5 steps to launching a successful online ecommerce business

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5 Steps to Start Your Online Business

• Apoorv Joshi
• Merchant Stronghold

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Introduction About Online Business

• Its era of technology, era where most of our
  needs are fulfilled with just few clicks.
  Internet has made our life way more comfortable
  than we could imagine few decades back. With the
  increase in technology, our lifestyle also
  changed dramatically and changed the way we do
  basic tasks like sending mails, banking,
  purchasing things, contacting people etc.
  Internet has brought almost everything on our
  finger tips. As the use of internet is
  increasing, it has provided an opportunity for
  business owners to grow their business worldwide,
  to reach customers they could not few decades
  back.

For setting up online business, all you have to
do is follow few simple steps and instructions
which we will discuss one by one in details and
your business will be ready to enter the online
world. These days it has become easier than ever
to develop design your own website and have it
uploaded either for free or cost that suits your
pocket. It is not important to have complete
technical knowledge to develop a website. Lets
move with few basic steps to get you started your
online business.
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Steps to be followed to open your online business
are

• Choosing Domain name
• Pick a Web hosting Service
• Design Your Website
• Shopping Cart
• Payment Processor Solution for your online
  Business

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5 Steps to Start Your Online Business
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Choosing Domain name

• Choosing the correct domain name is extremely
  necessary. It is ideal if your domain name is
  similar to that of your business name or your
  brand so it is simple for your sponsors and
  potential customers to find out your website.
  Once website name is finalized and it is up and
  running, you have to invest plenty of resources
  into promoting it and conveyance in traffic. Keep
  in mind to check the names accessibility to
  check whether the domain name of your choosing is
  free to use or available. If the name is not
  accessible, dont get demoralized. Often the
  owner of the domain name is willing to sell it
  and its simple to work out who owns the name by
  merely wanting it up in whois section on the
  domain registration portals.

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Pick a Web hosting Service

• Web hosting services offer space for storing and
  access for websites. Dont get attract by free
  internet hosts as they put advertising on your
  website to cover their prices. As a business
  owner, you must be searching for an internet host
  thats esteemed and reliable. Before going for
  hosting services, it is important to have a rough
  idea about how much space your website would take
  and how much traffic you are expecting through
  your website (web hosts can help you with an
  estimation). Read the reviews of different
  clients to perceive how frequently they encounter
  downtime or technical issues and how rapidly
  those issues are resolved.

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Design Your Website

• Website designing was work of professional as it
  was complicated and technology used to design
  these websites was not that advance as compare to
  technology used these days and people had less
  knowledge about it. Today designing your website
  is less complicated than ever and can be done by
  an individual who have little knowledge about it.
  There are two methods via which you can design
  your own website

• First is to start from scratch and design your
  website which will include coding, complete
  technical knowledge and is very time consuming
  and can cost you good amount of money as well.
• Second method is way easier. There are plenty of
  professionally designed templates available,
  which are either free of cost or cost very less.
  All you have to do is choose any of the themes to
  design your website. Few of them also offer live
  preview, so that you can check the chosen theme
  on demo website and ones you finalize the theme
  for your website add it to your cart and download
  the file. If you do not want anyone else to use
  the same theme as yours, you can become the sole
  owner of it by checking the option.

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Shopping Cart

• A Shopping cart is software that provides
  facility to purchase products online and allows
  accepting payments under secure and safe payment
  platform. Distribution of payment information to
  the merchant, payment processor and other parties
  is also organized by shopping cart software. So
  it becomes extremely important to choose best
  shopping cart software. There are mainly three
  features of shopping cart

• Product information is stored in it
• Gateway for order and customer management.
• Provides product data and site information for
  user display

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Payment Processor Solution for your online
Business

• More payment options you give to your customer,
  more payment processing you will do. In simple
  words, if a customer wants to buy a product or
  service and can choose the mode of payment of
  his/her choice, there are more likely chances
  that your product will be sold rapidly as compare
  to the scenario where customer is not comfortable
  with the method of payment and might search the
  same product elsewhere.

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