the advantage to selling online and not having an 'outside' store is the cost and the fact you can start small. BUT, think like a big business. Keep careful records of everything. Think past the selling - how will you ship and track. Assume if you are using the mail and not adding extra fees that a certain percentage will be lost or a person will say they did not receive. Unfortunately this happens, but you weigh the cost of mailing a couple yards of fabric (say $3.04) to UPS grounding it which has the tracking and safety but will cost $10. If you have a local high school or community college in the area, you may be able to hire a tech student to help you maintain a website. Check out SCORE - these are retired businesspersons who volunteer their time to help folks in small businesses. I've had a small retail/service business for 26 years (working both brick and mortar and online) and I can not emphasize enough the importance of keeping records and thinking all the way through an order, payment, fulfillment and shipping. Look into setting up a paypal account for the safety of both the seller and the buyer. Paypal has a great tutorial as does Square.com for credit card payments. Good luck!