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I'm planning to open a online shop and I was rhibking about using Tictail, but after your las ask I having doubts... Why do you think other site would be better? Which are the differences? Thanks!

To be perfectly fair, Tictail is still a great platform to sell your wares if you’re just starting out and have a very small inventory. Their $9/month subscription for a custom storefront is pennies compared to some other platforms, and their 10% commission fee via their marketplace is manageable if your income from your store is relatively low. 

Unfortunately I have a pretty large inventory and my income from my online shop can be higher than average depending on what new things i’m selling, therefore the 10% commission fee can stack up and negatively impact my finances. For example, a $30 transaction will take $3, effectively taking away my cheapest shipping option of $3, forcing me to pay shipping out of my own pocket. Plus the ways TT force customers to use the marketplace instead of the seller’s custom storefront without their knowledge is really shady to me and i just don’t like it. 

Other store options include Storenvy, Bigcartel, and etsy. Storenvy doesn’t have a subscription for their service however there is a small commission fee. I haven’t used storenvy in ages but i heard that the customers are the ones that have to pay the fee? According to sources, bigcartel is completely free if your inventory is no larger than 5 items. Etsy is a good place to sell your stuff if you’d like to reach wide spread traffic. My friend LN exclusively uses etsy and she swears by it. There is a commission fee of 3% per transaction but that is much more manageable than 10. 

But because i’m less concerned about having a “marketplace” shop (like etsy where you can type in keywords to find all items in the entire community related to it) i have been looking toward the more professional storefront services such as Shopify, and weebly and squarespace’s business platforms. Those services cost anywhere between $12 to $100 per month but the price is determined by what kind of plan best suits your business. Usually these professional platforms are extremely customizable and provides services such as automatic shipping calculations and discounts. 

but in the end, you should do your own research and see which service best suits your interests. If you’re new to this and just want to start out small, look for a place that best benefits your level of income. My advice is, if your income is stable and lower than $500 a month or less than $30 per transaction, go with a platform that has a percentage based payment plan. 

I hoped that helped in a way? Sorry that this turned into such a long post LOL anyway good luck and happy selling! 

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School’s out and suddenly your days are free! You now have time to start your own website, but where will you begin?

Decide what will be on your website: Is it a blog? A business? Why will people come to look at your website? Then you can create your own logo, and decide what it’s going to look like.

Coding: After you’ve decided what you want it to look like, you can start coding. JSFiddle is a great website where you can save and test your code for free, and collaborate with others. Use HTML first to create a basic site then style and animate with CSS.

Host your website: Once you’ve tested your code, and you can’t find any bugs, use GitHub, or another service, to host your website. When you’ve hosted your website anyone in the world can find it on the internet using your web address.

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Excerpts from "Secrets of the Millionaire Mind" By T. Harv Eker

Money Miracles will occur once you demonstrate to the Universe that you can handle your finances properly.

A couple of the basics:

Open a seperate account and designate it as your Financial Freedom Account. Put 10% of every dollar you receive (after taxes) into this fund.

This money is only to be used for investments and buying creative passive-income streams.

In addition to opening a Financial Freedom bank account, Create a Financial Freedom jar in your home and deposit money into it every day. It could be $10, $5, $1, a single penny, or all your loose change. The amount doesn’t matter, the habit does. The secret again is to place daily “attention” on your objective of becoming financially free. Like attracts like, money attracts more money.

One of the biggest secrets to managing money is balance. On one side, you want to save as much money as possible so you can invest it and make more money. On the other side, you need to put another 10 percent of your income into a “play” account.

Your play account is primarily used to nurture yourself - to do the things you wouldn’t normally do.

The play account rule is that it must be spent every month. That’s right! Each month you have to blow all the money in that account in a way that makes you feel rich.

10 percent into Long-term Savings and Spending.

10 percent into your Education Account.

50 percent into your Neccessities Account.

10 percent into your Give Account.

Again, poor people think it’s all about income; they believe you have to earn a fortune to get rich. Again, that’s male-cow manure! The fact is that if you manage your money following this program, you can become financially free on a relatively small income. If you mismanage your money, you can’t become financially free, even on a huge income…because it’s not about what comes in, it’s about what you do with what comes in.