Start Building Your Online Business

Here at TheFigCo, we help you turn your idea into a business and help you grow your business online. We work with both personal brands and small businesses.

If you’re looking to create your personal brand, you can sign up for our free 7-day personal branding course here.

To run a successful online business, you must create your website and social media accounts, grow an audience on social media, YouTube or your blog, collect emails from your audience, build their trust and offer them products or services to make sure that you earn an income for the work you’re putting in.

One of the first steps to building your business is to create your website. To build your website, you first need a domain. We recommend getting domains from Namecheap. If you want to see a comparison of Namecheap, GoDaddy and other domain websites, check out this video.

Having a professional email is the next step, we recommend G Suite by Google for a business email. The basic plan is $6 per month. Here’s a tutorial of how to set up your email and connect it to your domain.

Once you have your domain, on what platform will you build your website? All of our websites are built with Squarespace. We love the platform so much we created a free course to help you build your own website, sign up here.

Grow your Community

The two main channels we use to grow our community online are YouTube and Instagram.

If you’re looking to create a YouTube channel, you can sign up for our guide to getting started on YouTube here.

Also, here is a playlist of our videos on YouTube to help you grow your YouTube channel.

Instagram has been a great tool for us to grow our audience and for them to know us better.

If you’d like to grow your Instagram followers, sign up for our guide Instagram for Non-Instagrammers here [COMING SOON].

Another secret weapon for traffic generation that is oftentimes overlooked is Pinterest, check out our latest Pinterest video on YouTube here.

Build your data base

While you are building an audience on YouTube, Instagram or your favorite social media platform, it’s important to get people off of that platform and to sign up for your email list. This allows you to better stay in touch with your followers and also segment them into their interests and better help them.

We recommend using ConvertKit for email marketing, they recently launched a free plan where you can create unlimited sign-up forms and landing pages and send emails to up to 1,000 subscribers.

Here’s an overview of how to get started with email marketing.

If you want to learn how to create a landing page to get email sign-ups, here is another video.

To get people to sign up to your email list you must give them something of value for free, this could be an eBook, guide, email course, etc. What we find to be the most effective way to grow your business is through webinars. We recommend using Demio to host your webinars.

Here are 10 Benefits to hosting webinars and a step by step tutorial video on how to create a webinar with Demio.

Learn more

Have you thought about creating online courses? We have several courses through Teachable.

In this beginner course, you’ll learn everything you need to know to set up your Squarespace website. We’ll walk you through how to connect your domain, design and edit the pages, set up email marketing, connect Google Analytics and more. Learn more.