| E-Business and E-commerce are different | | | | and to the point and be the major focus of |
| concepts although they are closely related. | | | | your business idea. |
| E-commerce refers to selling products online, | | | | |
| whereas e-business refers to using Internet | | | | Once you find a web hosting site with a |
| technology as an integral part of your | | | | reasonable price, then you can start getting |
| business. Some examples of these Internet | | | | the articles or catalog ready for the site. |
| technologies include email, banking online | | | | You should set up a folder on your computer |
| and web-based customer relationships. In | | | | and save all your material as .txt. If you do |
| short, if you use the Internet to help you | | | | not know HTML, then there are software |
| succeed in your business, then you are | | | | programs you can buy that will write the code |
| involved in e-business. | | | | for you. Some examples of this are Microsoft |
| | | | Frontpage and Dreamweaver. All you have to do |
| To get started in ebusiness, the first step | | | | is copy and paste your material into the page |
| is to establish a presence on the Internet. | | | | and save it to a web folder. Using an upload |
| The way to do this is to set up a website. | | | | program, such as File Zilla, you can then |
| Although a lot of people hire a webmaster to | | | | upload the pages to your website. |
| do this for them, it is something that you | | | | |
| can do yourself if you have the time. The | | | | You do have to submit your site to the search |
| first thing you have to do is find a host for | | | | engines and it may take several months for |
| your website and determine a name. You can | | | | your site to show up in the rankings. Being |
| use .com, .net, .info or one of many other | | | | aware of keyword optimization techniques also |
| forms of an address, but the main focus of | | | | makes it easy for the search engines to find |
| the name has to be about your business. You | | | | you. Once you get started with e-business, |
| may have to do a lot of searching to find one | | | | you will be hooked and will starting to set |
| that isn't already taken. It should be short | | | | up a lot more websites. |