E-commerce Website Design: 5 Tips for Success
posted by CAPTIVATEDESIGNS.COM // January 15, 2010 // Build Your Website
Gone are the days where you need to have a brick and mortar store in order to run a successful retail business. Welcome to the world of e-commerce! The success of taking your retail business online starts with a solid marketing strategy and most of all an e-commerce website design, built for success. A great e-commerce website design makes it easy for your website visitor to do business with you. Here are five tips for making your e-commerce website design a success.
Getting Started with E-Commerce, Part 2 of 2
posted by SHAYGALLAGHER // July 23, 2009 // Build Your Website
Continued from Part 1 of Getting Started with E-Commerce.
Having a successful e-commerce site involves much more than just an "If you build it, they will come" mentality. You aren't ready to get started until you've done a significant amount of planning.
Getting Started with E-Commerce, Part 1 of 2
posted by SHAYGALLAGHER // July 23, 2009 // Build Your Website
Starting an e-commerce website from scratch can be a daunting task. Below is some of the basic information about e-commerce to help you get started.
How To Increase Online Sales With One Change
posted by WEBSITE MARKETING NOW // April 28, 2009 // Build Your Website
Your website exists to help your prospective customers achieve their goals or to eliminate their problems. Yet, why is it that so many websites focus on the company, the business and the products behind the website, instead of focusing on the customer?
Web Product Management For Ecommerce
posted by ZEMON // April 12, 2009 // Build Your Website
One of the first issues that pops up when you decide to sell your stuff online is product management. How will you get your e-commerce software to "understand" and nicely display your wares? I touched on this briefly in the article E-commerce Demystified when I discussed the "store front" or catalog.
Demystifying Ecommerce Website Design
posted by ZEMON // March 30, 2009 // Build Your Website
Commerce is commerce, whether done online or in person – you have products, your customer has money, and the two of you swap. Selling online is just like selling in a bricks and mortar store, except you do not need to dust the shelves, wash the windows, dress professionally, or even shave. You may not deliver any sort of product which you can hold in your hand, and you may not even be awake when you make your largest sale.
Components of Successful Ecommerce Website Design
posted by WEBSITES.COM // March 24, 2009 // Build Your Website
Many companies make the mistake of entering into a new e-commerce venture without sufficient planning and forethought. This will ultimately lead to frustration and increased development costs as mistakes are made and corrected. Understanding the fundamental components of an e-commerce site will help you evaluate basic requirements before committing resources toward an e-commerce solution.
Using an E-commerce Site to Sell Professional Services
posted by WEBSITES.COM // March 24, 2009 // Build Your Website
Although traditionally an e-commerce site will usually be used to sell tangible goods, there are some excellent ways in which an online store can be utilized to promote and vend professional services of all types. With a little imagination and ingenuity, almost every kind of professional can find a way to package their services in a way suitable for selling via an e-commerce system. Outlined below are several ideas aimed at inspiring every professional to find a way to effectively sell themselves online.
How To Use PayPal As An Ecommerce Payment Solution
posted by WEBSITES.COM // March 24, 2009 // Build Your Website
For most companies just starting down the road to a successful, profitable e-commerce site, the viable options for setting up a robust and secure payment gateway will be limited. While the optimal solution would be to open a merchant account with one of the many companies offering this service, for smaller on-line vendors the costs involved can be prohibitive. By using PayPal as the payment gateway costs are kept to a minimum and integration is easy and painless.
Increase Website Conversions By Turning Visitors Into Buyers
posted by ADMIN // March 18, 2009 // Build Your Website
Getting visitors to your e-commerce website is a hard job, getting visitors to make a purchase is even harder. However, it is much more cost effective to improve your website's performance and convert current site visitors than to generate new ones.