E Commerce for beginners who have their niche.

Get hosting with HostGator install ZenCart through Fantastico and start building your store! You will also need to setup Payment processing and such. After you do those things you can start building deep backlinks to your site, submitting press releases, and doing PPC and such if you want.

If you really want to buy a course you can check out Steve & Tim's IMA Membership Program (no AFF link!)

These guys are the real deal and they teach good steps for building niche ecommerce sites. As far as I am concerned it's the best in the business!

cheers what does ppc mean?

oh and thanks for the link ill take a look now.

PPC=pay per click..... advertising on networks such as google adwords

ist that steve and tim thing focused on eccommerce?

if you are planning to setup an ecommerce store and sell multiple products you can use 2checkout's shopping cart to set them up along with the order processing system. However if you are selling single products then 2checkout is also cool as it will allow you to setup your shipping costs and lot more details to send physical packages that you can then submit to your drop shipping company.

To setup this kind of site you will need a technical guy if you are not technically savvy, so if you have some money you can hire one at elance or freelancer rather learning all by yourself which might take you a long time.

About marketing you need to first test out the conversion of everything that you are setting up. The best model to use will be to go with building leads and then selling your products. For that you will have to setup a squeeze page and test its conversion rate and then test the conversions of all your products based on the traffic source.

Best free internet marketing strategies you can use are article marketing and forum posting. However these are bit slow so you will have to do them in volume to see some decent traffic flowing in. Also seo can be a good option by building content on your site and getting links to your site using article marketing. Joint venture is a cool thing to do as it will instantly help you to get flood of visitors overnight if you get a good JV partner.

Paid tactics includes solo ad mailing, pay per click advertising, banner advertising, etc. But for that make sure that you track your cost per lead and then see how much your subscriber makes you every month. As a rule of thumb you should get one subscriber in your funnel for $1 and then strive to make atleast $1 per month per subscriber.

Hope this helps...:confused: