E-Marketing (Steps to Get Online Business Up and Running)

E-MARKETING ASSIGNMENT

STEPS TO GET ONLINE BUSINESS UP AND RUNNING

Malaysia, July 2012

Introduction

            Online business has become a trend in the whole world. Lots and lots of entrepreneurs began to start doing online business for their source of earnings. Some prefer to establish a pure-play company while some other prefer to have both offline and online shop or in the other words brick and mortar company. Online business can be anything from selling products and offering services. For example, there are numerous online blog shop selling apparels and even some offer services like wedding photographer and etcetera. In our beloved country, Malaysia itself there is numerous registered online shop selling varieties of products and services. For instance, we have shahabudeenjalil’s blog that recently awarded as the best business blog in 2012 while myorange.my won the best social media business on the year 2012. Lots more blogs have been awarded in their particular category in The World Bloggers and Social Media Awards. Having a website is like building a house in the middle of a jungle. No one can reach you unless you build a road leading to your house. The more roads you have, the more visitors your house will receive. For a website, a link is considered as one of the “road”. Without these links, not many people can reach your website. That would be disastrous to your online income. It is the goal of every webmasters to have as many links as possible leading to his or her website. However, it is not an easy task. Other websites would not put your website’s link unless it is something of their interest. Even though you can pay them to put up the link, many inexperience webmasters will find out it is a wasted investment. Therefore, crucial steps to get the online business up and running are discussed in this assignment. Within this discussion, we have come out with four big steps such as deciding what business are you into, registration, creating the...