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So you are a business and have decided to venture onto the Internet with your own business web site. Scary decision, but now what? Well the first things is to figure out what you really want to do with that Internet site. If you are just looking for online advertising, and since you are already on Merchant Circle, then you have probably have already taken care of that. My assumption is that you have a purchased an Internet domain, found a hosting service, set up a landing web page with information about your business and submitted that web site to various search engines. In addition you have joined MerchantCircle and are making use of their services. So you should be good with the online advertising for local contacts. But lets say you want to do more than just do local advertising, or want more than just a basic web site. Now you need to consider much more. Here are some topics to consider: Do you wish to sell products? How many products do you want to list? How to you want to organize those products for viewing online? What kind of discount plans do you plan to use? Quantity Discounts? Coupons? This information is needed to help determine what features need to be built into your web site software, and how large the server resources will need to be to support your site Do you wish to take payments online? What payment types (specific credit cards, PayPal, Check, etc.) will you accept? Each of these will require a different type of checkout payment method be implemented. Are you willing to use existing off the shelf products for your website? If so, then plan on adjusting your plans to fit into the features that the product supports. If not, then plan on paying much more for custom development for your web site. How large to you expect your Internet based business to grow? How many customers do you think will visit your site daily? How may orders do you think you will process daily? This will help you determine what hosting service you should pick. How much can you afford to spend on a web site monthly? A web site does not need to cost a lot to set up and run. But how you go about it will effect what your costs are How much effort are you willing to put into your website on a daily basis? Web sites need to be tended to just as you tend to any brick and mortal business. Sure they do tend to run on their own, but if you want people to pay attention to your web site, then plan on having some available to support those customers who use your website and to work on promoting your website on the Internet. How much of the work can you do yourself? Unless you are already up to date on web technologies, you will most likely want someone to help you make decisions about your web site. -- You will need subject experts not only to set up your web site, but also to support your customers. You are the subject expert for your customers (or perhaps one of your trusted employees). I am really not trying to sell any specific service here. You should be aware that most hosting services have various retail software packages that they can install for you so that you can set up your online store. These will most likely help you get started easily and give you a chance to figure out what you really need. You can also do some searching around the Internet to look at what open source packages are available and read up on them to determine which ones may be best for your site. But you do need to do some homework before you start your research. Know what you want to do and then create your own comparison charts for each solution.
Origins
Originally started when now Ex-Wife was laid off from her job (company shut down). Started doing custom software development of MSDOS applications to bring in extra money after hours.