eCommerce Tycoon

**icunow** · 11:04 AM

I started working from home about 3 years ago and it took awhile for the business to get off the ground, but it happened. It took a lot of hard work, long hours and trial and error, but it paid off in the end. First thing to
do is develop a Business Plan and write down everything that may come into your mind, no matter how small. I have outlined a few of my ideas below that worked for me.

1. Find a product, something that interests you and something you would buy.

2. Find a good and dependable wholesale drop-shipper.

3. Think of a catchy name for the store, something that draws attention to your store.

4. Find a good and reliable web hosting company. You can usually register a domain name through the web hosting company and they will provide a means to collect payments from your store, either through Paypal
or a Merchant Account.

5. Keep fresh content on your site and add new items to your store often. If you do not have new items to add, rotate the items that you do have, on the page often. Place a featured product on your home page and replace that product with a new featured product often.

6. Submit your store for Free to search engines, link exchange directories, forums and message boards. Write an article about your store or an ezine and submit to article directories.

7. Have business cards made and advertise offline as well, along with carrying one of your products with you at all times. Word of mouth works great, mention your store to anyone that may have an interest in your
product. Place flyers about your store on bulletin boards. Always remember to get permission to place the business cards and flyers at their place of business.

In the end, stick to your idea and make it work. If that product doesn't sell, there are tons of products out there that will sell.

**ADAM Web Design** · 03-19-2007, 08:07 PM

Terri, a word of advice: if you're going to spam an article and try to slip it through the fish net, make sure of two things:

1) That you don't include something you "use" in your signature or as the WWW link in your profile.

2) That you don't dump the article in other places and change the number of years.

http://top7business.com/?Top-7-Tips-...s-Plan&id=1756

http://searchwarp.com/swa88786.htm

Mmmm...spam tastes CHOOOOOOOOOOO-weeeeeeeee!!!

**ForrestCroce** · 03-20-2007, 01:34 AM

Yeah, this would be borderline spam ( without knowing what Adam pointed out ) if you didn't say "I use x, they provide ..." and then have two links to x in your signature. If not for that, I would have thought this was just not very good advice.

A few examples of how, aside from going through a host that apparently is known for spam, and might not be around forever because of it, this really isn't good advice to follow anyway:

Don't submit your site to the search engines; it's a waste of time you could do something productive with.

Submitting to directories isn't going to make much difference in the long term, but one thing it'll do for you is get you submitted to the search engines.

Buying something somebody else produces and sells wholesale probably isn't a very good way to go. There are plenty of other places somebody could buy your product; having it certainly isn't going to be enough to get anybody's attention.

Ethics, on the other hand, is something a successful company should be known for.

**icunow** · 03-20-2007, 11:27 AM

You're right, I did have to much going on in this thread. To many links, so I removed them, but I have had success with this plan. These tips seem to work for me, so I thought I would just pass them along.

Thanks,
Terri