Time to Make it Happen

Time to Make it Happen Let's Get Started

Before we start, I have a question for you. What is your business plan? If you research starting any business, the first thing you will notice or the first step is a business plan. I am not here, though, to talk about business plans. I just wanted you to know that you should treat this like a real business endeavor.

Now for the technical side of the business, we will start at square one. How will the money be handled? I prefer paypal, however if you want to get a merchant account contact visa or mastercard and they will be happy to charge you a tidy sum for handling all your transactions. So, lets go with paypal. Setting up an account is easy. So the first step is paypal. When setting up an account with paypal you will have three choices.

1. Personal, if you are just going to shop online.                                                                              
2. Premier, if you plan to buy and sell online.                                                                                  
3. Business, if you plan on using a company name or group name.

Select premier. It is the best option for the business you will be starting, unless you plan on going big time. After setup you will be ready to both buy and sell with this account and you will be able to link a paypal button to your site or your blog. People have grown to trust paypal transactions and I can say that I have never had a bad transaction thru paypal.

Your next step is deciding what item or items to sell and becoming knowledgeable about the product you choose. This will require research and conversating with others who are selling the products you have chosen. Next, you want to find a whole seller or supplier which may require some negotiating on your part. You need to either write an article or have someone write an article about the products you choose to sell. Before Apple produced the iphone, all the pundits, magazines, and anybody in the electronic world predicted and wrote about a new era in the cellphone market. Today, the new product that is growing at a rapid rate is the tablet PC. What if you could get a piece of that pie? Try this, I want you to google wholesale tablet PC, and see what you come up with. I just recently talked to a seventy something person, who confessed that she knew nothing about computers. I disagreed with her, because she had found a market on amazon selling old books.

Here is where I encourage you to set up an account with amazon.com. Also research the term affiliate marketing. Amazon.com has one of the best programs available.  I will warn you that before you open an affiliate account with anyone, you should have a good idea of what you want to focus your resources (which includes time and money) on. Next you will need to open an account with craigslist.org; talk about discounts and wholesale deals.

So, let’s recap. 

1. You need to open a paypal account. 
2. You need to pick something to sell. 
3. You need to research and write an article about that item or items.
4. See if you can find a whole seller for your product. 
5. Next, open an amazon.com account and research affiliate marketing. 
6. The last step for now is to sign up with craigslist.

In our next post, we will talk about opening a bloggers account and explore how to use that to sell your wares. 

Here is what I am doing. Every month I will be holding a drawing for $100.00.  Starting with September I will sweeten the kiddy with $200.00. Goto 1in100uwin.com for how I will conduct this drawing.