Your Questions About How To Do Business Online Tips

Jere answers:

Try going to zlio.com where u can make your own store and they give u clothes and stuff to put in your online store. All u have to do is advertise the store on yahoo or google or any other place. Maybe even out on the street. Also try this website called wikihow or ehow.com and type what you r looking for in the little type box thing and they should tell u how to start an online clothing store. Wikihow will tell u how to do just about anything.

Jere answers:

Grants aren’t hard to FIND, but they can be extremely difficult and time-consuming to GET.

There are essentially only 5 sources for grants. A little known fact it that you do NOT have to be a non-profit to get a grant, regardless of what others tell you … I’ve helped for-profits apply for grants.

Most of the Federal grants are called Small Business Innovation Research grants. These are given primarily for some new innovation. You can find out what’s available at:
http://www.sbirworld.com
There is also info on this site about how to apply.

Some cities offer grants to small businesses if they will locate in the downtown area, for the purposes of building up downtown traffic. Check with your City Hall for details.

There are some Federal government grants for minority businesses. You can find info at:
http://www.mbda.gov

And, there are some minority organizations that provide grants … La Raza and the NAACP sometimes do.
Http://www.nclr.org
http://www.naacp.org

Private companies sometimes help fund start-ups, especially if they think they will see some benefit from it. These are very difficult to find, but can sometimes be the easiest to get.

Finally, private foundations offer grants. You can get a list of most US Foundations and private grant sources at http://www.foundations.org/grantmakers.html.

Jere answers:

Dream Girl, I’m happy that you’re looking to start your own online business but want to warn you that there are a lot of scams out there. I learned a lot about these scams first hand when I was trying to start my online business back in 2003. I would ask you to visit a few sites and learn all you can about dropshipping businesses before you jump in. I’ll give you a couple sites to get you started. First one is http://FreeDropshipInfo.com… They have tips and even a page full of scams to avoid. Second one is http://BuyatDiscounts.com/Marketing/DD_index.asp. There you will find three different ideas on starting a dropship business… Because you can focus on dropshipping through auction websites or you can start your own website and sell useing dropshipping companies. Good luck to you and email me any questions you might have as you move forward with this. I know it’s never easy trying to get a business going.

Jere answers:

There’s a good guide to increase your traffic here: http://traffic-tips-and-tricks.blogspot.com The tips described there are quite simple but very effective.Check out tip number 5, it will help you rank high on search engines in a relatively small amount of time.

And if you’re willing to invest some time into it you should also consider reading the book “Guerrilla Marketing” by Jay Conrad Levinson, it tells you a lot of practical and effective ways to market your business for very little or no money at all.

Hope this is useful.

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Read my blog
http://thedencorp.blogspot.com/

Jere answers:

One that focuses on entrepreneurship………..it was its own major at the business school i went to