Posts Tagged ‘webshop’

Homepage- and webdesign

If you need to design your own website, you don’t need to have lots of programming experince, thanks to a lot of really nice webites, who let you design websites from the ground up, with all the beels and whistles. Using one of these sites, you can be your own webmaster, and create high-level and fully functional ecommerce sites. Check out the sites below, and get inspired to start designing!

  • Mockingbird is an online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application. Communicate with and present to your clients using clear mockups. Brainstorm using Mockingbird, then use your mockups going into the building stage. This tool is free.
  • Wix deserves honorable mention here. This site is in a league of its own, if you like flash, but have always thought it was too hard to do. With Wix, you can eliminate the learning curve, and have a really flashy looking site up and running in no time. Seriously, it is a cool site, and you need to check it out! They have a free version, and also plans prices at USD 5, 10 and 15 per month. Their ecommerce version will cost you USD 15/20 per month.

Online invoicing systems

There are lots of really good invoicing sites out there.
Depending on your needs, you will actually be able to use some of them for free. If, for example, you send less than 20 invoices a month, Saasu might be a really good option. For more than 20 invoices, they start charging, though. Some offer completely free plans, but without the ability to customise the invoices with logo etc. Others charge a few bucks a month, and you might choose one of those, if look-and-feel of the invoice is important to you.
Have a look on the sites listed underneath, and decide for yourself which plan fits your needs the best as your business hopefully evolves over time.

  • Billing Orchard will cost you USD 10, 15, 20, 35 or 70 per month. No free plan, and frankly, not impressive looking.
  • Bill My Clients don’t charge a monthly fee, but a fee per invoice. It is however, completely free, if you only send invoices by email.
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CMS systems and shoppingcarts

Shoppingcarts are necessary if you want to open a webshop. There are a number of really good and free carts, and if you can live without 24/7 customerservice, they are pretty much as good as the paid versions. It may take some time to get the feel of them, but if you spend some time getting to know them, you will find out that they are really customisable.

  • Sauropol is a combined CMS (Content Management System) og hostingsite. It is free and very comprehensive. No shoppingcart.
  • Wosbee is a combined CMS (Content Management System) og hostingsite. It is free and very comprehensive. Includes shoppingcart that integrates with Paypal and many other cards. It is a Finnish company, and can integrate into lots of European and Nordic credtitcards.
  • Fastcart is a combined CMS (Content Management System) og hostingsite. It is free and very comprehensive. Includes shoppingcart that integrates with Payel and many other cards.

Affiliate- and ad-programs for your site

What these sites have in common is that you can use them to create income for you. This can be done either by signing up, and making your own shop, which links to products offered on their website, which are then sold via your webshop, or by linking to shops that sell products, where you then earn a commision. There are hundreds of sites that in this field, and some of them are worth getting involved with, and some are not. A third section in this post deals with ad-networks, that you can sign up with, to show targeted ads on your website. As with everything in life, it pays to do your own research. The list below is only meant as inspiration for you, and hopefully can be helpful.

  • Affiliate Future works by allowing merchants to advertise on your site, and pays you monthly when these adverts generate visits, leads or sales. There are no set-up fees for becoming an affiliate with AffiliateFuture.
  • Affiliatescout is a directory of affiliate programs that allows you to find advertisers for your website. If you are looking for advertisers in your niche, they may be able to help you partner with those advertisers.
  • Amazon Affiliate is a site that everyone knows, and probably safe to get involved with. If you add their links or banners to your web page, and visitors to your page click on the them, you earn up to 10% of all purchases made during their shopping session. Amazon Widgets are interactive mini-applications that bring Amazon to your website. aStore by Amazon lets you create an online store that can be embedded within or linked to from your website.
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