How I opened my first online store

My first online store began with dismissal from work and selling a car for the first purchase

Therefore, I want to share with you the experience of opening my first online store and make it clear how not to do it.

You will clearly see what mistakes I made, as well as what actions led to growth. I am sure that this post will also help some of you choose the right path of development and make fewer mistakes at the stage of the start and primary development of your brainchild.

I will divide my first path into several stages:

Nurturing an idea
Working out a niche;
Setting up a business;
Purchasing a product;
Brand and website development;
First sales;
Gradual transfer to full outsourcing and sale;
The main point that I want to convey to you, dear readers.

I quietly worked as a hired worker in a dusty job that brought prosperity, allowing me to fly to the sea a couple of times a year, have a car and indulge in small purchases.

But then the idea came up. As conceived, we wanted to create an online store of gifts and things that will not be just a piece of furniture and collect dust, but will be constantly used by the owner, bringing him benefit. Yes, an idea that has already been beaten to the extreme by other online stores. But the main thing is how to present the goods! One and the same thing can be sold in different ways, with different margins and presented to a potential buyer as completely different goods.

Of course, most of the assortment that I was interested in was basically absent in Russia, and there was more and more interest in reselling. Delving deeper into the assortment of foreign stores and comparing prices in Russia and in the same China, I was pleasantly surprised at how you can make money on all this.

I began to hatch an idea and think over the assortment of the future online gift shop.

Legal arrangement, delivery, start-up capital

I decided to open completely officially. And I decided to open an individual entrepreneur on the USN 6%.

In total, I paid about 7000 rubles for registration. If you do it yourself, it's even cheaper. This cost already includes registration of an individual entrepreneur, opening a bank account, and notary services. The whole process from submitting documents to obtaining certificates and other papers on hand took about 2 months. In general, you can meet in one month, but at that time I was not in a hurry, as there were many other things that could not be delayed.

I want to open an online store, but I don't know where to start, who has experience tell me where to start?

Well finally! New Year - everyone is drunk, and she wants to open an Internet shop! Let's see you tomorrow.

If you already have a product, then choose a platform. there are store shops. and there are rental ones. the price is 250 rubles per month. For 500-800 rubles per month, you can place about 10 tons of goods from Platforms heap-storeland for example

soon these Internet shops will close: there are so many of them.

Everyone argues: I'm smarter than everyone else, I'll be alone right now and become a millionaire.

And our people are not used to buying on the internet.

Think, don't follow fashion

soon these Internet shops will close: there are so many of them.

Everyone argues: I'm smarter than everyone else, I'll be alone right now and become a millionaire.

And our people are not used to buying on the internet.

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it's not about the seller and it's not about the buyers you need to come up with something new now the crisis use it people buy things easier

8505. Guest | 24.1.016, 16:34:12

in what sense are the full heavy contingent? capricious or what? like they don't like anything or want something cheaper, but how does it look cheap if only not to go naked?

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