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Building Your Own Web Commerce Site, Part One


© Bonny Albo

Perhaps you have a state of the art home office, which is fully equipped with all of the latest technologies. Most likely you are (like the rest of us), working out of a room that doubles as a play area for your children, with computer cables, sticky notes and toys everywhere.

Either way, you want to expand your business to the Internet, but are not sure just how. But with the ecommerce industry expecting to become a 1.3 trillion dollar industry by the year 2003, you know that you can't afford not to.

This article, the first of a series, will help you to determine which of the three major ecommerce avenues are the best for you, your business, your family and (of course) your finances. Those avenues are: Turnkey, ISP and Web Hosts, and Do It Yourself.

TURNKEY A turnkey operation is probably the easiest of the three options, but also the most expensive. Turnkeys are offered by a variety of large retailers (Yahoo's Store is one), and give the small business person a "storefront" on the web, alongside many other (perhaps competing) retailers.

Cost: Ease of Use: Credit Cards Accepted?: Maximum Amount of Items: Use HTML?: Commitment Required: Large Uploads?: Total Rating:

Cost: Ease of Use: Credit Cards Accepted?: Maximum Amount of Items: Use HTML?: Commitment Required: Large Uploads?: Total Rating:

Cost: Ease of Use: Credit Cards Accepted?: Maximum Amount of Items: Use HTML?: Commitment Required: Large Uploads?: Total Rating:

Cost: Ease of Use: Credit Cards Accepted?: Maximum Amount of Items: Use HTML?: Commitment Required: Large Uploads?: Total Rating:

Cost: Ease of Use: Credit Cards Accepted?: Maximum Amount of Items: Use HTML?: Commitment Required: Large Uploads?: Total Rating:

Cost: Ease of Use: Credit Cards Accepted?: Maximum Amount of Items: Use HTML?: Commitment Required: Large Uploads?: Total Rating:

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