January 11, 2023

Starting an Online Business in 2023

by Nikita Sparrow

💡 Making any business is a challenging process, however, in the world of fast developing technologies it takes a lot of effort to keep up with it. This is why I decided to create this guide in order to help you to start your own online business.

Starting

First of all this guide is going to include useful tools for your online business. This guide does not have any information about coming up with ideas for one.

Collecting payments

Most important for business to survive is to make profit. This is why we are going to start with apps that help you to make card payments available on your website. My personal favourites are:

Stripe | Payment Processing Platform for the Internet

Accept Payments Anywhere - Grow Your Business | Square

These two tools are going to help with collecting payments, please read carefully the term&conditions about which businesses they work with, as some of the businesses are not allowed in these entities.

Automating your tasks

Automating your tasks and saving your time is crucial nowadays, this is where Zapier comes very handy as it helps you to speed up the simple business tasks.

Zapier | Automation that moves you forward

Design

In terms of design apps, I personally prefer Adobe XD, however, Figma has been bought recently by Adobe. As of now Figma still says one of the leading tools to use for digital design. I prefer the UX/UI design more in Adobe XD, however, when it comes to working with the clients, functionality and the collaboration of the workspace Figma comes first.

Adobe XD Learn & Support

Figma: the collaborative interface design tool.

Building a Web-Site

Although there are many option of website builders available out there, the one that I like the most. Its simple design makes all the tools available very intuitive and easy to create website. This is why I love wix.com the most. Other website builders to consider are WordPress.com for more flexibility and complexity and Shopify.com for setting up E-Commerce business.

Free Website Builder | Create a Free Website | Wix.com

Getting a Domain

Domain market has a lot of competition with godaddy.com and domains.google being the biggest ones on the market. Simply choose the name of your business and see which prices are going to be cheaper for a specific name.

Make Your Own Way | GoDaddy UK

Google Domains - Register Your Domain Name - Google Domains

A.I.

ne of the most useful A.I. right now would be ChatGPT by OpenAi, simply type anything you want and you will be able to find answers to your questions. I use ChatGPT for email templates.

ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue

Conclusion

Although building business can be challenging at the times, my hope is this guide helped you. Thank you very much for reading and I hope you liked it!