Running A Successful E-Commerce Website for $24 per year

Hello.

Post 1. So we are launching a new site very soon. It is a fitness equipment site where we sell an existing retailers products. For legal reasons i can not tell you the domain names of either.

This blog post will be updated on a regular basis with what we have done and if we make any sales and things like that.

As the title says we will run this e-commerce wordpress website for $24 per year. We have spent that already buying the domain name and the cheapest hosting we could find. If we incur any further costs along the way i will reveal it loud and clear (or change the title of the Post a little bit).

We have no website yet but we do have a free template and some time on our hands. The domain name was bought from Crazy Domains i think, or maybe a special from Net Registry. I think the hosting is also at 3IX, which is in America somewhere. We just want to keep it cheap. Hope they don’t make us look silly down the track.

Our estimated amount of time before the website is up is one week. But my experience with this stuff tells me that that probably won’t be true. I mean we have other things to do too. Ah..Tuesday my mate reckons, with the products and everything. Lets have a bet. I will buy him a lotto ticket if i can see it on my computer at home on Tuesday night.

We have an agreement with our retailer. Any thing else we need?

Post 2

Now it is Friday. The one after Lotto ticket Tuesday. When i Go to our site i can see a shopping cart but no products, for some reason a BMW symbol. So the lotto ticket went to me (only got two numbers). But the guys have been busy with a lot of other things.

We have set up a seperate Pay Pal account for this website so i can more easily track the money that comes from it. The design is looking good too, so i am pleased about that. Maybe with the Euro 2008 over there will be less tired eyes around here each day.

Post 3

One week after lotto Tuesday and everything is set to go. Our supplier is just updating their delivery prices for the new financial year so we are waiting on that. We have decided to go with an E-Way account instead of Pay Pal. We already had an account with them so we are cheating a little bit. They have a set up fee but their ongoing charges are lower. You need an online merchant facility too but we have one of those already. So we have cheated a little bit on the price already. I hope that does not affect the integrity of my post.