How to Start an Online Store

The Complete Step-by-Step Beginners Guide to Starting Your Online Business

By: Jonathan Eldridge, Robert Bustamante

Narrated by: Anthony Tophoney

Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins

Publisher's summary

The complete, step-by-step beginner's guide to starting your online business.

Based on hundreds of case studies and years of experience, this audiobook will save you countless amounts of time and aggravation. How to Start an Online Store is a complete, step-by-step guide to starting an online store, starting with the formation of the company, naming the site, and registering your domain. Walk through all the steps to successfully building your site, from selecting providers to working toward your store launch. What used to cost thousands of dollars and require teams of programmers can now be done from your home. Whether you are looking to build an online store to sell your products or to resell other vendors' products, this audiobook covers all the details and is written in simple, bite-sized pieces.

Most people think you can sign up for an online store service, open the site, and be successful. That is just not true. There are thousands of competitors. Let this audiobook walk you through laying out your site, preparing it to be found in search engines, optimizing it to be relevant, and building a successful online store. Build a side income or start building your new career today. This is not a get-rich-quick reference. The lessons reviewed in the book are tried-and-true lessons that will take time to nurture and grow. Learn about online marketing, effectively using social media, blogging, and search-engine optimization. The combination of tools and lessons in this book will help lay the proper foundation for a successful, long-term venture. This book will walk you through the steps you need to start your online store today.

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Very informative

I liked the step by step approach and the clear explanations. It is a great resource to keep going back to. Would highly recommend this book.

very informative!

this book was just what I was looking for to finalize my plan to start my online business. I just want a check off list to make sure I wasn't forgetting anything. I got that and more!!

Very informative, if not a little dry.

This book was very informative with relevant information; and the author made some dry sections as animated as he could. Not very long so not difficult to get through at all. Great first step at starting an online business.

Get this one in print folks

reader was annoying. he sounded fake and the tone did not match the style of writing.i will be getting the book in print though. it's a very good reference for anyone starting out with an online business.

Good Info

Noticed that someone gave this a bad review. if you are new to starting an online store, this is packed with info.

Encyclopedia of Online Business Info

Information galore! I will read this book over and over because it's full of very good information on starting an online business. This is a must read to get started.

great for someone deciding whether or not to start

there is a lot of info to digest, take your time and listen to it over and over and let it sink in

Comprehensive but somewhat unscrupulous

Overall the book was quite informative with lots of ideas for a successful online business. It is straight to the point and I like how it is organized.

My issue is with a few of the suggestions they make such as to go to corporate rather than local banks, and to shop Amazon rather than local office supply stores. While it does make sense because these are cheaper or more convenient ways to do business, and I do know this is a book supporting online shopping, but as a small business I try my best to support local brick and mortar businesses as much as possible. I go online for what I cannot find here, and the online store I am going to open will offer items not found around here too.

Another qualm I had was the encouragement to "friend" everyone you possibly could on Facebook, even people you don't know, just to have a larger audience. This is poor Facebook etiquette and comes off as sleezy. Along the same idea the book suggests to start emailing people you haven't talked to for years to bulk up your contacts....this to me is very rude and gives people the impression that you are using them.

So in conclusion, I think the book has several good takeaways, however, I think people need to use their common sense to decide which strategies are not the most ethical for an honest business with a good reputation to use.