"Expand your e-commerce operations (and sales!!!) by building a website for your t-shirt business."
Building a Website for Your T-Shirt Business
Copyright 2008, Teena Rose. Written by Teena Rose, author of Starting a Home- or Office-based Resume Business. Learn why starting a resume writing business is one of the smartest and most profitable businesses to start today. She'll teach you how to start, operate, and profit! Download her book today at http://www.resumebiz.com.
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As with any web based business, a professional appearing, easy to navigate home page is key to drawing and maintaining customers. Even with very little experience dealing with web design, you can create a site that is informative and useful for moving your product.
Before you start thinking about the appearance of your page, you will want to develop a plan. The first step is to register a domain name and find a web host. There are many resources on the Internet that offer both domain name registration, as well as web hosting for a monthly fee. These bundled packages may also include web site builder software, which can be helpful if you have little or no experience in web site construction.
Your domain name is a very important consideration. The name should be easy to spell as well as easy to remember, and should be relevant to the type of product you intend to sell. If you already have a name for your business, you may want to use that as your domain name --- although broader names, such as tshirtsbysteve.com work well too. Sites that offer registration and hosting will also contain an availability search, which you can utilize to make sure your name isn't being used elsewhere on the web.
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Sign up for your copy now: free copy of Website Magazine.Now that you have your address and host company, it is time to build your site. The built in page builders offered through your host company will be sufficient to get you started. These builders are designed with beginners in mind and many sites offer help over telephone or email. Do some research before you begin to determine what you want your page to look like. Flashy and complicated is generally not the best way to go. Customers want an attractive site that is easy to read, easy to navigate, and provides them with all of the information they might need. Look at other t-shirt companies on the Internet and navigate through their sites. Find out what you do or don't like about them and go from there. There are also many sites that offer tips on what makes a site successful. Utilize the studies that have been done to appeal to the widest marketplace available.
Suggested topics to research: t-shirt designs
In order to get full use out of your site for business purposes, you will want to learn more about e-commerce. This will include everything from how to set up your site to accept orders, to how to legally handle sales through the Internet. Although there are resources available on-line to teach you about this, it would be wise to take a class or hire someone to do the initial set up. Taking orders and creating invoices properly is the main function of your site and you may lose more money through lost clients and the time it takes you to teach yourself then it would cost you to have it set up properly by a professional.
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