Creating a new website isn’t quite as simple as selecting a single piece of software anymore. Many websites are the combination of several different pieces of software. These different plugins work together to provide the functionality and features on the website. Your website works best with a combination of carefully selected web apps and plugins.
Retail stores need to think about a lot before building an ecommerce website for their business. In this article we discuss three key things to consider before you ever hire a developer to begin coding.
Before building an ecommerce website you need to do each of the following.
Let’s face it, operations isn’t the most popular business function. Figuring out processes can be its own time consuming process! But, when it comes to ecommerce it is absolutely necessary. If your operational processes aren’t in order your customer will feel it! That’s why this blog walks you through the basic operations processes you’ll need to run an ecommerce business effectively.
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A common mistake is to misjudge the worth of something we cannot touch. It is easy to see a website and imagine it is easy to build, maintain or grow simply because it looks simple on our screen. But, we know this is not true.
Your USP is your Unique Selling Proposition. In other words, what makes you different? What makes it unique and therefore valuable to buy from your business versus any other business?
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Before you start building an ecommerce website for your business there are some questions you need to answer. First, who manages your website right now? Without a plan to manage an ecommerce website you are doomed from the start.
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Let’s have an honest conversation with ourselves. This is important. It is often difficult. Before we begin, let’s start with an analogy.
Building an ecommerce website for your retail business takes a lot of time, energy and money. Before you start building you need to have a plan. Ask yourself these 8 questions before you begin the process.
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As a society we track everything. We track votes. We track athletes stats. In business, we track our revenue and our expenses. One of the most important metrics we check is the cost of goods sold. We track employee hours and pay rate. We track almost everything we can get our hands on so we can make good decisions about how to run our business. You track your number of likes on Facebook and we track the number of email addresses we’ve collected. Why the heck wouldn’t we track our website traffic?
Your websites should capture leads for your business.