Doing Business on the Internet - Resources

Checklist for starting an internet/ebay sales business in Nebraska

1. eBay sales
eBay is probably the fastest growing and most direct way to jump into the waters of Internet commerce. It gives you complete control over how you package the description of your product, the price, whether to sell for a set price or take a crack at their popular auction market.

If you want to try e-bay:
a. Go to http://my.ebay.com/, to register;
b. Read their user-friendly explanation of selling formats - opt for either auction or straight listing
c. Follow their guided instructions for putting an item up for sale. eBay is generous with instructions and "help" information.

2. Consider building a web site and/or having it built for you.
If you'd like to take a crack at building your own web site, a growing number of do-it-yourself web building software is available. Again, we have a list of several dozen you can sample online at: http://www.neded.org/files/assist/webbuildresources.html.

There are a growing number of web site development businesses throughout Nebraska and everywhere else. We have a broad cross-section of Nebraska web site development firms listed online at: http://www.neded.org/files/assist/provider.html. You can click on any of them to visit their site, check out their pricing structures, visit pages have already done of other clients and contact any of them for estimates. You should ALWAYS have the contents and general layout of how you'd like your site to look to visitors in mind and preferably on paper before engaging such a business (or anyone else offering to build your site).

3. Other business planning resources are available at http://www.neded.org/content/view/290/527/