9 Oct

5 Ways to Make More Money in 5 Minutes or Less

Posted by Bill in Tools.

Selling products online from home is becoming much more popular these days, with faster and easier ways to build your own e-shop than ever before.

Most first-time sellers and small businesses don’t want the hassle of setting up websites, taking care of hosting, security, or processing payments. If you would like to focus on just selling products, many websites are offering to set up a store for you in minutes with professional pre-made designs and powerful customisation under the hood.

Take a look at some of the best free and paid services we could find to build an e-shop the easy way. It’s perfect for bedroom based crafters, bands, clothes designers, and artists.

1. Shopify

A popular choice with designers for template layout customisation www.shopify.com

Example stores:

2. Etsy

Ideal for individuals with hand-made items, and a fantastic community 

3. Big Cartel

Do-it-yourself web shop, and our favourite! www.bigcartel.com

Example stores:

4. Volusion

Scales up to a larger business store when you outgrow your small one 

Example stores:

5. Art Flock

Creative community ideal for selling original artworks on canvas www.artflock.com

Other links of note:

  • Bonanzle: The new kid on the block, a fun place to sell items and socialise at the same time
  • BuyitSellit: Best of all, it’s free!
  • Garage Sale: A new Facebook application to advertise and sell stuff to your network of friends

3 Responses to this post.

  1. Posted by Mark Dorsey on 09.10.08 at 6:23 am

    Hello and thank you for the mention of Bonanzle. You know at Bonanzle you can actually post 2 items in 2 minutes or less!

    Here is a link of our founder, Mr. Bill Harding in action:
    http://www.bonanzle.com/site_help/videos/two_items_video?title=Post+Multiple+Items+for+Sale+%282+minutes%29

    Make sure and stop by and see if you can beat his time!

    Cheers,
    Mark Dorsey
    Bonanzle

  2. Posted by yoogya on 09.10.08 at 6:23 am

    Dear,

    Thank your information. can i know develop building e-commerce

    Thank

  3. Posted by lesley on 09.10.08 at 6:23 am

    hey, thanks for using my big cartel site in your example. i’m a huge fan of both it and etsy. i’m going to try the others, too.

    -lesley

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