Vaughn's Guide to E-Commerce

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To Succeed in E-Commerce, as in any other business you need at least these four things.

1. A Place of operations.

2. A Product to sell.

3. A Common form of exchange.

4. and Customers.

1. A place of operations: In retail this would be a Store. In Wholesale this could be a Wharehouse or office. On the internet your entire place of operations can be as small as a hard drive and yet span the entire globe. This business location or "virtual office" is called a homepage. In addition to vaughns.com These are a few places you can go to build a free homepage. Of course Vaughn's Computer Central staff would be happy to help you with the design process if this page is not enough.

Places to build free homepages

vaughns.com
GeoCities
Places to find Webpage creation programs

Strouds Advanced 32 bit HTML Creation Programs.

2. A product to sell. Lets face it your selling something, if your not then there is no reason to be in business. You can sell anything on the web including yourself and products you purchase elsewhere. In fact you can even get paid to link your viewers to other sights. You can even manufacture your own products as simple as writing a book. If you don't have a product to sell, a few of the links below may be of some help.

Vaughn's Affiliation Resources is a great place to find places to associate with.

LinkShare!-Get Your Share

Vaughn's Computer Systems can be resold!
Vaughn's Computer Parts you can even sell parts online.

3. A common form of exchange.

4. and Advertising.

Books could be written on advertising, but they would have to be rewritten for the web. Get on all the search engines first. There are pages made to help you Get Listed



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