What steps should one take to starting an online business?
simply_sweet_lovely asked:
I am a work at home mother; and I have recently learned how to create beauty products with natural ingredients and I want to sell them online for reasonable prices but I am not sure where to start. Any ideas?
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2 Responses to “What steps should one take to starting an online business?”
Well first thing you would need to do is market them. You need buyers so i would recommend getting a website together and there are many sites out there that can do this for you if you are not internet savvy. Also you could advertise on ebay, craigslist, and social forums like facebook and myspace. Go to a work at home forum and do some research on the many advertising techniques. They will tell you about website building as well. Hope this helps.
Identify profitable topics within your niche. By topics I mean information that you will use to build traffic through your unique voice. Make a content blueprint of your site including the perfect domain name. Research other monetization options so you don’t put all your eggs in 1 basket. Diversify. These are the first steps. You need a plan. After that you can start to concentrate on web hosting and site building. There are some good site builders available but check them out. Some are cheap and simply warehouses full of useless sites. You need one that offers support ( critical) and has the tools needed to build a long term profitable business at no extra charge. Some appear inexpensive but the fine print tells you to pay for the extras. Search these out carefully. Most of these don’t require HTML knowledge. They are wysiwyg builders. be sure they show exactly how to build the pages for the search engines. Once you have done that you will start to create your sites look and feel, build a home page, submit sitemap to the search engines,build a footer , and then start your 1st tier pages. These are the pages on your nav bar. It is not as scary as it sounds but it does require planning and motivation. I don’t want to violate the community guidelines so if you need more info simply e-mail me.