But nevertheless you want to be a store owner? Then the best way to start your company is to become an internet-based entrepreneur.

First sign up for a "free store." The "free stores" that we recommend as startup stores are: Cafepress.com,Free Store Club

These are excellent stores for beginners in e-commerce. Just go to their websites and sign up free. Your employees are those who sign up after you as subaffiliates or your downline. You receive a commission on your own sales and also a percentage of their sales.

Advertise for customers and for subaffiliates and downline members via classified ads, display ads, brochures, free press releases.

Cafepress.com is for those interested in custom-designing their own products, like T-shirts, mugs, stamps, and of publishing and distributing your own books, ebooks, CDs, etc.

Free Store Club is for those who want to resell products. Go to both websites and study them. Free Store Club also has an online Trading Post where you can post free flea market/yard sale type classified ads.

In addition to these "free stores," you should also sign up for your free classified ads website: adpost.com

Here you can post a free classified ad about your free store(s). You can also earn money when others buy classified ads from you.

There are many opportunities for free advertising online. Sign up for Free Advertising Exchange and Free Advertising Forum. Put "free advertising" in your search engine for other free advertising opportunities.

Set up an advertising budget for paid advertising. Don't spend more than 20% of your earnings on advertising, so that your company keeps a profit. With this 20% you can invest in paid advertising, in discount newspapers and magazines. Discount newspaper and magazine advertising can be found via online links.

If you know others interested in starting their own free stores, tell them about your free stores. You can also have a workshop for beginners in e-commerce. Tell them about your free stores in your workshop. Work with them teaching them how to advertise and market their free stores. Sign them up as subaffiliates, as members of your downline. Help them to recruit their own subaffiliates, their own downline.

If you're successful in your online business, then you can considering opening a retail store, linking to your online store. That is, you can buy wholesale products from your online Free Store Club, then resell them at your retail store.

Online "turnkey companies," like Free Store Club and Cafepress.com are excellent to teach beginner's entrepreneurship.