Your Questions About How To Do Business Online

Jere answers:

You will have to create a virtual store front. Magneto, Virtue Mart are a few popular software programs used to create a storefront. You will also need a paypal API and integration for a payment system as well as a Shipping API from UPS, FEDex, or your preferred shipper.

Depending how many items you will be having it can take some time to set up.

My online store using Magento and 5000 items took 2 months to setup. Once everything is in place minor changes are easy to do. Depending on how many items you have, i may be interested in taking it on depending on the time line you need it done by.

Jere answers:

This is a great question and I’m glad you’re asking this question before starting your business.

There are lots of different ways to test market demand. You can even start offline by interviewing people to better understand the problem and the alternative solutions out there. Learn whether people would want to use what you’re offering over what already exists. There are also online methods of vetting a market. You can check keyword search volume, explore forums and communities, etc. Then you can set up a simple landing page to see if people come to your website and are interested. Tons of different tactics are available and to get the best picture of your online business, you should try all of them. All the methods are described in a great online ebook called LaunchBit Startup Guide.

Jere answers:

Imagine building a website that you have designed through a program available online. This program takes you step by step and allows you to build any website that you can dream of, even several if you wish. Next, imagine this program helping you to get ranked high on the search engines, saving you money. You can get targeted traffic to your website for free. My wife and I are using this amazing program to promote our business. I would love to share more info about it. Email me at robertbreitling@yahoo.com or see more info through my Yahoo Answers Profile page. I hope this helps.
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Jere answers:

I once had an idea to make money online for free but going to websites that say “in less then x amount of days, you can get x amount of dollars! This regular guy did it, you can too!”. Believe me, from every website that I tried, they never worked, and in the end, it is not worth the time. To make money online through business, you should begin practicing some sort of proffession or skill that others dont have, and use that to your advantage. Here are a few examples:

1) You could always become a freelance programmer. What that basically means is that by learning a programming language, such as C++, Java, or HTML, you can get paid the big bucks depending on how good you are at programming. There are multiple sites you can find online for freelance programming, and all you basically do is make a bid for some rich guy who needs a program to be made for something. He takes whoever he likes, sets a deadline, and then once you finish the project, you get cash. Downfall, learning a programming language like that takes a lot of time, practice, and ALOT of time on the computer.

2) Another alternative is to make a website and sell music, artwork, pics, whatever people are interested. Make sure you get a program that can help you make a website easy without you needing to know how to program a website. There are free programs out there that can do that, and there are free ways to make a temporary website that you can make a few bucks from before you switch to a full, professional website. Of course, you need to find something that a lot of people will like. Choose something that interests you, become dedicated to it, posts links to your website on youtube, myspace, facebook, and that alone can send you well off into a good business online.

3) If you make a website, make sure you have google adsense. That basically means that you put up google advertisements on your site, and anyone who clicks on that (besides you) will make google pay you. For more money, more clicks, for more clicks, more people need to go to your website. Its a simple, but hard chain to get going. That will of course lead to some money. Hope this helps!

Jere answers:

The easiest way for a novice to build a web site is to start with a web template. Web Templates can be customized and you can use the layout but swap the graphics etc…. This will get you comfortable with basic HTML design and an HTML editor (like Dreamweaver).

Here are some resources for free or inexpensive templates that are easy to edit and manage.

Webmaster Templates – http://www.webmaster-templates.net
Free Web Templates – http://www.freewebtemplates.com/
Web Design Elements – http://www.webdesign-elements.com
Free Website Templates – http://www.freewebsitetemplates.com/
Free Layouts – http://www.freelayouts.com/
Free Templates Online – http://www.freetemplatesonline.com

HTML website templates can significantly ease the burden of designing and creating websites by providing webmasters with a ready-made web layout, structure, basic graphics, and color scheme.

The templates can generally be edited and customized with any HTML editor. The biggest advantage for webmasters using ready-made templates is the amount of time that can be saved.