How To Build A Web Store The Quick And Easy Way

If you have a webpage or are able to create one, and you have an Amazon account, you have everything you need to set up your own home-based ecommerce business.

And you can set one up in a few hours by simply following the instructions in the article the article I wrote called How To Build An Online Store Without Any Products Of Your Own.

In a nutshell, what you need to do involves these steps:

• Pre-step: Ensure that you have made one purchase from Amazon and then sign up to Amazon Associates.
• Step 1: Build several Listmania! lists.
• Step2: Set up an aStore.
• Step 3: Embed the aStore in your webpage.

The reason for making at least one purchase from Amazon is that you cannot build Listmania! lists until you have done so. When you have signed up with Amazon Associates you should create a tracking number to use with your aStore to monitor sales.

Building Listmania! lists is simply a case of browsing the Amazon pages for the most popular items within a category and adding them. record the Listmania! list number in a text file and create another list for a new category. Repeat for 4 to 6 categories.

You set up an aStore within Amazon Associates and add the Listmania! category lists which populate the sections of your aStore automatically.

Embedding your aStore is the easiest step. You simply paste the embed code from your Amazon Associates aStore into your page and align it to suit.

The aStore's color scheme is fully customisable so you can make it look like an integral part of your site, just like the store at About First Time Pregnancy. If you get stuck, feel free to contact us at The Legitimate Home-Based Business.

Now You Can Start A Home Business Building Websites

If you had asked me 6 months ago whether I thought I could ever start a home business building a website for a client I would have said "no ways". I would not have known where to start, how to buy a domain name, where to get hosting or how to set up the site.

Looking back, it really was a lot easier than I ever imagined.

You first need to acquire some web design skills. Then there are complementary skills like graphic design that you can either learn yourself or outsource to freelancers.

Once you are ready to set up websites, you need to market your service to prospective clients and manage their expectations.

Core Skills

The core skills you will need involve a good knowledge of html and CSS. You can find links to a number of tutorials and video series in this article, Here’s a Quick Way to Start A Home Business Building Websites.

Supplementary Skills

Skills you can either learn or outsource include:

• Graphics
• Content creation, i.e. writing
• Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
• Programming customisations

How To Start Website Building

For a home-based entrepreneur, the most practical way of starting to build websites for clients is to use a Content Management System like Wordpress, Joomla or Drupal. Wordpress is by far the most popular and fastest growing. It also has an enormous range of plugins, themes and enhancements to make development quick and easy.

Its blogging capability makes updating the site with regular fresh content very straightforward and easy to teach clients to do.

The important thing is to receive a proper brief from your client before starting to build the site. The brief should cover:

• Site goals - the business objectives to be achieved by the site
• Features required.
• Domain and hosting.
• Aesthetic preferences.

Website creation is no longer the technical challenge it used to be. It is now within the capabilities of any home-based entrepreneur willing to work through the online tutorials teaching web design skills.

107 Reasons You Should Start Business At Home

The single biggest reason people have given us for not starting the work from home business they have always wanted is that they cannot find the right one for them. Well, we decided to do something about that. We created a huge list of 107 ideas for finding your perfect home business.

So, now there is no excuse. You are virtually guaranteed to find the right one for you amongst these categories:

1. Services To Business: Such as a lunch delivery service, virtual assistant, concierge, outsourced HR, business presentations and many others.
2. Cleaning and Maintenance: Things like pet clean-up, deck maintenance and awning cleaning.
3. Information Services: Like website development, legal transcription or E-book publishing.
4. Home and Personal Services: These include things like event planning and pet sitting.
5. Health and Beauty: Massage therapy and organic hair and skin product supply are examples of this category.
6. Businesses With Products: Jewellery making, gift baskets and baking from home are just 3 examples.
7. Skilled Activities: If you have a skill like photography, graphic design or handicrafts, you have the basis of a work from home business.

There are some visual examples on this board as well as this collection.

Inspiration for a home-based business is everywhere around you. You just need to be tuned in!

How To Beat The Fear Of Starting Your Own Business

There is an old saying that goes "a job begun is half done". The best way to overcome inertia and get started with your own home-based business is to compile a plan for the business.

Business plans for a home business are different, though, for 2 reasons:

1. You are writing it for your own use, not to impress or convince someone else.
2. If you are getting started with your own business you won't want to spend precious hours writing a work-of-art business plan.

A few years ago I was employed as a marketing consultant for a fairly large brewery. I was asked to design a one page business dashboard, something I hadn't done before. A dashboard is a summary of all the key business measures that enable executives to monitor that the business is on track to achieve its goals.

In the process of creating the dashboard, I learned the enormous value of designing a document that fits onto a single page. It forces you to think about what matters in the business and exclude the "nice-to-haves".

A business plan is like a dashboard - it just precedes it. The best home- based business plans are those that can be written on a single sheet of paper, because they focus on the practical things that matter to home based entrepreneurs.

If you would like to learn more about it, have a look at this article about writing a one page home business plan. If you like the idea you can download a free one page home business plan template too.