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• Read the guides listed in this sticky. There's useful information in there.
• Do not create storefronts for the sake of having a lot of storefronts. Focus your efforts on one storefront at first and maybe expand into new industries with a few more storefronts over time. Would you rather have an empire of nothing or a couple high-quality storefronts that people respect?
• Watch people and ask questions. Formatting and marketing is half the battle. Look at how other people format their storefronts and create your own style. Learn how to use a free image editing software like GIMP or Photoshop. Most of the successful storefront owners have a good basis in a roleplay region. Stick around for a while in II and get ins with a reputable roleplay region or with decent roleplayers.
• Research. Having great products is the other half of the battle. You can begin by looking at similar products on GE&T, but you're going to half to spend hours researching each product online if you want it to be perceived as high quality. You want accurate information, and depending on the tech level, realistic information.
• Use proper grammar, be polite, and do not be obnoxious. If you become known as the guy who is rude and can't spell, it's really hard to bounce bay from that.
• Take your time. I've been experimenting with storefront formatting and graphic design since 2011 and I'm still learning. Every iteration, the quality gets better. You won't have the perfect storefront your first try. It may not even be particularly good. But, if you keep trying, over the years you will develop your own style and become a professional.

A comprehensive guide by The Nation of Ceneria on how, "make an accurate and successful product for your Global Economics and Trade storefront."

A comprehensive guide by Tippercommon on how to manipulate the site's BBCode and incorporate graphic design to make your storefronts easier to navigate through the use of tables of contents, design concepts and anchors.

A comprehensive guide by Maltropia on how to manipulate the site's BBCode to make your storefront look fabulous.

Going into detail about the principles of "formulating . . . designing . . . and finalizing your product," Yohannes' Guide To Creating A Product showcases the necessities of a product, what not to do during the concept, production and marketing phase of selling your product, basic rules that you should never break and some added formatting guides which should add some well needed appeal to your storefront.

A guide on the etiquette of purchasing items from a storefront, replying to orders, and basic write-up skills by Mikoyan-Guryevich.

A very in depth guide of instructional guidelines when creating your storefront, United Gordonopia's Guide To Creating A Storefront lays out information step by step of things you should never do under any circumstances, how to achieve excellent customer service, how to expand your storefront, how to handle the financial aspects of your NS business and some important formatting guides which should help you in giving you storefront a good aesthetic appeal.

A specialized guide for the design and details of automobile storefronts, Van Luxemburg's Guide To Auto Storefronts makes clear what not to do in your auto storefront, clearly lays out information crucial to creating an automobile, including American and European car-class designations and pricing, as well as basic principles of making a car comfortable and efficient to drive in.

Designed for the design of firearms, Tippercommon's Guide To Designing a Firearm v2 combines a detailed section of the basic mechanics of a firearm and the 'what not to dos' when in the concept phase of creating a realistic weapon, with a formatting guides sections packed with information that make just give your storefront the upper hand over the rest of the competition, with suggestions on how to us coding, image editing software and how to lay out information.

An in depth guide to designing a fighter aircraft, the Tutorial to Building a Fighter on the NSDraftroom gives in depth information about the variation components of a fighter and what makes one worth selling and using. Also, if you are planning to sell an aircraft, check out the Aircraft Specifications Outline to learn what information you need on your storefront or factbook.

A guide to aid in the sale and formatting of storefronts which sell real-world products by Mikoyan-Gurevich.

A guide to creating an Airline by Mizialand.

An in-depth survey conducted by United Gordonopia cataloging the top storefronts, why they are successful, and how you can do it too.

An incredibly in-depth survey conducted by United Gordonopia cataloging GE&T's development since 2009 and how the market has changed over years of involvement from the members of the site.

The Official List of Active Storefronts maintained and operated by Yohannes is a categorized and organized directory of the GE&T massive storefront economy, ranging from tourism agencies to the largest stock exchanges.

Economy calculators are tools which take the statistics of your nation (population, civil rights, political rights, economic strength and regional power level) or region, and add a lot solid economic terms to it. his is based completely on how you answer your issues, deciding where your funding goes. Calculators do pretty much the same thing, although their calculations do vary. These are useful tools for figuring out how much money you can spend in GE&T. Although useful, they are not required in MT and PMT, and in FT and PT are almost useless.

NSEconomy
NSDossier

NS Draftroom is a very useful tool if you are striving for a realistic and viable product. One of the main Draftroom IRC channels is #NSArms, dedicated to both military and non-military engineering discussion, ranging from firearms, artillery, vehicles, and civil engineering.

From the makers of NSDossier, Texas has created a directory of tools known as NSSuite. With such pages as NSDossier, NSEmbassy and NSNation, Texas is earning its pay today.

The Step-by-Step Guide to Calculating Your Profits by Vault 10 is an in-depth guide on how to calculate your company's profits from your revenues. Providing helpful resources from CNN Money, he explains how to accurately determine out of your revenue how much you actually make. You don't want to be that guy that charges $100 for a piece of paper so you can make a 10,000% profit right?