Saturday, December 1, 2012

Building Your Store

Fresh Store Builder Does Everything For You

Once you have chosen your niche, building your store is easy.  Just follow these steps:
  1. Buy a domain name.
    • If this is your first site, simply utilize the free domain you get when buying a Bluehost hosting account.  This will simplify matters as you do not have to point your domain to your hosting.
    • If you buy a domain name from Godaddy, you need to change the nameservers so that it points to your Bluehost account.  This is easy.  In Godaddy, click on account, go to your domain, find the option that allows you to change the nameservers and change them to: 
    • ns1.BlueHost.com
      ns2.BlueHost.com
  2. Buy hosting.
    • Bluehost is the best all-around host; you can't go wrong with it.  Buy the cheapest hosting plan, $4.95 a month.  
  3. Purchase Fresh Store Builder.
    • The Fresh Store Builder site has instructions on installing the Builder on your site.  The quick-and-dirty is that you download the Builder file, upload it into the File Manager of your site (found in the control panel when you log into Bluehost), and then unzip the file.
  4. Build your site.
    • Once you have installed Fresh Store Builder, go to your site's URL and follow the instructions. Use the Quick Setup process to make categories and populate your site with Amazon products.  This should only take you an hour or two, after which your site will be ready for customers.