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11 Free or
Cheap ways to Start and Run your Online
Business
By:
Natalie Williams
1. Open eBay and PayPal account (free)
2. Start
selling things around their house to get their feet wet,
build up feedback points and get experience (free, plus it
MAKES you money)
3. Go to library and get books on
beginning HTML, Web design (for beginners) and Creating
graphics for beginners (free)
Search on the Internet for a
free HTML editor (web page creator) and free graphics editor.
4. Running out of stuff to sell? Go to your local
thrift shops and buy up all BRAND NAME childrens clothing for
like .50-1.00 each and sell them in batches. Buy up all video
games, DVD's and even VHS if the VHS's are priced at LESS than
$2.00. List them and charge $4.50 for shipping and handling.
5. Use Stamps.com to print the postage and you can
hide the amount of postage on the label so no one complains).
This covers any packing material and your time packing and
going to post office. I am TIRED of shipping cost complaints.
Do these people email amazon.com and compain they were charged
$6.95 for something that cost them .50 to ship? Go to garage
sales, buy up and resell.
(Cost - Free to open account and
FREE postage to begin with plus a free scale)
6. Start
making a website. I don't care if it's about hot dog farming.
Whatever interests you, make it. (Free to create because you
are doing it yourself)
7. Join affiliate programs that
match and compliment the theme of your website. Insert reviews
and links to these websites of the affiliate programs you
joined.
8. Buy a domain name and hosting account and
upload your website.
(Domain name $8.95 per year at
www.godaddy.com and Hosting account $7.95 per month at
www.crystaltech.com or you can do both at GoDaddy. On GoDaddy,
you would want the Windows/ASP plan, trust me)
Now
that you have all this hosting space, you can also use it to
keep your images on for your eBay listings too. Don't nickel
and dime yourself to death with their fees!!
9. Create
a custom About Me page on your eBay account that introduces
you and directs perople to your website (You DO know some HTML
now, right?) (Cost - FREE)
10. Search out newsletters
that would be good to put an ad in. Cost, about $40 for a SOLO
ad which means JUST your ad goes out to 15,000-30,000 people.
11. Write an eBook on some subject. Put affiliate
links in it. Give it away on your website.
Create more
ebooks. Make a GREAT one and sell it.
Article Source: http://wahm-articles.com
Natalie Williams is a full time work from home mom that
centers her business around helping other people, especially
moms, work from home successfully and without being scammed.
Her main websites can be found at www.Scam101.com and www.GettingStartedOnline.com
nwilliams@cidicon.com |
