Review of Homestead StoreFronts for ecommerce merchants

[mandy]

Homestead StoreFronts
Homestead offers a full-featured ecommerce-hosting solution that integrates with eBay and PayPal. Homestead StoreFronts offer three plans, Enhanced ($24.99/month), Professional ($59.99/month) and Enterprise ($229.99/month). All three options allow you to add an unlimited number of items to your product catalog, though there are limits in storage space. You can copy your existing eBay Store styles to your Homestead Storefront website. And, as with the webhosting offerings, you can pay Homestead to design your site for you.

Homestead StoreFronts, unlike the eBay ProStores platform on which it is based, charges no commission fees. You can see the three Storefront plans online:
http://www.homestead.com/~site/hslo/pack...ont.ffhtml

Marketing
If you build it, will they come? Having your own website requires a proactive approach to marketing - you can't sit back and wait for visitors to come to you, as you do with eBay listings. Some common ways to drive traffic to your site are through email marketing, search engine optimization (natural search), and paid search...

full article: http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abu/y207...bu0184/s03

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