What No One Ever Tells You about Starting Your Own Business

What No One Ever Tells You about Starting Your Own Business: Real-Life Start-Up Advice from 101 Successful Entrepreneurs Starting a business involves inevitable ups and downs, for first-time as well as experienced entrepreneurs. This updated, expanded edition by Jan Norman, one of the nation’s foremost small business authorities, guides readers through every stage of business […]

The Girl’s Guide to Starting Your Own Business

The Girl’s Guide to Starting Your Own Business : Candid Advice, Frank Talk, and True Stories for the Successful Entrepreneur. PR pundits and business owners Friedman and Yorio tackle the fear factor of women who want to quit their day job and build a business. They ask, “Are you the girl to run the show?” […]

Starting an Online Business For Dummies

Starting an Online Business For Dummies. You’ve heard stories about people making their fortune creating Web sites and selling merchandise on the Internet. You’ve been eager to jump right in and take a shot at striking it rich but you’re not quite sure how to get started or if you’re business-minded and tech-savvy enough to […]

Selling Online

Selling Online: How to Become a Successful E-Commerce Merchant. Whether your organization is large or small, Selling Online is a perfect resource for any employee or entrepreneur interested in building a successful, profitable, and sustainable online retail business. In Selling Online, Carroll and Broadhead discuss what makes an online business fail or triumph. From the […]

Which Is Best?

The key here is “which is best for you” with the emphasis on YOU. I often see posts from people asking, “Which is the best FTP program?” or “Which is the best shopping cart?” or “Which is the best web design program?”, etc. There are a lot of each of these (and many others) to […]

Where Do I Begin?

(We borrowed this and made slight modifications, with permission, from a commercial website. It seemed to exactly suit the mission of the OSA.) This is probably our most asked question, and not to be “smart” about it, let me quote Charles Dodgeson from his very popular book, Alice in Wonderland: “Begin at the beginning… then […]

What Will You Find On This Site

This site has several key sections. Each of these sections will provide you with information of one sort or another. You should familiarize yourself with this entire site as you progress with your learning. Each section will be important to you. 1. Your Member Account Page This is the area that lists your personal information […]

Four Important Factors To Get You Started

Getting started with your online business can get a little complex. Sometimes there seems to be just too much to do. There’s legal considerations and accounting and finding suppliers and choosing a selling site and… well, you get the idea. There’s a lot of stuff to consider. That’s what the Online Selling Association is all […]