You’ve decided to sell online because you’re convinced that selling online has a number of advantages over selling by conventional methods:
1. No need to rent high street premises nor pay shop assistants. This means savings in set-up and operational costs.
2. Reaching a global audience, thereby increasing sales opportunities.
3. Receive payment more quickly from online transactions
4. Improving your offerings using the data gathered by tracking customer purchases.
5. Using your online shop as a catalog for existing customers.
But before you begin to sell any products online, you need to obtain all the facts about how to sell products online. It starts by answering the following questions:
1. What are you going to sell online? If you already have a bricks and mortar store then this question isn’t hard. You may simply want to sell your existing products online. If not, try to source products you’re passionate about and that customers will want to buy from you. Remember that there should be a significant demand for the products you’re going to sell online.
2. Will you be shipping locally or internationally? Come up with your shipping methods, the fees and write them down.
3. Are you familiar with Ecommerce solutions? Ecommerce solutions help you create a professional, cost-effective online store–selling whatever you want, whenever you want. To create your store free, visit http://www.intuit.com/ecommerce/create-your-online-store/.
4. How you’ll accept payments online? You have loads of choices- paypal, google checkout, credit cards or get paid directly into your bank account and many more!
5. What could be your store’s domain name? Get back on question no.3. Create your own online store in less than 15 minutes. Be creative in choosing your domain name- your domain name (such as www.YourStore.com) should be short and easy to remember. By default your store will be setup on http://[yourstore].intuit.com but you can switch to your own domain name from the Tools -> Move to Domain option in your store’s control panel.
6. What could be the look of your online store? Ecommerce solutions like in Intuit.com has beautifully crafted store designs for you to choose from. You can also upload your logo and customize the layout of your store using just a mouse.
It's now possible to create an online store with a look like this using the Ecommerce solutions!
Provided you already determine what to sell and created your online store (with the help of Intuit.com) , simply add products to your store complete with photos, descriptions and more! You’re all ready to launch your online store! You should add the URL of your online store to your business cards, invoices and marketing materials to help spread the word as quickly as possible.
Hopefully you now know how to sell online and have everything you need to setup your online store.
I am participating in a blog campaign for Bucks2Blog for an ecommerce solution company and was compensated. However, the views and opinions are my own.
