How Can I Sell My Products Online

If you are a small business owner, you have probably thought about creating a website for your small business. However, everything looks really complicated, or expensive, so you procrastinated from doing it.

In this article I will try to address what you will need, in order to create a website for your small business so that you can start selling your products online.

1) First you will need to buy a WYSIWYG. A WYSIWYG is a piece of software that allows you to create a website, by just pointing, clicking, and typing. It's about as simple as creating a document with Microsoft Word. A decent WYSWYG will probably cost you between $300 - $400.

2) Next you will need a web host. A web host is what you need to put your website online. They will give you a certain amount of storage space, bandwidth, etc. For the most part you probably don't need to worry about this, unless you plan on getting a lot of page views to your site, or making a large website, the amount of bandwidth, and storage space, probably won't effect you. Web hosting will probably cost you between $10 - $20 per month.

3) Now you need to get a shopping cart service. This is what allows you to create an online store, where people can make payments, and purchase products from you online. You will have to pay about $100 a year, for a fairly good shopping cart software.

4) You will now have to buy a domain name. This is basically what people type in to find your website. Ex. YOURSITE [DOT] COM. This will cost you $10 per year.

5) Finally you will need to get people to promote your website. Sense you probably know very little about the internet, you have no idea about how to get started promoting a website. First you have to hire an SEO consulting firm. This will probably cost you at least $1000. Then you will have to pay someone to submit your websites to directories. This will cost you a few hundred dollars. And finally you will have to do PPC (Pay per click) advertising. In order to do this, you will have to purchase keyword software, which will cost you $300 per year, if you want to use WordTracker, which is the most commonly used one on the internet.

So in order to create a website, which gets page views, can be found in the Search Engines, and has the ability to make sales on it, you would have to pay over $400 per year, plus you will have to pay over $1000 to begin creating your website.

Though this is expensive, it is highly worth the high price. You will be able to generate many sales, by creating a website.