Starting Your Own Online Business

Starting your own online business has never been easier. Nowadays, there are various means through which you can start your own online business. These range from starting a blog through which you can promote other people's products, or providing your SAAS services, to starting a dropshipping website.
However, making a website, as you will realize, is only the first step. In fact, making a website might prove to be the easier part of starting your own online business. The real challenge is to drive traffic to your website. Unless you already have a huge number of followers, you're in for a lot of work.
Getting followers from scratch might seem like an overwhelming task, but it's not impossible. And to do that, you have two paths:

1. Starting up for free

Unless you already have many followers, getting some will require diligence, persistence, PATIENCE, and quite some time. The best part is that you can do it for free by starting your own blog, making YouTube videos, or using social media.

2. Paying to generate traffic
Your options here are unlimited. You can pay websites such as Facebook,Instagram, Youtub, Quora, and much more. Using the aforementioned websites, you can advertise your services with paid ads.

What went wrong?

You had the perfect product, the perfect set-up, perfect location, but you had no one to sell to. The problem is, you relied on your product to sell itself. A proper way to have made sure your product kicked off would've been to invest in advertisement. Now assuming we were still in 1950, you'd have had to pay for newspaper ads or TV commercials to advertise your business.

Starting a business in 2020

Fast forward to the present, it's the year 2020. Whether you wish to sell physical goods or online services, you have to have a website. Consumerism changes to adapt to modern technology, and as a business owner, you have to adapt to the digital age. In 2019, the number of people going online to find businesses had jumped to 97% from 59% back in 2011. To be clear, If you want to sell your goods, you need to be found online—you must have a website. 

and contrast to the 1900s, starting a business now is easier than ever and requires less capital. The shift from physical stores to online stores has a key advantage; the probability of your goods being found is better than ever.

However, one key disadvantage; EVERYONE is doing it. There's a website for everything these days, and the number of websites selling the same goods and services is insane. This is why finding people to whom you can promote your product is where the real work begins.

As I mentioned earlier, to advertise your services, you have to choose to pay for ads or advertise your merchandise yourself. You can, of course, do both at the same time. I will now go through the details of both methods. Stay tuned!

Growing your own audience from scratch

Social media offers more than just entertainment. That's right, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and other social media platforms can be used for things other than sharing memes and cute cat videos.

Here are a few of the platforms that you can use to advertise your products:

1. Facebook lets you promote your services with Facebook groups. You can start a Facebook group revolving around your services. After that, start adding people who might be interested in the content. Make frequent updates to your Page; remember, consistency is key! Find yourself a community of like-minded people, engage in groups similar to yours, and slowly build yourself a social network.

2. Twitter is one of those social media platforms used to establish someone as a thought leader. On Twitter, you can discuss topics related to the services you provide. Share your knowledge, offer advice, answer frequently asked questions about problems you wish to solve using your services.

3. Instagram is one of the most popular social media platforms for brand awareness. You can share images and videos. However, Instagram is not ideal for driving traffic to your website.

Typically, you can only include one link in the profile field. You can use Instagram to follow like-minded people, connect with them, and ultimately increase your followers' number.

4. LinkedIn is a social media channel that is ideal for B2B (a business that sells to other businesses). People and companies use have LinkedIn profiles for brand recognition. Polish your profile, fill it with your content to be found easier in LinkedIn searches.

5. Start a YouTube channel! Then, make videos in which you advertise your content, either directly or indirectly. You can make YouTube tutorials to help people start a business in the same field as yours. Participate in the YouTube community of people posting similar content. Also, Learn from people better than you, and influence people that are just starting

Below is a pdf containing full details and guides to help you in this step to financial break through

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