6 ways to grow your business online

The internet has changed many things in this word from the past 20 years.
World is developing rapidly and the human demand and desire is increasing day
by day. This is a best time for people to start and grow their business.

Growing business has less competition back in the days when there was no
internet connection. As we look from then to now internet has changed many
things and there is a lot more competition in this field. Today in this modern
world growing a business requires a good effort and a lot of hard work. Don’t
worry I am here to guide you.

You can start your business right now after reading this article. All you need
is patience, hard work and dedication.

Here I have tips to start and grow your business online without any money. You
can invest some amount for better experience in the coming days but for now you
can start for free.

1. Start at social media:

Today in this modern world social media is the most important place where you
can start your business for free. Social media is a powerful tool to promote your
business and connect with many people around the world.

It’s free to open account on social media platform like Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram. What you have to do after creating a social media profile is:

i) Regular post: The most important thing to do after launching your

business on social media is a regular post. You have to stay active and
post about your business twice in a day. Engage your customer on your
profile through regular posts.
Post about your products, its advantages and the benefit for
customer. The more you post, the fast your business will grow.
ii) Meaningful images: What matters the most when you bring your
business to social media is the images of your product. I have personally
 experienced that the quality image attracts more customer on social
media.

Keep patience, slowly but surely you and your business will grow on social media.

2. Start your own website:

Starting your personal website just take a minute and a few steps.You
can start either with blogger or wordpress. Blogger is a free platform and
Wordpress is a paid version to start website.

I recommend you to start with wordpress. To start your business and

growing it for a long run requires a little investment. Here are ways to start
your website:

i) At first choose a domain name for your website. For example: Facebook
has its domain name called facebook.com. As like this choose your
domain name according to your business.
ii) Choose your hosting for your website: Choosing a hosting means
choosing server for your website where you can store all your data. I
recommend you to go with bluehost or Siteground. They provide good
services in a low cost (only 2.50/month).
iii) Select your template and deign your website: Ones you have chosen
domain name and hosting the design your website. Choose a best
template and design your website according to your business. You can
find different free tools inside your wordpress which helps you in
developing your websites design.

After you design your website, you are ready to go. Write a post relevant to
your subject and you have taken your business online.

3. Write article on regular basis:

Taking your website online only is not going to increase or boost your business.
You have to stay active, write regular post to get connected to your customer.
 Write about your business plan, How it is going to help your customer?,
advantages of using your product. If you are bad at writing content then hire a
content writer at low cost. Slowly you will learn to write content. This increases
your customer trust towards you. The more trustworthy you are the more you get
success at your business.

4. Know about Search Engine Optimization (SEO):

Search Engine Optimization is a gem for growing a business online. SEO
is a powerful and trusted method to increase your sales. Every person in this
world has access to internet. More than 85% of web traffic is generated by Search
Engine. Here is how SEO helps you to grow your business,

i) Search engine helps to drive traffic related to your website

content/business of your particular industry.
ii) It helps your brand and your business gain higher visibility in internet.
More visibility means more customer and more customer means more
money.
iii) Good search engine optimization ranks your site and attracts more
clients and customer for you.

Ones your website is indexed and ranked in a first page of Google page, you
will see that learning and doing SEO was worth growing your business. It
requires you to focus on multiple factors. Ones you start your website, you will
gain good knowledge on SEO.

5. Email marketing:
One of the best and proven way of growing a business online is
Email marketing. Email marketing has changed the life of many peoples who
started their business online.

As soon as you start your website, collect email of your customer. Most
of your customers are using an e-mail address, and this is a great piece of your
customer information to obtain. Marketing emails need to be personalized to the
reader and filled with interesting graphics and design.
Use the collected email to send the giveaway, discount offer, information about
new products. This is a best way of staying connected to your client and your
customer. This helps you to sell your product through email. Email marketing has
the best conversion rate.

6. Grow your network:

Effective way of growing a business is building a strong network
connection. This is one of the best and the easiest way to grow your business.
Efficient networking can help you make new contacts and create exciting business
opportunities.

Here are some of the ways to grow your business network,

i) Be Helpful: Help your customer and client to find the things they are
searching for. Helping people in your network makes you stronger, they
may be in a better position to be able to help you in the future as you
know everyone loves helpful people.
ii) Listen and Learn: The more you listen the more you will learn.
Listening and learning is the most valueable skill to have in growing your
network for your business. You never know until you learn, and more
often you listen and learn, you will get the answer you want.
iii) Build your Trust and Reputation: Building a trust and your
reputation is the most needed thing to grow your business. People
always prefer to build business relationships with people they see as
being valuable and a trustworthy.

This will help you grow your network in your business industry. Ones you start
growing your network you will take your business to next level.

Growing a business online takes a lot of hard work, patience, dedication and
time. The most important thing that you must keep in mind is that, “No
business in this world has grown overnight, it takes time”.

So, start and grow your business from today.