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Re: My Merchandise Online Retail Store Sep 12, 2009 2:27 AM
in response to:
dreamer7
There are a number of steps to take to make such a business profitable.
First, identify what concepts or what products you wish to promote. Are you looking to promote cosmetics or the idea of anti-aging, for example.
Second, develop a website that will attract customers to your website. You can see a number of sites at
http://www.success-sbi.com . These sites were built almost entirely by individual people, not by large companies. And they are all successful.
Creating the website is only the beginning. Promoting the business presents even more challenges. You can either pay for advertising, like with AdWords, or you can generate traffic by creating interest in your site. Honestly, both approaches work. The AdWords approach is faster; generating interest is more effective over the long term.
Along the way you will find the specific companies that you want to work with. I use the plural "companies" because you will want to work with more than one. Don't place your whole future on one company; if that company goes under, so do you. So develop a group of companies that you can work with and whose products you can promote.
Don't expect it to come together overnight. It won't. Building a solid business takes time and energy. But it can happen, and does happen, many thousands of times every single year.
Wishing you every success with your new business.
