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Hello World~My name is Donna aka Beadseller.Iover $4,000. I didn't even see the damages as I was
started browsing the internet with my service provider,taken by ambulance to the hospital.I am still undergoing
Prodigy... about 10 or so years ago... no...not before thetreatment and under my doctor's care. I don't think that
dinosaurs roamed the earth! *geez*Back then, themy neck will ever be the same. My right shoulder still
internet was limited in what it had to offer. I would alsohurts. I require an operation on my right knee. Fifty now
like to mention that every page opened instantly. I usedfeels more like seventy!The accident put a halt to
the internet as a venue for research. I still use it forwebsite work. I couldn't sit for very long without
research, but more for shopping and selling.Hey! Don'tsevere pain. My lower back and neck were hurting all
laugh... I had an Adam Computer too! *humpf*In midthe time. I would wake up at times with very little
January 2005, I found Overstock... not by chance mindfeeling in my arms or legs. I was not fairing well at all!In
you. A dear friend of mine had tried for months to talkmid July, I once again returned to working diligently on
me into trying Overstock. Beadwitched. Was I beingthe site. I was determined to get it up and running
stubborn? Naaa...I had a store on eBay and wanted tobefore August 1st.NOTE: Determination does not
finish out the month before I took the leap... besides,necessarily mean one is going to accomplish what one
eBay's fees were on the rise and I was on the run.It'ssets out to accomplish!I still needed to install a shopping
January.... I would love to say that I sell more than I buy,cart. I chose Paypal. This required more reading and
however, that doesn't seem to be the case. So there Imore research... some more reading and research...
was, sitting on over $20,000 worth of beads andsome crying... and more reading and more crying and
beading supplies selling them at about $2 per pack onmore research... The word PAL in Paypal has nothing
Overstock... not taking into consideration the listing feesto do with the setting up of its shopping cart! I was
or the paypal fees....making about 20 cents per pack.becoming more and more frustrated... but again.... I
WOW.... Talk about a get rich quick scheme!I startedforged ahead.After much deliberation and many failed
listing even more... still not adjusting my prices... that wasattempts.... I finally weeded through the poorly written
what people wanted to pay... so either make the nickelinstructions and managed to get the cart to work... on
or not.... January reaped just over $500 in sales...ONE item. WOW.... only about 1,000 more to go! *HA*
February jumped to $1,500... March jumped evenAfter reading and researching this phenomena, I
further... $2,400... April hit an all time $3K in sales....Then Irealized that I had used the wrong cart set up and
joined the buySAFE bonding service. I thought thatsomehow managed to hook up over 100 items in
since I had so many valued customers, I would returnmuch the same fashion. WRONG!So... after crying
some of that value to them and bond my products.some more and relieving my scalp of a few swatches
Fortunately.... the service was free through Septemberof hair, I once again forged ahead. I re-programmed all
2005. But it did NOTHING... absolutely NOTHING for myof the wrong items with what I hoped was the
sales!In reality... my sales plummeted! By the end ofcorrected shopping cart programming.ALAS! Low and
May... I felt doomed! I picked up two new customers....behold... they were working! WOOOOO HOOOOO!
and heard barely a dribble from the rest.... my sales forHalleluia...Halleluia...Halleluia...Halleluia...Hall...
May were a whopping $382! Where did all myleeee...eeee...eeee...Luuuu...ia~
customers go?!?!? What was I doing wrong?!?!?WithThank you... please... don't applaud... what I really need
all this in mind... back in March of this year, I decided toyou to do is THROW MONEY!Now I was cruising...
give my own ecommerce site a try. Don't get mehooking up each and every individual item to this
wrong... at first I thought it was merely a pipe dream.shopping cart contraption... MY PAL... my buddy... my
After all.... I paid for three years of webhosting back inGOD! I sent out my mass mailing to almost 350 of my
March and it took until the middle of August to finallyregular customers announcing the GRAND OPENING
have a website up and running!In February, 2005, IOF... BEADSELLER on August 18, 2005. FREE
started out with shopping around to find the leastSHIPPING offered to the first 10 completed orders!I
expensive hosting site. Alas, I found Ace-host.net withpicked this particular day to open because first... it was
5,000 MB of Disk Space, 50 GB Monthly Bandwidth,the soonest I could get the site done... and second... it
(which has been expanded to 100 GB), Unlimitedhappened to be my son's 29th birthday and I wanted
MySQL Databases, eMail Accounts, FTP Accounts,the date to be something I would remember.Here I am
Sub-Domains, and a Static IP Address included. All foropen for business... sitting at my computer... email open...
only $139.50 for three years.If you asked me to explainsitting... watching... sitting... watching.... watching... sitting...
the above, all I would say is, I haven't a clue what anyNOTHING.Three days go by.... still...NOTHING. I feel a
of that really means, but I can tell you that my sitedistinctive sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach... or
never crashes. *laughing*Next came the HTML HELL.maybe this feeling came from the fact that I had not
The last time I actually wrote any HTML was about 8moved from my chair in three days! Finally... on the
years ago, when HTML was just that.... HTML. Nothingfourth day... a sale!!! I might add... the shipping on this sale
fancy. Actually, it was pretty easy to learn. I was selfcost me almost as much as what was purchased!
taught then but the book was ohhhhhh so much thinnerWell... not making money is why I do this right?
than the newer models!So, I read and researched and*HA*Day Five... still NOTHING... then it occurs to me...
read and researched and read some more. I didn't gethmm... maybe I should review my html and see
very far when I decided to see just what havingwhether I bothered to enter any keywords and meta
someone else create this monster would cost!stuff.... NOTHING... *waaaaaa*So... I start researching
Needless to say, I proceeded again with reading andagain... and reading...researching and reading again...
researching and alas....learning everything I could to findwhich brings me to this blog... Top Ten What? Web
a way to produce my own site.Well...If you haven'tSite Submission....There are very few places that allow
looked...my site is BEADSELLER. I purchased ayou to submit your website for FREE! One place I did
template for $49 and proceeded from there. What Imanage to find was SUBMIT EXPRESS. Keep in
didn't know when I purchased the template was that itmind...it is VERY TRUE that NOTHING is FREE! But at
was not written in language compatible with my host.least their required link was not nearly as unsightly as
So, I managed to extract what I could from it, mainlysome!One of the things I have been reading about and
the pretty pink bars, and forged ahead with creatingfound to be VERY TRUE.... unless you pay for the
my store.Creating a webstore really wasn't that bad...service to submit your site... don't expect to have much
NOT!!! It was a NIGHTMARE! But again... I forgedtraffic! Which in turn means... yet another NOT RICH
ahead. Sometime in late March I realized that I had farQUICK scheme!Yahoo will let you submit an url for
more products than I really wanted considering thatfree... but to be listed in their directory... if I remember
each product had to have its own product number andcorrectly... a mere $299 a year.... WOW... only $299 a
be listed individually.Needless to say, prior to thisyear?!?!?!? Even MSN let me submit my site for FREE!
endeavor I had considered expanding on my productAnd being penny poor..... who needs to pay for the
line, but reconsidered. Looking at the walls of drawersmisery of increasing one's sales!?!? If I had the
of beads, I should probably try to sell what I havemoney....if I won the lottery... if I were independently
before I drive myself out of shop/office andwealthy.... ifa.... woulda.... coulda... *UGHHHH*Not all is lost
HOME!Speaking of Late March.... Well... after workingthough.One of the most interesting and fun things I
with the same attorney for 7 years... she called me intohappened upon were WebRings. WOW... these are
her office to say that things were just not working out.fantastic resources. You see... after all the reading and
WHAT?!? What does that mean???? How could itresearch... everyone selling the website submission
possibly take someone SEVEN YEARS to decideservice tells you that the more places you are linked
that THINGS ARE JUST NOT WORKING OUT?!?!?to, the more you move up in rank. Well.... while
You would think that if things were JUST NOTreviewing all of the webrings.... I forgot the rank issue
WORKING OUT... that would have happened say...and became extremely interested in the fact that
WEEK ONE!This could not have happened at a worsethere are literally a gillion WebRings! I was amazed
time! I had just taken out a mortgage on my home twowith all of the RINGS that actually revolved around
months before so I could purchase beads and beadingwhat I sell and what I love.... BEADS and ARTISAN
supplies! The beads and beading supplies were andJEWELRY! WOOO HOOO!So... even if I don't sell
are still sitting here staring at me!Back to the store... so...much... I have found that there are literally thousands of
I worked diligently, day and night trying to create myothers out there in cyberspace who have huge
webstore. I would complete umteen pages and thenshoulders available to cry upon. Gotta love those
notice that I didn't correct the font color on thewebring heroes and heroins!Well... that's quite enough
previous 10 or so pages. So... edit...edit...edit....Then whilefor now.... if you should be reading this and happen to
on my way to a special employment seminar, June 2,buy beads and beading supplies.... give me a try.
2005, some crazy driver plowed into the side of myBeadseller... That's me!Hi~ I'm Donna aka Beadseller~ I
car, 2002 Hyundai Elantra. I was sitting in thehave been working with beads and jewelry making
passenger seat that fateful day and she hit directlysupplies for nearly 20 years. It took me that long to
behind my seat and continued until she managed tofinally open my own ecommerce store. In my free
take out the rear axle.What was she thinking??? Ortime I like to write about some of the things I have
better still... what was she on??? Three days later,learned since opening my store. Hope you enjoy my
GEICO completed the estimate of damages totalingschpeal on Search Engines.