1/ ... is a guide for those who want to get into ... and to build ... but who have little money or do not wish to spend that much. It is assumed however that you have a compu
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.
Bill Rosoman has been involved with computers (and even email!) for over 20 years. He is the "technical associate", friend and business partner of international author Craig Lock. He developed Craig's famous and original online creative course :http://www.nzenterprise.com/writer/creative.html.
