Like many of us, you probably thought about creating an online business or launching an online store. Starting an online business can be a long, and complex operation with multiple steps before making it profitable. Before you start your entrepreneurial journey with an e-commerce store, you need to identify the following components:
- Get a domain name
- Buy a hosting plan
- Build your online store
- Create social media accounts
- Register on GMB
- Launch your online business
- Promote your online business
Get A Domain Name
Getting a domain name is one of the most important parts of starting an online business. Nevertheless business people looking to start an online business, especially first-timers, make the mistake of over-thinking for weeks what’s the perfect domain for their online business.
The perfect domain name for an online business, should be short and easy to understand. Long over the days where the domain name should be created with the idea of helping your SEO ranks just because of the domain name. In today’s e-commerce market and the search engine ranking factors, what’s relevant and important is the structure and content in your site versus having keywords as part of your domain name that “will help you rank”.
Buy a domain name and start working on your online business as soon as possible.
Buy A Hosting Plan
Once you choose a domain name, ideally you will purchase a hosting plan as well. We recommend buying the hosting plan with the same provider as your domain name, this will make things a little bit easier since the connection of the domain with the web hosting server can be a little bit more challenging when they aren’t purchased with the same provider.
As you start a new entrepreneurial journey one of the parts you need to have under control are the expenses. At the beginning you don’t need the top tier hosting plan, for most of you the entry level plan is more than enough as long as it includes easy to deploy solutions like WordPress and ideally on a Linus server with CPanel.
Build Your Online Store
One of the best parts of having an Internet business is not only showing your company services and products online but you can also sell them 24/7. As previously recommended above, when developing a online business based on WordPress, you can integrate an online store with WooCommerce. This WordPress plugin will help you upload, categorize and manage your online store at a very cost effective level which is ideal for businesses testing the waters of an online business.
Costs aren’t an issue for you and you prefer a stand-alone system totally independent from WordPress ready to open your online store in a couple of hours, the Shopify is for you.
