Find an e-commerce provider that offers a free-trial period (here’s one you might want to use (http://www.bigcommerce.com/ (Links to an external site.)). I recommend finding one that doesn’t require you give out your credit card or other financial information.
Using your free trial create a sample e-commerce store.
shopping cart and laptop
Tailor the appearance of your site to reflect the products that you are selling. That means that you need to decide on something for your fictional business to sell. Don’t spend a whole lot of time deciding on what to sell. That’s not the focus of this project.
Note that I do not expect your website to look perfect considering the short period of time allocated for this assignment.
You are not required to set up a payment system.
Finally, be sure to put your first and last name somewhere visible on the home page so that I can confirm that it’s your website.
1) Give give the URL of your website so that I can view your website.
2) What are the Internet sales tax laws? Are you required to pay sales taxes to the government on behalf of your customers? If so, then under what circumstances are you required to? You may have to search the Internet for the answer to this.
3) There are several different ways of marketing your site. Pick four marketing tools and describe how each of those could help your business (minimum 100 words total). You may have to search the Internet for the answer to this.
4) Explain one or more ways in which you might use the material that you’ve learned in this course in your personal and professional life.
Include the question(s), fully written out, in your submission. Assignments not submitted in accordance with instructions are subject to penalty.
