For many years, creating an online store was a long, complicated process. You had to register a domain, set up hosting, install a pain-in-the-butt script, troubleshoot when it invariably went wrong, set up payment processors... it just went on and on. It could take weeks or even months to open the doors!

Then Shopify came along and made it easy for absolutely anyone to set up an online store in a few hours. Even if you only have a little time each day, you can have a site running and making money in as little as a weekend. It's literally so easy to use that a pre-teen could have a site online in a day or two!

We're going to take you step-by-step through the process of setting up a Shopify store, and it'll only take a few hours to be up and running! Sure beats weeks or months, doesn't it?

So let's get started.