Are you tired of being at work for 8 hours and work under the boss’s requirement? If “Yes” is your answer, you are gonna be a boss. Why not? Starting selling something online takes a risk, but you should try because You Only Live Once. There are tons of young people choose running an online store to start their career.

1. What should I sell?

Yes, you need to affirm what you should sell and choose selling type as well.

Before making your decision you should check the below list to know exactly what you’d love to run an online business:

• Your passion
• The latest trends
• Unique items
• Day by day products
• Meet a huge requirement
• Less competition

The second matter you must concern is the type of your online shop will be

Selling your own product

You can sell your own goods. It’s so great if you are running a real store, or you can produce your own goods yourself and sell them online.

The online site will be a great way and quick way to introduce your store to your customers.

Certainly, selling your own goods will give you more profits than when you selling as an affiliate which we will mention right after here.

Selling as an Affiliate

You will have less work to do. All thing you have to do is design a functional and beautiful website which attract more customers to choose the products on your site.

Most of your products come from the famous brand which allows you be their publisher. However, the profit percentage you get will be just lower than you get with your own goods.

And now, it’s time to make your decision. You should follow your passion and visions to choose the right product to sell.

2. What will I call my store?

Name your business

Apart from finding a product to sell online, another difficult step is to find out a name for your business. Your business name will tell customers about what you are selling and be so important role in your branding. Make sure you choose a simple and profound name for your business.

As the name is the identity of any store, you have to keep the name in such a way, that it will give an overview of your store and your product in one glance only.

Follow are some key points which can be useful for finding out the name of the business:

• Short and simple
• Be different

Choose your domain name

Domain name choosing is the next step you must do. You need to check whether your domain name you choose exists or not. You can get your domain name from these trustworthy domain providers as GoDaddy, HostGator, and Namecheap.

Create your own logo

Once you have decided your store name, and have registered your domain name, now it’s time to create your logo which will be the face of your company.

You should directly discuss with the designers about what you wish in the Logo or you can make it yourself with some useful pages as Logojoy and Canva.

3. Which e-commerce platform I should choose?

When you had already chosen your products to sell, you should think about e-commerce platform to run your business. Paid or unpaid, you should compare the pros and cons and give your last selection.

Check the note below before making your decision:

• Flexibility
• Budget
• Technical level
• Easy to use

You can get some trustworthy eCommerce platform as Shopify, Big Commerce and WordPress, which all make it easy for anyone getting started in e-commerce. In which, we recommend WordPress platform which is the most popular, easy to use and simple for anyone.

4. How to create a good looking website

We call this step is a big step because it decides the online site is good looking or not. You need to find a reliable theme provider to start this step.

If you select WordPress platform to run your business, we will give you some premium WordPress theme as NooTheme, YoloTheme. Especially, Umbra, Emigo, Sofani, and Rubino will be the best choices to sell anything online. You should carefully visit these themes to know whether it’s suitable for your online business target or not. We hope you can make a right decision.

5. What is an effective marketing campaign?

Whoa! Our online store is ready now!

Wait a minute! You need to spread the site on the internet and raise the number of customers. Hence, you must set up a smart digital marketing campaign as well as a traditional marketing campaign.

We will give you some effective methods which incredibly drive traffic to your site.

–    Blog 2.0

–    Seeding forum

–    Social Media

–    Press release

–    Guest Post

And much more

Get the best recommendation you should visit the post how to increase your website traffic from the JoomlaUX team. The post provides you all detailed information to attract more users to your online site.

End point

Starting an online store gives you a little overwhelming. Just a little, you will come over if you keep your passion, brain, trust, and this post. We hope you get something useful in this post to a smooth way of starting your online business. For more tips, please feel free to share with us!