So imagine if you could tap into this goldmine yourself and start your very own online retail store and compete with the big retailers on the same level!

It’s actually much easier, and cheaper, than you think.

In three simple steps you can have an online business up and running within a few days.

You don’t even need to buy any products for your online store

Here is my simple 3 step guide to creating your own online retail business:

Step 1: Getting started with a domain name and hosting:

Like any retail store, you need ‘office’ space. In the online world this is web hosting. You also need your business ‘name’, which is a domain name.

Probably the cheapest and easiest way to get this started is to visit our friends at Hostgator who can set your web hosting up for around $7.95 per month. This comes with a free domain name.
You will also need a shopping cart for your products, and for this instance we will be using WordPress, which is a free software package. Hostgator offer a free ’1 click’ install of WordPress on your hosting package so the software can be literally up and running a few minutes after you sign up with Hosthgator.

Once you have done this the next thing you need to do is create your online store:

Step 3: Creating an online store – the easy way! 
Usually running any business online you need to update the products pricing, arrange postage and handling and even buy and stock the products, which is all very expensive and time consuming.

But there is a much easier way to run an online retail store, without buying any products and it only requires a few minutes a day or even per week to manage.

Datafeedr is an online subscription service which connects to retail affiliate companies, and feeds their product data directly through to your online store.
This means that you simply select the affiliated companies you want to sell for, select the products you want to sell and then with a click of a button all the product information including product images, descriptions and the latest prices are all on your website, and they update automatically!
So you don’t need to update anything manually if you don’t want to, apart from reviewing possible new products you would like to sell.

Sign up with Datafeedr and all the instruction videos and support are readily available for you to start your own site instantly.

Step 3: Find the products you want to sell:

One of the biggest concerns for online shoppers is knocking if the products they are purchasing are genuine. The great thing about using Datafeedr and affiliate businesses is that your customers are buying direct from leading brand companies, but each time they make a sale through your affiliate link you make a commission. These commissions usually range from around 6% to 50%, so making money online is very easy, and you don’t have to do anything!

Datafeedr lists all the companies it works with, and the affiliates you need to sign up with first to make it work.
Signing up with affiliate retail companies is totally free, which provides you with your unique sales link, which you enter into your Datafeedr account. When this link is clicked on your website and a sale is made you receive the sales commission. Simple!

The recommended affiliates to sign up with include:
Commission Junction
Commission Monster
Share A Sale

To view a site I have created myself using Datafeedr and Hostgator, check out Shoppalot:  www.Shoppalot.com

Here’s a quick small screenshot too:

Shoppalot took just a couple of days to create and started earning an income within days!

So if you are looking for a new business venture without the costs or time required, creating your own online affiliate-based business might be the solution for you!

We are seeing the alarming trend of major retailers, such as book stores, closing their doors, but yet the popularity in books has not changed, people are simply choosing to shop differently.

So what if you could quit your day job and become an online retailer, earning a healthy income, with a total set up cost of under $100?

In fact, what if you could set up your own online empire with multiple websites with the earning potential for an easy six-figure or more income in less than a week?

Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it!

Well it’s not. It’s actually very simple and ANYONE can do it.

3 SIMPLE STEPS TO CREATING AN ONLINE STORE FOR UNDER $100

I am going to share with you three simple steps to creating your own fully stocked online store in less than a day for under $100.

STEP 1 : DOMAIN NAME AND WEB HOSTING = $7.95
Firstly you need to set up your website hosting.
I recommend Hostgator because they not only offer you a FREE .com domain name when you sign up, but their plans start at just $3.96 per month! The plan I recommend is the Hostgator Baby Plan because it allows you to add on multiple domains at no additional cost any time you want. So for less that $7.95 a month you could be hosting 10 websites or more. So your hosting bill would be less than 80 cents a month to run your online business!
Click here to view the Hostgator plans for full details.

STEP 2: THE SHOPPING CART SETUP = $79
The next thing you need to do is install the shopping cart. Now usually when someone mentions they want an ecommerce website set up to a web developer they are likely to be hit with a $1000+ bill.
Well, there is a solution much, much cheaper, which is extremely professional, and at just $79 it is way cheaper!

Shopperpress runs on the popular WordPress software. WordPress is totally free, and with Hostgator it is literally a click of a button and they install it for you. Shopperpress is a Theme designed to run in WordPress, which transforms the WordPress blog into a powerful professional shopping cart for a total price of $79. Thats a one off fee, so there is no monthly cost, and the great thing is once you have purchased Shopperpress you can use it over and over again, so your future e-commerce sites will cost you absolutely nothing!

Shopperpress comes with lots of different themes in all sorts of niches, so whether you want to sell golf gear, babywear, wedding apparel or downloadable books, etc there is a theme perfectly suited and ready to use. No having to hire a web developer!
Click here to find out more about Shopperpress and see the free demo live online.

But the best part about Shopperpress is next….

STEP 3: ACCESSING PRODUCTS TO SELL = $0
Usually setting up an online store requires you to have lots of stock, which costs a lot of money for a new business venture.
But what if you could fill your e-commerce store with products to sell for absolutely nothing!
The beauty of Shopperpress is it has the built in tools to automatically connect to affiliate marketing sites such as clickbank, Amazon, Commission Junction and many more of the leading affiliate sites. So you simply create an free account with Amazon, and then in Shopperpress you enter the keywords of the products you want to add to your site, and it grabs a selection for you to choose from.
You literally don’t have to do anything. Now when someone buys a product on your website you make 15% off that sale price through the Amazon affiliate program! Easy money!

If you want to add a lot more affiliate products I recommend you sign up with Datafeedr. Datafeedr is exactly as the name says, an automatic datafeedr which connects to 16 of the major affiliate networks, accessing thousands of major brand name stores and tens of thousands of products to add to your cart, all done at the press of a button!
Datafeedr takes all the hard work out of running an online affiliate business.

Of course, Shopperpress also allows you to add your own products and sell direct too.

So there you have it, your own online store, or even empire set up in a matter of days for under $100

Lets go shopping!

Author:
Chris Bourke of WebSEoCoach.com and Devision Design Australia
Chris Bourke runs a number of online affiliate businesses and is also creator of the UltimateCashBlog.com

Recent statistics show that sales of ebooks, or electronic books as they are offer referred, are quickly on the rise with around $996 million in sales by the end of 2010.

Considering only around 7% of online adults actually read ebooks, that’s still huge, and the potential to grow.
If we think back not so long ago to the digital music revolution and how quickly it expanded, plus the fact that we already have major companies such as Apple and Amazon already creating the hardware to read ebooks on, the ebook revolution is set to boom.
People who own a Kindle , e-reader or an iPad already read around 60% of their books digitally, and that trend will continue as the devices become more affordable.

And when you think of the main advantages of ebooks vs print you can see why:

• Most ebook readers have audio readers which allow the ebook to be read aloud. Perfect for those with poor eye sight
• It’s compact. Who wants to carry around a pile of books when you could fit your entire collection on one portable go-anywhere device?
• It’s better for the environment. think about how many trees were lopped to produce all all the Harry Potter novels!
• Interactivity. Ebooks offer more interaction with the audience. For instance the ebook can have live links within the book, which link to video footage, commercial advertising, etc taking the reader on a real journey outside of the two dimensional text.

From the publishers point of view, the major advantage of ebooks is there is limited resources required for publication. Once the initial ebook is created and uploaded, the production costs are almost nil, making the ebook market much more profitable, while making them more affordable for purchase by the reader, and online you can reach a much wider audience much quicker as shipping time is reduced. All files are stored electronically and simply downloaded direct to the device.

Analysts are predicting the online electronic book market will exceed $3 billion in sales by 2015.

Print is dead. Electronic is alive!

Author: Chris Bourke of WebSEOCoach.com
Chris is an online professional web developer and seo specialist.

Download his ebook, The Ultimate Cash Blog at www.UltimateCashBlog.com

Don’t panic since the field of affiliate marketing really requires you to do only 3 things to be successful.

Here’s a look at the 3 areas of preparation you’ll need to complete to start earning an income as an affiliate marketer.

Choose a Domain Name & Hosting

It is recommended although not necessary to have your own website or blog from which you can maintain an online presence. You will want to select a domain name that is relative to what it is you intend to market. This not only increases the professional image you want online for your business but it also prevent the visitor from being confused. If your domain name indicates something other than what it is you’re promoting you can easily lose visitors who may think it is not the site they’re looking for.

Make sure the hosting company you select is reputable and can easily be contacted 24/7. If your site goes down for whatever reason you are losing money the longer it remains offline so you want to be able to have the problem fixed quickly.

We recommend registering with either Webcrowd, Globat Web Hosting or Hostgator. All provide great value hosting.

Build Your Site

As an affiliate it is not required that your site is elaborate in fact it is recommended that you keep it simple. You don’t want so much ‘glitz and glitter’ that your intended message is lost.

Make it clear to the visitor what it is you’re promoting, maybe elaborate on a few benefits but for the most part leave the hard selling to the main affiliate site.

Generate Traffic

Here is where you need to focus most of your effort. Select 2 or 3 traffic generation techniques you’re comfortable with then push as many visitors to your site as possible.

This is the single biggest advantage of affiliate marketing. You don’t have to do much selling therefore you can concentrate on learning how to drive traffic to your site.

Launching your online affiliate marketing business really only requires that you simply first establish your online presence with a website. After that you are ready to begin marketing on the internet by driving traffic to your site. Many assume that starting an online business is more complicated then that but as you’ve seen it is really fairly simple. This is one of the biggest reasons the field of affiliate marketing is so popular.

By setting up a simple website you are in the position to start making money online from home provided you invest a little time generating traffic to your site. This entire process is extremely straight forward and actually requires nothing more other than a little effort from you.

By following the 3 steps we reviewed above you will be ready to start marketing as an affiliate in absolutely no time at all.

Author: TJ Philpott is an author and Internet entrepreneur based out of North Carolina.