6 days from today I’ll be launching the biggest product I’ve put together in the past two years and I absolutely can’t wait.

The Create A Profitable Online Store program is a complete step by step course on how to build a thriving eCommerce business. The course will teach you in excruciating detail

How to pick a profitable niche to pursue
How to source your products
How to set up your store in the cheapest and easiest way possible
How to attract a large mass of targeted customers who will purchase your products

The course is chock-full of resources to help you build a profitable online business including comprehensive course materials, worksheets, checklists, questionnaires and more. In addition, I will be giving lectures and presenting the materials directly to you via a live telecast where you can ask me questions live on camera.

Create A Profitable Online Store is not going to be just another class, …

A few months ago on a Sunday morning, I was looking through my emails when I discovered a bunch of new Google Alerts in my inbox. For all of you who are unfamiliar with Google Alerts, Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic. As an online shop owner, I keep track of the competition for all of my main keywords using Google Alerts which tells me when new websites are indexed that pertain to my industry.

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Once a week (or whenever Google sends me email), I do a cursory scan of the wedding linens competitive landscape. While most of the new webpages that pop up are from Etsy or Ebay (which I ignore), this time out of the corner of my eye, I happened to notice some content that looked …

After looking at hundreds of online shops and providing critiques for many shopowners, I see the same mistakes being made over and over again. And what’s frustrating is that most of these mistakes have to do with either being too cheap, greedy or lazy.

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For example, most newbie webmasters simply use the out of the box shopping cart installation without any modification which results in a sub optimal shopping experience for their customers.

To be successful, you have to take the time to make your store unique and attractive. You have to stand out and the default look just isn’t going to cut it.

Other shop owners think that they can cut corners and skimp out on paying for critical products and services in order to save money. Below is a list of the most common newbie mistakes that will absolutely cripple your store’s chances for success.
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Most of the readers who visit MyWifeQuitHerJob.com fall into opposite extremes when it comes to their online business goals. Either they want to go all out, create their own products or import their goods from Asia for maximum profit or they want to start an online store as a side business using the most “passive” methods available.

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The prospect of making money passively without requiring much work is extremely attractive which is why many readers fall into the latter category.

In other words, they want to be able to make money with as little active effort as possible. They don’t want to have to carry inventory or do product fulfillment which is why I receive many questions having to do with either running a dropshipped online store or becoming an affiliate marketer.

However, there seems to be some confusion about the differences between these two types of online …