The products
that you sell are your choice, just like any
shop and so just about anything will sell new and old,
so long as the price is right or maybe you have service to offer, a great resource for
finding suppliers are sites like the wholesale pages
or even the good old yellow pages as well places like
local business trading estates or maybe manufacture
your own products, if you are a market trader already
then you are setup already, you might not thing that
send some of your products is viable through using couriers
or Royal Mail, the answer is let the customer decide,
Royal mail will deliver to the remotest of places in
the UK for little no extra cost than sending something
local, so if you have got something to sell then list
it and let the customer decide weather or not its worth
buying, because if they can't buy a product local to
them and they need it they will buy that product off
you but only if they know you have got it, rule of thumb
' if it aint listed, you are not
going to sell it !'
Marketing can be as bigger job
as you want to make, and it of course can depend on
what you are offering on how you approach it, in terms
of getting noticed on the net you will need to gain
some credibility with search engines to get a reasonable
placing in search results and this can be achieved by
swapping links with other web sites that are similar
in content and making sure that your products or articles
have a clear -
Title,, Keywords and Descriptions that
match the page content , content
is 95 % of getting a high listing on the search
engines because most of them are able to read the pages
like a someone browsing the net and make a record of
what it see's that can be used as a search result in
the future, so if it isn't in
your content the search engines won't see it
and so it will never be in search results, its as simple as that !
Once you have customers
keep them up to date.
most of the software that has
some form of sign up or registration will ask if the
new customer would like to receive your news letter,
more than half of registrations will tick this box so
make the most of it by send out an emailed newsletter
about current offer and new products that you may have
listed, and this will bring you
repeat orders.
You can of course get some cheap
flyers printed and hand them out or post them through
letter boxes or place a ad in the local newspaper but
these will all cost money so be careful as some products
work better with a particular type of marketing and
so get it wrong and its wasted money,
Get your content right and then submit it to
as many free search engines and directories as possible
and this will only cost you your own time.
And
you will have a business that will allow you to be working
from home !
Shopcutter
working for a brighter future for web hosting and online shopping
Best Wishes
Shopcutter
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