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Make Money Online With a Zen-Cart Online Store – One Great Time to Start an Online Business

This is a 10-part series on how to make money online with a Zen-Cart Online Store using the free shopping cart software, Zen-Cart. Of course, with all the talk of a down economy, you may be thinking this is the worst time to start a new business. After all, there is hardly a day that goes by without a news story about a company that is either closing its doors or laying off people.

However, if you’ll look more closely, you’ll find that this is one great time to start a business. And, with the ease and simplicity of the free zen-cart software for your shopping cart platform, you can focus your time on product selection and customer service instead of shopping cart headaches and disappointments. Zen-Cart has many features that simplify managing your store, including:

* dashboard to see new orders at a glance
* ability to send customers emails right from the admin panel
* unlimited products
* unlimited category depth
* multiple display modes
* multiple shipping options
* multiple payment options
* discount coupons
* gift certificates
* featured products
* quantity discounts
* plus many more features too numerous to mention

Here’s why we think this is a great time to start a business:

Online shopping is here to stay.
Sure, the growth decreased a bit this year, but that was across the board and online sales fared the best over walk-in store sales. In fact, the Washington Post reported Amazon as recording “its ‘best ever’ holiday season this year with a 17 percent increase in orders on its busiest day…”

More people are shopping online than ever before.
Gas prices have lead even the most wary person to go online for shopping. On a more positive note, comparison shopping sites, the huge array of online stores with great selections for just about anything you could possible want combined with the tendency for online retailers to offer some form of free shipping mean shopping online is easier, quicker and cheaper than schlepping all over town to find what you want.

This down economy will not last forever.
If you use this time wisely, you will have your business up and running with all the kinks worked out, positioned for huge increases in sales when the economy turns around. The Zen-Cart shopping cart makes it easy to get started. With its advanced admin panel, just about everything you need to manage your business is already included.

Right now, you can get great deals on many of the products and services you need for your business.
Online businesses are known for their low overhead. While you don’t need a lot to get started, there may be some technology-related items in which you want to invest (accounting software, upgraded computer, etc.). Many companies are offering specials and discounts to encourage sales. If you wait until things are improving, those opportunities for price savings may well disappear.

You can start your online business and still keep your day job.
There is a lot to learn about running a successful online business. It makes sense to get started using evenings and weekends. Keep your day job while you learn how to use your shopping cart, how to categorize and present your products, how to get traffic to your website and the other factors that make a difference in success.

It’s a great time to start an online business! Build your business carefully and just about the time you are wondering about quitting your day job to put all your energies into the business full-time, the economy will have turned around.

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Distance Learning panel presentation at Mission College, Santa Clara, CA, in February 2008, delivered here in parts. (Full closed-caption versions: http://missioncollege.org/depts/esl/faculty/chan/DLpanel2008.html)
A. Introduction
B. Angel gradebook categories, Organizing homework
C. essments; Angel for web-enhanced & distance learning
D. Angel Drop Boxes
E. Angel Mail, Course Compass
F. Creating community via Discussion Boards
G. Online accounting tutoring via CCC Confer
H. Multimedia web presentations via CCC Confer
I. Question and Answer: on-campus and online orientations, posting multimedia files, Angel quick polls, tracking access to learning objects in Angel

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Distance Learning panel presentation at Mission College, Santa Clara, CA, in February 2008, delivered here in parts.
A. Introduction
B. Angel gradebook categories, Organizing homework
C. essments; Angel for web-enhanced & distance learning
D. Angel Drop Boxes
E. Angel Mail, Course Compass
F. Creating community via Discussion Boards
G. Online accounting tutoring via CCC Confer
H. Multimedia web presentations via CCC Confer
I. Question and Answer: on-campus and online orientations, posting multimedia files, Angel quick polls, tracking access to learning objects in Angel.
Full versions available from http://missioncollege.org/depts/esl/faculty/chan/DLpanel2008.html

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Session 3 – Computer & Communication Tools

Question:
“In what way can a business owner use a computer to their advantage?”

Gwyn Myers, Ph. D.
Management Consultant

Topics covered in this video:
Business communication, computers, administrative tasks, mailing lists

Transcript:
I think some of the most obvious ones and the ones that maybe we look at first are the ways that we can reduce our costs for plain old administrative functions like writing letters, doing your accounting. Basic things that we used to have to spend money on and now we can do them ourselves as part of those internal functions that we are going to devote time to.
But I think we miss the point with just looking at that because to me the biggest value is to have an instant distribution channel. It used to be so hard to find your clients; so hard to get access to them. It was like spending a lot of money on mailing lists and having fifty percent of it come back because they weren’t up to date. Now just by turning on the internet you have access to an international distribution channel with millions of people. Your challenge now is not to figure out how to get the distribution list, it’s how to use it. What’s going to catch the attention for your product verses the other millions with the same distribution channel? So again, look at it as a way to bring in that revenue because costs are going to be there and you can reduce them with the computer. And the big advantage is getting out there and getting to that revenue: the part that’s on the outside.

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Session 1 – Evaluating Business Potential

Question:
“You have some wonderful credentials including being a CPA, an MBA and being president of a large company. Were these credentials helpful to you when you purchased your own business?”
Maureen Costello
Wholesale Distributor

Topics covered in this video:
Business credentials, skills, experience, mistakes, employees, hiring, budgeting

Transcript:
Very much. One of the things I learned over the years is that for anybody to be successful in any role you have to have ability to begin with and then you need education and training and experience and probably most of all the willingness to do whatever it is the function is that you are going to take on. My educational experience certainly helped prepare me because it gave me an overview of what kinds of things happen in a business and I got some basic accounting skills which are really critical to a business. That’s probably the lifeblood of a business; making sure you have cash and that you know how the cash is coming in and going out. But the experience is invaluable and everybody is going to make mistakes in life, in the job.

Your employees are going to make mistakes. You can’t expect them to be perfect. Those mistakes are going to cost you money and you almost have to budget for that. I was able to make my mistakes on somebody else’s dime which was probably good for me, maybe not so good for them, but that is part of the cost of doing business. Now you as the owner of a business are going to have to accept the fact that when you bring somebody in new, part of the cost of hiring a new employee and training them is that they are going to make mistakes that cost you money and you may as well budget for it. But I had the opportunity to make those mistakes before I bought a business and that prevented me from making a lot of mistakes after I purchased the business.

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