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If you want to sell some products online you need to have a online shopping cart, payment gateway and of course product to sell. Imagine you have selected the products you want sell across we will tell you a way to setup a shopping cart and make it up and running withing 24hours.
Most of you know how to get a shopping cart and set it up and go live. But what makes it too long to do it. Too many options and you will be lost in all these options and kill time without any productive work.
What are the areas you will most likely lost in making a decision.
1. Select a domain name
2. Select a web hosting company
3. Select a build in shopping cart
4. Select a payment gateway
Crazzycool recommendation is always keep things simple and get things done spending less dollars at the initial stage. Start it simple and when the idea picks up and making profit out of your online shopping cart you can always redesign it to suite your needs.
1. Select a domain name
If you already have a business name, the domain name should be with that name. .Com should be the first choice unless you are restricting your product only for one location.
If you prefer buying a domain describe your product or service it will take some times to select a good domain name. Basic hack I would use is Yahoo domain names. Only reason is yahoo domain names gives you similar domain name option for keywords you have given. Try to select the meaningful, shorter domain name. Do not spend time looking for three letter domain names. Its all GONE. Also do not buy it straight away.
2. Select a web hosting company
Let us recommend you a web hosting package that works really well. We have used it for many type of web sites and works really well. We have already tested the shopping cart, technical support, emails, databases and all other requirements that basic web server should have. It is nothing but BlueHost and only cost you $6.95 per month. You will get
Unlimited hosting Space
Unlimited File Transfer
2500 POP/IMAP Email Accounts
Free Domain
$50 Credit for Google AdWords (For Online Advertising)
Support PHP and MYSQL
It is compatible with the shopping cart we going to check in shortly. If you are 100% sure about having the online shopping cart and make money and $6.
3. Select a build in shopping cart
OpenCart is one of the coolest open source shopping carts you can find for free. It got so many options that you might required to provide all the information your customers required. Download it and upload it to your BlueHost web hosting account and follow the installation instructions.
4. Select a payment gateway
OpenCart is supporting couple of well known payment gateways. Why don't you choose Paypal and set up an account with them and link with OpenCart. Isn't it fast. Now you have a shopping cart up and running and also ready to take payments as well.
Wait a minute still you do not have products in your shopping cart. I don't think it will be a problem to upload 10 to 20 products to OpenCart withing couple of hours. Please note this is not a technical guide but simplifying choosing better solutions out there quickly. But always we will help you in getting your online shopping cart up and running. if you required any help please leave a comment or send an email.
Friday, September 18, 2009
