I have a friend who started a tooth whitening kit website and I decided to start helping him out with some of the marketing for his product with my own store peddling his goods. This has become a mainstay in my company’s existence; promoting another company’s product as good or better than they do. This marketing method, although more difficult to get into, is better for both parties.

One of the first things you need to do when beginning to promote an osCommerce website is to add your page to directories.

Here is where I plug the TopTenTshirts.com Directory

Affiliate programs in most situations are very productive ways to generate sales, while not spending much time on advertising.Setting up an osC Affiliate program is quite simple. In Version osC MS3 due to release spring or summer of ‘07, you will already have it installed. For the previous version, MS2, you will need to install the osC Affiliate contribution. It can be found by clicking this link. You may want to verify on the osCommerce forum before installing, or contact me and I can put you in touch with a coder that will do it for around $75.00

Many of the images in osCommerce are out of date and really don’t match what you might need for your cart.  You can easily find ideas through the web, and this tutorial will teach you just that.Looking at the basic cart images (shoping carts, my account, etc) you will see that they are pretty old.  Well, they were released in 1999, when osCommerce was initially released, so thats to be expected!

All you need to do to get image ideas is jump on the google image search.  http://images.google.com

in the search bar, enter: inurl:/catalog/ “header_cart.gif”

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