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How to Open and Operate a Financially Successful Web-Based Business: With Companion CD-ROM
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by Beth Williams
Sales Rank: 63159
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List Price: $39.95
$26.37
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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company FL August 30, 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1601381182
ISBN-13: 978-1601381187
Product Dimensions:
9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
Product Description
With e-commerce expected to reach $40 billion and online businesses anticipated to increase by 500 percent through the year 2010, you need to be a part of this exploding area of Internet sales. If you want to learn about starting a Web business, how to transform your brick and mortar business to a Web business, or even if you're simply interested in making money online, this is the book for you.
You can operate your Web-based business from home and with very little start up money. The earning potential is limitless. This new book will teach you all you need to know about getting started in your own Web-based business in the minimum amount of time. This book is a comprehensive, detailed study of the business side of Internet retailing. Anyone investigating the opportunities of opening a Web-based business should study this superb manual.
You will learn to:
*Build your Web-based business through keywords
*Generate free advertising
*Use search-engine strategies
*Market through e-mail
*Build Web communities
*Find products
*Drop ship
*Deal with zoning issues
*Create your Web site, HTML, graphics programs, domain names, and templates
*Use Web hosting, bandwidth, e-mail, shopping carts, and affiliate programs
*Develop merchant accounts
*Use PayPal, e-checks, search engine submissions, pay per click ads, and co-branding
*Make more money through auto-responders, Google and banner advertising
*Establish your own eBay storefront, Web-design information, search-engine registration
* Be a part of directories
*Get real-world examples of successful strategies
While providing detailed instruction and examples, the author teaches you how to draw up a winning business plan ( The Companion CD-ROM has the actual business plan you can use in MS Word â„¢), basic cost control systems, pricing issues, legal concerns, sales and marketing techniques, and pricing formulas. You will learn how to set up computer systems to save time and money, how to hire and keep a qualified professional staff, meet IRS reporting requirements, plan sales, provide customer service, track competitors, do your own bookkeeping, monthly profit and loss statements, media planning, pricing, and copywriting. You will develop the skill to hire and fire employees without incurring lawsuits, motivate workers, apply general management skills, manage and train employees, and generate high profile public relations and publicity. You will have the advantage low cost internal marketing ideas and low and no cost ways to satisfy customers and build sales. Learn how to keep bringing customers back, accomplish accounting, do bookkeeping procedures and auditing, as well as successful budgeting and profit planning development. This manual delivers literally hundreds of innovative ways demonstrated to streamline your business. Learn new ways to make your operation run smoother and increase performance, shut down waste, reduce costs, and increase profits. In addition, you will appreciate this valuable resource and reference in your daily activities and as a source of ready-to-use forms, Web sites, and operating and cost-cutting ideas that can be easily applied to your operation.
Customer Reviews & Comments
Beth Williams `How to Open and Operate a Financially Successful Web-based Business' is an insightful compilation of ideas and plans of action for anyone who wants to put their business online. This book is chocked full of useful information such as creating a winning business plan to doing your own advertising. All this and more is located in this one comprehensive book. This book is detailed, well thought out and easy to read. Williams's poses hard reality based questions asking the reader why they are starting their business and how to take an existing business online. Everything is right here from start to finish in this systematic book. Williams will guide you through creating your own website, using search engine strategies, how to find products and so much more. By displaying the advantages and disadvantages to having a web-based business, the author gives the reader lots of food for thought. There are no get rich quick schemes here. It is all reality based and laden with facts and evidence of success. Williams gives numerous examples throughout the book on how to ensure profits and stability, finding your niche and how to flaunt it. She continuously points out that with hard work, a bit of money, time and perseverance and you too can succeed in your own web-based business. For anyone who is starting a web-based business or just thinking of it this book is one you need to add to your business library.
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How to Open and Operate a Financially Successful Web-Based Business: With Companion CD-ROM
List Price: $39.95
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Price: $26.37
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