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BuildYourOwnOnlineShopZlio is a service that let you build your own online store and start selling thousands of products from their approved merchants. Currently, Zlio does not offer selling your own products, you must browse their existing products catalog, choose and add it into your own-built shop. Before I give a little more chit-chat, just take a look at this Online Health Shop I setup to give you an overview of what Zlio can do.

How Does It Work
Building your own online shop with Zlio involves a few mouse clicks and you can have your own online store in just a couple of minutes. The shop I setup above took me about 25 minutes to complete, it may not took too long if I decided immediately what products to be added.

SetupYourOwnStore

  1. Register free at Zlio.
  2. Create a new shop in your control panel. This is basically providing some details of your store such as the URL (in http://yourname.zlio.com format or you can also setup with your own top level domain), shop title, template to used and more.
  3. Add products to the shop shop created.

How Can You Make Money
Zlio provides four (technically only three) ways on how you can make money with your online shop.

  • Pay Per Sale
    Earn commissions on every sell you make from your online shop. Commissions varies from 0.6% to 20% (the highest and lowest I’ve seen) depending on the merchants you choose.
  • Pay Per Click
    You can also earn commissions when someone click on the products on your shop. Unfortunately, you cannot earn at all of the products on pay per click basis. Some just pay only on pay per sale basis.
  • Referrals
    You can earn a lifetime 10% commissions on the earnings of your direct referrals + 5% of your direct referrals’ referral earnings.
  • Google Adsense
    You can also display Adsense on your online shop. However, 40% of your Adsense earnings on the shop will be deducted.

More Zlio Features
Zlio has many features that let you maximize your online shop. Some of the important features are listed below:

  • Thousansd of products to choose from, just select your interested niche that you think you can market.
  • You can also display the products in your blog or website.
  • Make your online shop more professional by putting it in your top level domain.
  • You can have multiple shops with only one account. This means that you can have http://shop1.zlio.com, http://shop2.zlio.com an so on depending on the availability of the subdomain you choose.
  • Nice templates are ready to use. You can even drag and drop elements around your page the way you like it. If you have some CSS skills, you can also customize the look and feel of your online shop.
  • Shoppers may leave their reviews of the products on your shop.

I still have to make customizations and play around with the shop I created above. Sign-up now with Zlio and please post your experiences in the comments area below.

written by Ramil Alcibar

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