The Internet is now a thriving industry. With the knowledge advancing at a quick pace, more and more people are exposed to computers and internet. Increasingly they are learning to utilize the Internet for their day to day needs. Here Ecommerce websites take a front seat, moving out to the millions of people looking for your kind of product or services online.
Ecommerce or Electronic Commerce is actually trading of, either goods or services on the internet.
Before making any decision in business, it is worth taking into consideration the benefits, the company would reap on implementation of the new strategy of Ecommerce. Therefore, the most important thing that you must consider here is whether your business actually needs ecommerce?
Ecommerce-is it for you?
The advent of ecommerce websites has brought vast change in the process of purchasing and selling goods. In this regard, it is important to consider websites like ebay, amazon etc. They have broadly used the ecommerce procedure to generate sales revenue.
So, whether you already have a business or initiating a new one, whether the volume of your business is large or small, you can always generate profit by displaying your products or services online, thereby gaining a huge amount of viewer exposure. In a nutshell, just any selling/buying business can benefit by the ecommerce method.
How can an ecommerce website help you earn higher sales revenue?
There are several advantages of having an ecommerce website.
Revealation – Your products showcased on your website, provides a huge exposure to the millions of visitors on the web. For example, if you have a computer showroom in a city, the visitors would include people from in and around the city. Once in a while there will be visitors from places outside your city. Thus limiting your product visibility. On the other hand, if your products are demonstrated on a website, it attaches you to the abundant people who access the internet and looking for similar product as that of yours.
Time and Convenience – Time is one of the critical factor in our lives now-a-days. A customer may find it difficult to visit your store physically everytime. Instead, if you have your store presented on the Internet, anyone can pay a visit to your online store at their expedient time.
Your store closes at some point of time. But your e-store works 24X7 for you to bring in customers.
Moreover, with all your product images and descriptions provided on your estore, the customer gets a meticulous idea about your product and you do not have to spend time briefing the same thing to each and every visitor to your store. Moreover, it greatly saves time consumed per tranaction. Any sales executive will definitely take some time to illustrate your product to each customer. Your ecommerce website carries out similar job to hundreds and thousands of your potential customers at the same time. As all the information about your product are provided earlier to your customer’s visit, much less time is required to convey the benefits of your product to them, thereby making it easier to close the deal. Thus, many number of transactions can occur within a day.
Presenting your Product through Demonstrations and illustrations, depicts a clear and thorough idea about your product without the effort of hiring and training personnel to do so.
Cost Effective – Setting up and maintaining a store in a prime location and its overhead expenses, hiring personnel etc costs you a lot of money. Alternatively using the ecommerce is a more efficient way of demonstrating and giving information about your products.
In addition promotion of your store and its products needs to be carried out from time-to-time. Using web as a media of advertising your website, is much cheaper compared to that of other audio-visual medias, like radio or TV.
In an ecommerce website all you need to have is a top-notch website design, that looks equally capable as your competitor, Search Engine Optimization to rank your website with your other competitors, and the annual hosting fees.
Generally speaking, there are no major barrier of Ecommerce websites.
Gradually, many people are beginning to comprehend the fact that, ecommerce is an extremely feasible means of purchase as compared to the age old traditional process of buying. Thus, with this ever emerging technology, ecommerce will continue to mature globally and in due course become a key business strategy that has to be adopted, to thrive in the fast-growing market and keep abreast with your competitors.
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#1 by Julia on April 25th, 2010
eCommerce is the conducting of commerce with goods and services over the Internet. It includes: consumers using the Internet to purchase goods and services online; as well as businesses selling and communicating with other businesses through the Internet.
Electronic Commerce (also referred to as EC, e-commerce eCommerce or ecommerce) consists primarily of the distributing, buying, selling, marketing and servicing of products or services over electronic system such as the Internet and other computer networks.
#2 by Ryan B on April 26th, 2010
Yes, blogging is one of the good idea. The reason is you can use article marketing to boost the traffic and let your visitor know more about your product
#3 by Beige on April 26th, 2010
California has many special taxing jurisdictions (districts), which are funded by a transactions (sales) and use tax rate that is added to the standard statewide rate of 7.25%, effective January 1, 2002. The tax rates for these districts range from 0.10% to 1.00% per district. In some areas, there is more than one district tax in effect. In others, there is no district tax in effect.
I've attached a link to this to help you out.
#4 by James on April 26th, 2010
Not a Big Deal.. Let me explain..
Create some web 2.0 Property Pages for all his targeted keywords as the url with some description included about the product and image of it and finally bookmarking them using tools like Bookmark Demon)shareware) or Social Marker.
Try to participate in Forums. Forums would really help you. Don't promote your business in the start. Post some constructive messages for all the crap in that forum and finally yours. It should be like 1:10 ratio. 10 shouldn't be related to your niche and 1 should be yours.
Try to post the ads in all Major Ad Portals like Craigs List. This would really helps. You can go by regional with Craigs List. If your client wants some regional traffic then do some research and search for local ad sites () you would find many ad sites for free. You can even bookmark the ad url which would drive people to it.
Finally make use of Google Base. Create an Ad with some description and bookmark the same..
Hope this help..
Regards
Bharath Reddy
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#6 by quest1 on April 27th, 2010
I looked into lots of solutions but opted for Paypal in the end. Their fees are most reasonable and there is no upfront payment required. I did technically have my account frozen as I had reached their designated limit for receiving money but I was still able to send & receive money and then received an e-mail saying that the limit had been lifted so it didn't cause me any inconvenience. I would recommend them. Their customer service also works well as you get a personal contact who keeps in touch with you throught the setup process.
#7 by Shanook on April 27th, 2010
You're in a bit of a squeeze here. Oregon doesn't have a sales tax so there's no issue with goods shipped to OR.
Hawaii doesn't have one but DOES have a Gross Receipts Tax that you will pay on your TOTAL RECEIPTS regardless of where the goods are shipped to or from. Your best bet would be to simply pad your prices by the amount of the GRT since you'll pay it regardless of where the buyer is located. Although it's common to state the GRT separately on receipts in HI, it's not a requirement and you don't collect it and render it in the manner that you would a traditional sales tax.
#8 by Rose on April 28th, 2010
This will give you a step-by-step tutorial how to build an e-commerce website using Linux, Apache,Mysql, PHP (aka L.A.M.P)
http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Building-an-ECommerce-Site-Part-1-Building-a-Product-Catalog/
#9 by CrazyOn1 on April 28th, 2010
wow, that's incredibly vague. You should include things like what language you're programming in, ideally post some code along with the question. I'm not trying to chew you out or anything, just trying to help you ask future questions a little more clearly. That being said…
Basically you're going to need to make an HTML form with some inputs so the user can input whatever data you need for a user. Also, you need to set the action attribute on the form to the name of the file that will process the information (php, python, jsp, etc file).
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<form action="file.php">
<input type='text' name='name'/>
<input type='password' name='password'/>
<input type='text' name='email'/>
<input type='submit'/>
</form>
…
clicking the submit button will push the input's data to file.php. Depending on what language you're using, you will use different syntax to get those parameters and enter them into the database. I'd at least need to know what language you're programming in to help you out anymore. good luck, hope that was some help