How to Start an Internet Business

It has been a long time since I posted.  Here’s an update of what I’ve been doing: Read the rest of this entry »

The more that I play this internet game the more I see affiliate marketing is the way to go. With affiliate marketing, you don’t have to deal with customers. You don’t have to make quotes, email receipts, or answer phones. The thing about having an ecommerce type site is you really become slave to your customer. I’m very service oriented so if a customer calls in and needs a quote, I hop to it right away. If your business is open from 9 to 5, then you have to be ready and willing to serve your customers from 9 to 5. You can’t just tell a customer, “Can I call you back in about two hours? My friends and I are trying to finish a round of golf at the moment.” Read the rest of this entry »

I really hope none of you are like me. I have to ask my wife a million times what pants go with what shirts. My two year old son can pick out what clothes he wants to wear, and guess what? It matches. My two year old son knows what colors coordinate and I still can’t seem to figure it out. Read the rest of this entry »

I have a BANS site that I started that sells big ticket items.  I didn’t do any link building at all for the site.  And I’m using one of the default BANS templates.  Some how search engines found me.  I was quite surprised when I saw which site sale came from.  Read the rest of this entry »

In my last post I gave a review of the open source Magento cart.  CS Cart is a paid cart.  It costs $200.  In my opinion, it worth a lot more than $200.  I have an ecommerce site that has been in bad need of an upgrade.  One of my greatest fears, was if I upgraded to a different cart, my urls would change and then I would lose traffic.  Well, I found CS Cart.   Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve been looking around for a shopping cart that fits my needs.  I like free stuff so I generally search for open source products before I search for paid products.  I’ve played around a lot with OScommerce and stumbled across Magento Commerce a while back.  This is what I think about Magento: Read the rest of this entry »