21 Places to Sell Your Products Online

10 Easy, Hosted Storefronts and Shopping Carts

Hosted storefronts are an easy way to set-up your own Web store and a good option for small orindividual sellers who aren't quite ready to invest in a large ecommerce website. Storefronts -- amanaged service -- make it easy to create and manage a store because you don't need any HTML orprogramming skills, and you can customize the storefronts to suite your business needs.

1. BigCommerce. A storefront solution that lets you create your own Web shop -- plus you can sellon Facebook and eBay with BigCommerce. Extra features include multi-channel retailing, mobilecommerce, SEO and easy upselling.

2. E-Junkie. A shopping cart and digital delivery system for publishers who want to include buy-nowbuttons to sell digital goods. You store the files on E-Junkie's servers, and buyers receive an emailwith instructions to download the product after making a purchase.

3. GoEmerchant. Use it to build an ecommerce store, or you can purchase the Buy-Me Button planto add payment options to an existing website.

4. Mercantec E-Commerce Express. An entry-level storefront and shopping-cart service that lets yousell in a number of places including your own site and on eBay.

5. Miva Merchant offers full ecommerce hosting and just about everything you need to start anonline store - all in one package. You can upgrade accounts as your business grows.

6. Payvment. This Facebook-wide shopping cart system offers an admin area built directly intoFacebook to manage your storefront, inventory and sales. You can customize the Facebook ShoppingTab for your Facebook Business Page.

7. ProStores. An online ecommerce platform that lets you design a storefront that fully integrateswith eBay.

8. Shopify. This hosted service lets sellers accept credit card payments, use their own domain andcustomize their store design. It also features built-in analytics that helps sellers track progress.

9. TabJuice. A social commerce platform that you can use to bring products to Facebook. Thisstorefront application adds a customizable shopping tab to your Facebook Business Page.

10. Volusion. An all-in-one ecommerce solution that lets you design and manage your onlinestorefront; plus it provides tools for marketing, merchandising and CRM.

4 Online Auction Sites and General Marketplaces

11. Atomic Mall. An online marketplace that features fixed-price, make-an-offer and Web storelistings.

12. Bonanza. Sellers create booths of items (similar to a Web shop) and list products at a fixed-price. Buyers can also submit an offer to purchase.

13. Ebay. The world's largest online marketplace with more than 94 million active users. On eBayyou can list items via auction or buy-now format, and you can also manage your own eBay-hostedstorefront.

14. Etsy. An online marketplace offering Web shops for handmade and vintage items and alsosupplies for making handcrafted items.

7 Free-to-List Classified-Ad Sites

Free local classified-ad sites are a good choice for online sellers who have larger items that aredifficult to ship. Most general categories on classified sites don't charge a fee to list, but specialcategories (such as adult services) are usually fee-based. Classified-ad sites take no responsibilityfor the transactions and you deal with local customers face-to-face to complete a sale.

15. Backpage. Covers more than 400 cities and regions from the United States, Canada and Mexico.Backpage is free for posting ads; the adult entertainment and personals categories are fee-based.

16. Craigslist. Choose a location site from cities located inthe United States, Canada, Asia, Americas, Europe, andother International cities. Most classified ads on Craigslistdon't cost anything to place, but some specific sections forsome cities do carry a fee, such as job postings, brokeredapartment rentals, and adult services.

17. eBay Classifieds (Kijiji). eBay Classifieds in the UnitedStates (and Kijiji in Canada) is an eBay-owned network ofclassified sites for specific countries including the UnitedStates, Canada, China, Taiwan, Germany, India andothers.

18. Facebook Marketplace. On Facebook, Marketplace, which is operated by Oodle, helps peoplebuy and sell items in a trusted environment (e.g. within your network of friends).

19. Hoobly. Integrates a local classifieds market into a national marketplace. This lets consumerslook for general ads and then be more specific about location. Ads placed on Hoobly are free;however you may opt to place a Premium Ad, which is posted to a paid area.

20. OLX. An established online classified site available in more than 96 countries in 40 languages.Ads are free, but the site offers paid options that appear at the top of search results.

21. Oodle. Pulls millions of listings from all over the Web. Consumers can place an Oodle ad forfree, by creating an online account. When you post to Oodle, your classified ad may also be posted tohundreds of other sites.

More Tools and Tips for Online Sellers

From beginner guides to expert tips, our selection of eBay and Web shop articles can help you tobetter manage your ecommerce business.

Vangie Beal is a veteran online seller and frequent contributor to ECommerce-Guide.com. She is alsomanaging editor of Webopedia.com. You can tweet with her online @AuroraGG.

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