What is E-commerce web site?
E-commerce(electronic commerce) web site is an interface between you and the person who is selling something via Internet. It is paperless way of shopping which save our time. As the world is changing rapidly way of selling and buying products or services also changing. Try to memorize those days when we have to walk away from home to buy or sell something. E-commerce web site made our life easier ans relaxed. E-commerce websites provides facility to see all the products available, select them and finally purchase them by making payment using your plastic money.
Finally we can say that E-commerce website provides a way of online marketing and shopping.
Why we need a E-commerce website?
Being a business man who provides sells and services to users, in this competitive world you must have a E-commerce website. In a world where we are standing at the edge of technology all of us want everything with less effort. Actually we don't have time to go some place to buy something. Then what a person who sells anything will do? Obviously you have to reach to them with your products. Using a e-commerce website you can present your products to perspective buyers. E-commerce website offers you options like arranging your products in different category, assigning different rate according to the group with ease. You can show products with all the features and price which can attract your customers. E-commerce web sites provides online payment facility.
Being a user or customer what we want? We want all of our needs should be available at the tip of our finger so it can save our time and efforts. E-commerce web site make our work easy whether we want any service or want to buy some product. When we are using online services and we can not see the real product then we take decision about product by looking the site and how they are presenting their products and services to us. If a site looks attractive then we spent some time over there and inspect other elements like features offered, payment facility etc.
How to develop E-commerce website?
Developing an E-commerce website is never easy. For that you have to do a careful planning. If you are not going to follow the basic things you will not be successful. Make sure your site covers all the elements of a E-commerce website.
Here are the basic things which a business man should follow :
- Decide which product or service you are going to provide online.
- Decide price of your product or service.
- Decide your business structure.
- Set your expectation.
- Target your customers or users.
- Start with a smart plan .
- contact with people who provides payment gateway.
- Don't compromise with security.
This is the general introduction about WHY and HOW. In the next post I will be specific about these things.
