How to start online business

Online business is getting hot in recent year. Many people are thinking to maximize their income thru online business. Actually there are many available trading platforms, free tools, online tutorials to assist people to start online business. I would say even if you are non IT background, you still able to create an online business successfully.
Online business does not limit to product selling only, which can also be teaching courses or a variety of services too. Here I wish to share the idea on how to start online business.

Web trading Platform
EBAY (http://www.ebay.com.my)
Lelong.com (http://www.lelong.com.my)
Mudah (http://www.mudah.my)
All these platforms have huge customer base. They offer relatively secure platform and higher visibility of your product to end user.

Free Blog Platform
Blogger (http://www.blogger.com)
WordPress (http://www.wordpress.com)
Xanga (http://www.xanga.com)
In fact, blogs can also be used to start online business. I am highly recommended Blogger, because Blogger in Google’s search engine always has higher page rank, definitely it will bring more traffic to you blog page. Blogger offer more flexible way to customize your blog page, easier to use and support external plugin.
The benefits of using blog are you can have your own way to promoting your products. You can start from the scratch until the whole blog design. But, you need to devote more time to operate, update and increase popularity.

Forum
Chinese Cari (http://chinese.cari.com.my)
LowYat.net (http://forum.lowyat.net)
The advantage of above forums is always having high-traffic. Usually forum will have a channel allow commercial transactions. From those trading channel in forum, probably you can introduce your product then sell it to your customer. Keep in mind that different forums will have different trading rules and regulation, you must first understand and follow accordingly. Any violation may cause warning or account disabled.