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Steps to start an ecommerce business

E-business or eCommerce business is about offering and buying the item and administrations upheld by electronic installment framework. The framework was introduced in 1970 with electronic information trade. Online eCommerce business indicates to a business exchange that includes the exchange of data over the web.

Friday April 07, 2017,

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E-business or eCommerce business is about offering and buying the item and administrations upheld by electronic installment framework. The framework was introduced in 1970 with electronic information trade. Online eCommerce business indicates to a business exchange that includes the exchange of data over the web.

With the quick development in web development industries and various available platforms, it has made the marketplace for eCommerce business and consumer to make trade and transaction across the world.

There are some steps I have mentioned below that must be followed before starting an online eCommerce business:

Register Domain name of your choice: A domain name refers to the web address of your website through which you will do your online business. Choosing and registering a domain name is the first step to start an online business.

Hosting: Hosting is one of the key factors that will help in supporting and increasing your online business, choosing the hosting that best suits your business is very important, a host should be reliable as well as secure.

Designing the website: This is the most important as it will create your first impression to the visitors on your website and if the impression is good on visitors then converting them to sales becomes very easy. It is very important because it will be considered as the store front.

Advertising and marketing: Advertising and digital marketing of the website is very important because without advertising nobody will be able to know about your website and the chances of website coming in light reduces very much, by digital marketing and social media marketing people will be able to reach your website easily and can be connected to you very easily which in turn increases the chances of your sales.

Knowledge about International Trade Laws: If you are planning to start your own online business you must have also thought about doing the business globally so, it becomes necessary for you to understand the international trade laws.

Register Your Business: Several options are available when it comes to registering your business like-

Sole Proprietor

Partnership (if you have a business partner)

LLC

Corporation