THE 10 STEPS TO GETTING YOUR OWN WEBSITE/E-COMMERCE HAPPENING

1/ Introduction
This is a guide for those who want to get into e-commerce and
to build awebsite, but who have little money or do not wish to
spend that much. It is assumed however that you have a computer
and the Internet or haveaccess to them.

We have a site www.novelty-gift.com which so far has cost
$US35.00 (the cost of the name). The rest is free and the only
other cost has been my sweat and experience. When we increase
our sales we will automate the sales.

The only other actual cost is maintaining an EFTPOS terminal to
process the Credit Cards. That is $US40.00 a month. But we
have this for several sites and businesses.

2/ .com Name
Get yourself a name at www.networksolutions.com cost $US35.00
per year.
3/ Host for your site
We use several some as main host and others as mirrors of our
main sites www.hypermart.net
www.easyspace.com
www.bizland.com
www.xoom.com
www.prohosting.com
www.geocities.com
www.webhostme.com/

We also use Internet drives like www.driveway.com to store
stuff online.
In fact you should sign up with the host first after finding that
the name is available.

I hope this article may be helpful to you getting started with
e-commerce on a minimal budget.

NOTE: Things are changing fast, daily, on the WWW with many
free resources no longer free. The policies of some of the web
sites mentioned in this article may have changed since this
article was written.

END OF PART ONE