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Ok, Yahoo Store owners for those of you who are just signing up you have a huge selection of great templates to choose from to make your design experience very pleasant and enjoyable. However, in my case just starting off years ago the templates that Yahoo provided were not very easy to use or in my opinion appealing to the eye. So I was faced with either hiring a designer or learning how to use the very complicated “looking” rhtml. I had the very unfortunate experience of hiring several designers with a made up portfolio when I first started out and boy was that a painful experience. I spent a lot of money and was never quite satisfied with the overall work that was done for me. So I finally figured out that I would teach myself how to design my own store so that I could add anything I wanted at anytime. That has finally made my owning a online store quite enjoyable…

When I look at e-commerce stores overall I am pretty amazed at the simple design features that are either absent or designed incorrectly. You must always create a store environment that is easy for your customer to order from of course due to the fact that you have less than 30 seconds to grab them in most cases.

I learned from my experience that the designers I hired were more interested in what they thought “looked” good rather then what would actually make me money! So I will discuss a little later how to self teach yourself some simple rhtml that will and should make your online experience much more enjoyable!!

I happen to be a proud card carrying member of the Yahoo Store Owner’s Club. I currently own three which have all been very easy to upkeep and operate for the last few years. I believe that it is the best way for brand new store owners to venture into the world of e-commerce with little to no risk. What I mean by that is I see a lot of people who are brand new to e-commerce just jump in with $5,000 to $40,000  stores being built and don’t quite know the ins and outs of the dot com world. With Yahoo Stores you can do a little bit of experimenting to see if this particular store or industry is right for you before you decide to invest thousands of dollars.

Take a look at the Yahoo Store Merchant Program  and read each e-commerce store choice which you will see that there are three types. I have two of my stores on the Yahoo Merchant Starter Platform and one on the Yahoo Merchant Standard Platform the difference for me is the fee that Yahoo applies for each and that the Standard Platform allow you to create gift certificates when the Starter packages does not. Whatever your choice you will see that all platforms are easy to set up and quickly populate with inventory.

In my next post I will walk you through setting up and maintaining your Yahoo Store..

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