Design and Launch an Online Travel Business in a Week

WWW.(Your Online Travel Business).COM

Love travel? Do you enjoy discovering new adventures, finding the best deals, and making plans? Would you like to work with people around the world from the comfort of home?

In the trillion-dollar, worldwide travel and tourism industry, it's easier than ever to tap into your enthusiasm for travel and turn it into your next paycheck. In just one week, discover how to establish your business, create an attractive and functional website, master online marketing tools, partner with qualified providers, and more!

• Design an attractive, multi-functional website using inexpensive, turnkey solutions that require no programming knowledge
• Tap into the newest travel trends, and choose your specialty and services
• Set policies and procedures that satisfy your and your clients' needs
• Use easy, automated solutions that work 24/7 to handle requests and payments
• Drive traffic using search engine optimization, social marketing, and other online marketing techniques
• Boost profits by expanding your offerings

Say Aloha, Bonjour, Hola to your new business!

• CREATE A WEB BUSINESS IN A WEEK:
  

• TURNKEY SOLUTIONS TO HELP FAST TRACK ANY ONLINE BUSINESS

• Irvine, Ca--Pushed by today's tough economy, many former nine to fivers are embracing their inner entrepreneurs and searching for fast ways to start something new.

• According to Jason R. Rich, author of Design and Launch an E-Commerce Business in a Week (June 2008, Entrepreneur Press) and Design and Launch an Online Web Design Business in a Week (May 2009, Entrepreneur Press), the quickest, and most viable, startup option is to go online.

• "If you've got an idea for a new product or service to sell, there really is no easier, faster or more cost-efficient way than starting an online business," says Rich. "There are so many turnkey solutions available that, with the right guidance, anyone with the ambition to start business, can build a fully-functioning business website, learn how to capture clients and build an online presence--all within one week and with very little startup costs."

• Rich covers the following ready-to-use solutions for aspiring online business owners:

• eBay ProStores
  

• Service provider: eBay.com
  
• Phone number: (866) 747-3229
  
• Website: prostores.com
  
• Turnkey solution pricing: $6.95 to $249.95 per month plus additional fees

• As a complete solution, ProStores provides tools to handle everything from website development to inventory management and merchandising. For people just getting started and looking to test their online business idea, the ProStores Express allows users to design a basic e-commerce website and get up and running within a few hours, providing you are selling fewer than ten products.

• For online business operators with more advanced and extensive needs, eBay offers ProStores Business, ProStores Advanced, and ProStores Enterprise, which offer different plans, online businesses can grow almost limitlessly as needed.

• GoDaddy.com's WebSite Tonight and Quick Shopping Cart
  

• Service provider: GoDaddy
  
• Website: godaddy.com
  
• Turnkey solution pricing: $9.99 to $49.99 per month plus additional fees

• In addition to being a well-established website hosting service and ISP, GoDaddy.com is also an inexpensive domain name registrar and offers a wide range of a la carte online tools for promoting and managing any type of website. For people interested in launching a business that uses an e-commerce site complete with Shopping Cart module, GoDaddy's turnkey solution is called Quick Shopping Cart.

• OSCommerce
  

• Service provider: OSCommerce
  
• Website: oscommerce.com
  
• Turnkey solution pricing: $ Free (site hosting not included)

• For those looking for extremely powerful and versatile e-commerce website that will allow you to create the most professional and highly functional online business possible, look no further than OSCommerce. Unlike the turnkey solutions described earlier, OSCommerce is downloadable software that runs on your computer. It can be used to design, publish, and maintain an e-commerce website.

• OSCommerce is not a complete turnkey solution in that it does not offer online hosting services for your online business. It does, however, provide a free collection of development tools.

• Yahoo! Stores
  

• (Yahoo! Small Business Solutions)
  
• Service provider: Yahoo!
  
• Phone number: (866) 781-9246
  
• Website: smallbusiness.yahoo.com/ecommerce/
  
• Turnkey solution pricing: $39.95 to $299.95 per month (plus additional fees)

• As a company, Yahoo! also offers a wide range of other services to internet users. For online business operators, Yahoo! offers its Small Business Services division. The services offered by this division include a robust e-commerce turnkey solution, Yahoo! Stores, as well as search engine marketing/advertising opportunities for promoting your online business.

• No matter which of the Yahoo! Stores plans you purchase, you'll be given full access to the service's Store Design tools, which allow you to design a professional looking site using a step-by-step wizard and templates that can be fully customized. Using this solution, you can sell up to 50,000 unique products and maintain your online business with the utmost of ease.

Charlene Davis is an accomplished writer specializing in business, retail, e-commerce, and food. In addition to numerous articles and ghostwritten publications, she is the author of Start Your Own Photography Business, Start Your Own Clothing Store, and How to Sell Clothing, Shoes, & Accessories on eBay.