Free commercial websites-How to open, market and advertise your free online store or shop

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Free online stores and shops

Freestores and shops online deal with affiliate marketing, selling designs on items or marketing your own unique products. Since researching these free market places, their use seems to be endless. 

If you do not have a website of your own, they give you one FREE with your own personal ID to track sales.  If you want to set up a community fundraising project or make a living selling goods without the overheads, all you need is access to a computer, and the motivation to work at promoting your site.  The general pattern for fully stocked free websites is register and promote.  It is slightly more time consuming selling your own products like crafts or art in a free gallery or stocking customised products, because you have to download images and write descriptions.

However most of these free webstores/shops also have a referral affiliate programme built into them.  You would be given a personal ID website address or html code if you have a personal website or blog. Using this, you then have to find a way of bringing in visitors to your site. Is this the future of making money from home?  Either full time or in your spare time?  Maybe we are a nation of shopkeepers after all.

STARTING AN ONLINE STORE 

CHOOSING A NICHE

Choose a niche or product genre that you are passionate about and begin to develop a knowledge set around this niche. Your passion and enthusiasm for a particular niche topic will give you a competitive advantage over larger sellers that are forced to be more broad in their product coverage. By choosing a category that you are passionate about, you will have a greater chance of enjoying the journey of creating and managing an online store, which will require patience and the ability to overcome adversity. In a way, opening an online store around one of your hobbies or interests allows you to reallocate time productively that you would have spent on your hobby anyways.

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Niche stores include:
Arts & Crafts
Technology
Books
Health products
Beauty Products
Toys
Collectibles & Antiques
etc etc etc etc

You name it - I'll bet there's a website for free selling it.

WORKING EXAMPLE OF A NICHE PRODUCT STORE 

YIN YANG GIFT STORE
I have set up a working example of what you can achieve with a niche webstore.

Here I have used an associate website by courtesy of Amazon.

I registered as an Associate, named my store, added categories to my pages and added individual products to the different categories.

In all the categories I searched for items with the Keyword Yin Yang. The results were quite impressive. They are;

Books
Clothing
Jewelry
Home & Garden
Automotive
Posters
Music Miscellaneous

I then obtained a link to put on my Squidoo lens. Please take a look.

FIND A WEBSITE SHOP 

Select a service to provide the online infrastructure for your web store. One fast way to start a free store is to open a zlio store. Zlio stores allow you to resell products carried by Buy.com and other merchants by writing reviews of products and focusing on a theme that makes consumers lives easier. Zlio stores allow you to get in the game fast, but do not allow you to carry your own physical inventory. Amazon.com has started a service that is similar to Zlio -- All Productsthe Amazon.com aStore program allows users to build their own free online store front that sells products from Amazon in exchange for a commission. Another way to get started quickly is to open a store front. A store allows you to build and sell your own physical inventory of products, which will take more work but is potentially more profitable down the road if you work it hard. This type of free website where you upload your own stock images is especially useful for the arts and craft industries.

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FINDING PRODUCTS 

STOCKING YOUR OWN STORE
If you are stocking your own store, build-out your product inventory by adding products to your web store. Try to be thoughtful about your product categories, and in particular, product placement. Studies have shown that consumers are drawn to products featured at the top of the page, so be careful to put the most likely sellers at the top. Put yourself in the customer's shoes with a relentless passion. Remember, people can buy from anyone; why should they buy from you? You need to make their life easier or provide some other kind of value.

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SELLING FREE WEBSITE STOCK
Selling products for companies without having to keep stock is also known as Dropshipping. Drop shipping is a supply chain management technique in which the retailer does not keep goods in stock, but instead transfers customer orders and shipment details to wholesalers, who then ship the goods directly to the customer . The retailers make their profit on the difference between the wholesale and retail price.

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PROMOTE YOUR STORE 

Promote your store, as this is a critical step. Do you remember Field of Dreams? "if you build it they will come" will not apply to your new store! You must drive interest in your own site; no one cares about your store except you. The first way to promote your store is to get relevant; submit your site to Google to be indexed. Consider adding content to your site like product reviews, subject matter articles, humor, anything to give people a reason to come to your site other than just to buy products. Content will increase your probability of becoming relevant.

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You can also promote your store by:

KEEPING A BLOG with links to your store e.g Blogger

SUBMITTING ARTICLES to free article sites e.g.articlsubmit.com

MAKING A SQUIDOO LENS ON YOUR PRODUCT OR ART

SUBMIT TO A WEB DIRECTORY e.g itsallaboutlinks.com

SUBMIT TO A SEARCH ENGINES e.g searchenginewatch.com

JOIN A SOCIALBOOKMARK SITE e.g Myspace.com,FacebooK

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MANAGE AND TRACK YOUR STORE 

Manage and track your web store'. Now that you've got your store up and running, don't you want to see how much traffic you are generating and where it is coming from? Sign up for free Google analytics

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Basically a safelist is a gathering of like minded individuals who have agreed to exchanges ads. You agree to receive ads from all the others members in exchange for the opportunity to send your own.

MY ZLIO SHOPS 

SIGN UP FOR YOUR FREE ZLIO SHOP HERE
ZLIO!

Zlio is an online shop that is quick and easy to set up. You have a stock to choose from including:

Books
Jewelry
DVD's
Clothing
Mobile phones
Health and Beauty
Sports and Leisure
Home and GardenElectronics
Kids and Family

I now have 4 shops at ZLIO and 12 referrals

YinYangTao

Bags of Fashion

White is Minimalism

Bridesmaid Gifts

You can get commissions on sales, commission on referrals and earn from selected item clicks.
The products come from reputable companies e.g. Barnes and Nobles books.
You have no stock to keep/no payments to process and a good looking website of your own products to promote.
I am still investigating the feature of Shopmarking as apposed to Socialbookmarking through Zlio - I will keep you posted on that one.

SIGN UP FOR YOUR FREE ZLIO SHOP HERE

ALSO WHY NOT JOIN THE SQUIDOO GROUP? ZLIO STORES

JUST FOR ARTISTS 

SELL YOUR ART - Get a FREE ARTISTS GALLERY

I know you want to show the world your work and would love to make a living or even some spare cash, doing what you love. Well why not go for it?

Stop making excuses. If you have a scanner to produce good quality images on your site, then all the better. Do not be put off because you think your art is not good enough or that it will be technically difficult. You have to know zero at programming or need very little IT skills. The instructions for uploading images are usually quite easy to follow.

IMAGEKIND -Create and sell art prints from your free online gallery either on your own website or in their marketplace.

Red Bubble
Easy to use site where you can upload your art and sell on as prints, clothing and cards. There is also an active community of artists commenting on each other's work.

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Make your art into Greeting cards to sell online




Printpop.com is your online destination for digital reproductions of artwork by aspiring, emerging, part-time or student artists. This web site was built with the intention of helping artists everywhere gain much-needed exposure and also have the opportunity to make extra money. While artists could set up their own web site to display artwork, Printpop.com allows them to sell high quality photographic prints of their work, while retaining the original pieces.

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FREE WEBSITES SELLING CUSTOMIZED PRODUCTS 

There are also Free Webstores selling clothes and items that you customize with your own designs or any from the other contributor's galleries. These include:

Newly added!
Arts Cafe
Over 200 products available to add your own designs to.

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SPREADSHIRT.co.uk or .com

Printfection.com !

In association with Zazzle.com

99dogs.com

The type of goods that you can sell with your own design on include:

T-Shirts
PostersMugs
Bumper Stickers
Mousepads
Postcards
Stickers
Cards
Postage
Magnets
Hats
Bags
Buttons
Ties
Keychains
Aprons
Calendars
Photo Sculptures

Again the list is endless

START SELLING YOUR OWN PRODUCTS WEBSITES 

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FREE ONLINE STORE
e-Crater.com is both a free web store builder and a free online marketplace. Sellers can easily create their own free online store in minutes. Buyers can easily browse and compare between thousands of products.

Sellers receive free website hosting, a free subdomain and a powerful admin tool to manage their free online stores. All products are posted to the world's most famous product search engine as well.

HOW ABOUT A FREE AFFILIATE WEBSITE? 

JOE BUCKS
Over 50 websites to choose from and promote.
Health sites/Weight loss/Skin care
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What is Proleva?
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Open Your Own Online Shop!
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RECRUITING OTHER AFFILIATES 

Get a free advert that lets you recruit affiliates to your downline

First you register to become an affiliate - then in turn refer people who register to become affiliates enabling you to earn from your site or from what your referral earns. It may seem a little bit complicated, but stick with it.
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TONS OF AFFILIATE REVENUE FOR YOUR WEBSITE 

What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing is an online advertising channel in which advertisers (online merchants that sell products or services) pay publishers (independent parties that promote the products or services of an advertiser on their Web site) only for results, such as a visitor making a purchase or filling out a form, rather than paying simply to reach a particular audience. This "pay-for-performance" model is in essence the modern version of the "finders'-fee" model, where individuals who introduce new clients to a business are compensated. The difference in the case of affiliate marketing is that advertisers only pay their publishers when the new client introduction results in a sale or a lead, making it a low-risk, high-reward environment for both parties.

Signing up with one of the big affiliate directories cuts out a lot of the searching for links. You may not find your niche product but I bet 99% of the time you will.
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Earn more revenue from your website
Broad range of advertisers
Guaranteed monthly commission payment
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There are no set-up fees for becoming an affiliate with AffiliateFuture. It's simple to get started, enter your details, subscribe to the programmes offered by Merchants, add them to your site and start earning today. Sign up to be an affiliate now - Free!
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Become an affiliate
You may have a website with excellent content and a niche audience. Perhaps you have not yet worked out the best way to make money from your traffic.

Affiliate Window offers you the opportunity to do exactly this. You can pick up text links, banners and other creatives, and product feed from merchant sites, via the Affiliate Window network.

Depending on your site and your audience, you may wish to take advertisements from our biggest merchant sites, such as Comet, Woolworths and B&Q, or more niche operators, such as NET-A-PORTER.COM.
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Commission Junction, a ValueClick company, is a global leader in the online advertising channel of affiliate marketing. We drive quality results, deliver superior service, and develop sustainable relationships for advertisers and publishers through our performance-based solutions. Commission Junction operates the only truly global network in affiliate marketing while setting the industry standard for network quality and providing the most sophisticated reporting tools available.
TOP AFFILIATE
Besides your own Web site free affiliate directories such as this are an excellent way of advertsing affiliate programs. Affiliate directory listings can significantly increase the exposure of your online affiliate programs as well as give your Web site a much needed backlink for SEO purposes.
Free Affiliate Programs for Webmasters
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WEBSTORES GALORE 

"Every one lives by selling something" - Robert Louis Stevenson

I have had quite a long and arduous search over the years for free webstores and affiliate programs connected with such and have therefore decided to keep my own directory. I wish to share this work with you being the nice person that I am. So if you want any more free online stores and shops - " I am OPEN ALL HOURS"

CLICK HERE

POPSHOPS 

A new affiliate shop site has emerged
Claiming to have over 2 million products to promote
Affiliated with 1022 merchants which include Commission Junction, Linkshare, Shareasale

You Pick your products
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Pop your shop into your site
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Keep 100% of your commissions

You do not have a shop website only a link to products

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