EXPLORING ONLINE BUSINESS TOOLS: ALTERNATIVES TO CHALLENGES IN SETTING-UP AND CONDUCTING BUSINESS

Abstract

Entrepreneurships provides different communities with higher employment rates and stable economy. These two positive effects have increased importance and entrepreneur number around the world and especially in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The online business tools are developed to ease the process of running a business individually and increase the efficiency of an entrepreneur’s work and efforts for entrepreneurs to achieve this constructive change. The primary data is mainly collected through qualitative method and particularly interviews which conducted with small online businesses for application, Graphytes Design Lab business for case study and with experts in the field for validation. The secondary data was collected from different resources such as books, magazines and newspapers mainly found in the university’s library. This study is conducted on 11 entrepreneurial ventures to identify whether Saudi entrepreneurs were used online business tools. The study found most businesses are used online tools in the operation and management. In additions, the tools are compared with traditional way of hiring employees and professionals to achieve better method.