Online Business, also known as ebusiness or electronic commerce , refers to conducting business transactions over the Internet, which includes exchange of information of value in the form of products and services as well as payments, using web-based technologies.

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• Keep very focus on your website topic or theme. For example, if you intend to provide information about travelling, then your contents should be related to travelling or tourism rather than something about computer programming or some other unrelated topics. In short, don’t distract your potential customers.
• Keep it simple. Simple does not mean you should not care about your webpage design but it means don’t put in too many unnecessary information and links that become too overwhelming for the users. They might just leave your site. Simple also means you should not put in too much multimedia content because it make your website take longer than normal time to load. All of us know that the attention span of online visitors is extremely short, 30 second is already considered long and if your website takes 2 minutes to load, they just don’t have the patient to wait.
• The most important aspect of a good website is its content. So do a good writeup and beef up your content with lots of useful facts and information that are related to your topi

What is the key success factor that can make your website ranked high in search engines? Some of you might say this is the area of SEO which is beyond your capabilities, but I think in actual fact you don’t need to have much knowledge of SEO. To me,the key successful factor to build a high ranking website is its contents. Having good contents is the first step to climb the ranking in search engines. Not only search engines robots like websites with good contents, more Internet users will also visit websites that provide relevant and useful contents.

Further, you need to update your contents regularly. Search engines’ robots like Googlebot always visit websites that have their contents updated regularly, thus rank those sites higher based on relevancy. So, be diligent to update your websites every now and then.

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Today, I am going to share with you one magic formula in marketing, it is known as AIDA. What is AIDA? Well, AIDA is a communicating process which end up with customer buying your products or services. Let me explain the AIDA concepts below:

A means ATTENTION. You need to send out a promotional message that can get attention from potential customers. In online version, you need to design an advertisement that can get immediate attention from the online users, it maybe a pop-up ads or an animated ads or even an attractive banner ads.

I means INTEREST. After getting attention from the potential customer, you can then arouse interest in your products or services.

D stands for DESIRE. If you can arouse attention from the prospective customer, you can then stimulate desire from he or she to own your products or services.

A means ACTION. When you can successfully create strong desire to own your products or services, he or she will finally purchase your products or services .

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First of all you must decide on your web site’s topic or theme. You should work on something which you have the knowledge and passion . For instance, you can do something about programming, sports and games, travel, books review, astronomy, health, education, any hobby, and more.

Next, you need to do some research by reading books, journal, searching for information from the Internet and more. Next, you have to write out the framework for your contents, get the main topic and subtopics properly arranged and linked up.

To start writing your web pages, you can use one of the GUI-based web page editors such as MS Frontpage, Macromedia Dreamweaver, PageBreeze, Amaya and more. For your information,you can download PageBreeze, Amaya for free.

Besides, you should also learn some basics of HTML so that you can customize your page better. If you are good in HTML, you can actually use notepad to design your web page . If you find creating a website from the scratch is difficult, you can always use one of those content management systems, which off course include weblog or blog. Some of the popular CMS are wordpress, blogspot, joomla and more. The advantages of a CMS are easier to create, easier to update, do not need much technical knowhow, can do it anyway anytime and last but not least, most of them are free!

After you have created all your web pages, you can then contact a web hosting company to register your domain name and to get a web server to store your files for online viewing. Off course you need to pay a nominal hosting fee. Besides that, you must think of a domain name that is related to your contents and special enough to catch people’s attention.However, currently many domain names have been taken up so you may not get the ideal name you want. In that case, you have to settle for the next best domain name. For example, my website is a tutorial website about Visual Basic programming so I registered my website as www.vbtutor.net. It is hosted by Webserver, which I have been using for the past ten years and the support I get is good.

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This one offers hosting solutions for small businesses,

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To market your web site ,first of all you must submit your site to the major search engines through many submit it website, like

http://www.submitexpress.c om/

http://www.google.com/addur l/

and many others.

Remember to add all possible keywords related to your site in your META Tag so that search engines can crawl your site and find the necessary info.

Next you must market your site with whatever ways possible, such as by emailing your friends, join discussion groups, leave messages in guest books of other related web sites, join forums, and yes, leverage of the power of web2.o social networking by sharing your website through twitter, facebook, digg, Google Buzz, MySpace and more.

The very first step to creating a successful online business is identifying a niche market in which you have something to sell, be it information or products. This must be an area that you are good at in terms of interest, experience, skill and knowledge that you can share with other people. For example, I am quite good in Visual Basic programming language, so I created a Visual Basic tutorial website. This tutorial website teaches Visual Basic Programming and it has attracted nearly 4 million visitors since its inception about ten years ago; I think this is quite an achievement for a personal website.

Although a niche market might be a small market in traditional terms, the Internet provides a global market for your product or service. There are many areas of interest, which you can write about, some of the examples are computer and Internet, education, health, cars, stamp and coin collection, sports, movies, music, literature, science, art and so on, and the list is endless. To determine whether there is a niche market for your topic of interest, you need to do a search in the Internet by typing in keywords related to your topic. The search results will help you to decide whether you can venture into this market.

…………………Will continue with this article in the next post.