A Great Work From Home Job:
Owning your own ecommerce website
By Ellen Shirley for Work-from-Home.org
Got 15 minutes and twenty bucks?
Here's a great idea... open your own ecommerce store!
You won't believe how easy it is.
You may already have everything you need to be the proud and well-paid owner of your own ecommerce website from home and it’s a great work from home job! Now, all you need to do is launch yourself.
It doesn’t matter if you’re an aerospace engineer, a recent college graduate, a disillusioned real estate agent, a gardening enthusiast, a career statistician or a starving artist… you can use your expertise, whatever it is, to build a Website to earn you an income from home.
First, develop your idea. Are you the aerospace engineer that’s going to offer customized photos of your site’s visitors “in space”? The college graduate that’s going to post term papers and other college-friendly content on your site? The real estate agent that didn’t do too well in sales but can write tons of really helpful real-estate related content on your site? The gardening enthusiast with tips and tricks and lists of links, the statistician that posts statistical trivia and fun personal statistic tests at your site, or the starving artist that pulls together a free online artist’s community? Virtually ANYONE can build a successful Website that creates revenue, and you can use your own unique past experience to do it. Even someone who has survived an ugly divorce can author a great Website that can generate revenue and serve as a great work at home career.
Got 15 minutes and twenty bucks?
Open your own ecommerce store.
Remarkably, even if you don’t know anything about the internet or having your own website you can still open your own ecommerce website through services like eBay Stores in as little as fifteen minutes and less than $20 a month. It doesn’t get an easier or less expensive than that. And there are services such as Doba that will let you buy more than 1,000,000 products at WHOLESALE prices, add them to your own shopping cart, and then even dropship the orders for you when they come in. Your Website can attract, sell and ship orders completely automatically while you do something else. You can sell everything from digital cameras to bath towels, sporting goods to fine jewelry, all at wholesale prices.
The key to owning your own revenue-producing Website is getting traffic. There are even tons of tools available now to deliver traffic. EBay will help you learn how to get traffic through their network and if you own an ecommerce site outside of eBay, there are TONS of tools and methods, many of them completely free, to help you get traffic. Once you get the traffic you can find various ways to harness that traffic and turn it into income. There are even tons of tools for that, too.
Second, promote your site. Use enough Search Engine Optimization methods to get your site listed high in your chosen keywords. You can also develop partnerships and link relationships to help promote your site free, or use advertising, online or off, to promote your site. Read books on Guerrilla Marketing to learn how to promote your site with little or no money. EBay Stores, for example, will even show you how to promote your site almost instantly to millions of viewers in their own network. It doesn’t get any easier than that!
Third step, create revenue. Sell products or a service. Require or encourage users of your site to register for a newsletter in which you can sell advertising, or have them complete questionnaires indicating future buying plans. Then sell those “leads” to companies that offer those types of services.
You can also sell advertising at your site, such as Google’s Adsense, and/or sell affiliate programs for anything you’re interested in... Amazon.com has an affiliate program, for example.
So put your thinking cap on for a moment and review all of your life’s experiences. Put those concepts together with other concepts of what interesting information, tests, or features you can deliver to visitors online to create a buzz and attract visitors. Then, just figure out the different ways you can create revenue with those visitors.
It has never been easier to earn money doing easy work from the comfort of your own home.
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