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9 Simple Steps to take your business online

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After the COVID times, the business landscape has changed significantly. While the traditional way of doing business is yet to stay, however, there is a significant change in how the business is being done now. Almost all the types of businesses have seen virtues in taking a step towards digitization, and getting their businesses online.

The consumers have now shifted their focus from purchasing offline to purchasing online as well, which is comparatively convenient.

We bring here 9 steps to take your business online, in addition to running your business in a offline traditional way.

  1. Choose the right domain name
    • Choose a Domain name that represents who you are, and what you do.
    • Get the domain name from a good domain name registrar.
  2. Plan your Website
    • Plan exactly what your website should do.
    • Is it for Information? To Inspire? To generate sales leads? To Sell Products & Services?
  3. Pick your designer
    • Choose a good designer who can build a good website that achieves your objectives.
    • Consider these objectives: cost, customization, complexity, time, and ongoing maintenance.
  4. Create valuable content
    • Create valuable content according to your business. Generally, the pages to be built includes Home, About Us, Products/Services, Testimonials, and Contact Us.
    • Have a good Logo, Fonts, Colors, layout, etc.
  5. Get your website found
    • Improve your chances of getting visible on search pages through SEO (Search Engine Optimization).
    • Your content, keywords, image optimization, meta tags, reviews, etc. are important in your search rankings.
  6. Connect with customers on Social Media
    • Social media helps you to build relationships with your customers, build your brand, drive traffic to your website, establish expertise & listen to customer insights.
    • Ultimately, all these activities help you make sales.
  7. Drive traffic to your website
    • Use different mechanisms such as emails, blogs, online communities, run promotions to drive traffic to your website.
  8. Use your website & Emails to Generate leads
    • Include a contact form, sign-up form, email opt-in box in your website. Give a special offer to join the email list. Use Email Marketing to engage with your audience in the email list.
  9. Measure, Improve and Grow
    • Stay Social. Tweak your social media strategy as you gain some experience engaging with followers.
    • Keep your website updated with relevant content and blogs.
    • Track your website’s performance.
    • Take appropriate actions to improve your desired objectives such as driving more traffic, engagement, serving your customers, lead generation & making sales.

Grow your business by staying focussed & following all these 9 steps.

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