Guidelines to Establish an Online Business

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Nowadays, users are able to selling products online and make money. Starting an online business and selling products are easy, but promoting your web site and achieve sales are a bit harder. Hence, here are some guidelines for those who interested in earning money from Internet to run a profitable online business. 

Step 1: Computer and Internet Connection

A computer provided with internet connection is an essential. You need a desktop or laptop and Internet connection as the main devices before begin the business. 

Step 2: Credit Card or Debit Card

You need whether credit card or debit card to buy or to pay any products or service that related to your business on the internet.

Step 3: Email Account

Email accounts are important as your opt-in email marketing tools. Email allows sellers and visitors communicate with each other to obtain desired information in faster and convenient way. You can get free email accounts from Yahoo.com, Rediffmail.com, Google.com or Hotmail.com.

Step 4: Domain Name

Domain name is the virtual name for the specific internet web site address or sales page. You can pick any unregistered domain name or buy any domain name that related with your business or products and easy for your visitors to remember. 

Step 5: Web Hosting

You need a good and cheap web hosting service provider to host your web site. Web hosting service provider helps to ensure your web site is running 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. You might need to pay them on a monthly basis or yearly basis. If you are running online store or sell huge products your need E-Commerce Hosting Service. If you sell less products you will need normal Web Hosting Service. 

Step 6: Web Site or Sales Page

You need to focus about the type of web site you want to build because it has a great impact on the type of web hosting you need. The design and layout of your web site is the next most important part of building a web site. No matter how great your content is or how much money you have spent on the internet for advertising. If your web site looks bad no one will visit and definitely you won't sell any products on the internet and you can't make money on the internet.

Step 7: Autoresponder
Autoresponder gives you the most cost effective strategy to market your products. Autoresponder automatically sends emails to everyone who requests further information about your products. The autoresponder is working 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Each autoresponder can contain an ordering information or your products information along with complete ordering instructions. You can deliver your information very quickly.                                                                                                               
Step 8: Merchant Accounts & Credit Cards Processor
Sellers are allowed to conduct business and accept payments on the internet from local and international buyers. Most Credit Cards Processors are free, to get the Merchant accounts service you need to pay them monthly or yearly. For those just starting their online business, you are recommended to choose Credit Cards Processor to accept credit cards payment on the Internet such as PayPal and PayDotCom for the Merchant account. You can place a simple Merchant Account link or Credit Card Processor link on your web site after registeration.
                                                                                                     
Step 9: Promote Your Web site
You need to promote your web site or products by submitting your web site to Search Engines, web site directories, Pay-Per-Click Search Engines, create your own blog and submit it to blog directory, write or publish your own newsletters and submit them to related newsletters directory, subscribe to any related ezines and articles, and participate in Forum and discussion groups. This step is important to affect your sales result. 
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Cool Stuffs to Buy

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There are always many unexpected things in the World Wide Web. You can now not only purchase fashion products, flowers, books, and other things that you will know. But now, there is a website offers things that you will not know.

Image from: http://www.somethingstore.com/somethingtracker.html

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Somethingstore.com is a website that offers you to buy a mystery product. It means that, you will pay $10 to $20 (including shipping fee) of buying an item that you will not know until you open the box. It was a quite interesting ideas. At first, it only offers at USA, now, you can order it from Malaysia as well. Moreover, do not worry because they will not send you something illegal. Until now, they have sent out many things such as remote car, watch, clock, roll up piano, Indian drum, bag, iPod shuffle, perfume, USB mug warmer, and many more. Besides that, they guarantee you that the item's price will definitely more than $10. You can view what they have sent out from here. Is it cool?

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Another interesting website we will introduce you is etsy.com, a marketplace which dedicated to everything handmade. This is a place where sellers and buyers are both love handmade things. Every items stayed here for sell are handmade. It gathers many cool handmade products with an affordable price. There are buyers and sellers coming from over 150 countries.

Week 8 Poll Analysis- In General, How Will You Rate The Preference Towards Online Shopping?

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From the previous post, there are equals of respondents answer for the question " In general, how will you rate the preference towards online shopping?" There are 33.3% of three of the answer which is for "I love online shopping", "I never try online shopping" and " No comment". There is no one choose "I hate online shopping".

The results was a huge comparison which is like, dislike and no comment had the same number of respondents. People that like online shopping is those who are more connected to the Internet. These people are mostly have more time in front of computer and busy with their current work. They like online shopping just simply because the fastest and the latest fashion trend can easily get.

Another 33.3% of the respondents who choose "I never try online shopping" are mostly in the group of less connected to the Internet. These people are mostly not trust the existing of online boutique. Another reason was they not trusted in the online payment. This is mostly because the product will get after the payment and it will also take time for 1 week.

For the respondents choose "No comment" are mostly people who will do online shopping and does not. They just no giving any comment for the online shopping. There will be some of them will do online shopping often or in the opposite way. There might also have the group of never try online shopping. Thus, they just have no idea or comment for the like or dislike for online shopping.

In conclusion, although online shopping are getting popular in the world, but there are still a group of people will not do online shopping. Even though it is a trend, the group of people will like the way of shop traditional which is purchase a product or service in a shop. Do stay tuned with our coming up post.