How To Start Blog/e-Commerce Portal

1. HOW TO START BLOG/E- COMMERCE PORTAL

2. Starting your business nowadays has become easy, not like it used to be a decade ago, although the market is ruled by giants, but still many new company comes and build their identity; those who couldn’t build up their identity, either they will end up being purchased by other or get completely vanished. The new technologies may have made the process easier, but has almost tripled the investment. People are not left with many options to take a risk, especially with the ones with limited resources. The easiest thing one can do is can either start a blog/website of their own or get into the e- Commerce business. Both require some prerequisite knowledge, but are easy to set up and maintain. Both can make good profits if the business strategy is planned correctly.

3. Find a Product to Sell What are you planning to sell? Whether they are cloth or tech gadgets; make a list of the products your e-Commerce is going to have. Try to sell something which other websites aren't offering and same goes with the content. If you are planning to start a blog, write content that is unique, but start writing only when you decide the niche or category of the blog and the topic you are going to cover.

4. Buy a Domain Name The domain is the address of your website, where it is located and how people would access it. Imagine it like the address of your own house, it's unique; one in its own. Choose the name which defines your website and is catchy, so that people can easily browse it. Ex: www.yourname.com Please don't go for free names, sub-domains provided by some services. They don't look professional and display irrelevant adverts on your content, which no one would like to see. There are many registrars available like GoDaddy, Big Rock, Name Cheap etc.

5. Buy Hosting Space Just like your computer needs some space to have files stored in it, the same is with the best web. You have to buy some space on the cloud through hosting service providers to put your website content on the net. These files could be anything; textual content, images, video or music data. Some of the best hosting providers are Hostgator, Bluehost and Hosting Raja. Choose the hosting according to your software requirement, Linux files won't work on Windows hosting platform.

6. Use The Best Software Available You're not a coder, even if you are it will take you months to start coding from scratch for blog or e-Commerce portal. What you can do is use already available content management system (CMS) software available in the market for the frame. They' are many different software like WordPress, Tumblr, Blogger, Joomla, each of them has different plugins and themes available accordingly. CMS like Magneto, X-Cart, Shopify are available for e- Commerce.

7. Register Your Business Once the technical work is done, you can get a copyright and other licenses as required by your business. File the documents online with details like what your business structure is like. Is it LLC, Partnership or you're the Sole Proprietor. Get to know what documents your area's document require and get them done as soon as possible.

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9. “ “ If opportunity doesn’t knock, Build a door. ” - Milton Berle