Build ECommerce Site: Here's How to Do it
by Brian B. Carter, MS, LAc

It is possible to start from nothing and Build ECommerce Sites. Trust me. I've done it. I started with no more than a rudimentary knowledge of HTML, and you don't even need to know that anymore, really... Look at it this way: if you were on some reality survivor show and the only way to survive were to follow this terse mandate ("Build ECommerce Site!"), you could do it. I'll show you how.

Really, an ECommerce Site is just a Web Site with ECommerce capability. And to do ecommerce, or to sell goods online, all you have to be able to do is accept payment online. The delivery of the goods is another whole issue. (And believe me, you should think about whether you really want to deal with shipping physical goods if you don't have to!)

Accepting payment online, the essence of meeting the Build ECommerce Site mandate, is as simple as getting a PayPal account and building payment buttons with a just a few web screens. They run your shopping cart for you.

In fact, you may want to consider, depending on what it is you want to sell, whether you really need to Build ECommerce Site at all... what I mean is, if you wanted to sell an Ebook, you could just sign up with one of the ebook sellers and let them host and sell it for you. They do all the dirty ecommerce site stuff, and you just wait for your checks (and of course you get most of the money)!

Now, say you really do want to go through the whole build ecommerce site thing yourself, you want it to look a certain way, you want control over everything... but you don't know diddly about the web. Well, (here comes the sales pitch- yes I'm an affiliate, but I have used and believe in this product), the best all around solution for you is called Site Build It! from SiteSell.com. They're a company run by an MD who got out of the crazy business of medicine, but uses his scientific mind to understand how to succeed online, and make it easy to do for the newbie. So, SBI! is a one stop turn key solution- it's got everything.

To Build ECommerce Sites with SBI!, you start the right way- with what people are really looking for online. Once you find keyphrases you can dominate and get traffic from (you get loads if you do it their way- I do, and here are some others who have done it their way and are some of the most popular sites online), you build your site around that, and SBI! includes tools for keeping in touch with prospects and customers with an ezine, and of course the all important selling ECommerce part of it too. You get everything, including the domain name and hosting, and you pay for it yearly.

Trust me, I've used SBI!, and it's great. I do basically what they do, the manual way (even my car is a stick shift- I like it that way). But if you're a newbie and don't want to learn a bunch of tech geek crap, then SBI! is your Build ECommerce Site solution.