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Eccomerce 101 – How to start selling products and services online.

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

So you have a great product that you want to sell online and have no clue where to get started.

First of all you need to understand your options as there are many of them. You need to decide on how much flexibility you want.

The Most flexible Option

A custom shopping cart is built specifically for your needs. Every aspect of the site from top to bottom is built just for you. The design, the shipping methods, the product options are all built for your needs. You can get the site built any way you want. Price wise, you pay for the development but there are no recurring fees for the development in most cases. You only pay for webhosting. Management is the easiest.

The Semi Flexible Option

This is a shopping cart where you use an out of the box software. You can host the site yourself but you are confined to what the cart offers. Some carts are poorly designed and make management very difficult.

The Least Flexible

This option is for people who want to try to build the site themselves. The company will host the site for you and you pay a monthly fee to use their website building software. You are confined to the companies features and can’t not make it custom. Plus if you decide to not want to use there services anymore then your have to start over as you cannot take the website with you. You are pretty much renting a website this way. This way is the simplest way for you to design your own site