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 Hi All,

I would like to develop an e-commerce web-site to sell all types of promotional products.
How do I get started? I am not very computer savvy, but need to learn so I can make  my own changes.

Where do I begin? You help is greatly appreciated.


jack





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Jack Edelman The Promotions Department, Inc. 10301 NW 18th Manor Plantation, FL 33322 954-257-3644 fax 954-382-0049 http://www.distributorcentral.com/websites/the promotionsdepartmentinc sales@promotionsdept.us "Call The Promotions Department, they`ll take ca

Open a PayPal acount, and use their cart system. Once you are generating money, you can then put the money back into the website for development and product development.

Thanks for your quick response!
I did open a paypay account, but need a site...

What am I missing?


Jack



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Jack Edelman The Promotions Department, Inc. 10301 NW 18th Manor Plantation, FL 33322 954-257-3644 fax 954-382-0049 http://www.distributorcentral.com/websites/the promotionsdepartmentinc sales@promotionsdept.us "Call The Promotions Department, they`ll take ca

Hi Jack

You can make a simple web page by learning html see http://www.htmlgoodies.com/primers/html/   It only takes about a week to learn.

You can get free web site hosting at www.20m.com.

Ideas to get web page visitors see http://www.helptosucceed.love-au.com/

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Hi Jack,

I recently launched my e-commerce site, in fact we are still working on a handful of elements still, but we are about 90% complete.  My web designer and I have been working on this since July.  An e-commerce site build is no easy task.
I would recommend researching "small business e-commerce web designers" (or a keyword phrase along those lines).  You need to keep in mind search engine friendliness and usability.

There are a number of template solutions available, but you have to be careful with those as often they are restrictive and not very search engine friendly.  There are also a handful of Open Source solutions available.  Open Source is free and supported by a voluntary group of programmers.  An example of an Open Source shopping cart is Zen-Cart.com

I don`t want to get too long winded here.  Do you have any specific questions I can address?  Again, having just gone through this process, I`m happy to share what I`ve learned.



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Rod Call
Snoloha
www.snoloha.com
rod@snoloha.com

I`d start by putting into the search box on this site, "start e-commerce" and the variations of the spelling.

Thank you all.. I will explore all the ideas and will keep you posted!

Regards,


Jack


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Jack Edelman The Promotions Department, Inc. 10301 NW 18th Manor Plantation, FL 33322 954-257-3644 fax 954-382-0049 http://www.distributorcentral.com/websites/the promotionsdepartmentinc sales@promotionsdept.us "Call The Promotions Department, they`ll take ca

I`m a webmaster by trade, and yet, I don`t design have of my own sites. In fact, when I ran a web design company, I outsourced 100% of the work to folks overseas.

One site I used to find designers was getafreelancer.com to locate the designers/programmers I work with now.

It shouldn`t take months to get an e-commerce site built, in my opinion, with all the technologies available, one should be able to fully start processing online within a few weeks and depending on the size of the project, an e-commerce site can be enabled and ready to go within days.

One of my niche sites that pretty much take care of itself was designed and online within 2 days - taking and processing credit card orders in real time and everything: http://www.thatblanket.com

One day for the design and another day for the content and ecommerce implementation...now obviously, if you`re selling 500+ products, thaats a different story.

Just to give u an idea, I paid the guy $50 bucks to design the site for me...he sent me a proof of the layout and 2 hours later, he sent me the html code and the psd files and it was done. All I had to do was plug in my content...(for an extra $50 bucks --- send them the content and they`ll input it in there) I`m a control freak and like to do that stuff myself.

That`s one of 50+ sites I have online and most typically take 1-3 days to get up after the concept has been thought off.

Sometimes, I`ll wake up in the middle of the night with an idea and will email my guy some directions and when I wake up 4-6 later, he`ll have me a proof...(actually, I had one of those nights this past Sunday night) and the site is already complete.

In other words...just get started. Don`t wait months until everything is just right, just get started and tweak and modify as you go.

Just my .02 cents worth

 

I can modify your website.

 

http://thishdreamz.com/

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