Starting an online business in Malaysia is a fearful event for many. Insecurity of income, quitting a day job and few other factors contribute to making a decision on starting a full time online business. However, there are few options, like starting from home while working part-time on low-budget business plan. The beauty of starting an online business is not owning any physical property. All you need to have at your disposal is good internet connection.
Have you ever thought of being an online entrepreneur?
There are some businesses which make you straight-off depressed when pondered upon initial start-up cost. However, it’s as easy to start an online business in Malaysia with low cost budget as it is to book a movie ticket online. It might take decent efforts for on-going maintenance, but giving it an initial start is one-man’s job. If you can figure out how to make good use of whatever you have at your disposal, you can get your business started easily.
Here, we’ve listed some necessary steps to start any online business.
First and foremost step while starting an online business is to figure out why you want to start an online business. It always starts with nicely structured business plan. Identify your mission statement and long-term vision for your business. The mission statement of your business helps you in figuring out the value of your business and the reason why your business exist online.
Once you decide your business plan and mission statement, the next step is to legally register your online business in Malaysia with Suruhanjaya Syarikat Malaysia (SSM). There are different procedures for different types of businesses
You are done with all the legal procedures. Now, it’s time to actually get an identity for your business by registering a nice domain name, getting a good hosting and a proper business email address. For domain name, there are plethora of domain registrars available. You may search for reviews and feel free to proceed with right one. As far as hosting an online business in Malaysia is concerned, you need to figure out technical needs of your business. After getting your business registered in Malaysia, you will be provided with unique business registration number or ID. Using this ID, you can register localized domains like .com.my making it look more credible in Malaysia. If you are starting ecommerce business in Malaysia, you have to get trustable and secured payment gateway!
Once you get good hosting and a domain name, the next step is to design a website with great user experience. If you feel the need to hire a team to help you with this task, go ahead and do that as your website is where your target customers would hangout. Also, take care of the load-time as slow-loading turns of lot of potential customers. Avoid the use of high-end animations to speed-up the loading time.
Once you are done setting up all the crucial parts of your business, it’s time to get customers. And, the best way to attract the customers is through advertising and promoting products on social media. The highly effective methods of online advertising are Google Adwords and Facebook Ads. Other than these two, there are multiple options available for social media marketing. Depending on what types of products you are selling and where your target audience hangs out most, you may prefer that medium over another.