Before we start, let's share me a little story of my friend with you. The story is something about the creation of an ecommerce website, which will motivate you. His mother was outstanding in textile handcrafting. In a small town where they were living, all the handcrafted textiles were very popular and sold easily. However, my friend was not happy with this limited sales opportunity. He was thinking; why we could not nationalize our craft business throughout the internet? His thought was an excellent, and somebody advised him to enter the ecommerce business by creating an ecommerce website that eases him to create more sales opportunities and marketplace. He went through the solution was the computer, the internet and ecommerce, but he was not much familiar with all these technologies.
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After all, he met an ecommerce web developer, who shared some useful steps to create an ecommerce website as follows to him…
The internet and Ecommerce are the perfect solutions to sell the goods and services of any kind. We all know this, and it requires having an ecommerce site that visibly stores all these products with the ease of good design, quality products and the essential SEO factors.
People expect something different from each class of online business...
- People prefer to buy the textile handcrafting materials once they feel and touch it, so when it goes online, make sure about the quality of images that displays these kinds of products.
- Branded products, e.g. Raymond's suits that people orders without feeling.
- Licensed Software – it requires having the best after-sale customer support.
- Banking products and services – the site rendering these products and services should provide high level of security of the data collected from the potential customers.
As an Entrepreneur…
It is not required to have computer skills but a little knowledge in web designing, SEO ease you to negotiate with the webmaster. If you already have some ideas about placement and promotion regarding the products, it should get several estimates and accept that which is closest to what you really want to sell and in what quantities.
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Quote for an e-commerce website…
When you quote for ecommerce website designing, it is also essential to know the resources of the company that will design your ecommerce site and put it online. Indeed, the variety is required. On the net, you can end up with many ecommerce sites that are curiously similar in design.
Offer piece of mind…
One-step is to prefer the name of its domain and its extension. A short name is certainly much more catchy and memorable. We must also think about the future consumers and offer them peace of mind with respect to the payments mode, procedures and resources.
Offer more security…
Like any merchant, an ecommerce site is subject to the particular terms and conditions e.g. price, mode of delivery, return. They are clear and precise so the customers have been confident when buying something from your store. One can easily contact the ecommerce site representative via email or phone. The images that go along with the products must be professional. The product description should not delude the consumer to create a mistake. Make sure about the pricing, tax and other charges to the product at the shopping cart level.
Lastly, advertising…
In order to attract more customers, one best way is to build a blog with the site to keep informing your customers about the new products' launch, discount, coupons, etc. The next is to list your site into the top directories for better visibility of your site into the search engine. Offer and increase the newsletter subscribers to build a customer loyalty.
Therefore, creating an ecommerce site takes time, investment and particularly the frequent updates!