Once you make the decision to start your own ecommerce business, the process of launching the online store, it is usually somewhat confusing and overwhelming. There are many decisions to make, so targeting the wrong areas can waste time and effort. It is therefore convenient to know the key aspects when starting an online store.
1. Select an easy-to-use shopping cart
Select a shopping cart that is easy to use, allows you to focus on other important aspects of ecommerce, including the creation of valuable content, interaction with customers, business marketing, etc. Ideally, opt for a fully hosted subscription-based cart, as these services take care of all the hosting, payment integration, and technical details.
2. Launch the online store as soon as possible
Launch a online store quickly is one of the best things that can be done by an Ecommerce business. Investing in a perfect online store to satisfy customer needs, wants and problems is almost certainly a waste of time. Instead it is better to get the store up and running as quickly as possible so that you can interact with customers and learn from them. Once you have a more accurate idea about your customers, you can improve your site based on these new insights.
3. Do everything you can for yourself
When you start your first Ecommerce business, the recommendation is to do as much as possible on your own. That is, if you do not understand how your business works from the fundamentals, you will not be able to train your team effectively in the future. In addition, having to depend on programmers, web designers, webmasters, etc., every time something needs to be modified, in the end it ends up being very expensive.
Good morning, hna query what do you mean by selecting the cart correctly? Is it a plugin? Or does it come by default in a theme?
Hello Susana, thank you very much for your very useful advice, I would like to know if we can contact you directly. Greetings from Peru.