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When starting an online store, one thing matters more than anything else to get your first sale: your marketing.
That’s right. How you choose to market your store completely determines how much money you’ll make.
Get it right, and you’ll watch the sales start to roll in. Get it wrong and you’ll just have a very time-consuming hobby on your hands.
In this post, we’ll show you how to create an online store today, and how to get your first customers to show up.
How to Start an Online Store
There are six steps to marketing, building, and optimizing your online store:
Pick your marketing strategyFind the right product nichePick a name for your brandCreate your online storeDo a 60-day marketing burstBuild your marketing flywheel
The sooner you start, the sooner you can pick up on the trends that really matter to your market.
Step 1: Pick Your Marketing Strategy
A good marketing strategy should be the bedrock for your online store. It should go before anything else.
In fact, ignore everything else for now.
(We’ll get to how to set up online store stuff soon — I promise.)
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