I am researching the best business start-up helper for my idea and want to see if anyone has had experience with “Yahoo Merchant Solutions”. If so what is your opinion of it? Did it help you succesfully start your internet business or was it not what you expected? Can you recommend some other internet business start-up package? What about monthly costs and start up costs? Also what about on-going consultive help from them or follow up and up-date help? Thank You
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Yahoo Merchant Solutions is the more expensive of two hosted solutions I recommend to my clients. It has everything you need to start an online business, and there’s more flexibility with how you configure the online store – the online store tool is more sophisticated than the solution below (Office Live).
Yahoo Merchant Solutions: http://bit.ly/18XIYi
The other solution I recommend is Microsoft Office Live Small Business. Office Live is a free service that has an easy to use online web designer tool with templates which allows you to create a website without the need to know how to do HTML/CSS coding. It comes with 500 MB of storage and was designed for small business such as yourself. It is an all-in-one internet toolkit to help give your small business an online presence.
Since it is from a big brand (Microsoft), you can be sure that the right privacy and security policies are in place (unlike many other places on the internet where breach of privacy is quite prevalent). Microsoft is currently offering a free domain name (i.e. yourdomain.com) for the first year. Of course, if you prefer, you can always use the free provided subdomain name.
To accept payment on your Office Live website, you can either use Paypal (free), which is great because you can accept credit cards, or you can try the Store Manager module (paid add-on) for Office Live. Try it out:
Office Live: http://bit.ly/3nftlb
Paypal: http://bit.ly/eVSCE
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