So you have opened your new business. You must be selling your product or service in your local community. And you've been told by your friend that having your business published online would increase your sale. So you call in a web designer to create a website for your business and upload your products and your done, you'll increase your sale. Well, not really.

You have to market your store. You have to find ways to get your business get noticed online and increase your web presence. Try to imagine yourself in a crowd trying to sell your product. And there's a buyer who wanted to buy looking at the crowd of business owners. You have to get noticed. You have to have your eye-catching banner waving to the buyer or more buyers.

So, for you to succeed doing your business online. You have to do marketing strategies. You have to have your site on top of other competitor's website. That is, when a buyer looks for a product online and fire up his/her favorite search engine, you have to be on top of the list. Being on top of the search result list is a competition that you must win in order to succeed.

So, How to Market your Store Online?

Let me share some of the basic strategies in marketing your online store. This strategies are Search Engine Optimization and Email Marketing.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a way of improving the quantity of traffic to your site. SEO is separated in two ways, On-Page and Off-Page. On-Page SEO refers to your site itself. How was your website designed, the contents in your website, and targeted keywords.

Email Marketing is a way to convert your visitors into paying customers. Your website must have a way to get emails from your visitors. You may implement subscriptions, that is a visitor would received something for free if they subscribe and give their email address.

That's two of the strategies you should implement once you have your website. There a lot ways other than those.

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