As the time goes by, WordPress is becoming very popular as a CMS (Content Management System). If you’ve already started blogging in WordPress, may be you are thinking of setting up an online business. The first thing to solve any problem is to identify it. Once you identify it, it’s very simple to get the solution. In this case you have to think what exactly you need to start an online business on your WordPress site.
When it comes to set up an online business with WordPress, You need to have 3 things-
1. A WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin.
2. A WordPress Affiliate Plugin.
3. A WordPress Membership Plugin.
Why do you need to have those plugins?
- If you want to sell anything from your blog, you really need to have a reliable and easy to use WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin Which will automatically handle all your product sales.
- Once you start selling products from your own website, you will certainly want to increase the sales. To increase your sales you need more traffic. You can get more traffic if other people refer traffic to your website. But they won’t refer traffic until you offer them a specific commission for each conversion. That’s why you need to have an Affiliate program on your website.
- When you have both the shopping cart and affiliate program running, you can now set some of your blog contents (e.g- page,post) to premium so that only paid members can view those. A fully featured Membership plugin will be useful in that case.
Recommended Solutions
As we have figured out what we need to have to set up an online business, Let’s discuss about the possible solutions.
1. eStore
It is a user-friendly WordPress shopping cart plugin developed by tipsandtricks-hq.com. You can sell any kind of digital or non-digital product from your website with this plugin. In fact, I’m using this plugin to sell e-book from my site. They provide great support to the customer.
You can see the Official plugin demo videos to see how it works-
i) eStore Installation
ii) eStore Settings Configuration
iii) How to Configure a Product
iv) How to Display a Product on a Post or Page
2. Affiliate Platform
This is an easy to use WordPress affiliate plugin to manage your affiliates. With this plugin any one can sign up for an affiliate and promote your product on his/her website.
Here is the official demo videos to see how the plugin works-
i) Affiliate Platform Installation
ii) Affiliate Platform Settings Configuration
iii) Affiliate Platform Affiliate Banner/Link Creation
iv) Affiliate Platform Click and Sale Tracking Test
3. eMember
A fully featured membership plugin for WordPress. With this plugin you can easily create different membership levels and protect different contents of your blog for different members.
Here is the eMember official demo videos on plugin usage-
i) eMember Installation
ii) How to Create Membership Levels
iii) Configuring the Settings Options
iv) Managing Content Protection
v) Integration with eStore for membership payment
Another good thing about all these plugins is they are pre-integrated with one another so you can use them simultaneously.
If you want to set up your website for online business, you can get all the plugins here:
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very informative. I want to set up a wordpress business like this
thanks
Great suggestions to get your online business up and going using WordPress. The great thing about WordPress is it is easy to use and get going even if you are a beginner.
All 3 are good plugins, good value for the money
I stumbled by chance to this blog site after wasting so much much money on other products that are never as good as these ones. You have a very broad category of products that is more than enough to put one in business in record time.
Your response time to inquiries are superb. I contacted you for additional explanation on some of the plugins and the in less 12 hours I got a feedback. This is incredible and amazing, especially when compared to other publishers.
I have since signed up to affiliate your products. I’m impressed!
Thanks a lot for these information and demo. I stumbled by chance to this blog and it’s so nice and easy to demonstrate. I’m sure I will be back again during my journey to build my online e-store. Thanks once again.
Nasser
Online business are great but it is hard to start and succeed in it.;,
online business is one of the best thing to engage with, it is quite easy to market products on the internet;*,
Yes, I agree that in some way it is really hard to start.. Because this is not a get rich quick scheme approach. Rather you’ll be given all the information you need to have a focused strategy and the means to get up and running and earning money right from the very start…
Trying to set up an ecommerce site when I barely know my domain from my host is so complicated, but your helpful article gives me great insight as to what my revised website needs. Thanks so much for a very clear and insightful post.
great job. But how can i succeed it?
Very informative thank you. But correct me if I’m wrong you’re talking about having your Wordpress website hosted with Wordpress.org not Wordpress.com. It took me some time and serious research to understand why I couldn’t find everything you’re talking about in the videos. Then I finally found info about how you can only have plugins if your site is a Wordpress.org website. Correct? Otherwise I’m super keen to follow your guidelines for an online business. Thanks.