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Day 6 - What the store is for

Day 6 – What the store is for

I downloaded a bunch of videos on starting an online store. And no, I haven't watched all of them yet. Just a couple. Now, the first things they taught the audience? It's putting up your Privacy Statement, Terms and Conditions, Return Policy and About Us pages available on your website. Basically, they said customers are more likely to trust the legitimacy of an online store if they have those pages.

In my mind, I was like... when I shopped online a number of times in the past, no, I didn't really care about those things. Which proves my theory that I'm simply not like most people.

Anyway, I did that and put it up on my website. I arrange the header and footer menu to show them. And no, I still have no creative About Us content in there. It was just a couple of sentences that describes what the store is about. I am a writer, yes, but I am used to writing news and facts. I've been a feature writer a couple of times, and all of them worked pretty well, but I find them necessitating a lot of beautiful words that sometimes don't make sense and comparing practically everything to something else of note. In short, turning something plain to stunning. It was hard work, I can tell you.

Also, I was able to find a drop shipper. I only subscribed to one. Again, this was a trial. I don't need too much information or my brains would explode. So, I went to their website, copied all their products that I liked and I want to present on my store. Yeah, I only chose the best. And yeah, I only chose what I liked. I know we liked different things, but I'm confident that my choices are wonderful. Correct me if I'm wrong if you have time to visit my site.

So, this was the... well, hardworking phase. I have to post about a hundred products on my site. Choices of clothes, accessories and shoes. And others. It takes time, a lot of it. All the while, I've been thinking, with this much products, how is it that I still don't have any sales? And since I always answer my own questions, the fact is there's just too much sellers online. You know how many? Even just on Shopify? Go to their website and they show it on their welcome page. Over 200,000, last I saw.

And so, the doubts creep in, I feel somewhat discouraged. Patience wasn't my strongest suit. But I strived, I try to keep myself determined. I promised myself I won't give up on this. As I promised myself I won't give up on my dreams.

You know why I'm doing this? It's for the money, ultimately yes. But what's the money for? I have three dreams in life. One has been achieved. I have two more to go. One of them is to establish a charity. Be a founder of a humanitarian organization. My cause is to provide homes to the homeless, hope to the hopeless, make them see that God does love them, and help them start over with a better life. And I've been thinking of ways to do this. I do bet on the lottery, believing it's my ticket to the huge fund I would be needing. I bet on a set of numbers faithfully. Been doing it for over a year. Yes, you can gloat and mock me all you want. But this is my hope. I also set aside a portion of my salary to an investment policy. It's growing, but not yet enough to even register the charity to the authorities. Here in my country you need to have a million before the authorities recognize you as legitimate charity organization. They want to know you can do your cause and not use your organization to just solicit funds. It was a good rationale, so yeah, I need a million. And if I'm going to rely solely on that investment, based on my own calculations, it's going to take almost five years to accumulate to a million. So, this is my third possible way of achieving that. Having an online store, if I could just get to that point where the store profits about $3,000 a month, I could move on with the charity in just seven months.

If I could just find someone who has this same dream, it would be awesome just to talk about it. Even online. You know, I understand that it's human nature to be selfish. To think first of yourself, of your needs, of your wants, and not care about what others need. And even when people like me are few, it's still a relief knowing it's not just me. God loves you all. And He loves me, too.

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