Shopping cart software doesn’t have to be an intimidating factor in getting an online shopping cart online. You basically just need to know what your needs are and then go from there.

Majority of the shopping carts are integrated with PayPal so you can accept online payments easily. Eventually you’ll need a merchant account to accept credit cards but if you’re getting started, a PayPal account will do just fine. I’ll get into merchant accounts in my next post.

Now back to shopping cart software, Quick shopping cart is an easy to use application that allows you to add products to your catalog along with descriptions & images. There is absolutely no programming or HTML knowledge needed so you can realistically have your shopping cart online within an hour depending on the number of products that you offer.

For a basic shopping cart you’ll want certain features such as coupons, in depth reporting, and integration with certain shipping companies. One feature that Quick Shopping Cart offers is eBay integration so that you can list items on eBay without having to list items individually.

Other features that you will eventually want are cross selling which allows you to offer certain products when it relates to an item that a visitor is looking at. It’s a great way of upselling! Once your sales start rolling in you’ll need a way of reporting your sales & expenses so your shopping cart should be integrated with an accounting package such as QuickBooks.

These are the most important aspects of any shopping cart software. With that said, I invite you to learn more about what Quick Shopping Cart has to offer and how user friendly and feature rich the application is.

As I mentioned, in my next post I’ll get into merchant accounts and how to accept credit cards.

Best regards,
David Lalumendre
www.WebsiteToad.com

I’m fairly certain that you’ve registered a domain name that you think is a great domain but you either haven’t done anything with it or you don’t intend to do anything with it.

The popular thing to do is park your domain name with a company like DomainSponsor.com and make money on them when someone visits the page and clicks on one of the ads that display on the web page. Below I’ve listed a few alternatives to Google Adsense that you can do with your web pages.

BANS – Build A Niche Store Review

BuildANicheStore.com is a unique way to make money with your unused domain names. It’s based on the eBay affiliate program and allows you to build complete websites and display current eBay auctions on your website. eBay will then pay you up to 75% of their profit. For auctions $99 or less that number is 50% but goes up as the value of the auction goes up.

The nice thing about Build A Niche Store is that you can choose from a large selection of professional templates and you can add unique content to help with getting listed in organic search results.

As the name mentions, BANS is great for building a niche store so if you have domain names that are really descriptive but don’t want to build a full flegdged website you can quickly put up websites and still monetize them.

Another feature that I liked was the ablity to integrate Google Adsense into your pages as well. This will allow you to make money online even if your visitors don’t end up purchasing anything from eBay.

Build A Niche Store Features

Below I’ve listed a few of the features of BANS that you will find very important.

Security: You have a password protected admin panel.

Store Editing: Within your admin you can update the content of each page for SEO reasons such as the meta tags.

Ads: As I mentioned above, you can integrate Google Adsense into the pages as another way of making money with your parked domain names.

I highly recommend you checking out BuildANicheStore.com and view all of the features that they offer along with live sites that were developed using BANS.

Best regards,
David Lalumendre
www.WebsiteToad.com