Starting an Internet business sometimes troublesome and complicated on first glance but actually it is easy as pie! Here are some tips on starting internet business that can simply done in your home computer!

Define what are you going to sell and what is the suitable website

You have to make sure on what are you going to sell. Is it music instrument? Headphone? Article? You have to make guidelines and if necessary, the business canvas first. If you are confused about how to make a business canvas or deciding what to choose just find it on this blog

Find best way for payment method

There are many payment methods that can be used in internet business nowadays, such as paypal, moneybookers, wire transfer and such but what is the most effective one? In our opinion, you should make a paypal account. The reason we tell this because paypal is widely used worldwide and updates their security regularly. Another payment that might be used is moneybookers. They use less money if you transfer funds using moneybooker but they are not widely acceptable.

Differentiate! Make it different

After we find out what to sell or make and the best payment method, now lets focus on the product and service that we have. To make our business successful, we have to make our product as unique and as “shiny” as possible. Make the product different! That is the key, to make this clear lets take a look at one of the

business in Indonesia called Keripik Maicih. Maicih is a spicy cracker that has various level of spiciness. Although spicy cracker is commonly found in Indonesia, Maicih use a different approach in promoting and distributing. Instead of using fliers and commercial, they are mainly using twitter social media. They don’t distribute on a fixed place but they are mobile each day and they stop on specific place each day and they just spread the news of where do they stationed on twitter. Uniqueness and curiosity of people makes this business grow rapidly

Promote! Promote! Promote!

Last tip I want to give you is promoting your business. Promotion may sound simple, but do you know most brands spend more than 50% of actual price of item for promoting? Promotion could be done in various ways, from word of mouth promotion, social media, or even advertising. If you figure out which one is the best promotion, sometimes social media is effective like Maicih did, but it doesn’t make it into the best. We have to focus on situation and determine which is the best promotional method and we will tell you the details later on

If we look again at the statements above we can see that find the guideline, find the payment method, differentiate product, and promotion are crucial to business development and stay tune into this blog to find out more. Online business is as those guidelines