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I would like to hear your opinions. I've recently started making things like jewelry, purses, wallets, painted wooden boxes, picture frames, and clothes. I usually wear my stuff to school and found that people like them. Within a week people were buying them off me. One of my teachers told me I should make a website with all my stuff on it and sell it. I thought that was illegal. Any ideas about this??

of course its a small business and its a great way to let people know about it, and if your town has its ownwebsite see if you can have your website placed on it for some good advertising.

I thought I had to have a license to sell my stuff?

Probably only if you rent premises or get so big that you attract attention to yourself. If you maintain a minimal profile, ie: sell mostly on the web, I doubt very much if they would bother you.

Have you considered eBay? or other similar sites?

true you only need a business liscense only if you own a store on a property or something like that, if its online then no.

but stay away from ebay and paypal or you will lose money they steal money without letting you know why they did it.

I wish I would have known that yesterday. I dad won rims for his harley on ebay and used paypal to pay. Do you think hes going to get ripped off?

Yes you can sell your own stuff on your own website without anything like a licence I believe. I sell cell Phones online and it really pays well if your advertised correctly.

Good Luck

Thanks! Do you have a website that I can look at that shows how you chose to advertize your cell phones?

It's not illegal to sell your wares online. As long as you don't claim yourself to be a branch of someplace else. Make sure you don't sell in bulk either. Only sell like 1 at a time, or else your hands will be uber full and you'll be so busy.

Don't sell on eBay. Period. eBay isn't reliable in the fact that items sell for different prices each time. You can sell something for 100 bucks, and try selling the same thing again and only get 20. Simple as that.

Make your website, sell your product cheap at first, and once you're more well-known, raise the prices a bit.

To advertise, give your website to google and other really popular search engines. Put google ads on your site, it'll up your traffic, and you'll get a few bucks from it.

Maybe you should show us some pics of what you've made? That'd be awsome!

Goodluck in your business!