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    Lightbulb How Did You Start Off Your Home Buisness?

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    Alright, my brother is investing his money on launching a printer ink selling buisness. He hired me to

    do all the webdesigning and hey, we agreed that a webstore powered with "OsCommerce" would be stable and versitile

    enough for our needs (hey..it's free). I've noticed that "Love-Scent" is powered by it too (it's a small world

    isn't it ).

    Well this post is mainly directed at bruce, but anybody can chip in. Ok, so I know after I

    design the the company logo I have to get it Trademarked right? (to keep other people from using it). "Love-Scent"

    has been a pretty sucessful store in my opinion, i've been visiting it for around 6 years now. Attracting customers

    and getting webtraffic seems like the big task for me.

    We are buying in wholesale so we can offer discounted

    prices. But there are so many competitors out there, what can I do to make my website stand out from the others

    (aside from webdesign)?. I was a little weary of posting the link to my webstore so you can see it's progress (I

    don't want to disturb Bruce's buisness in anyway =P), in the mean time I can just PM it to anybody who is willing

    to give me tips.

    So the main question aimed at Bruce is.. How did you start off? Was finding wholesale buisness

    partners as hard as it seems right now for small buisnesses? Is setting up a Affialiate system the key to getting

    more customers? Any marketing tips?

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    How about a forum like this one

    with printing how-to's, problem solving, and tips?

    Good Luck!!
    Freedom begins when you tell Mrs. Grundy to go fly a kite.
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    Are you primarily interested in

    Internet sales or are you interested in local sales? A combo of both?

    My business is home based but is a local

    service. I do very little over the web.
    To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

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    Well my website is mainly

    geared to Internet Sales. Local Sales will only be done to raise money to do internet sales.. Advertising on G**gle

    A*sen*e is very expensive these days =(

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mtnjim
    How about a

    forum like this one with printing how-to's, problem solving, and tips?

    Good Luck!!
    Actually that would

    be a good idea.. it would generate alot more returning customers, but who would go to a forum that mainly discusses

    Printer Ink. Well, Probably just hardcore computer nerds lol Hey.. wait.. it looks like I fit into that

    description =P

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sesshoumaru
    Actually that

    would be a good idea.. it would generate alot more returning customers, but who would go to a forum that mainly

    discusses Printer Ink. Well, Probably just hardcore computer nerds lol Hey.. wait.. it looks like I fit into

    that description =P
    I wasn't talking only about printer ink, How about tips on news letters, flyers

    etc.??
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sesshoumaru
    Well my

    website is mainly geared to Internet Sales. Local Sales will only be done to raise money to do internet sales..

    Advertising on G**gle A*sen*e is very expensive these days =(
    First, don't advertise in Google or Yahoo.

    They, along with most other web pages are competing for advertisers. The way they make their site valuable is by

    having the greatest number of other sites indexed. They do that with bots which go out and pick up website data from

    the sites themselves. There are way to maximize the value of bots locating your site. The main one is to focus on

    the first few words on your site. Make them count! Sit down and carefully make up a list of words that would be used

    to search for your product. That will get you hits if done well. There are some good books on the subject but the

    advice of a pro who does it for a living would help you a lot.

    I've grown my business without any real

    advertising by making connections with others in my community and by being very good at what we do. It's called

    networking and it works well. It took time and energy to get the ball rolling but once that happened, everthing just

    kept snowballing. I imagine you can do the same with internet commerce but I don't know how.
    To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

    Thomas Jefferson

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