Creating your own ecommerce store is now a must have to stay ahead of the crowd. Owning your own domain and internet store can give you many more advantages than the standard eBay and auction listings. Now that you have customers purchasing your products that have been listed, try to keep their attention by other marketing campaigns.

The benefits of owning your own website:
Owning your website gives you many more options to choose from such as email campaigns with a monthly or weekly newsletter script that will save the email credentials of users in a database. Not having to pay eBay or other auction listing fees is also a bonus. A domain is usually $10 - $20 dollars for one year registration however it depends on the domain you want. It's VERY challenging to find the domain you would like such as "cars.com" is worth well over millions due to the simplicity and value of the domain. Ecommerce programs to power your online stores are free and usually included with your hosting provider. Hosting cost is cheaper than ever. Most "shared hosting" providers offer more disc space and bandwidth then your actually going to need. "Dedicated hosting" providers are more expensive since you have your own machine running your website rather than a neighboring community of websites on one machine. My recommendations would be to start with a shared hosting and transfer to a dedicated hosting once traffic is achieved.

Can I profit from my own website?:
Anyone can profit from a website. It takes a great deal of hard work and patience. Your not going to necessarily make thousands of dollars once you have launched your site. It takes time, you need to add content and product to your website to achieve higher rankings in the search engine. "Content is King" when it comes to marketing your website on the internet. Another great way to make extra income that could even pay for the hosting and domain would be to advertise on your site.

It seems overwhelming, where do I start?:
For starters, if your auction business is profiting well and can replace a full time job, I would recommend employing a good programmer and web developer. They will be able to create the whole framework of your internet website store. Provided is an administrative panel where you will be able to login and control the whole site such as uploading new products, pricing, shipping, and more. If you would like more information about starting your own web store please contact me. I'm willing to review your project and able to create (design) ecommerce websites. I will be able to provide a quote in less than a few days. If your wondering what it will cost and what the setup fee is, it's usually $500 - $10,000 USD dollars (estimated going rate).