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How to Create a Free Website, or Online Store with Office Live, No HTML Needed

At officelive.com the Microsoft Office Live Small Business offers an easy, free way to create a website or online store.  The software uses the Microsoft type icons and it's click and create.

You don't need to write any code or understand technical terms. The webs are not ad supported, the way many of the other free web creators are today.  Your website won't have ads suddenly popping up on it. 

If this is your first website you can create one for practice, delete it, and use what you learned to create another one.  It's a good place to go for practice and experience.

Office Live Small Business includes the following.

• Free website
• Custom Domaine
• Free email
• Low cost e-commerce online store software
• Contact Manager software, marketing, customer tracking, storage for documents
• Analytics to Evaluate Website Traffic
• FAQ's, Community Message Boards, Resource Center, How To articles

Steps to Adding an Amazon E-store to Your Site

Becoming an Amazon.com affiliate and adding an e-store to your site are the topics covered in the video below. 

How to Sell From Your Blog With A Paypal Shopping Cart

The steps to sell items from a shopping cart by using Paypal include the following.

1.  PAYPAL ACCOUNT.  Open up a Paypal account by going to the website and creating one.

2.  PAYPAL SHOPPING CART.  Next log in to the paypal shopping cart and fill in the required information to sell your item.

3.  PASTE SHOPPING CART CODE to your blog.  Each blogging software will have it's own place where you can do this.  In Typepad you can use a Typelist and under lists use a Note. 

4.  STOREFRONT WIDGET.  This is also available a Paypal and can be added to the blog's sidebar.

5. PAYPAL HELP will give you can overview of the facts and steps.   

Successful Internet Entrepreneur Advises - Be Directly Involved With Your Online Store Daily, Know How To Use Your Store Software

The owner of Red Oxx travel adventure gear, Montana, advises owners of online stores to be able to work directly on their own website, instead of depending upon others.

Personally fine tuning details of your online store presence can be one of the secrets of success.  No one else but the store owner has the unique perspective and vision of the total picture.

In the video below the owner for Red Oxx travel adventure gear discusses his concepts and what helped him achieve success.

First Step of Building Online Store - Create Helpful Content For Readers

Preparing to start an online store needs to start with creating helpful content for readers, and for search engines to pick up. Simply listing the products will not be enough to create web traffic, good search ratings, and popularity with readers.

Visitors will keep coming back to read the new content.  They might list your site under their favorites, refer their friends, or click to receive updates via an RSS feed.

Search engines often find blog software to be search friendly, and blogs may rank higher than regular websites.

The video below will discuss some of these topics.

How To Use Amazon To Sell Goods From Your Blog

Six Steps to Selling Amazon products from your blog are listed below.

1.  AMAZON PRODUCTS.  At the website for Amazon Affiliates you can learn how to add Amazon products to your blog in order to earn money from click-throughs.

2.  AMAZON AFFILIATES. For more information you can visit the Amazon Affiliates Blog 

3.  AMAZON STORES. You can also add Amazon shopping in the form of a store to your blog.  Visit Astore to learn more.

4.  AMAZON EXAMPLE.Currently associates can earn 10% for referrals for the Amazon Kindle.  This is the portable, wireless reading device which enables you to download books and read them.  The Kindle is $399 so you earn $39.90 on each referral.

5.  AMAZON WIDGETS. To see the types of widgets you add to your blog to add Amazon Products you can visit Amazon Widgets

6.  PAYPAL. To set up a merchant's account visit Paypal and the Help Center there has explanations of how everything works.

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