Wha do I need to do in order to sell products on an on-line store?

Answer 1

Here are the main components of an ecommerce site or selling products in an online store:

1. Website - Your online connection to your prospects and customers. If it does not look like a professional, legitimate business - NO ONE WILL ORDER ANYTHING - no matter how great the products you have. If you are serious about doing business on the web, either go back to school and learn html, java, cgi, etc., or hire a professional to design your site.

2. Merchant account - Bank authorized account which allows you to accept major credit cards, electronic checks, etc. Many banks will not give you a merchant account if you do business on the Internet because they may classify it as high risk. Be careful when looking for a merchant account provider! Watch out for hidden fees, high setup fees, and other unscrupulous business practices.

3. Payment Transaction Software - Software which actually processes customer order information, address, credit card number, etc. The data is sent to a credit card authorization network which verifies that the credit card is valid and verifies that the shipping address matches the billing address. A possible warning sign that the card has been stolen is that the billing and shipping addresses do not match.

4. Secure Server Connection - https:// - Link to a special computer which encrypts confidential ordering data for customer protection. You know you are on a secure server when the URL in your browser says "https://". The "s" stands for "secure." If ordering information is not sent via a secure server it can be intercepted by computer hackers.

5. Shopping cart - Software which allows you to accept product orders for multiple products from your website. This software automatically calculates and totals orders for your customers. Some setup must be done in the html code of your website, and the shopping cart software must be installed on the server which hosts your site or on the secure server which accepts sensitive ordering information.

Answer 2

The best routes to take are to research the process of starting a business as well as the industry you're interested in.

I recommend checking out the SBA, Entrepreneur, The Start Up Journal & Nolo. All 4 are great informational resources for the new/small business owner. I posted links for you in the source box.

Research, research, research – this cannot be stressed enough. Read as much as you can. Here are some book titles that are relevant:

* Starting an Online Business For Dummies, 4th Edition by Greg Holden
* How to Start and Maintain A Successful Online Business by Kelly Thornton
* The Complete E-Commerce Book: Design, Build, and Maintain a Successful Web-Based Business by Janice Reynolds

There are plenty of free informational resources out there. Check the source box for links to articles.

Hope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!

Answer 3

If you don't have products, then you may need to be part of a corporation that has its own products. They have their own website but you can design your own but you need to also obide by certain guidelines which I understand.

If you have products:

1. Register your business, very important.

2. You obviously need the capital for domain name, to host the website too, and get it designed.

3. You need to visit backs because if its a business then you need to sort it out where people can use their cards when they buy the products online. Talk to your local branch bank manager. They will give you a lot of advise in this area but also a Business centre too.

4. If you don't want to through the route number 2 then, you can try work it by getting paying through paypal but I find it is better by credit cards and having different cards will make easy access for people around the world to buy.

Hope this answered your questions. Please also visit:

http://www.startups.co.uk

Valuable information regarding business set up.

Answer 4

Think about setting up as an affiliate first. Get your feet wet this way. You can learn more from a lady that makes mid 6 figures income on this site. Check out the ebook about it. I can't remember if it's on the first page or the product page. Anyway, I'm sure you can figure it out.

Answer 5

Create an Ebay account.. buy and sell for a while before you can get good enough feed back to open a store

Answer 6

Get a product you want to sell and get a website, Ebay store, Yahoo store etc..
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Answer 7

website - build one or buy a template from somewhere and design a website

payment merchant account - paypal is free, you can build a shopping cart with paypal

domain - domain name to point to your space on the www

web host - to host your site files

Answer 8

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