There is a lot of rave about making money online more than ever. This has birthed so many online businesses and online entrepreneurs. Today we will be discussing a faction of these online entrepreneurs. Online Vendors. Who is an online vendor, this is basically someone that sells products through the means of e-commerce. Some use Social Media as their driving tool, some websites and others integrate both into their strategies. Online selling is projected to keep on growing and this is an opportunity for many aspiring Online Entrepreneurs.

Starting an online business and succeeding is really not as hard as you think but it requires dedication and hard work.



1. Decide What You Want To Sell:

Before you do anything, it's important to decide what types of goods you'll sell online. Whatever you choose, it's important to work with products that you're passionate about and more importantly, it needs to be high in demand. Chances are, if you pick products that do not have a high demand, you will end up being frustrated by the lack of progress and sales, so stick to products that can sell out easily in the early stages of your business. If you don't have products on hand, take a look at various the various affiliate market places like clickbank and easily find a product to promote and earn your commission. you can learn about that here





2. Choose The Best E-Commerce Solution For You:

When choosing an e-commerce platform or solution for yourself, there are a lot of factors to consider.
Your budget; you have to choose something that you can easily afford

Resources and manpower: you need to consider your resources also, it goes without saying that building an e-commerce website will require, content creators, web manager, graphics designer, etc. You should stick to resources and manpower that are available for starters.

You can decide to run your business on just Instagram or you can decide you need a website instead. There is always the option of using both platforms depending on the factors stated above.

If you decide to run your e-commerce on a website, there are two popular eCommerce platforms that we recommend: Shopify or WordPress + WooCommerce.

Shopify is a fully hosted eCommerce solution that starts at $29 / month. It’s a hassle-free solution where you just login and start selling. The downside to Shopify is that it gets quite expensive, and your payment options are limited unless you pay additional fees.

This is why most users choose WordPress + WooCommerce because of the flexibility it offers. It does require some setup, but it’s worth doing it for the long run. WooCommerce is the world’s largest eCommerce platform.


3. Choose A Payment Method

The next step before launching your store is to decide how you'll receive payment from your customers. There are many options you can decide on

Payment on delivery

Payment validates order

Direct payment with a debit card on your website.




4. Choose A Marketing Strategy

Starting any business, you should always have a strategy to ensure the business is a success. The same can be said for an online business, especially an online store. The platform you choose will determine your strategy. Choosing Instagram will mean your strategy will revolve around Instagram and other social media. If you choose a website then your strategy has to be a lot more elaborate, SEO, content strategy, SEM and many more.



5. Market Your Business

Once your store is ready for the world to see, you need to drive customers to your store with marketing. Whether you leverage email, social media, SEO or other forms of online marketing, it's critical that you share your store with the masses. In other words, even if you have the most amazing site in the world, if no one can find your store, you'll struggle to pay the bills. It is advisable you allocate a certain amount from your budget to ensure your business is a success.

Selling online can be a rewarding experience that allows you to express yourself and your entrepreneurial spirit. More importantly, it can be the way to start a new business or grow an existing one. If you're ready to get started, these six steps can help keep you on the right track to success.

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Great Post!! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the info Jagaban. I have few questions for you and I'll be glad if you provide me with the appropriate answers. They are as follows;

1. What is the minimum and maximum number of products I can promote at a time?

2. Do I have to create a squeeze page for every product am promoting? If yes, where would they be re-directed to the moment someone opts-in?

3. Is it possible and advisable to promote different products from different niches at a time?

4. Is my landing page the same as my blog? If yes, can I do as above in question "3" on it?

5. Kindly clear my fear on these ones while I ruminate on the other areas I have questions.

Thank you.

1. for my affiliate marketing i mostly use clickbank and i promote not less than 5-10 different products at a time and i have never heard of any limitation to number of products you can promote.

2. yes. every new product you want to promote needs a unique squeeze page. the squeeze pages can be on a single domain and hosting. this is the reason why i advice buying general name domains instead of niche specific domains. e.g supercourses over looseweight dot com. the reason is that you want to promote many products on the same domain. it will not look wise to promote make money products on looseweight domain.

3. yes if you can handle it. no if you cant. i personally promote any product in most niches if i have an hungry traffic for it. but this does not in anyway mean that a person subscribe to my make money list and i will start sending him dog training promotions. i will never do that.

4. a landing page is the page you direct your visitors to. if i say a landing page in this context i basically mean a squeeze page. a squeeze page is a single page where you collect potential buyer email addresses. partly answered in 3 above

5. visitors to your squeeze page are potential buyers. if they optin to your list, they are interested and most likely willing to buy. after subscribing to your squeeze page they should be redirected to your hoplink. that is the product you are promoting using your unique hoplink. if they buy instantly fine, if they dont, you already have their mails and your mailing series will follow them up.

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If we talk now dem go ban u. This is corruption. So na snake man and op dey collabo. Smh

u sef don start ur own online store ?

You won't see our youths shouting ''unemployment'' here...

No.

Pauletttteeee:
Great Post!! Thanks for sharing.

thanks.

Same trash .
Guy , you no dy tire ?

Easier said dan done.
so many difficulty from PAYING UR SELLEE IN CHINA,SHIPPING TO NIGERIA.
lack of trust btw u and d buyer as most nigerians prefer pay on delivery and dey wont pay u unless u are using a delivery company doing POD which is costly.

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Josh44s:
You didn’t state the difficulties. You made it look so simple like it’s easy to just wake up one morning and start online business. Nothing is easy in Nigeria, I mean NOTHING!

those that have succeeded anywhere in the world today, succeeded because they didnt care if it was hard or easy, they just had to do it. if you are a good teacher, the first thing you should do is to make your student love whatever it is you want to teach them. if they begin to see the potential and love what you are teaching them, then their curiosity would push them through the journey as if it were easy. you only seem to discourage rather than encourage and provide alternate workable solutions..

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Nice one

But I don't need woo commerce to set up my store, I actually use a free online store for my business. You are free to post only 10items on the free option and more items on the paid option. Ask me how

Nice one I guy, i just started building my online store

Please check it out and give me constructive advise/criticism

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Aji2012:
Nice one I guy, i just started building my online store

Please check it out and give me constructive advise/criticism

i wish you success with your online store bro

Your first Million you said?

ogapikin:



i wish you success with your online store bro

Thank you.

MrSensor:

Concerning the app, can u add me on WhatsApp lets chat... 08147743098

I build you an online store for a small fee.

How can put someone through?I know someone interested in this.

He just did introductions, probably never sold even a pin online before...bloggers. Anyways, go and do your research.

dlectura:
Nice one

But I don't need woo commerce to set up my store, I actually use a free online store for my business. You are free to post only 10items on the free option and more items on the paid option. Ask me how

How?

What about logistics which is the most important part. Let the truth be told it is not as easy as it sound. I will advise who ever that want to go into evommerce to first of all try market place like konga Jumia and hroe your online shop gradually.

Because he never own one so he can't mention any difficulty my friend.

Josh44s:
You didn’t state the difficulties. You made it look so simple like it’s easy to just wake up one morning and start online business. Nothing is easy in Nigeria, I mean NOTHING!

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Samson3600:
Because he never own one so he can't mention any difficulty my friend.

unfortunately that is what i am known for. importing and eCommerce. i have sold several millions worth of my imported goods and i have also helped thousands of clients to do same. you can create a thread about the difficulties. its a free world

ogapikin:


unfortunately that is what i am known for. importing and eCommerce. i have sold several millions worth of my imported goods and i have also helped thousands of clients to do same. you can create a thread about the difficulties. its a free world

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AntiPonzihater:
I build you an online store for a small fee.

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