How To Start Blog/e-Commerce Portal

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HOW TO START BLOG/E-COMMERCE PORTAL
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• Starting your business nowadays has become easy,
  not like it used to be a decade ago, although
  the market is ruled by giants, but still many new
  company comes and build their identity those who
  couldnt build up their identity, either they
  will end up being purchased by other or get
  completely vanished.
• The new technologies may have made the process
  easier, but has almost tripled the investment.
  People are not left with many options to take a
  risk, especially with the ones with limited
  resources. The easiest thing one can do is can
  either start a blog/website of their own or get
  into the e-Commerce business. Both require some
  prerequisite knowledge, but are easy to set up
  and maintain. Both can make good profits if the
  business strategy is planned correctly.

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Find a Product to Sell

• What are you planning to sell? Whether they are
  cloth or tech gadgets make a list of the
  products your e-Commerce is going to have.
• Try to sell something which other websites aren't
  offering and same goes with the content. If you
  are planning to start a blog, write content that
  is unique, but start writing only when you decide
  the niche or category of the blog and the topic
  you are going to cover.

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Buy a Domain Name

• The domain is the address of your website, where
  it is located
• and how people would access it. Imagine it like
  the address of
• your own house, it's unique one in its own.
• Choose the name which defines your website and is
  catchy, so that people can easily browse it. Ex
  www.yourname.com
• Please don't go for free names, sub-domains
  provided by some services. They don't look
  professional and display irrelevant adverts on
  your content, which no one would like to see.
• There are many registrars available like GoDaddy,
  Big Rock, Name Cheap etc.

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Buy Hosting Space

• Just like your computer needs some space to have
  files stored in it, the same is with the best
  web.
• You have to buy some space on the cloud through
  hosting service providers to put your website
  content on the net.
• These files could be anything textual content,
  images, video or music data.
• Some of the best hosting providers are Hostgator,
  Bluehost and Hosting Raja.
• Choose the hosting according to your software
  requirement, Linux files won't work on Windows
  hosting platform.

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Use The Best Software Available

• You're not a coder, even if you are it will take
  you months to start coding from scratch for blog
  or e-Commerce portal.
• What you can do is use already available content
  management system (CMS) software available in the
  market for the frame.
• They' are many different software like WordPress,
  Tumblr, Blogger, Joomla, each of them has
  different plugins and themes available
  accordingly.
• CMS like Magneto, X-Cart, Shopify are available
  for e-Commerce.

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Register Your Business

• Once the technical work is done, you can get a
  copyright and other licenses as required by your
  business.
• File the documents online with details like what
  your business structure is like. Is it LLC,
  Partnership or you're the Sole Proprietor.
• Get to know what documents your area's document
  require and get them done as soon as possible.

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• Apna Design is an e-Commerce portal for all
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  profile of your own, with many different services
  like no minimum
• design limit, custom craft your masterpieces,
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  available and much more.
• Everything at ZERO INVESTMENT.

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• If opportunity doesnt
• knock, Build a
• door.
• - Milton Berle