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Before you sep up your online store, one thing is proven to be good to check. You can put a few of the products on online auctions such as ebay. If you can sell on auctions, that means your product definite sells online. If you can not sell it, you may check the reason. Do the product sell for less? If that's the reason, you may need to calculate how much you can make for each item you sell.
Can you sell to me at wholesale price?
Can you drop ship?
Can I marketing your products online?
You don't need a large space for your store. Usually 50mb is enough. Most hosting now will support php. You can use some shopping cart written in php. Usually such hosting will cost less than $10/mo.
The first thing you need to do for a store is to find a product. To do this, you need to check the online market. Is the product you are looking for has a good market online? Some product might have a good market but people may not like to buy it online for some reason.
The next step is to contact the wholesaler. The best way is to make a phone call. When you talk to the representatives of the wholesaler, make sure to ask them the following questions :
The next step is check how the intense of the competition. To do that, you can search the keyword on google. A good keyword should come up with less than 1000,000 results. If the result is too much, that means the keyword is too competitive and it's hard to compete with so many good sites already there.
After you decided to go for an online store. You need to build your store. You need to register for a domain. You have to have your own domain because you don't want marketing somebody else's domain. After you registered your domain, you need to buy an hosting for your store.
