An essay on how I left employment as a java programmer and started building my online empire. I will tell you what I have learned on opening an online store.

I have been in the business for over 4 years now. But before, I worked as a computer programmer working to 5 different companies. The reasons I job hop is because I couldn't find a very stable software company. A software company that has been running for over 5 years is definitely a good place to stay. The companies I worked for are start-ups and that is only where they are at the "start". My last employment is a java based software development firm. They pay around $3.2 an hour which is fairy good around here. I left 2 months after.

That's because I finally realized that i don't want to code all my life. I want to be the one who will be the client of software companies. If only I had the money to start.

In a party I had a long talk to my neighbour. Ramesh, who is from India has established an exporting company for almost 10 years. I talked to him about how he started his business. He told a very long story. However, at the end of it I told him, "I want to start an online business. But I'll start doing it next year.". He asked "Why?", I said "I don't have the capital". Chuckling, he quickly replied. "When I started my business, I also didn't have capital."

That's what really moved me into this business. I do not need capital because everyone starts small. From then on I studied how people doing business on the internet I found out that a decent number of small websites are blogs. If I could only write as good as these writers I would start one. but i am not a good blogger.

Then I found out about EasyStoreHosting. EasyStoreHosting.com is a dropshipping concept. You basically open up a store and then you pay them $50 a month. Dropshipping has been around already but the concept is online retailers promote the products of the wholesaler and when they get orders they call the warehouse and immediately ships them to the buyer. The retailers then earns through the markup they put on the product. EasyStoreHosting offers legitimate dropshippers. Try their concept, they have freetrial, so try it for yourself.

Now I have a fair amount of experience on e-commerce. Hence, the biggest lesson I learned is that in the online world rules also apply the same on the offline world. "People buy from the store they only trust". I would ask myself, why would I buy a $200 cellphone to www.your-never-heard-of-store.com and not from Amazon? Why would I risk my credit card information? What if the retailer failed to deliver the order? Will I get a refund?

So I didn't pursue the ecommerce store but I'm not done yet. There are still many ways to build my online empire. One that I will try next is opening my very first affiliate store. I also opened my own web directory. I truly believe that in this information age and globalization, websites are the future properties. Websites make money so anything that makes money with little or no supervision is considered an asset.
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