How can i expand my business?

[Joe Koh]

You could start a commerce online site:

Few steps:
1. Set up your e-shop with an easy-to-use shopping cart software
Install a shopping cart on your website and your shop will go live in minutes!

2. Secure your transactions with a powerful SSL certificate
Set up an SSL certificate to secure your online transactions!

3. Collect customer payments via your merchant account
Get a merchant account and a payment gateway to collect your customer payments! Paypay, 2 checkout are some of them.

4. Lastly, monitor your website traffic with the help of tracking code like Google Analytics. It's free

After setting up the system, you want people to look at your online shop.

Here are a few ways to get visitors to your website.

1. Submit your website to thousands of online directories. There are some online directories, which have good traffic and some of that traffic can be yours if your website is listed in them.

2. Start posting in free classifieds. There are hundreds of free online classifieds websites that you can post in them to get visitors to your website.

Craigslist and gumtree are two biggest classifieds sites, and you can get targeted traffic from them.

3. Sign up to social-networking websites like Facebook and twitter. Add relevant people to your friend list and increase awareness about your website. You can post links and get visitors from these social-networking websites.

4. Join related forums in your market and post some useful comments on threads. Try to help other users and put the link to your website in your signature. It will get some steady traffic to your website, and this traffic is extremely targeted.

5. Start commenting on blogs in your niche. Use a profile from Gravatar and post useful comments on other people's blog. If you provide good information, people will click on your links and go to your website to find out more.

6. Write guest posts for other websites or blogs. Make a list of blogs or websites in your market who are already getting good traffic. Contact their owners and ask them if they can publish your posts on their website. This is a nice way of building traffic to your website.

7. If you can invest money, there are many ways to get traffic to your website. You can advertise your website on Google or other search engines.

You can also put ads on other people's website or on social-networking websites like Facebook. You can also buy text links from other websites in your market.