Before you start imagining your millions from your new e-commerce Web site, let me just try to give a picture of your competition.

As we speak, there are hundreds if not thousands of Web sites created everyday. A good portion of those Web sites are e-commerce sites. Sites which sells millions of products online. Everybody is trying to sell everything online nowadays which is the next best thing about the internet. Internet sales have been growing every year. Never did you hear when online sales went down, ever! All you hear are department stores' sales going down but never online. Because of this shift to sell online, competition is getting very rough.

Let's say you wanted to sell some tools online. Here are some of your competition: most of the time, the manufacturer of the tools also have their own e-commerce site; other big department stores selling on their own website; other dealer Web sites; auctions sites like Ebay; classified ad postings online.

These big companies have a budget for their internet site and not to mention internet marketing strategies. They have a big budget mind you. Budget for Pay-Per-Click, Banners, etc. How can you beat these Web sites?

When I started working on http://www.aplustele.com, the top Web site on the search engine ranking is ofcourse, http://www.Avaya.com which is the manufacturer of all the products that Aplustele.com is actually selling. After I have finished with Aplustele.com, the site even beat Avaya in most of the products that they manufacture. Aplustele.com topped Avaya.com! Can you actually imagine that?

Among the things that you need on an e-commerce site is a good product presentation, a reliable and secure shopping cart and a fast internal site search. It would be a wise to invest on these important features since it would determine if the visitor will finish the transaction and actually buy the product on your online store.

There are several shopping cart softwares available for e-commerce stores and it all depends on your budget. I believe the only way to determine how much your online store will sell daily depends on how committed and dedicated you are in making your e-commerce store successful.

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Resources:

Here is a brochure entitled "The Enterpreneur's Guide to Doing Business Online" by Rieva Lesonsky from Entrepreneur Magazine and from PayPal Web site.

Here is another brochure entitled "16 Proven Ways to Grow your E-Business" by Jim Carroll and Rick Broadhead also found on the PayPal Web site.