eCommerce, How much does it cost?

Written by Dennis Dadey


Making profits with your existing website design or creating a new online store can be exciting, affordable and most of all; rewarding. Mmmm . . . that's whatrepparttar last sales guy told me.

What is eCommerce (or selling viarepparttar 108745 Internet)? It is similar to selling through a physical building's business storefront, with one big difference:repparttar 108746 costs for eCommerce are lower. The lower costs alone make it a lot more affordable for someone to start up a business or expand their storefront business ontorepparttar 108747 Internet.

So,repparttar 108748 cost to do online business depends on how much time and effort you are able to put in andrepparttar 108749 eCommerce developer you choose to work with. Generally, developers should try to enable their clients to be as independent as possible in areas such as daily site updates, processing online orders, customer feedback and low or no cost (except time) online marketing.

Hosting costs are determined by:repparttar 108750 amount of 1) server space you require for product photos, e-mail accounts, and 2) bandwidth -repparttar 108751 more customers that visit your store,repparttar 108752 more bandwidth you will require. Typically an online store setup may cost $15 to $90 per month for hosting.

Other costs include online store program and designingrepparttar 108753 storefront. There are many programs to choose from with some being free to some costing thousands. As with anything you buy, you do get what you pay for. Clients like to use online store setups that are easy for them to use when they need to do product updates and simple design changes. That wayrepparttar 108754 initial higher cost forrepparttar 108755 client's online store will be offset by ease of use and low maintenance costs to operate overrepparttar 108756 long term.

Next we have graphical design costs, that can range from $70 for a pre-designed store template to a built from scratch setup that can cost $500 and up. If you have only a few products I would suggest starting withrepparttar 108757 pre-designed store template asrepparttar 108758 cost is low andrepparttar 108759 look is quite professional, with only a small amount of time required to input text and make some minor modifications to suit your requirements. If you have quite a few products and they are quite different from each other, you may incur more cost to developrepparttar 108760 graphic design as each product category will have a look designed just for that category.

Increase Business By Being Nice.

Written by mark white


Increase Business By Being Nice.

I have been reading articles on increasing sales using search engine optimisation as well as writing them for a very long time and I have not seen many which point outrepparttar best way to increase sales.

The answer is obvious yet often overlooked; you just have to be as good to your customers as you would expect any other site owner to treat you.

The World Wide Web is vast andrepparttar 108744 choices are many, it doesn't matter what you want you have probably got a choice of 30,000 to 3,000,000 sites to pick from.

Our customers will become repeat customers if they are provided a personal service that exceeds their expectations.

The Internet has been a boom for many people, businesses have sprung up and their owners have managed to make a living from them, some more than others.

The Internet has also taken awayrepparttar 108745 contact we used to have with shop assistants, we no longer see shopping as a personal experience and I think this is a real shame.

You can't ask questions, you can't seerepparttar 108746 goods you are buying and you don't get a feel forrepparttar 108747 person you are dealing with.

It is down to us,repparttar 108748 seller,repparttar 108749 owner,repparttar 108750 customer service manager to provide a personal service to these people who entrust us with their hard earned cash to provide not only value for money but also a service that will leave them with a warm glow in their heart and a need to return to us for further purchases.

We will also getrepparttar 108751 benefit ofrepparttar 108752 most valued advertising; FREE word of mouth recommendations are invaluable and must never be underestimated.

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