Online Stores are becoming popular in Internet for the past few years. And every year, the number of Internet buyers are increasing. When the situation is like that, creating an online store and running such online business is not a complex process today. You don’t need to invest big instead by spending few dollars you could launch your own store in couple of days. The idea is combining blogging & online store. Okay, lets see those 5 simple steps to create your own online store !

Step #1 – Locate Demanding Market.

The first step is locating the target market. Its basically finding the market which has demand in the Internet.

Few example markets are: Skin/Health Care Products, Stock/Finance Management, Online Business Products, Movie DVD’s, Web design products etc.

Now the question is, how to find such demanding market ?

  • There is a tool known as Google Keywords Tool which helps you to simply locate the demand in market for the given keywords. It is always good to find a moderately demanding product which has search volume of around 5K to 20K.
  • Do a quick search on Google, Yahoo and see how many established web sites are shown for those keywords. If you see more number of established sites then you have to find another market.
Nice Store ! Nice Products !

Nice Store ! Nice Products !

Step #2 – Find Quality Products.

So you have decided your market. Now you have to pick products from that market to sell. The most common place is Amazon which has tonnes of products on all kind of markets. Join Amazon Associates and pick affiliate links (referral links) for the products from your market. Another place to start is, Clickbank (it pays higher commission upto 70% for each sale).

Now you have the goal set. You know the market, you have the products and you know its demand.

Step #3 – Create Your Store.

The interesting part is creating your own online store. To make the steps simple, lets see what are all needed to create an online store ?

  • A domain name, which reflects the aim of your store. I would recommend you to buy your own domain name and don’t create a free blogger blog. Because free blogs will have the domain name like .blogspot.com which doesn’t gives TRUST to your visitors.
  • A simple web hosting package either from Godaddy or Hostghator. All these costs you less than 50$.
  • Install wordpress, learn how to install wordpress ?
  • Install a professional looking wordpress theme, Select a wordpress theme from here.
  • Write at least 10 articles about the market like “How To’s”, “Tips For”, “Ways To”, “A Course” etc. Basically, it should relate the reader to product.
  • Also, write reviews about the selected products. List down the features, positives, negatives and tell how it solves the buyer problem ? Learn how to write product reviews ?
  • Embedded the images/links of the products in the top, side, center and bottom of your site.

Now your store is UP !

Step #4 – Store Promotion (Free Method).

The most critical part of your online store business is promoting and selling the products. You have to drive huge number of visitors to your online store so that there are more chances for selling products.

Not all visitors will buy the product, only few those are looking seriously for the solution buys the product. So you have to find such targeted visitors. How to do find such visitors ?

  • Post articles related to your market/product on your online store every day or whenever you have to time.
  • Write articles on hubpages, squidoo and guest posts on other blogs embedding your online store links.
  • Write comments on related blogs leaving your online stores link.
  • Create a Squeeze page (email subscription page) and ask peoples to signup for free. You could send marketing emails to them periodically recommending your products. FreeAutobot a FREE and simple to use auto responder for wordpress sites.

All these are free methods which yields you great results. Within 3-6 months, your online store catches a good position in search engines especially on Google & Yahoo.

Step #5 – Store Promotion (Paid Method).

If you are ready to spend money to drive traffic to your online store simply use, Google Adwords, Facebook Ads, Yahoo Ads. Write quality text ads which gains visitors attention. Learn to raise Ads CTR [Click-Through-Rate].

The steps #4, #5 are more complex compared to other steps. Promoting and marketing your store has to continue through out the life cycle of your online store business.

Finally, you should always take care the below strategy:

  • Sell quality products which solves the visitor problem.
  • Drive visitors who are looking for solution, show them your product.

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