Jul
28

e-Commerce 2.0

By Jim Corbett

Work From Home With Totally Free e-Commerce

(more or less)
A.K.A, open a web store without spending a dime

Scenario A: So you have a the need to open a web store. You have your product all picked out and have found a drop shipper. What now?

Scenario B: You just found this super great affiliate program and don’t want the hassle of getting a web host and so forth.

Scenario C: You want to sell your service online and don’t want the same old hassles

Scenario D: Sell Google AdSense.

Scenario E: Any other offer you can think of featuring.

Now there’s Totally Free eCommerce Have yourself a look. What we have is a web store serving AdSense, selling a physical product, selling an affiliate product and offering services. Best of all, every single thing on that page is completely free to offer. In fact, the only time you need to spend anything is when a purchase is made and, that money is not out of pocket, it’s deducted from the physical product purchase as a PayPal fee. The site hosting is FREE, the products are sold FREE, the cart is FREE, it’s all FREE. The store even has a way to phone you for FREE or chat with you directly and yes you guessed it, EVERYTHING THERE IS DONE TOTALLY FREE!

Google Gadget Setup: Three Easy Steps

Another option is using the Google Gadget where there are only a few steps necessary to get up-and-running, completely for free, with Google Checkout on your site. Google claims the process only takes “a matter of minutes.” (That may depend on how much inventory you sell, however.)

After signing up for your Google Checkout Seller Account the next step is to list the products you want to sell in a Google Docs spreadsheet. The process really can’t get any easier. Google provides you with a copy of their template spreadsheet. When you click the link, you’re prompted to click on another link reading: “Yes, make a copy.” When doing so Google copies the template file over to your own Google Docs account where you’ll see a basic spreadsheet that features columns for;

  • title
  • content
  • price
  • quantity
  • shipping
  • image_link
  • option
  • option_name.

So you’ll know what those fields are used for, the spreadsheet also includes several example inventory item entries. When you’re finished listing your inventory, you simply publish the spreadsheet as a web page.

The final step is to pick the embed location, a list which allows you to choose between a normal HTML web site or one of the following Google-owned properties: Google Sites, Blogger, or iGoogle. Then you choose the size of your gadget and make a couple of changes to the code, one of which is pasting in the URL to your own Google Docs spreadsheet.

Vendio

When you’re ready to open a more professional looking store, another good solution for Free eCommerce is opening a Free Vendio store.

From the web site;

Manage your free store, eBay, Amazon and more

Vendio lets you reach buyers where they are shopping, without forcing you to learn a different interface for each channel. Whether you are a seasoned online sales veteran, or the next eCommerce success story, Vendio makes it easy to build and run your online business no matter where your buyers shop.

  • Set-up the eCommerce solution you need in minutes, without development effort or anything to install
  • Create your items once and sell through multiple marketplaces without complication
  • Sell products from your own free branded online store and pay no hosting fees, listing fees, or final value fees!
  • Manage every step of the online sales cycle — inventory management, marketing, fulfillment, customer communications and more
  • Manage your entire online business from one easy to use unified platform
  • Maximize your profits with Vendio Applications


Vendio offers a wide array of extra paid services too as well as feeding eBay and Amazon all wrapped up in a nice design. Why spend seed money when you don’t have too, save it for marketing!

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alexander
2:30 pm

Wow! I’ve been looking for something like this to publish on my blog, excellent work!
PS
I love the facebook connect too!

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Work From Home With ‘Totally Free e-Commerce’ web store seems to be good to set up easily in free blogs. I would try it. Thanks. – Mike
.-= Mike´s last blog ..Science and it’s quirks =-.

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