Dan Parks Sydow
April, 2000
130 pages
8.5" x 11.0"
ISBN 0966702638

Now also available as an immediately downloadable ebook!

Have you read a 50 page e-commerce booklet that claims to give you online business information, but doesn't tell you the details of Web hosting, shopping cart services, credit card acceptance plans (merchant accounts), and how much everything will cost you?

E-Commerce Revealed holds the information you need to start making money on the Internet. No fluff, no filler -- just hard facts and straight answers. In E-Commerce Revealed Sydow supplies names, provides facts, and lists numbers. From E-Commerce Revealed you'll learn exactly how to do the following:

Obtain your own domain name An online business should have it's own domain name (in the form of www.yourbusinessname.com) to make the business recognizable, easy to find, unique, and professional. You can do this easily, and you can do it for less than fifty bucks.

Choose where to host your site You don't want the headaches associated with running a server computer that's a permanent part of the Internet! Instead, you'll make use of a Web hosting company's server computer so your site is running maintenance-free and accepting orders 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Read how to make an informed decision on choosing a Web hosting service.

Get a merchant account A merchant account allows you to accept payments by credit card and electronic check (checking account debiting) online. To flourish, an online business must give customers the option of paying by credit card! In this book you'll find out how a small business or an individual can get such an account. E-Commerce Revealed shows how even a person with very bad credit can get such a merchant account!

Quickly design your site The look of the site of a large online business is defined by dozens or hundreds of files that are stored on a server computer. The look of your own small business site can be defined by just a few files. In fact, to get introduced to site design you can get a functional site created with a single text file created with a text editor!

Set up a shopping cart at your site You'll want to make it easy to order from your site. A shopping cart does that by presenting menus and buttons to a visitor so that different quantities of different items can be conveniently selected, and by providing an itemized checkout Web page. Learn how to easily integrate a shopping cart with your business Web site.

Automate the online selling process for the customer You want a visitor to your site to be able to place a credit card order online, and to receive an e-mail auto-reply confirming that order -- 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. See just how that's done.

Automate the online selling process for you As an online merchant, you want to become aware of new orders -- any time of the day, from any Internet-connected computer. You want credit card and electronic check orders to be automatically verified and processed, and you want the funds from online sales to be automatically transferred to your personal or business bank account. With such a system in place, all you need to do is ship your products to the addresses that are automatically e-mailed directly to you. E-Commerce Revealed walks you through the set-up of such a system.

Promote your site To make your business known to the world you'll want to advertise online or set up an affiliate program, or both. Find out how much you'll need to spend (hint: it can be almost free!) in order to drive customers to your site.

Start up, and stay up, on a shoestring budget Big companies can invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in a site. You might have only a couple of hundred dollars. That's okay, because E-Commerce Revealed tells you exactly how to start up your online business for very little money -- and how to keep it running for very little money too.

Dan Parks Sydow has written over twenty computer-related books, including lengthy, technical books such as Jumping to Java by IDG Books, for Macintosh and Windows computer programmers, and short, concise, step-by-step spiral-bound books such as Internet For Macs For Dummies: Quick Reference by IDG Books, for Internet surfers. Dan is a software engineer, computer programmer, magazine columnist, and online columnist. He's also an Internet entrepreneur with his own online business. The information from his popular $295 Starting An Online Business seminar led to the publishing of the April, 2000 book E-Commerce Revealed. This spiral-bound book consists of 130 large (8.5" x 11.0") pages chock full of the hard facts, figures, and real-world details on how anyone can start an online business.

Buy a different e-commerce book and you may find that it hints at what needs to be done to start an online business. Buy E-Commerce Revealed and read a detailed step-by-step plan describing exactly what needs to be done to start selling online now!

Well over 100 million people are Internet-connected. If you want to start capitalizing on the explosive growth in online shopping, buy E-Commerce Revealed and get your own online business up and running!

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