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Selling Homemade Products Online With WordPress Ecommerce

If you are a maker, consider selling your products online from your home using your WordPress Ecommerce website.

When you are a maker of your products, you get the power to control all aspects of your items, make them cost-effective and offer them to your audience from your online store, targeting consumer demand in the market simply by blogging your business. WordPress Ecommerce enables you to start selling anything online from your place and you can reach out to new prospects by blogging your business.

Homemade Production Process

Your homemade production process doesn’t have to be enormous especially during the starting phase of your business. You can simply target your neighborhood and when you are ready to scale you may expand in your city by establishing a process of making more products in your home.

You can start the production process easily from your home, just take some time out for it, just as you take some time out from your schedule for watching movies, making phone calls, exercising and yoga, etc.

Make products, click their pictures form your smartphone, and list them for online selling in your WordPress Ecommerce website. Another good advantage for your small business is that you can set a standard delivery time of one week or something and then carry out the production process as you get new orders.

What Homemade Products Can Be Sold Online?

The homemade products that can be sold online can be anything you know how to make. For instance: People are selling candles, pickles, cookies, candies, jam, jelly, dry pasta, chips, noodles, bread, snacks, and similar eatable items, white cement-based flower pots, and other decorative items (there are many YouTube tutorials on this), you can sell plants, arts & crafts, homemade cost-effective jewelry items, sweaters, and homemade clothing items, masks, homemade soaps or anything else you like. For better production and a professional touch, you can search for specific video tutorials on YouTube.

Apart from this, if you are good at cooking then you can also sell breakfast, lunch, and dinner in your locality on pre-booked orders. For-instance: Neighbourhood people may book their breakfast, lunch, or dinner in advance, all you have to do is make extra food, pack it and then let them pick it up from your house gate.

How To Start Your Online Store Website?

Simply register your domain name then subscribe to WordPress Ecommerce, follow the on-screen process and it will take you to your website’s admin panel from there you can add your products and start selling online.

Keep Blogging Your Business

By blogging your business you can promote your products online, Also keep in mind that people don’t just want products, they want a relationship with a person they can talk to and get help from. You can build your trust by addressing your prospects in your posts. You may also ask your existing customers to help you in selling by recommending your products to the people they know, offer them some commission for that.

You may also work as people’s personal outlet by helping others to bring their businesses online, just as you did. Help them in registering their domain name and then you can make their websites with Managed WordPress or WordPress Ecommerce, charge something for that.

You Are Safe Only At Your Home

Safety is your first priority because when you are at risk, your business is at risk, your family and your complete environment is also at risk.

Many states are loosening their stay-at-home policies as they don’t have a workable plan or strategy to run the economy in lockdown or recover from it after lockdowns. This means the businesses will be opening soon, but as the COVID-19 cases are still increasing every day, there’s nothing like coronavirus is gone or going away and you are safe.

Post lockdowns, if not most then many of the businesses are operating in the same old way. Wearing masks, sanitizing the premises, and maintaining social distance cannot be called a new way of doing business. The new way is when you completely leave the old way, the new way is to bring your offline business online and operate from home, the new way is to manage all your business activities on the remote.

Be 100% Sure About Your Safety

Bringing your business online is the best, workable safety measure to implement because you can stay safe only at your home. Any offline business structure can never be called a hundred percent safe and secure.

Offline business models will experience a reduction in sales. At the same time, they will have to comply with the safety and social distancing guidelines, they will have to make new policies to keep their staff and workers safe, provide sanitizers and masks to the team, install partitions between staff and customers, ensure bathrooms are stocked with soaps and disposable towels and make sure every new entry is following all safety guidelines. They will have to manage all these new expenses and work on new management policies at the time when their business is going real down.

Still, they will never be a hundred present sure about their safety loopholes, and every new coughing or sneeze by someone will make them wonder about the spreading COVID-19 infection.

Feel Safe About Yourself, Your Family And Your Business

Hence, it is much better to bring your business online and feel safe about yourself, your family, and your business. If your business type stops you from operating online then make necessary changes to it, adopt new and leave old, pivot in your business and build a new stream of income as people’s personal outlet and do whatever is necessary because now you know what is more important for you.

Design a new structure of your business that can be operated from home, and if some offline activity is necessary then reduce the number of people to work at a given time or limit it to one, this is the big advantage of a small business that most of the things can be managed by an individual himself.

Start By Following Four Fundamentals Of Sangkrit

Start by following Sangkrit’s four fundamentals of cleaning your private space, cooking your vegetarian meals, programming your world, and blogging your business. To blog your business simply register your domain name, then subscribe to Managed WordPress.

If you are in the selling business then subscribe to WordPress Ecommerce to start selling your services, appointments, products, or anything else in an online store that can be managed from your smartphone. Moreover, you may also extend your WordPress installation to collaborate with your team online and assign important tasks to them.

What To Do When Social Distancing Is Denouncing Your Small Business?

Some businesses are facing a much harder time in finding an online way of doing business to stay out of debt and difficulty. Such businesses include salons & spa businesses, individual barbers, teachers, instructors, event organizers, house management, home care services, individual experts such as plumbers & electricians, etc. The solution for them is to stop waiting for the crisis to end in order to meet clients in person. Instead, they should start coaching people online by blogging their business.

Start Training People Online

For instance, the barbers should get away from grooming and styling other people and start coaching their expertise online simply by blogging their business. The same can be done by artists, yoga instructors, gym and fitness instructors, craftsmen, electricians, plumbers and many other types of self-employed individuals, etc to make people easily learn necessary things or the subjects they are interested in, online from their home simply by following specific blogs.

Blog Your Business

To start a blog all you need is to register your domain name, and subscribe to Managed WordPress to start blogging your expertise. You may also make some video tutorials from your smartphone and embed them in your blog posts via YouTube or VideoPress.

You May Offer Some Paid Content

You may keep most of the content free of cost and make money from Google Adsense (Google it to learn more). Additionally, you may offer some premium content with a detailed set of instructions, videos, and images as paid posts. This can be easily done by installing and activating Pay For Post plugin in your Managed WordPress blog. This can be helpful in generating quick money from your old customers who already admire your services.

Startup As People’s Personal Outlet

The income from your blog might take some time to build up so in the meantime you may pivot in your business and start-up as people’s personal outlet. As a people’s personal outlet you can help other businesses to come online, you can easily do this by using Managed WordPress.

Start Selling Products Subscription For Recurring Income

The overall value of a subscriber is much more than a general shopper. Selling subscriptions helps you to build a reliable source of income with recurring value. Subscription is not just limited to digital services but now you can use it on your eCommerce website for physical products also.

The consumer needs essential items on a regular basis so by offering a discounted or un-discounted product subscription you will help your customer to get his products delivered on first priority, without making him select and checkout the same products every month. This will help you to engage your customers and you will make money every month.

Starting a subscription-based eCommerce website is easy, simply register your domain name, subscribe WordPress Ecommerce, complete the quick start wizard then log in to the admin panel and add your products.

Screenshot showing the Quick Start Wizard of Ecommerce

You can offer subscriptions on individual products as well as bundled products. Simply navigate to WooCommerce -> Settings -> Extensions page to enable and set up a subscription option on your WordPress Ecommerce website.

You may also offer a discount to your prospects as an inducement for subscribing. To automatically charge subscription amount from your customers every month, you will need an online payment method, this can be enabled from WooCommerce -> Settings -> Payments (Tab). You can also use the free payment gateway such as PayPal or other payment options such as Pay On Delivery or Direct Bank Transfer if in case you don’t want to use other payment gateway services.

Close Down Your Office & Start Working From Home

If face-to-face interaction is the best way to transmit complex business ideas then it is also the best way of transmitting deadly viruses too. Hence, the most responsible decision you can take now is to bring your business online and start working from home. You already have the technology, remote work was in use even before the appearance of SARS-CoV-2.

Start by following Sangkrit’s four fundaments of cleaning your private space, cooking your vegetarian meals, programming your world, and blogging your business as that prepare you fully well to stay at home, build your business online to work on remote.

Working in an office has now many deadly disadvantages as,

  • You are not slowing down the progress of infections in society
  • The office environ makes you, your people, your customers and your family more vulnerable to infection
  • If in-case someone gets infected, the person can more easily pass that on to everybody else

So, you must close down your office and start to work online in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. This is easy, the big businesses of the internet have already done so – Google, Twitter, and Amazon have closed down their offices whereas Automattic, the team behind WordPress uses a distributed system of working from home. If they can do so, you can also.

Simply register your domain name, subscribe to WordPress Basic, or WordPress Ecommerce as per your business requirement to bring your business online and start serving your clients from your home.

Enable Your Salesmen To Place Client Orders On Your Ecommerce Website

The businesses that rely on salesmen and network marketing may enable their salespersons to manually place orders for their clients directly on your WordPress Ecommerce website and then ask clients to complete the payment.

For enabling your salesmen to manually add orders, first, add them to your website from the admin panel Users -> Add New page and then they would be able to place orders by following these steps.

  1. Login to the admin panel and navigate to WooCommerce -> Orders
  2. Click Add New, and the Single Order page will appear
  3. Input customer details, add line items, apply coupons, fees, then calculate totals
  4. Set a status for the new order. For Example – If the order needs to be paid, use “Pending payment” status
  5. Click the ‘Save’ button

Next, use order actions dropdown to email order details to the customer with payment instructions. Orders having a “Pending payment” status can be paid through the payment link, direct bank transfer, or whatever payment method you are using.

If the customer is new and unregistered on your website, he can proceed as a guest, as anyone with the link will be able to view the payment page and pay for his order. Whereas if the customer is already registered, then he can view the order by logging into your website.

In case your salesman has already received the payment and delivered it to you then you may change the order status to processing and start with your shipping process.

Blog Your Business To Establish Async Communication & Rely Less On People

Asynchronous communication, also known as async communication is a communication that doesn’t require people to be present on any side at the time of carrying out discussions which can be customer support, inquiry, or any other type of online conversation.

An email is an old example of async communication whereas video calls and phone calls are not asynchronous, they are called synchronous as they require both parties to be present on phone at the same time.

Async communication is better as it can work across numerous timezones and it promotes writing which is open for anyone searching for it to read, plus it empowers people to continue any discussion by adding anything useful or posting a new question.

Async Communication For Consumer Support

When you register your domain name, subscribe to Managed WordPress to start blogging your business, the readers i.e. your prospects may start a conversation simply by commenting on your blog post. You can resolve their queries by replying to them, and others may also add their value to it. Such conversations always remain visible online after your blog posts (until you delete them) and are helpful for others facing similar issues or having the same queries.

An screenshot showing WPDiscuz comment form

It helps you to establish a system and rely less on people as you don’t need a 24hour working helping or subscribe to a customer support service. There are many startups that don’t provide phone-based customer support. Instead, they use a mechanism of async communication and they are successful.

Async Communication Remains Available For Others To Read

The comments on your blog posts remain available for others to read. Suppose you have shared a blog post on a new project, product or service, and carried out all your important discussions on your post itself. The good thing is, it will always remain available on your website and when someone new joins your team, he can easily know all your thoughts and decisions regarding that project simply by reading your post and the discussion after it.

An screenshot showing an example of WPDiscuz on-site conversations

And the best thing is it can be edited from the admin panel of your WordPress site, you can update post, your thoughts on comments and everything else as per your present time requirement.

Blogging Is Best Form Of Async Communication

Other systems such as email, document sharing, and social media posts can also be called asynchronous but their biggest limitation is that they are not open to the public, anyone searching for similar issues on Google will not be able to see the conversations which you are running on some other website. As a blogger, your main objective is to bring people on your website so that they can view your services and products. So that you can make offers. So that you can earn money by using some cost per click program such as Google Adsense.

How To Blog Your Business?

Simply register your domain name, subscribe to Managed WordPress or WordPress Ecommerce (if you are in the selling business) to start blogging your business on your domain. Moreover, you may also make use of WordPress to help other businesses come online and build a second source of income for yourself as a people’s personal outlet.

Things Will Get Back To The Normal But The New Normal Is Different

Post-crisis time is the beginning of a new era. Just as the end of world-war-2 had given birth to new norms and ideals, the coronavirus crisis is also putting an end to old ways of doing things. So in order to thrive survive in your business you must study the new demand of consumers, and new ways of doing business. The new consumer is online, the individuals find it safer to work from home so you must establish a new way of doing business and that is bringing your business online and operating it on the remote.

The new way is actually an old way of the internet age, invented years ago, the difference is that most businesses (online or offline) were still using the norms of the industrial age until the coronavirus crisis put an end to their way of doing business. Whereas the norms of internet age which were invented years ago, are already in use by many businesses of the internet and they are not only successful but are unaffected from this time of global crisis. For example – Automattic, the team behind WordPress is completely online, they all work from home and they are operating their business like this since it’s inception.

If you think you cannot work hundred percent remotely because of the nature of your business or whatever then you are still living in the industrial age, and you have very little time left to transition to a distributed online business environment in the wake of the evolving coronavirus crisis.

So simply register your domain name, subscribe to Managed WordPress or WordPress Ecommerce as per your business requirement, and bring your business online. It is that simple, you can do it yourself, you can do it now, and you can do it for others as well to startup as people’s personal outlet and get into the business of helping others to come online.

Today Is COVID-19 Pandemic, Tomorrow Might Be Another Emergency

Many, if not most businesses are not able to work hundred percent online, remotely and this is because they are still living in the industrial age and waiting for the things to get back to normal, things will certainly get back to normal but the new normal will be different. The world is changed, the consumer is changed and who knows tomorrow might be another kind of emergency so it would be better for you to change your way of doing business and bring it online.

You might need to pivot in business and think about other opportunities, the additional services, and products which you can offer to your existing customers to overcome the loss in your business and build another safer stream of income that can work today and tomorrow without making you poor in any time of crisis. For this you should startup as people’s personal outlet and help other businesses to come online by offering them internet essentials such as domain name, making their business website or online store, or simply home-employing them as your outlet and share profit from each order they bring.

Start by following Sangkrit’s four fundamentals of cleaning your private space, cooking your vegetarian meals, programming your world, and blogging your business as this sufficiently prepares you for staying at home and stay unaffected from this crisis or any such thing in future. Its consistent course won’t let you become poor or dependent during any future emergency as well.

Keep Yourself, Your Family & Your Customers Safe

Start selling online, it is the only way left to keep yourself, your family, and your customers safe. It is the only way left to overcome the losses you are facing in your business. If you are in the selling business, it is important for you to bring your business online, accept orders from your website, and deliver them in a safe and healthy way to your customers.

eCommerce shipments have increased by the time and now more people are shopping online to keep themselves and their families safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. WordPress Ecommerce provides you an easy way to start your online store, add products, and get them delivered safely into buyers’ hands. So start selling online, it only takes a few minutes to start up your online store website. Simply register your domain name, subscribe to WordPress Ecommerce, and you are ready to sell your products online.

Store Pickup Is A Great Solution For Every Store That Sells Physical Products

Not all small businesses and local stores are capable of delivering products at doorstep, subscribing to a logistic service for nearby customers is also not a good choice and not all your customers will want the products to be shipped at their door. So enabling store pickup on your eCommerce website can be a great option for your business.

This way, you would be able to accept orders online, pack the baggage for each customer, and let your customers pick it up from your home or store without crowding your place. This is a great solution for nearly every kind of business that sells physical goods such as grocery stores, departmental stores, restaurants, electronics, and every shop that serves nearby and local people.

If you want to make things simpler then you may also leave the option of subscribing to a third party payment gateway service and simply enable bank transfer or UPI payment or pay on delivery or a wallet service such as Google Pay on your eCommerce website to start taking orders. WordPress Ecommerce facilitates you every option configurable from the admin panel of your website. So simply register your domain name, subscribe WordPress Ecommerce, and start selling online.

How To Activate Store Pickup Option In Your WordPress Ecommerce Website?

WordPress Ecommerce lets you start a fully functional eCommerce website yourself in minutes, to sell your products online. To enable store pickup you simply need to login to the admin panel of your website and follow the given steps.

  1. Navigate to WooCommerce -> Settings -> Shipping
  2. Select a Shipping Zone, and click the + icon to add a shipping method
  3. Select Local Pickup, and click Add Shipping Method
  4. Here, you can click Local Pickup again to change the way it displays during checkout
  5. Select tax options, choose a price, and save your changes.

That’s it. Your customers can now place their orders online and pick it up from your home or store when the package is ready.

Selling Your Products Online Is Cheaper And Easier Than You Think

The cost of registering a domain name is less than USD10 per year, the cost of hosting an eCommerce store online is less than USD2 per month, the cost of designing an online store website is zero and the time you need to make the website live on the domain name is less than 15 minutes. Hence, the monthly running cost of a fully functional website is not more than three US dollars.

Start selling your products online because this is the thing you can do to survive your business and save yourself, your family, and your customers from the coronavirus.

How To Start Selling Online?

If you want to go for the cheapest option then simply register your domain name, subscribe cPanel Starter hosting, and click WordPress icon on cPanel to install it on your domain name. Once WordPress is installed, simply install and activate the WooCommerce plugin. That’s it, your online store is ready.

WordPress Theme Installer Showing ‘Neve Theme’ Designs

And if you want to go for a bundled product and skip all the above-mentioned installation steps then register your domain name and simply subscribe to WordPress Ecommerce, add your products and start selling.

How To Home-Employ Yourself & Others?

Make good use of lockdowns to build a successful home-employment for yourself and your family. Simply start by following Sangkrit’s four-fundamentals of cleaning your private space, cooking your vegetarian meals, programming your world, and blogging your business to finally startup as people’s personal outlet and help other businesses to come online.

Register Your Domain Name

Everything on the internet starts with a domain name, the domain name is the newest kind of private property that can be owned, transferred and it worth your investment. Your domain name is online address to your business website.

So register your fullname.country or whatever you find appropriate to startup online and then subscribe Managed WordPress.

Subscribe To Managed WordPress

WordPress is more than a blogging platform, you can use it for blogging your business, to start selling online, or to use it for helping other businesses to come online by making their website. Whereas Managed WordPress is a complete online solution for your website. Just as your domain name is your online address, the Managed WordPress is a package of your WordPress site with a hosting option and useful tools you need to keep your website running online without needing anything else.

So when you register your domain and subscribe to Managed WordPress, you need nothing else but your time to start posting on your website.

Startup As People’s Personal Outlet

By starting up as people’s personal outlet, your work is to bring every business online. Help other businesses to set up their business website with WordPress Basic to start blogging their business. Help shop owners to start selling their products online with WordPress Ecommerce.

Instead of simply suggesting people the advantages of doing business online. You can help them as a problem solver, understand what problems they are facing, and then provide them with a solution.

You can do this by blogging on your domain and then sharing those posts with the business near you.

Instead of giving people a big budget of making a website, simply offer them a cheaper plan of per month costing.

For example – You can tell them they can start selling online in less than 15USD per month. Where about 6USD will go in the subscription of WordPress Basic, and 9USD will be your monthly fees to help them in the management of their website. This way if you make a thousand businesses your customers, your monthly income will be nine thousand US dollars per month which is a good starting point.

Thereafter you may expand by training other individuals and businesses to work as your outlet.

Save Your Business & Grow Online With WordPress Ecommerce

The shopping malls and supermarkets which destroyed many small businesses and local stores in the past are nowhere today. So you must make good use of this time and venture online not only to save your business but make use of a cost-effective business model that brings in more possibilities to grow online in less budget and less time.

WordPress Ecommerce is your complete solution to start selling online and blog your business to establish a strong online presence, once you are subscribed to WordPress Ecomerce you can simply add your products to start selling online with pay on the delivery payment method and use store pickup or home delivery options as per your ease.

So stop resisting the idea of doing business online, it is the only way left for you to save your business. Accept the change, register your domain name, subscribe WordPress Ecommerce and it will bring you more paying customers. It is the best way to move forward in this time of crisis and do a profitable business online.

Startup As People’s Personal Outlet

If you are reading this, then you are learned enough to understand what is this all about. So it becomes your responsibility to help other businesses and grocery stores in bringing their businesses online.

Introduce businesses with WordPress Ecommerce, help them to register their domain name, charge something for making their website, you can easily do that with WordPress, to build your home-employment as people’s personal outlet.

Start Selling Online From Your Smartphone

You can easily bring your business online and start selling your products from your smartphone. The things you will need is a domain name plus a subscription to WordPress Ecommerce and the products to sell.

The automated process of WordPress Ecommerce will take you to the admin panel of your dashboard from where you can manage your online store – From payments and shipping to product displays and categories, you can very easily customize every aspect of your online store.

WordPress Ecommerce is a bundled solution for businesses that want to sell their products online – wholesale or retail everything can be managed with the power of WordPress, WooCommerce, plus a variety of premium extensions and industry-specific themes to give a great look to your website. The security, uptime, and backups of your website can be automatically managed from your SANGKRIT.net account page so that you can just focus on selling your products online.

How To Build Your Online Store?

Simply register your domain name i.e. yourbusinessname.com or anything you prefer and the subscribe to WordPress Ecommerce. Complete the payment, then navigate to My Products page on SANGKRIT.net and follow the given steps:

  1. Click WordPress Ecommerce from the Products list
  2. Click Manage Button and follow the on-screen process

The on-screen process will add your domain name to your eCommerce website, help you enter your business name, payment details, select store type, set a good theme for your website and you will be taken to your admin panel dashboard from where you can start adding your products. Here also the page will assist you virtually on the go in helping you to know about the admin functions of your website.

How To Go Mobile?

The complete functionality of WordPress Ecommerce is mobile-friendly, so simply open your website on your mobile, login as admin, and start managing your online store website. Moreover, you may install the application on your Android or iPhone for managing orders, tracking sales, and monitoring store activity with real-time statistics.

Utilise Your Skills To Help Other Businesses

Now you know how to start up and manage your online store, so utilize your skills as a people’s personal outet and help other businesses come online.

Sell Anything Online From Anywhere

Selling online is the only way left to adapt and stay connected with your customers. Blogging when combined with selling online from your eCommerce store works as a free internet marketing platform, that helps you to get visible on search and get more paying customers.

WordPress Ecommerce gives you complete freedom to sell anything online from anywhere. You can sell anything from physical products to downloads, services, and subscriptions. You simply need to register your domain name and subscribe to WordPress Ecommerce.

The simplified setup process reduces the steps needed to get your online store up and running. Once the product is subscribed, it auto-installs WordPress, WooCommerce, and other important extensions so that you can simply focus on creating and managing your products from your admin panel.

Additionally, it provides SSL i.e. https encryption, daily backups, speed-boosting CDN with malware scans, and removal. Hence, it works as a complete product, a complete solution offering you a bundle of premium WooCommerce addons to customize your online store for the best consumer experience.

Blogging Is Equally Important For Local Businesses

Blogging your business is equally beneficial for small businesses serving in their locality as near about forty-six percent of searches made on Google have local intent. Eighty percent of Internet users own a smartphone, their general behavior is when they need something, they first search about it on Google and then contact the businesses located near them.

So when you blog your business on your domain, the possibilities of gaining new clients increases. Local businesses have a bigger opportunity as their competition is small and not every business located near you know the benefits of business blogging. So when you blog more, you grow more.

To start your own blog, you simply need to register your domain name and then subscribe to Managed WordPress. The automated process will take you to the admin panel from where you can start posting. You may start with microblogging by simply sharing the reasons you use to tell your customers to convince them to buy your products.

Once you successfully set up your own blog, you can help other businesses in doing the same, you may charge some amount for that and build up a second source of income by working as a people’s personal outlet.

If You Operate A Business, You Need A Website

Living under lockdowns and following social distancing with everyone around, it is no secret that you need the internet to market your products, services and serve your clients online. You cannot promote your business online if you don’t have a website which means you cannot blog, market, or advertise your business online without a website and you cannot have a website if you don’t have a domain name.

Doing Business Online Is The Only Way Left

In the past few years, the trend for consumerism has been increasingly grown by online shopping and now this new coronavirus pandemic has closed almost all other ways for people. So even if your offline business is not directly affected, doesn’t mean you can ignore the importance of coming online, the future is Internet anyways, the pandemic has just acted as an accelerant in the ongoing process of every business going online.

You Cannot Do Business Online Without A Website

On one side, people no longer able to walk to your business but on the other side, they are already using their smartphones and are more active on Internet so there is a big possibility for you to engage and serve them online.

And the only way to engage, interact, and serve your clients, as well as your prospects online, is nothing but your business website on your domain name.

You Can Make Your Website Yourself

The first and foremost thing is to register your domain name and then subscribe to Managed WordPress to bring your website online. Whatever business you own you can easily bring it online with the help of only these two things i.e. your domain name and Managed WordPress.

And then you can make use of your newly formed skills to build a second stream of income for yourself, by helping other people in bringing their businesses online.

Not All Businesses Can Survive

Not all businesses can survive this pandemic, many businesses will get permanently closed as many things will go out of fashion. But the Internet is open and will forever remain open. So if in case you own some business that cannot be operated during or post corona time then it becomes more important for you to build another source of income.

You can easily do so by starting up as people’s personal outlet and helping other businesses to come online.

How To Survive Your Business In 2020 And Beyond?

If you are in the business of essentials then bring it online, if you are not in the business of essentials then start blogging your business, pivot and think of the necessities you can alternatively provide to your existing clients to keep your business running. In such a case, it would be much better for you to startup as people’s personal outlet and help everyone around you in bringing their businesses online.

Some online researches during corona time suggest that there are near about thirty percent small businesses that have some sort of website. So you have got a big market to capture. Apart from this, most of the business and individuals are doing nothing, they are just sitting at home and waiting for something to happen so here you have another big opportunity of home-employing everybody to work as your personal outlet and bring you more referrers to get equally benefitted from the profit of each sale.

The rapid adoption of mobile technology and increased use of the Internet has made it easier for you to target and engage a big population online and help them with your products i.e. domain and website. Because, without a domain and website, there is no other way of operating any business online.

Designing Websites When You Are Not A Web Designer

This is the time when every small and big business needs a website and Managed WordPress not only allows you to design your website yourself but you can use it as a business tool for making websites at your own competitive pricing and helping other businesses to easily come online. It is a complete website solution offering you the design, hosting, backup, and security of your website altogether.

Designing a website comes down to three simple steps:

  1. Register the domain name
  2. Subscribe to Managed WordPress
  3. If necessary, install the industry-specific theme and plugin

Register A Domain Name

Try finding a domain name as unique as you are. If you don’t have an idea of a great domain name for your business then the best way is to register your own name as your domain and encourage others also for this.

A domain name is the online address of your website. It is also used for creating email addresses such as info@yourdomain.com

To get started, simply visit the domain registration page here, type the desired domain name to see if it is available. If available, then you are lucky, quickly register it and if in case it is taken then you will see other domain name alternatives on the page.

Subscribe to Managed WordPress

Managed WordPress is a complete solution for all types of business websites. Simply subscribe to it and the online step-by-step process will make select your options and enter important information regarding your website and in a minute or two, you will be taken to your website’s dashboard. The dashboard allows you to write blog posts, create pages, manage themes i.e. the design and layout of your website and everything else.

If Necessary, Install Industry Specific Theme & Plugin

The default WordPress interface itself is great for blogging your business or set up an informative website to capture business leads online. But in some cases such as while creating an online store etc, you will need to install industry-specific themes and plugin on your website. For this you simply need to explore from a wide range of free options accessible with your admin area dashboard.

Themes are responsible for the layout of your website whereas plugins are used for extending the functionality.

To find and install a new theme related to your or your client’s business, simply visit Appearance -> Themes page, click Add New button, and type your keyword. For instance – If you want to browse themes for eCommerce then type the keyword ‘eCommerce’ or if you want to install a theme related to your specific business industry then type that keyword.

You can do the same for plugins also. For instance – By installing a plugin called ‘WooCommerce’ you can turn your simple WordPress installation in your a functional online store.

So startup as people’s personal outlet and make use of WordPress to help people in bringing their businesses online