This is a simple guide on how to make $300,000 online in 6 months.
Before we start, note that this requires a rich investment. Low or little investment can bring a huge loss.

Determining your brand

Before is start the chit talk, let me tell you what all this about.
eCommerce has always being a target and an income stream for entrepreneurs, just see it as opening up a shop and selling something but it's more than that, since you can sell to anyone worldwide without having a physical shop.

Firstly, before going into eCommerce, you have to determine your brand ( what you wanna sell) fashion items or other products or maybe eBooks or downloadable products. But here, were talking about making good money so we'll only talk about fashion items.

How you get your products

This step is the most crucial as it determines your profits and time it'll take to hit large.
You might sell already made items like buying from a market at cheap price and selling at a higher price to make profit

Or you might want to sell your own branded products or handmade items. Selling your own branded products means any item you sell to a buyer is an original unlike buying a Nike item in a local market to sell. It also builds customers trust.

You can do dropshipping; This is a type of sale in which you don't have the product but have someone who has it for sale. When the item is being ordered, you only have to buy it from the vendor and ship it to your customer.
Note: This method is advised only to use for expensive items or items if scratch, buyers may have no interest. For a healthy profit and good sales, you should only add a maximum of 50% of the original price. But when you sell your own items or items you bought, you can sell up to 500% of the original price.

Getting a carrier
Looking for a reliable carrier might be very hectic
We recommend FedEx but feel free to choose your choice

Setting up your store
This is the point where you have to invest a lot.
You might have good products in good prices to sell but if your customers find your store being unfriendly, you'll loose greatly.

Getting a good developer might be challenging, but don't worry (Solochuks9@gmail.com get a website with awesome features and only pay after you see a sample)
Choose a color for the layout of your site usually 3 colors; Many people may not like a very bright color as it may affect their vision i recommend Yellow, White a solid color not too girlish.

Determine the layout of your store; maybe you want banners and slider with few products at the front, and the rest at the product page.

Advertising
Advertising also determines whether you'll make it in a long term or not.
There a many ways to advertise out there. If you have a high budget, you can go into adsense but for a normal budget, you can advertise on Facebook and on blogs.

Creating a network
This might be a hard at the start, but it'll get easier as you start your journey.
You can build people around your business from affiliate programs to promotions. It just requires a basic knowledge.

eCommerce might be very tricky at first but it'll get simpler and better when you go through it.

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I'll be dropping more updates and tips for successful eCommerce business.
Reply if you have a question or need assistance.

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Selecting an e-commerce platform. Shopify vs Magento
For a better eCommerce results, you have to choose an eCommerce platform that can give you all you require to run your store.


Selecting the most suitable ecommerce platform for
creating, managing and maintaining an online store is of a critical importance, as it can be the factor responsible for either success or failure for your business. This is particularly important for a small business since it has to make do with limited resources and budgets.
As someone planning to create an online store or migrate your current store to another platform in the near future, you might be considering your options. Shopify and
Magento Community Edition (aka Magento) are two widely acclaimed and used ecommerce store creation and management platforms today. There are, however, some huge fundamental differences between these platforms that you should be well aware of before making a comparative evaluation of the two:

Shopify is a commercial product (that you need to pay for) while Magento Community is a free, open-source software
Shopify is a hosted solution (where your store is hosted by them) while Magento requires that you provide your own hosting, install, setup and configure everything before you can actually start creating your store – something requiring medium to high level of web development and programming skills.
With these two important difference in mind, here is a head-to-head comparison between the two platforms:
Features:
Basic online store functionality – both Shopify and Magento offer basic store functionalities that are fairly powerful to use and maintain on an ongoing basis. Shopify can be said to be significantly easier to setup and use as compared to Magento.
Inventory management – the Shopify Starter plan ($14/mo) restricts you to a maximum of 25 store items while Magento Community offers a virtually unlimited number of items. All other Shopify plans allow an unlimited number of items to be added to and sold via your store. It should be noted here though, that while Magento allows a virtually unlimited number of products, your host (server) performance and site loading speed might turn out to be serious issues if you add too many products on your Magento store – something you don't have to worry about with Shopify, since it is a fully managed and hosted solution.

Calculation of shipping charges – both platforms allow flexible and powerful options for calculation of shipping charges which is one of the most basic and essential aspects of selling physical goods via an ecommerce storefront.
Provision for coupons and discount codes – Shopify, a bit of an underdog here, does not offer this feature on their starter plan while it is available on all other plans. Magento allows discount code creation and calculation functionalities.
Payment gateway options – Shopify has a major edge here, with support for 70 payment gateways while Magento Community is relatively at a disadvantage with support for a far lower number of gateways. More gateways, however, can be added to Magento store via third-party add-ons.

Themes and Templates – both Shopify and Magento Community offer a large collection of themes and templates to give your online store a look and feel to suit your products and taste. While the number of free themes provided by Shopify is significantly smaller than that of Magento Community, it can be noted that the free Shopify themes are generally more contemporary as compared to the themes offered by Magento Community.
Both offer paid/premium themes but here, Shopify is at a great disadvantage, with premium themes starting at $80, while Magento paid themes start at – an almost unbelievable – $1!

In keeping with today's must-have requirement of responsive website design (a design that works well across a range of commonly used devices with which people get online), both Shopify and Magento Community offer a good number of responsive templates, free as well as paid.
Apps and Add-ons – well over 100 apps and add-ons are available for Shopify using which you can enhance and expand the functionality of your online store in various ways. Magento, again, is at a strong advantage here, with a whooping 5000+ apps and add-ons, owing, no doubt, to the open source, community driven nature of the platform. A mix of free as well as paid apps/add-ons is available for both platforms.

Multi-lingual capabilities – Shopify does not offer full multi-lingual capabilities directly. For creating fully multi-lingual stores, third-party/paid apps are available for Shopify. Another option available at Shopify is to custom code your theme/templates with a simple as well as an advanced level interface. Magento is again at an advantage here, with more in-built multi-lingual support.
SEO capabilities – both platforms offer extensive SEO capabilities in order to help you drive more organic traffic to your store via search engines, scoring almost neck-to-neck on powerful SEO features and benefits, as extensively described in this article: Choosing the best ecommerce platform for SEO capabilities.

Customization capabilities – both platforms offer robust customization capabilities, via an advanced interface that allows you to edit the raw HTML/CSS code directly to give you total control over the design and the look-and-feel of your store. However, as mentioned above, Shopify scores better here by providing a simple, menu driven method to change the basic attributes of your store such as fonts, colors etc. very easily while with the customization capabilities with Magento are as high as it can get because all its code is open source, any of which you can modify in any way you wish to. Albeit, this unrestricted freedom to customize can be used only by those who have deeply entrenched web programming and HTML/CSS coding know-how.
Blogging functionality – easy blogging functionality is available as an integrated feature at Shopify while this can be achieved with Magento using a (free) plug-in.

Ease of use:
As mentioned earlier in this review, Shopify and Magento Community are both fairly powerful ecommerce store building platforms. Both come with a user interface that is well-designed and thought-out, making it fairly easy for any user to get up and running with an online store.
Having said that, it should be noted that Shopify has a wizard mode that allows even novice users to setup their stores very easily while Magento Community is lacking in this feature.
Also, since Magento is not a hosted solution, procuring your own hosting and setting up your store with it are processes that typical end-users would not find easy or convenient to do on their own.

Costs:
Setup fees – Shopify does not charge any setup fees. In fact, they offer a 14-day free trial with which you can test and evaluate the functionality and features offered by their ecommerce hosting platform. With Magento, the question of setup fees simply does not arise since it is totally free to use. (You'll need to procure – and pay for – your own hosting though, as discussed below.)

Monthly fees – Shopify offers four different plans with monthly fees ranging from $14 to $179 as follows:
Lite Plan : $ 9
Basic Shopify Plan : $ 29
Shopify Plan : $79
Advanced Shopify Plan : $299

With Magento, you'll have to provide your own hosting, which is available at monthly costs ranging anywhere from $5 to 100s of dollars.
BlueHost is a reliable, popular and powerful ecommerce hosting provider where you can purchase hosting for your Magento store very inexpensively.
Bandwidth charges – Shopify does not charge any bandwidth usage fees on any of their plans. With Magento Community, this will depend on the hosting provider that you have used for hosting your store.
Transaction fees – Shopify does not charge any additional transaction fees if their own payment gateway is used. If using any other gateway or method (such as COD), their transaction fee structure is as follows:

Lite Plan ($9/mo.) : 2%
Basic Shopify Plan ($29/mo.) : 2%
Shopify Plan ($79/mo.) : 1%
Advanced Shopify Plan ($299/mo.) : 0.5%

With Magento Community Edition, no transaction fees are charged other than the gateway provider’s fees (which vary from gateway to gateway). These fees would, naturally, be applicable for Shopify as well.
Theme/Template prices – both platform offer a good number of free as well as paid themes, with Shopify and Magento premium theme prices starting at $80 and $1 respectively.

Conclusion:
While both Shopify and Magento Community are fairly powerful ecommerce hosting platforms, Shopify provides greater ease of use since it is a hosted and fully managed service.
Magento, while free itself, requires you to purchase hosting and carry out all the software/system setup and installation procedures yourself – something that only fairly tech-savvy people (and not typical end-users) would be able to do.
In light of this as well as some of the points discussed above, Shopify comes out a winner as an ecommerce platform for building your online store with maximum ease of use and powerful capabilities.