Ecommerce Resources

• Getting Started
• Promoting Your Website
• General Resources

Getting Started

You will also need a web host to house your website. The array of available hosts and the services they offer is staggering, so we recommend consulting with a local expert to get some good advice.

If you plan to accept credit card payments, you will need to sign up with a service that will do that for you, or set up your own merchant account with a bank.

A service called DIYBIZSITES.COM offers free step-by-step ecommerce tutorials and recommended web development resources for small businesses. The credit card acceptance resources have been expanded and they have added browser-based remotely hosted web site and store development, enabling you to easily make and update your brochure or ecommerce web site.

Check out Taming the Beast.net, a source of free web design resources, marketing, promotion and ecommerce articles. Free hardware, software online training and tutorials. Web site content, learning & development tools suited to all levels. Driver links, online games, ecards, software downloads & internet resources.

Promoting Your Website

• selfpromotion.com is a free service that allows you to promote your website to most of the top search engines. It's a one-stop, 10 minute process to get the word about your website out to the world.

• If you are in the tourism industry, be sure to be listed at the Haines Convention and Visitor's Bureau website

• If you are selling something, get listed at the Hainesak.com Online Mall

• The Internet Marketing Institute's Special Report on Search Engine Optimization
  An excellent summary of what it takes to get highly placed on search engines.

• Goodkeywords.com
  See how many people search for particular key words and phrases with this tool. Use popular search terms and increase traffic.

• See the Marketing page on this website for more tips.

General Resources

• DIYBIZSITES.COM offers free step-by-step ecommerce tutorials and recommended web development resources for small businesses.

• workz.com: Helping Small Businesses Grow And Prosper Online. An excellent site, full of useful information for growing your online business.

• Dotcom.com
  An comprehensive website for anyone doing business online.

• Lots of articles about e-commerce.

• Entrepreneur Magazine's E-commerce page is loaded with current information about the do's and don'ts of e-commerce.

• Check out workz.com, the ultimate resource site for small businesses online. Where do you start? First, we suggest signing up for one or more of our free newsletters. Then, dig into the How-To Guides or the Topics.

• ecommercebase.com Very comprehensive and useful for E biz start-ups and veterans alike.

• Ecommerce Tutorial An e-business tutorial from Independent Commerce, an ecommerce solutions provider.

• Articles and information on web commerce