This tutorial introduces you to a variety of on line stores on the web and provides editorial information about them.
Can be set up free
How To Choose A Store That Suites Your Needs
There are three basic approaches to setting up your own store. And your choice of those three depends on several factors.
Regardless of which store you set up, you need customers. So much of your decision should be based on how you intend to get customers.
Setting Up A Store In With An Aggregator
If you put your store where the customers are, you will save a lot of time and effort. And that is easy to do. Just use the store facilities that you find at major shopping points that attract millions of customers per day.
These aggregators have systems that somewhat constrain you and that cost you monthly fees. But these costs are offset by the customers that visit your store. They do the advertising for you. You get on line fast and easy.
These are the best places to start. Each of these sites gets millions of visitors per day and you will get your share.
EBay Store - This is a very popular option. eBay gets huge traffic and it is growing all the time.
Amazon Store - They get mixed reviews from people. But do look to compare.
Yahoo Store - This is the place to start. And what is nice about this store is that you can get information about how to set up your store before you start. Here is a publication that we recommend highly. It tells you about how to use a Yahoo Store without having to have any inventory. It is a great investment if you are considering selling on the web. Click here.
For The Technically Advanced Or People With Extra Money To Spend
If you have a big budget or have technical skills as a programmer, here is a list of good shopcarts that you can consider. If you do not have technical skills, you can hire a programmer to use them. But you can also consider using a turnkey system that you at the bottom of this page.
| CubeCart is an eCommerce script written with PHP & MySQL. It is extremely easy to set up and configure with 2Checkout. Visit our site for more details and a full feature list.
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| osCommerce is a powerfull e-commerce solution under on going development by the open source community. It's feature packed out-of-the-box installation allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and at no software cost!
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| X-Cart is highly-customizable, template-based PHP+MySQL shopping cart software. The software can be used both as a readyout-of-the-box shopping cart solution and as a powerful PHP shopping cart engine for a customized web shop.
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| VPASP is a comprehensive ASP shopping cart for business and developers. Full source (no DLLs), Easy install, extensive features. Use with any language/currency. Free working demo, free support, Free upgrades. Now in use in over 60 countries.
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| Mal's ecommerce - By adding simple Buy Now buttons to your product pages the shopping cart service at Mal's e-commerce lets the customers easily fill out an order while they browse your website. Tons of features. Currently used by over 29,000 sellers.
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| Clickcart Pro - Complete e-commerce solution. Manage an entire web site and online store with one software package. 100% of the program is configurable via an administrator utility. Supports connections to advanced relational databases, but is capable of running in CSV-only mode.
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| Comerus - Popular Shopping Cart Google friendly 100% compatible with 2Checkout including Silent Response Callback connected to automatic distribution of e-goods and order status change. Other features: taxes, shipping, multilanguage, stock, encryption, auctions, reviews, order tracking, multilevel categories. Optional Packs with UPS, USPS, DHL, SQL, mySQL and WAP catalog.
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Turnkey Stores
If you do not have technical ability, here are three turnkey systems that you can use.
Wedding Store - This is a niche site for a niche market that you know is not going to go away.
Our Recommendation
Read the book about a Yahoo Store. It gives you information both about a store and about drop shipping. Click here.
And if you are not interested in the book, go directly to Yahoo and start the learning process. Click here.
