Your Questions About How To Do Business Online
William asks…
How do I start a business rating (pics or pans) business online. Targeting local businesses and servces?
I want to have a special section for seniors also.
This service will be like an “over the backyard fence” referral or “panned” comment service. Comments by persons who have experiences from said business and or service.
Jere answers:
You would first need to reserve a website ( usually buying a web address) and design or hire a web designer for it. What you’re proposing would be highly interactive, yet would need to be quite user-friendly, so I wouldn’t at all recommend doing it on your own without experience. A good web designer will lead you through the naming, site design, logos, colors, and listing it in different search engines so it can be easily found by people who don’t have the exact address to type in each time. The site would need continuous updating and you would like to track hits (know how many people have visited the pages), so you would likely need to continue to pay the web designer for these services.
I would caution you as to liability for what you intend to do. You may wish to first legally incorporate as a group, rather than undertake this in your name, for liability purposes. If you are the owner of the name and site (by virtue of paying and upkeeping it), it is possible you could be held personally responsible for the comments inserted onto the site pages. It would be very, very difficult to monitor the thruthfulness and impartiality of each entry, if you allow them to be made unabated by visitors, and even if they are true, but are unflattering , the comments could land you in the middle of a lawsuit. For these reasons, and probably even more I’m not noting, you may wish to consult a lawyer before ever undertaking the project. If not, you could be held liable for suits, and your personal assets could be attached as damages.
Your ideas are good, but will require professional assistance to both be done safely and well. The barest simple of start-up costs of the legal and web consultations will likely run over a thousand dollars, so be prepared.
I’m sorry to sound grim, but my own experience in setting up a social service directory (wasn’t even interactive, as you are describing) online leads me to caution you.
George asks…
Do you think it’s wise to start a business online before physically setting up shop?
Do you think it’s a financially smart idea to start an online store to see how well the products sell before leasing/renting/buying a physical space to sell your products? Would it save money in the case of if what you’re offering doesn’t sell as well as you thought it would, you didn’t waste months of rent, labour costs, etc? What would be the downsides to starting an online store first?
Jere answers:
Yes of course it’s a smart idea.to open an online store need less money than open a real store. After your online store begin to get known by the costumer you can begin to prepare the physical store. You can open the web site i write in the source box to start your online store.
Hope that it’ll help. Good luck 🙂
David asks…
How can I do business online?
I am an artist, and I recently found out that people really like the bags that I design. How could I, as a teenager, start a business online? I’m getting my mom to help out also. Do I need to set up a bank account? If the business doesn’t go well, could I cancel the account? Please help.
Jere answers:
You have a couple of options.
1. You can sell your items on etsy.com This is a great place for selling handcrafted items. You’ll need a paypal account to be able to make sales. Your mom can set that up for you since you said that she would be helping you.
2. You can set up a website where you feature your handcrafted bags and post pics to pinterest. Create a pinboard based off of what popular keyword terms people are searching for online.
You can find out what people are searching for online when it comes to handbags by going to google and type in the bag name or category it fits in. As the suggestions come up then create a pinboard with that name on it.
Or you can go to googles keyword tool and type in your bags name and see how many people are looking for it. Make sure you check off exact match on the left side of the screen. From there choose a phrase that has decent searches in the global category. Then create a pinboard with that phrase as it’s title.
3. You can go to a site called the fancy.com. It’s similar to pinterest except for one big difference. People can buy your product right there on the spot. I would suggest if you are going to use the fancy.com them you place your focus on the presentation of the product. As I teach with all of my clients, it’s the presentation that matters. Of course you want to give a quality product. But how you present that product matters much more.
Good luck!
Donna asks…
can anyone tell me how and what to set up in a business online with just $50 in my piggy bank?
i am from Singapore and i am 12. i would like to set up a online business but i do not know how and what to set with just $50. can anyone help me?
Jere answers:
Find something to sell (or make something), put it on a website aimed at selling things, such as Ebay, or Etsy.com Use part of the $50 to cover auction fees and possible materials if you make something. See if it sells, if it does make or get more of those items.
Chris asks…
i am starting a business online and simply need to know how to distribute products to the customer?
if the business is online and i’m selling these products from my online store, so obviously i’m not going to physically purchase the product and mail it to the customer myself, so how do i go about getting the product to the customer. i know about distribution centers and wholesales, but i dont understand if i dont have a storage to put my merchandise, then how will i go about sending the merchandise to the customer?
like when the customer puts an order in for what they want online, so i know what they what , but i dont physically have that mershandise , so then what do i do,? is there something that exists to where i can send those customer oders to a distribution center or wholesaler, and they ship it? if so what about packaging, i will have my own signiture packaging, so how will that work? please help ? i know sum one knows about this stuff…
Jere answers:
Just display any item on your website collect money and place an order over here doba.com and they’ll do it all including returns. Terms and condition on website.
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