Yahoo Stores

Do you Yahoo!? You might if you want to start your own retail store online. You can have your own online store up and running in just a few days if you open a Yahoo Store. Their smallest package (which is all you'll need to get going) is only $39.95 a month. Awesome.

With that you get a customizable store hosted on the Internet with a shopping cart and merchant account (so you can accept credit cards) tie in. One drawback to the Yahoo store solution is that you need to open your own merchant account with another company. It's easy enough to do (they have a whole list you can choose from) but it would have been nice if they integrated the whole thing.

Probably the coolest part about this deal is that you get 24-hour phone support and 30 days of free consulting. This is awesome. Have a question? Call Yahoo! Need an answer? Call Yahoo! Given that consultants/web designers can charge upwards of $100 an HOUR, calling Yahoo with questions for free is a pretty great thing.

So, all you need to get this eBusiness up and running is $39.95 and your product (so if you're going to drop ship, all you need is $39.95.

Once you sign up for a Yahoo Stores account you can login and play around with the features and see how you can customize your store to look like however you want it to look like. It's a pretty robust system and you should be able to put together a pretty neat store (you need NO HTML experience or anything like that) by yourself (if you can use Word, you can make your own store).

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But, if you don't like the store you are able to come up with you can hire a web programmer to customize it for you. Now, they'll just customize the template (to your specification) and then every page created will be based off that template.

Yahoo has a whole list of designers they recommend, and if you want a customized store you can probably get one for a couple hundred bucks.

This is a customized Yahoo Store.

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