Merchandizer eCommerce Blog ArticleLeaving 9-5 For Your Own Ecommerce Business Part I
Leaving 9-5 For Your Own Ecommerce Business Part I
Day after day, do your mornings feel frantic? You get up and try to quickly eat some breakfast, while you get the kids ready for school and find out they didn't do one last homework assignment that they need help with right then and there. Plus, the baby needs breakfast, your shirt isn't even ironed yet and you realize that you're already 15 minutes late leaving and now your kids have missed the bus so you need to drive them to school along with dropping the baby off at the baby sitters.
Once at work, you're already late so the boss is chewing you out because you missed an important conference call. You day is hassled and hurried. You work through lunch and play catch up all day and then fight traffic all the way home. Make dinner for the kids, help them with their homework, play and feed the baby. Attempt conversation with your spouse, and you both fall exhausted into bed. You awaken to an alarm and it's time to do it all again. Tired of feeling like you're running in circles? There might a solution for you.
If you're a self-motivated individual and you are organized, having your own e-commerce business might be the way to go for you. Are you a craft person? A lot of people supplement their incomes selling candles, soaps, and gift baskets. If you're not, but you still want your own ecommerce business, look into drop shipping. Drop shipping is where you sell products at a higher price than where you get them from, and when you make a sale you merely contact the firm whose products you're selling, and have them ship your order. It's a great way to sell multiple products without a huge investment on your part.
After you decide if you're going to supply your own goods or services or you're going through a drop shipper, you will need a website, a shopping cart program and a payment gateway. That's it. That is all you need to get an ecommerce site going on the web. That will be covered in part II of this article series.
Day after day, do your mornings feel frantic? You get up and try to quickly eat some breakfast, while you get the kids ready for school and find out they didn't do one last homework assignment that they need help with right then and there. Plus, the baby needs breakfast, your shirt isn't even ironed yet and you realize that you're already 15 minutes late leaving and now your kids have missed the bus so you need to drive them to school along with dropping the baby off at the baby sitters.
Once at work, you're already late so the boss is chewing you out because you missed an important conference call. You day is hassled and hurried. You work through lunch and play catch up all day and then fight traffic all the way home. Make dinner for the kids, help them with their homework, play and feed the baby. Attempt conversation with your spouse, and you both fall exhausted into bed. You awaken to an alarm and it's time to do it all again. Tired of feeling like you're running in circles? There might a solution for you.
If you're a self-motivated individual and you are organized, having your own e-commerce business might be the way to go for you. Are you a craft person? A lot of people supplement their incomes selling candles, soaps, and gift baskets. If you're not, but you still want your own ecommerce business, look into drop shipping. Drop shipping is where you sell products at a higher price than where you get them from, and when you make a sale you merely contact the firm whose products you're selling, and have them ship your order. It's a great way to sell multiple products without a huge investment on your part.
After you decide if you're going to supply your own goods or services or you're going through a drop shipper, you will need a website, a shopping cart program and a payment gateway. That's it. That is all you need to get an ecommerce site going on the web. That will be covered in part II of this article series.
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