Online Replication Tools

The following are the major Tools needed for replicating your small business online :

• Setup a small Website :First of all you setup a small website to market your product or service to the whole wide world. Setting up a small website is no big deal, especially with so many website builders and content management systems around, any one can build a website.Even a person with no knowledge of coding can setup and maintain a website with CMSes like Joomla,Drupal,etc.I will explain how to use Joomla and Drupal in my further posts.For now, just understand that setting up and maintaining a small website is pretty easy.
• Online Payment Facility: Next you need to provide your customers with a way to make payments online .This can be done easily by signing up to any of the payment processing gateways.Many of your banks provide payment gateways.But , it involves paying up a hefty setup Fees and monthly charges.But, we are not here to pay hefty amounts.So, we can sign up to free payment processing gateways like "PayPal" and "2Checkout".Once you sign up you will be provided with a code which you need to paste into your website.Once you do that , a customer after buying your product will be redirected to the payment gateway website and they can make payments over a secure channel.
• Live Sales Chat Facility : Next you need to have a chatback widget i.e Live Sales Chat widget that you have come across in many websites.You can also have a similar feature on your website at no cost.Just signup for the GTalk Chatback widget which i will explain in detail later.All you need to do is login to your Gtalk and stay online.All your site visitors will be able to chat with you in real time.
• Monetization : Next is the monetization part of your website.Yes , you can make your website self sufficient by using various means which i will explain to you later.

Thats it.These are the major tools needed to replicate your small business online.In my future posts , i will dwell on each of the tools at length giving you a clear picture about each one of them.We will discuss all aspects of each of the tool at length.