Top 10 Tools You Need To Start A Successful Online Business
There are actually different types of online businesses you can start, which I’ll talk more about in a different article.
Yet, here are some tools most online businesses need in order to be successful:
First and foremost you need a domain name, which is basically your Internet address.
You know, one of those www dot your domain name dot com links, also known as a URL.
URL stands for ‘Uniform Resource Locator’ by the way.
You can get a domain name at websites like GoDaddy.
They’re usually pretty cheap.
Of course you’ll need a site builder to build your very own website.
Your website is where you provide your value such as content, products and or services.
I personally recommend you build one with WordPress because the tools they provide you to build a website are more professional there.
You also need web hosting which is basically like a space you rent online for your website.
Web hosting provides what you need for your website to be able to be viewed by others.
This is the service that publishes your website on the World Wide Web.
Ok enough with the definition!
One of the web host providers I like is GoDaddy, unless you’re able to host through WordPress.
If you’re not able to build a website or don’t want to deal with the whole domain name, website building and hosting process, you can always just get a landing page.
A landing page is basically a page you can rent from another website which provides simple tools for you to set up a page a lot easier.
You may not get your very own URL but again it’s so much easier and faster to set up a landing page.
Landing pages are important because it’s the front page your possible consumers land on to begin their journey on becoming your loyal customers.
I strongly recommend Get Response for this one, because you can create your landing page easily there and they also have other tools that are essential for your online business.
This is important if you want your written content to actually draw people in and keep them interested.
It’s the ability to write in ways that taps into people’s psychology and emotions.
It’s basically persuasive writing!
You need to know copywriting for things like your headlines, titles, subtitles and your paragraphs.
Although you can always just pay someone to do your copywriting for you too.
SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization.
To put it simply, SEO is knowing how to organize your words within your website so that you can appear high on the list of results in search engines such as Google.
There’s actually more to it such as keywords and backlinks, yet here’s an SEO guide to help you out.
SEO is organic and free, but it takes time to set up and master.
It’s also extremely worth it in the end!
This is basically a software that allows you to have an online store and sell your products.
I believe that Shopify is especially useful when it comes to selling physical products online.
Obviously you need products and or services!
What’s an online business without these things.
You can sell just about anything online such as appliances, clothes, webinars and ebooks.
Yet I’ve noticed that some of the most popular things to sell online are things that fall within the relationship & dating, pets supplies, weight-loss supplies and personal finance niches.
Cryptocurrencies seem to be becoming a big deal too, or already are.
Now, if you don’t have products or services of your own some companies allow you to promote their products and services for a cut on their profit, such as Amazon.
This is basically Affiliate Marketing, where you become an affiliate of companies related to your niche.
Yet some things to consider when finding products and services to promote are identifying what your target market is and doing some market research.
If you want more than just one time customers then you’re going to need email marketing.
Email marketing is a system you can set up where you ask for people emails to provide them with more relevant, exclusive and real value.
Actually remember Get Response, which I mentioned earlier in ‘Landing Page’, well this is also an awesome source for setting up your email marketing.
There’s actually a whole mess of techniques and science when it comes to email marketing, but it’s easy to learn at Get Response.
Finally, marketing is of course needed if you want to drive traffic to your online business.
Without marketing you basically have a pretty store in the middle of nowhere, where no one can see it.
Therefore I will be bringing up different marketing strategies in another article.
However, if you don’t want to have to wait or look for it, check out the 5 Steps To A Successful Online Business.
They reveal some of the top marketing techniques in 2021 for FREE.
All I ask is that you share this with others to help them too.
