An ecommerce store for the home entrepreneur

If you haven't tried an ecommerce site before, go and sign up for the free 10 day trial at ashop. The process is really simple, a few details and then you're given access to their administration area showing you how easy it is enter products, which can easily be categorized just like a real store.

Here are a couple of features of the ashop software that I really like, and which in my opinion the home entrepreneur could not do without. Complete inventory control in real time, integration with MYOB or Quicken, uses Google's checkout payment processor eliminating the need for a merchant account with your bank, and it also feeds your products to specialized product search engines such as froogle, BizRate or Yahoo! shopping network.

Of course there are more features, probably enough to right a book about, but these especially take the drudgery out of running an ecommerce site. You could also download one of the many free shopping carts available, but honestly, if you're running a business you need technical support if something goes wrong, and you need a system with everything built-in. As all the guru's say, pay someone else to do the hard work, I want sit on the beach.