A Glimpse Inside a Teenage Web Success
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Have you ever wanted a glimpse under the hood of small and successful ecommerce operation? Or maybe start your own web-based store?
Here’s a very personal and informative article written by Neville the owner of NevBlog.com [which you should check out because he has a very nice blog too]. In the article he goes through, step by step how he, while still in high school, began to create an ecommerce site:
I was a senior in high school, age 17, living with my parents, about to leave for college in a few short months and had very little cash. I wasn’t prepared to buy any inventory and ship out orders each day, so I had to get a little more creative if I wanted to sell physical products. I decided to find someone who sold what I wanted, then ask them to send the products out for me (aka Drop Shipping). First I had to find something to sell…
The article then moves you through all the stages of setting up the ecommerce site.
Finding A Supplier
Finding a Domain Name
Starting the Business
Getting My First Order
Increasing Business
In the final section “How it Works” Neville has included screenshots of the order fulfillment process. Overall a great introductory article on how to set up and ecommerce shop without having any inventory.
Neville currently is making about $2000 a month and has a goal to get to $5000 with this site. He has several other online ventures as well that you can read about on his blog.
Read the complete article: A Glimpse Inside a Teenage Web Success
