Online E-Commerce Websites - A Great Way to Make Money and Pad Your Resume With Work Experience
The worst thing about either being unemployed or without work experience, is trying to explain things to a prospective employer.
Well I found the answer and its something that will cost you little to invest and will probably make you some money in the meantime.
What I'm talking about is starting e-commerce websites which you can do without really any technical experience and relatively little money spent.
I wish the Internet was around when I got out of school! Once you have any kind of presentable e-commerce website running, you can cover your butt and make yourself look good when accounting for time when you were unemployed or even never had a job in the first place by stating to your prospective employer that you owned and operated your own e-commerce business and show him the actual site(s).
There is no way your prospective employer will be able to know how much you made with your e-commerce business and the chances are he will overestimate your revenue ten fold.
It's actually fun owning an E-Commerce website and you'll learn things later later on through trial and error that you can apply to future jobs.
You can actually develop good writing and business skills as its like operating your own business with hardly any investment! Here's the easiest step by step method of owning an E-Commerce Store that I know of that I do myself: 1.
Decide on a specific product you want to sell.
2.
Come up with several Domain Names, as close as you can to the products name.
3.
Go to a Domain registration site and see if the domain name is available.
I would recommend using a .
COM domain and failing that a .
Net or .
Org.
Almost all one word domain names are going to be taken so I would try to use the shortest three word domain name or possibly two if it was available.
You may need to put a "Store" or My" with a 2 word combination to get an available domain name.
Once you settle on a Domain name you need to register it, which will cost you roughly $8-$12 a year.
Again try to get the shortest possible name that emphasizes the product you are selling.
4.
The easiest way I know to launch an E-Commerce site is through a program called "The Easy Store" of which I am a customer.
This program is put out and installed by Zeus software and you basically don't have to do much at all as they do almost everything.
What Zeus does is put out an E-Commerce Website that sells all Amazon products and which Amazon is responsible for everything and you make a 4-6% commission for each sale from Amazon.
Thus you are investing nothing on inventory, don't process the order and aren't collecting the money.
Amazon does all that.
Amazon then pays you for each item sold through your site.
The Easy Store provides you with free web hosting for a year under one of their plans.
Basically, if you sign up with the Easy Store, they will do all the entry work for you and walk you through things and give technical advice.
You can contact them by phone if you have any technical matters.
The Easy Store is not very expensive- note I do not have any financial interest in the company and I'm recommending it strictly as a customer who receives no benefit for recommending it.
You do have to become an Amazon Associate which is free and takes less then a day to register.
Listed below are two of my Easy Stores for example.
5.
Essentially the only thing you need to do is to come up with good Keyword descriptions that will come up high in search engines like Google which will draw a lot of your traffic for potential customers.
You will also need to submit your domains to search Engines.
6.
The most important thing in an E-Commerce Store is that it looks professional.
For another $80 or so, The Easy Store will custom design a logo for you.
My Easy Stores which you can find below feature their custom logos.
7.
I would also join Google's AdSense program which The Easy Store will put on your site for free once you register for AdSense.
AdSense pays you a variable amount of money for each Google Ad on your site that gets clicked.
Registration for AdSense is free.
Do not click any ads yourself and do not have friends and family click, because if Google finds out, you will be banned from AdSense.
8.
Another way to get traffic to your website, is to write blogs and have them published online by different sites as well as your own.
Keep in mind you won't get rich quick and the rarer a product is, in all likely hood you'll get more customers because there are many E-Commerce sites selling the same niche product.
I can't think of a better and cheaper method for gaining work experience for a future employer and making money at the same time.
Well I found the answer and its something that will cost you little to invest and will probably make you some money in the meantime.
What I'm talking about is starting e-commerce websites which you can do without really any technical experience and relatively little money spent.
I wish the Internet was around when I got out of school! Once you have any kind of presentable e-commerce website running, you can cover your butt and make yourself look good when accounting for time when you were unemployed or even never had a job in the first place by stating to your prospective employer that you owned and operated your own e-commerce business and show him the actual site(s).
There is no way your prospective employer will be able to know how much you made with your e-commerce business and the chances are he will overestimate your revenue ten fold.
It's actually fun owning an E-Commerce website and you'll learn things later later on through trial and error that you can apply to future jobs.
You can actually develop good writing and business skills as its like operating your own business with hardly any investment! Here's the easiest step by step method of owning an E-Commerce Store that I know of that I do myself: 1.
Decide on a specific product you want to sell.
2.
Come up with several Domain Names, as close as you can to the products name.
3.
Go to a Domain registration site and see if the domain name is available.
I would recommend using a .
COM domain and failing that a .
Net or .
Org.
Almost all one word domain names are going to be taken so I would try to use the shortest three word domain name or possibly two if it was available.
You may need to put a "Store" or My" with a 2 word combination to get an available domain name.
Once you settle on a Domain name you need to register it, which will cost you roughly $8-$12 a year.
Again try to get the shortest possible name that emphasizes the product you are selling.
4.
The easiest way I know to launch an E-Commerce site is through a program called "The Easy Store" of which I am a customer.
This program is put out and installed by Zeus software and you basically don't have to do much at all as they do almost everything.
What Zeus does is put out an E-Commerce Website that sells all Amazon products and which Amazon is responsible for everything and you make a 4-6% commission for each sale from Amazon.
Thus you are investing nothing on inventory, don't process the order and aren't collecting the money.
Amazon does all that.
Amazon then pays you for each item sold through your site.
The Easy Store provides you with free web hosting for a year under one of their plans.
Basically, if you sign up with the Easy Store, they will do all the entry work for you and walk you through things and give technical advice.
You can contact them by phone if you have any technical matters.
The Easy Store is not very expensive- note I do not have any financial interest in the company and I'm recommending it strictly as a customer who receives no benefit for recommending it.
You do have to become an Amazon Associate which is free and takes less then a day to register.
Listed below are two of my Easy Stores for example.
5.
Essentially the only thing you need to do is to come up with good Keyword descriptions that will come up high in search engines like Google which will draw a lot of your traffic for potential customers.
You will also need to submit your domains to search Engines.
6.
The most important thing in an E-Commerce Store is that it looks professional.
For another $80 or so, The Easy Store will custom design a logo for you.
My Easy Stores which you can find below feature their custom logos.
7.
I would also join Google's AdSense program which The Easy Store will put on your site for free once you register for AdSense.
AdSense pays you a variable amount of money for each Google Ad on your site that gets clicked.
Registration for AdSense is free.
Do not click any ads yourself and do not have friends and family click, because if Google finds out, you will be banned from AdSense.
8.
Another way to get traffic to your website, is to write blogs and have them published online by different sites as well as your own.
Keep in mind you won't get rich quick and the rarer a product is, in all likely hood you'll get more customers because there are many E-Commerce sites selling the same niche product.
I can't think of a better and cheaper method for gaining work experience for a future employer and making money at the same time.