| Here is my story about my home based business | | | | that there is lots of free information out there on |
| that I run. I have a website that sells over 1000 | | | | the web so you can type in any question on the |
| hot sauce products. Every thing from hot sauce | | | | internet and get an answer. |
| to bloody mary mix. I enjoy doing it and make | | | | My site does pretty good as far as visitors, I get |
| some money in the process. I have been doing | | | | around 100 visitors per day. The hard part is |
| this for about 5 years now. | | | | converting them to customers. I try offering |
| One of the first things I had to do was to build a | | | | many different things like free shipping $70 or |
| website and find a drop shipper so I would not | | | | more and also a 10% discount on their orders. |
| have to carry any products somewhere in a | | | | One of my main problems is with UPS shipping |
| large building. Getting a drop shipper was fairly | | | | since most of the products weigh around 5 |
| easy. Building the website was more difficult and | | | | ounces UPS starts at 1 pound and goes up from |
| to this day I am still making tweaks to my site | | | | there. I do not charge any extra for shipping, so |
| to improve it. The good thing is that my only | | | | no extra profit there. I would like to get more |
| costs are the wholesale prices of the product and | | | | visitors and break the 200 mark. Getting high |
| the hosting fee for my site. | | | | ranking is very difficult and takes some daily |
| I was lucky because I had a background in | | | | work. |
| computers where I use to work for a computer | | | | One thing is I will not give up and quit. I heard |
| company. However my main background was in | | | | somewhere to keep going and never quit. |
| hardware and not software, so learning how to | | | | Anyway I like what I am doing and someday will |
| build a site was quite a challenge. The good thing is | | | | make enough to quit my regular job. |