The following steps to be followed for starting the online small business. The steps are,
Find a need and fill it.
Write copy that sells.
Design and build an easy-to-use website.
Use search engines to drive traffic to your site.
Establish an expert reputation for yourself.
Follow up with your customers and subscribers with e-mail.
Increase your income through back-end sales and up-selling.
A large percentage of internet business ventures fail, seeing as you have no specific product source or expertise, your chances of succeeding might be less than most.
One of the safer ways to try something on the internet would be to create a magazine style blog site, that sticks to a particular topic you have a passion or strong interest in, if you create engaging original content and learn how to boost search engine ranking you might build up some decent traffic figures over several months, they payoff comes when you have at least hundreds of visitors a week and can add revenue earning ads, Google's Adsense is the most popular ad network for small publishers.
Getting prospects to a new site may be the biggest challenge, an ecommerce site might have to use paid advertising, which is a challenge to use profitably.
One light venture into online sales one could try is selling some hand crafted items on Etsy.com costing 20 cents per item listed + 6.5% of any sales, it has a nicer culture than most marketplace sites.
You could start with a free host like Google's Blogger.com and a custom domain name costing $12/yr to make the site look more professional, Wordpress is the industry standard blog platform that you would typically run on a paid "unlimited" shard hosting account for about $8/mo
Figure out what you can get at a price that will be profitable when you sell it. Put it on eBay and if people like your offerings, you are on your way. eBay is essential to start because they bring the customers. Starting a web site on your own will go badly until you are discovered.
i would like to start a little online business but i don't know what to sell or do?
