Jasmine
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Online businesses are actually websites where you can perform buying and selling activities. Therefore, starting an online business starts form creating a business website.
Register a domain name
Domain name is the address of your online business, therefore register a domain that is short and also memorable. Do not use special characters or even numbers. There are a lot of options to choose for dot com has more market value than other extensions.
Create a website
Online business is actually an online shop. Therefore, creating the website is the important step. Since you bought a domain in the first step, now you should buy a hosting and start building your online business website. You can try Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento, Shopify, BigCommerce, Wix, etc. to create your website. However, the choice of the platforms should depend on your skills to us these platforms and money you have. Wordpress is easy to use but Drupal is somewhat complicated. Magento is free to use but Shopify has a subscription fees. If you want to start small and do not want to spend money, try wordpress. Instead of doing yourself, you can even buy wordpress managed hosting which eases your work with website creation. Even though wordpress is free, you might have to spend some money on premium templates and plugins.
Register a domain name
Domain name is the address of your online business, therefore register a domain that is short and also memorable. Do not use special characters or even numbers. There are a lot of options to choose for dot com has more market value than other extensions.
Create a website
Online business is actually an online shop. Therefore, creating the website is the important step. Since you bought a domain in the first step, now you should buy a hosting and start building your online business website. You can try Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento, Shopify, BigCommerce, Wix, etc. to create your website. However, the choice of the platforms should depend on your skills to us these platforms and money you have. Wordpress is easy to use but Drupal is somewhat complicated. Magento is free to use but Shopify has a subscription fees. If you want to start small and do not want to spend money, try wordpress. Instead of doing yourself, you can even buy wordpress managed hosting which eases your work with website creation. Even though wordpress is free, you might have to spend some money on premium templates and plugins.