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Open an Online Business in 10 Days
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Manufacturer: Entrepreneur Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.8720681
EAN: 9781599180847
ISBN: 1599180847
Label: Entrepreneur Press
Manufacturer: Entrepreneur Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 150
Publication Date: 2007-02-13
Publisher: Entrepreneur Press
Studio: Entrepreneur Press
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The Fast Track to Success Internet businesses are hot again. More and more people are shopping online. Investment firms are showing a renewed interest in internet startups. It's the perfect time to turn your e-business dream into reality, and you can do it in just 10 days. This powerful 10-day plan walks you through: - Avoiding the 10 most deadly mistakes in site design
- Developing high-impact content
- Creating traffic builders to get more visitors and turn them into buyers
- Customer service strategies that keep your shoppers satisfied and loyal
- Providing a safe shopping experience
- Keeping your site protected from hackers and frauds
- And more!
Experts from e-commerce giants Netflix, Autobytel, drugstore.com, Newegg and more reveal their secrets to online business success. Plus, advice from new internet startups and valuable tips from Entrepreneur's business experts put you on a 10-day path to your own successful online business.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Good Book
Comment: The book says you can open an online business in 10 days. Not sure you could really do everything and have a business up and running in that short of time but it does have a good rundown of the steps you need to take.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A book clearly written for an audience that is TOTALLY ignorant about doing business online and won't mind reading valuless text
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It has finally happened. After writing close to 300 book reviews on Amazon (I have three profiles as of this writing), I have finally come across a book I hate. I never thought it would happen. I've always privately questioned the other reviewers on Amazon who hit a book with a 1-star. Now I think I know the feeling they have. :(
This book was supposed to teach me EVERYTHING I need to know about starting and running my online business. It was supposed to provide recipes for success, hazard roadmaps, and interviews from successful dot com builders (it did provide interviews). Basically, this book was supposed to explain to me what it takes to build an online business that will grow and succeed. The goal supposedly was to give me the tools and knowledge needed to emerge a victor online.
I found some value in the following chapters:
3. Getting funded
5. Web site building 101
6 Host your site
7. Managing your business
8. Knowing your customers
11. Web site traffic builders
12. Cashing in on affiliate programs
14. Secrets of search engines
17. Customer service for success
I found little value in the following chapters:
9. The scoop on B2B e-commerce
16. Tapping international markets
19. ID theft, credit card fraud, and more bad stuff
And I found no value in the following chapters:
1. The Internet gold rush
2. Moving from a brick-and-mortar to an online store
4. Dot com dreams?
20. Time for an upgrade
21. A tour of the Web
10. e-Chat with Dawn Lepore
13. e-Chat with Pete Cobb
15. e-Chat with Howard Tong
18. e-Chat with Reed Hastings
22. e-Chat with Bruce Weinberg
23. e-Chats included in Appendix
This book seems to take the attitude that a Web site is a business. In reality, and the way I view things, a Web site is just a tool for a business to use to make money. The title to this book suggests that it was going to explain how to OPEN an online business in 10 days. I should have known there was something very wrong with this book by just reading its title. I knew and I know that an online business can be opened in less than a few hours. All it takes is to pay a Web site hosting service for a domain name and space on its servers and then upload a few Web pages into that space. Voila! You have opened an online business.
But how do you make the online business successful? Well, you need a business plan. You need some know-how. And you need some resources. When I looked in this book I didn't find much on these subjects. Sure, there was some coverage in the chapters I list above as having some value. But the content included in these chapters was less-than. For example, Chapter 3 mentions business plans. But anybody who knows anything about business plans will say what the heck is the author talking about. Another example, Chapter 6 covers hosting your site. So wouldn't it be logical for the author to explain the offerings most hosting services offer to the entrepreneur wanting to use their services? Obvious, right? Well, no such coverage in this book. Instead, the author talks about signing up with eBay or Yahoo!
And online businesses don't all sell the same thing. Some sell products, and some sell services. This book hardly differentiates the two basic types of businesses. I could go on and on how this book was a waste of paper and ink. Maybe 8 or 9 years ago there was a place for it. But not now. Don't waste your money on it. 1 star!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good read, better than the Dummies books
Comment: I'd been looking for some good books about online entrepreneurship, and this book was recommended to me by my brother-in-law, who made several million dollars as an early employee of AOL, then started a comparative shopping site that got bought by eBay or somebody. Anyway, I asked him to help me get started online, and he suggested I do some homework before putting together a business plan.
What I like about this book is that it's to-the-point (one problem I have with the "Dummies" series of books is that they contain a lot of fluff and humorous anecdotes, and I want a more straightforward read). It also has interesting interviews with real businesspeople who discuss the challenges of starting a new venture.
While opening an online business in 10 days is a rather ambitious goal (and the author Melissa Campanelli, who writes the "Net Profits" column for Entrepreneur magazine, acknowledges some of the challenges involved in launching a new venture), it is possible to find out-of-the-box technology that used to cost 5 to 10 times as much just a few years ago, including back-end database integration, transaction processing, dynamic Web page generation, user tracking and Web usage statistics, shopping cart creation, cross-selling and up-selling products and services, etc.
The action steps and checklists are also helpful, particularly since I tend to procrastinate. At least this book helped me to understand what kinds of things I need to think about. In other words, I'm not going to quit my day job at the research lab just yet....
Customer Rating:
Summary: Very readable, with good info for entrepreneurs
Comment: This book is a great introduction to online entrepreneurship. Having been through the Internet's boom and bust period of 1995-2000, I still think there are plenty of opportunities to start a new business online, as I see all around me. This book has interesting checklists and action steps that guide you through the process of developing a workable business plan. It also has interviews with a variety of Internet entrepreneurs, including the people who built NetFlix into a DVD rental service that took on Blockbuster (of course, it remains to be seen how NetFlix will survive when Verizon and other phone companies start putting a bigger library of on-demand movies on the Web). As this book highlights, the Internet is still rewarding visionaries who harness its power of niche advertising, marketing, and distribution--look at the newly minted billionaires who started the highly addictive YouTube! YouTube caught everyone at the major media companies completely off-guard. It's amazing no one at Time Warner or Viacom had the vision to figure out a business model that primarily features people's videos. I'm very much a techie, and this book helped me to understand the marketing side of an online business. Get this book and get out there running a business! Peace.
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