3xp Web is an ecommerce solution that provides products, services and tools to set up your own online store.

I've heard the figure that if a stay-at-home mom could make just an additional $300 a month, it would keep many families out of bankruptcy. It's usually not a huge amount of money that people are short. It just adds up month after month.

Many moms with young children cannot pay for child care and still make enough money part-time to make it worth her time. Starting an online business is a way for moms to work on their own time and still own a business.

The Internet makes it possible for people to own their own store without all of the high up-front costs of a physical store. It also makes money even when you're not doing any work.

Consider the benefits of a 3xpWeb online store...

1. You don't need to find a location, sign a lease or build out a space.
2. You don't need to hire employees to be there that you must pay even when you're not making any sales.
3. You can sell anytime day or night on holidays and weekends. You don't have to be there. Orders are processed and come to you so you only have to do the work when you get an order. On downloadable products the customer can serve themselves.
4. No inventory (products) needed. You don't ever have to invest in inventory or store it. 3xp helps you find other people's products to sell.
   
5. No need to handle returns or customer complaints. The partner companies take care of customer service and returns for your sales.

There's a lot to learn about running your own online store, but it's much lower risk than starting other types of businesses. Below I'll give 4 tips to starting and marketing your own 3xp web solutions online store.

The first 3XPWeb tip is to find products to sell. This is usually the first hurdle - you can have a store, but you have to have something in the store. Sure you can make things, but then you're the manufacturerer and the retailer.

3XPWeb helps you leverage other people's products. Online merchants give you rights to use their pictures and products in your store. Then they pay you based on what sells. You usually get a percentage of the sales price.

They have the products you sell them. These might be products they can buy and download onto their computer (like an ebook) or actual products that the merchant sends to the customer. Either way you don't have to pay for the products to get things to sell.

The second 3XPWeb tip is to get a web site. This is another big hurdle that new online retailers face - they need a web site. It can be tough to get a web site built and designed for a decent price and many people lack the expertise to work with someone to get this done.

Most people don't know how to design a web site, let alone set it up with a shopping cart and secure log in. Your site needs to be able to take credit cards. All of this takes technical expertise and you've got to go to different places to get it. The costs can get very high. Then there's the challenge of getting all of the pieces integrated and working together.

We have this in one place and you pay one vendor, not many different ones.

3XPWeb Tip #3 is to market your web site.

You have an ecommerce web site, now you need to market that site. Your store is just one among millions. You need to be sure its found amongst the competition. If you build it they will NOT come - unless you set it up correctly.

3XPWeb helps in all of these aspects.

There are many more things to know about starting an online store. It can be intimidating. I'm not going to say it's not work - but it helps to have people to walk you through each step.

Hopefully these tips - that can apply to anyone who wants to start an online store - help you want to get started. You have an advantage to being online now because if you set it up right, the longer you're online the more people will find your web site.