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How To Build Your Online Store with Yahoo! Merchant Solutions

It's easy — whether you choose to do it yourself or hire a developer.

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Plenty of businesses dream about opening online stores. And why not? Million of potential customers, each only a click and a credit-card number away from placing an order for your products or services. Just envision sitting back, tracking your web site's increasing traffic, and watching mouse clicks turn into merchandise sales.

Building your own online store is a worthy business strategy for growing your company by using the powerful, cost-efficient tools now available to enterprises of every size. For sheer comprehensiveness, affordability, and ease of use, Yahoo! Merchant Solutions is certainly among your best choices for quickly getting ready for your online "Grand Opening".

Save money — do it yourself…

The first thing you'll need to decide when considering building an online store with Yahoo! Merchant Solutions is if you're comfortable creating it yourself. Even with a basic understanding of computer principles, most small- and emerging-business professionals can quickly create a good-looking, functional site on their own.

It's easy because Yahoo! has assembled a fantastic suite of integrated tools that essentially walk you through the entire store-building process. The easiest way is to use the provided Site Design Wizard included with your Yahoo! Merchant Solutions account.

You can choose among several formatting options, starting with as whether you'd prefer you store's navigation links to appear across the top or on the left-hand side of the page. Then, you can choose the color palette that best fits your business's image—from full, complementary spectrums of color ranges, from dark to light and many, more.

You're not restricted to using Yahoo! site-building tools, however. The system also allows using third-party software (such as Adobe Dreamweaver®) to design and build your online store.

… Or, get even more professional results by partnering with a developer.

If yours is a business seeking to project an even more professional-looking online image, you might want to consider using a pre-designed theme from Yahoo! library, created by experienced web-design professionals. Once you've chosen a design, it's a snap to upload your company logo and add content (text) for key pages — Home, Welcome, Products, or whatever else you'd like on your store site. Then, it's also easy to use the Add Products Wizard to add products from your entire inventory. You can also choose to add advanced features including blogs and community forums, as well as employing scripting and database tools such as Perl, PHP, and MySQL.

Yahoo! helps you get there from here

All Yahoo! Merchant Solutions plans include 60 days of free consulting on setting up your store, along with premier support services to help you get up and running as soon as possible.

Whatever way works best for you, no technical skills or prior designing or development experience is necessary. You have the time you need concentrate to concentrate on running and growing your business.

Learn more

Yahoo! Merchant Solutions:

http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/ecommerce/

Starter	$25.97
Standard	$64.97
Professional	$194.97