Entrepreneurs Earn Income by Promoting OpenEntry and Providing E-commerce Services  Register as a Promoter

Any entrepreneur anywhere can become an OpenEntry promoter and receive a commission of 20% of the value of paid services purchased for three years from OpenEntry by catalog owners that they help register.  Simply register to receive your Promoter ID. Then encourage potential users to sign up for their free catalogs from a link (on all your emails, websites, blog posts, and even printed materials) structured like "http://catalog.openentry.com/createcatalog?proid=abc". OpenEntry will tally your commissions and mail you a check quarterly when the balance reaches $100.

In addition, many business owners you sign up will be too busy or don't have enough computer skills to build a catalog on their own and therefore need help especially from somebody who can come to their location and speaks their language.  Any computer literate entrepreneur can learn to create a catalog in a few hours by following the instructions at Catalog.OpenEntry.com. Then you can launch your e-commerce service provider business with these steps:

  1. Register as an OpenEntry promoter
  2. Setup your own catalog offering your e-commerce services and demonstrating your skill (see example from Haiti)
  3. Contact potential clients by phone, email, or preferably personal visits.  Trade shows, marketplaces, malls, and conferences are convenient to approach many businesses in one place. Even if they don't contract you to build their catalogs, be sure they register with your Promoter ID.
  4. Explain that OpenEntry catalogs are free but complicated for a beginner. You have the experience to build them a beautiful one for $100 - $200. 
  5. Offer to setup a small sample catalog for free. Take digital images of the client and 5 - 10 products (can be done with a phone).  Then with 15 minutes on a computer, create a very basic catalog with your Promoter ID.
  6. Show them the sample catalog and, if they agree to a full one, coach them to upload all their product images and information to a free Picasa account that comes with Gmail (if they don't know how to do this you can help for a fee).
  7. From there, completing a client's full catalog takes only a couple of hours.
  8. After they pay you, transfer the account to them and show them how to change the password.
  9. You can also offer additional services including the following:

This venture can be launched with very little investment by an established web company, chamber of commerce, computer school, university, telecenter, or even a young individual. Basic catalogs can even be built with a smart phone on WiFi and touched up later with 10 minutes on a computer. OpenEntry will soon release an App for Windows and Android that will facilitate offline preparation of the product images and corresponding information (code, name, price, description, key words - 90% of the work of building a catalog).

You can also approach business networks (such as chambers of commerce, trade promotion organizations, and industry associations) to offer to build them a branded "network market" comprised of the catalogs of all their (usually hundreds) of members. The members will pay you and/or the business network for participating in the marketplace.

You can earn thousands of dollars per month from providing the latest cloud computing, award winning e-commerce services to local businesses. As proof of this concept, a United Nations Development Program evaluation in Nepal concluded that, besides generating 3918 jobs for artisan women,

"A relatively inexperienced group of young IT professionals could, with the proper tools, create employment for themselves while providing e-commerce services to local SMEs."

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