What are the steps to starting an online business?

[victoriousbirthday445]

I am thinking about starting an online business, but I am not sure where to start. I know I need a website designed, but I am wondering about e-commerce sites and what are good products to sell online.

[Stating_Facts]

Mercy ~ The best advice is to sell what you like. Say for example you don't like toys, then how happy would you be selling toys? You need to find something that you like. As for the website, e-commerce websites are pretty popular, but may cost you a little bit more when you have your site designed. You can give people the option of paying through the mail, or even just solicit business in your local community. You do not have to reach out to the entire internet community, that is the beauty of owning an internet business. I read this article the other day and it really got me to thinking. I have three internet businesses, but only one that I am really passionate about. The link to the article is below. I hope this helps and good luck starting an internet based business!

Jon

[Epsilon Eridani]

Hello. I'll give you two pieces of advice for starting an online business.

1. You can check out this great blog that offers tons of useful advice on the subject. It doesn't sell anything, it doesn't cost anything... it's just free information:
http://www.runningonlinebusiness.com/

2. Check out this online business opportunity where you can sell your own health and beauty products: http://www.mlnks.com/biz.php

Hope this helps!

[reneeamelia3060]

Hello My name is Renee and I am the account executive with Extreme marketing. The first place to start is to know what product or services you want to offer. It is best to do something that you are passionate and knowledgeable about. After you figure out what you are going to sell you will need a professional website. Your website will project the image of your company and I would leave your website to a professional. One of the companies of Extreme Marketing is http://tiny.cc/MyMarketingGirl for everything about marketing a business. I hope this helped Let me know if you would like my assistance.

Renee

[James]

For any online business you need an online catalog hosted through a website. Payment collection methods like a payment gateway. Of course, if you can add the shopping cart feature the website will manage the shopping experience for the buyer in a better way. But the most important is the sourcing of the products you wish to sell. I suggest that you try some dropship source. There are many but not all are reliable. I know this source, http://bestonlinedropshipping.com/ which is well known and you can try their dropship program. It is easy to start with them.

[Mike]

The steps to start an online business includes creating your own website, selling products online.Hot products to sell online are body massager, body shape machine etc. http://www.BigDropShip.com

[Ven]

You don't really need a website to start online business. To make your work simple, better join clickbank or commission junction & select quality products which has higher demand in the market. Use Google Adwords to drive targeted traffic, sure you could make decent income.

Or go for open source ecommerce solution's, its cost effective.

[Tori]

Anyone can create a website with many of the programs and templates that are available from the hosting companies. The difficult part is getting traffic to your website from people who will actually buy the products you offer.

You need products that people are looking for - either because they are popular, unique or fulfill some unmet need.

It would probably be easiest to get started as an independent distributor or rep for a company that provides you with a company website. Then you will already have the products and the payment gateway for online sales and you earn a commission from the sales. Look for products that you like, are consumable and purchased by most families several times a year. Most companies will also offer free training to teach you some marketing techniques.

Then drive traffic to your company website by purchasing a domain name and creating your own personal website with links to your company website. You may eventually want to sign up as a distributor for more than one company or add some affiliate program links for other products related to your website topic or theme to earn multiple streams of income.

Then to market and send traffic to your personal website you will need to learn and use several techniques: email, blogging, social networking other ways to create back links. It takes time, but through consistent effort it can be done.

There are so many websites out there that simply building a website with a bunch of products is not likely to be profitable. It is easier if you have the products, support and training from a company who uses independent distributors to market their products.