Online shopping has become more and more popular nowadays and it is said that internet shopping hit a record high in December 2010, when 6.8bn was spent as customers turned to the web rather than head out in the extreme cold. So do you have the idea to start an online store to earn money? Here I will talk about some useful tips to build a successful online shop.

First of all, you should decide which products to sell on the store. It determines the type of your online shop. Usually, people are fond of shopping clothes online than electronics.

Secondly, set up the online shopping site. After you decide which products you want to sell, you need to set up a website. If you don't know how to make up a website, you can buy a ready-made one, or employ someone to make it for you. However, you'd better learn some lessons of basic knowledge about website, such as HTML, Photoshop, because you should maintain your online stores when you run it later.

Thirdly, make marketing and bring traffic for your online stores when it online. You can write blogs for your online shop, optimize the pages to get more traffic from search engine, or popularize your site to Facebook or Twitter.

It is not easy to run a successful online shop. By one hand there are so many online stores and the competition is so hard, by other hand, there are so many lessons we should get to master for running a website. However passion is also the important thing for success. If you decide to do one thing, just to do.

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