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I am seriously thinking of doing an online business nowadays. Due to globalization and the quick spread of information through the net, I am sure that in one or two years time you could almost sit back and order almost everything online without having to get up from your cozy seat.

I once read of a 12 year old boy who has an online website selling guns. Not those harmful killer guns, but paint ball guns. Believe it or not, in one month he managed to earn $100 - $300 dollars that then served as his pocket money. Twelve years old and already earning. How do you like it?

In order to start, I thought maybe I should start researching about how to go about selling online. After browsing E-bay and other sites, I came across shopping cart software. It is ASP web based, hosted store building system for setting up an online business. There is no software to install. All you need is a web browser. As you build and manage your online store, you can pick your own custom design, add custom pages and provide other cool function such as accepting credit card and allows your pages to appear at the top of most popular search engines.

With this shopping cart software, I can save a lot in operational cost. I don't need to pay for street premises rent, pay shop assistants or answer a lot of pre-sales queries. When customers place their orders, it will come automatically into my orders database and process the orders immediately. There are many other benefits such as having the opportunity to promote your business to a global community and much more. If you are interested, go check it out yourself. It's really cool!