Establishing an Online Store
Part, or most, of the idea when you established a website was to sell products peripherally from a website of which you have a niche in. Like most other consumer business building on the internet, this is very easy to do, and not done more widely because most people only know how to surf the internet, and not much else. Here is how to build an online store on your site to generate income from your site.
Register your domain name
First, you have to get through the business of building a website. This is easy, and can be done on the cheap, if not free. You have to first get a domain name. This may not be as easy as you may think because a lot of good names are taken, your name has to promote the product you are trying to sell, and it should be unique.
Once you have done that you have to register the name. Godaddy.com registers name for $9.99 a year and is the one most people identify with because it is such a great website. After this, you have to get a host manager, which is a website that keeps your website open for business all day every day. The best one to use, at least right now, is hostgator.com. It’s free, which fits our criteria, and the most effective, probably on the web. You will register the domain name here.
Build your site
Next, you have to build the website. You should probably use WordPress.com for this, because it handles the best, and once again, it’s free.
How to build your online store
Now, once you have your website customized and running, it’s time to build an online store on your site. For this you’ll need a site manger website to manage collecting payments, adding products, and things of that nature. The commerce of your website. A good website to look at to handle this is opencart.com. Once again, it’s free, so it’s a bargain at twice the price. Go through the prompts to download it then to put it on your server. That’s it. After this you can customize your website to promote your business, or if you want to sell other businesses wares and can manage you store to sell these and opencart.com will manage these sales for you including the commission you’ll receive from selling the other businesses wares that you intend to promote. The mistake that some people make is that they believe that they want to sell something, without having much of a website attached to it, and think they will be able to compete with websites that have been moving a product for years, such as electronics. Well, Best Buy will out do your sales in regards to this every time. You have to begin with building a website, generate some traffic, other something the big boys don’t offer such as a blog about electronics, and then move the product of which you wish to make a commission off. Don’t worry. It’s fun to do even if a store on your website is periphery.