Two online retailers find success

[mandy]

Two Maryland online retailers — Comfort1st of Columbia and frednecks.com of Frederick — are far from being in same league as Amazon.com, but they have fashioned a growing business model built on doing most of their own online marketing.

Comfort1st.com has grown from a part-time endeavor specializing in selling razors that grossed ‘‘in the thousands” almost six years ago for partners Zack Mond and Mitchell Hyatt to a full-time corporation with 10 employees annually grossing in the millions and selling a full range of consumer goods, Mond said...

On a smaller scale is frednecks.com, which features Frederick-related T-shirts, bumper stickers, baseball caps and the like. The business is a part-time endeavor, with ‘‘revenues ... enough to cover costs and a small profit,” said founder and operator Michael Cross...

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