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Ecommerce Business Models: Choosing the Right One for You
Compare the main ways to run an online store, from selling your own products to resale, dropshipping, subscriptions and digital goods, and how to choose.
Getting Started
Plans and Budgets
Choosing a model, building a strategy and spending wisely.
Creating a Winning Ecommerce Strategy in 5 Easy Steps
A simple five-step framework for planning an online store: set goals, know your audience, shape the offer, pick channels and decide how you will measure progress.
How to Set Up an Ecommerce Store on a Budget
See where the money typically goes when you start an online store, which costs can wait, and how a hypothetical $2,000 budget might be divided.
Setting Up an Ecommerce Store on a Budget
A prioritized spend-versus-skip checklist and a month-by-month sequence for stretching a small budget while building your first online store.
Understanding Break-Even for a New Store
Learn how to calculate the sales a new online store needs to cover its costs, using a plainly hypothetical worked example and the formula behind it.
Writing a One-Page Business Plan for a Store
How to write a lean one-page plan for an online store that covers customers, products, costs and goals, with a simple template you can fill in.
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