Tuesday, January 29, 2013

15 Must Follow Tips to Get Success in Ecommerce Business


Starting an ecommerce website or business is not so tough, since there are plenty of free resources now available on net like, free ecommerce script, free template, free plugin and so on. Running it successfully to earn money is a complicated task that need to overcome by every ecommerce entrepreneur. Making our ecommerce website more unique is the factor where our success lays on. Here I would like to share few things to grab crown in ecommerce business. Even though, the tips suggesting methods are so little, they have the capability to change your business trend and success way.

  1. Be clear in your goal or objective. Make it visible to your customers. Confirm often, that you are working towards your object and not skipping from it.
  2. Home page is the place which attracts more visitors. So place your best selling products and pricing on home page. It will improve you sales more.
  3. Plan – Do create a plan for your business. Follow the best rules to make the business model.
  4. KYC – Know your customer. Maintain feed back form where ever possible on your site. So that you can get ideas from clients, like why they have not purchased? What would they like to have? Problems for them in ordering and so on. But make sure that your feed back form wont distract their shopping experience.
  5. Advertise on relevant sites, it attracts more visitors to your site. I would suggest you to use Google adwords to get better ROI on advertising campaign.
  6. Test Often. Better to test your site features, payment gate ways, ordering page and all. Make sure often that everything working fine.
  7. Track your analytics – Know more about Google analytic. Track visitors, country, most no.of visited product page, sales count and so on. It helps you to make better advertising or marketing campaign for your brand.
  8. Best suggestion is to use HD images for all your ecommerce products.
  9. Learn Marketing- Dont wait for order to come. Let them know about your products, service, and offers. So that you can triple your sales. Use all marketing methods to grab buyers for your ecommerce site.
  10. Be active in social media. Social media is a power tool to get more business leads. Create page on facebook, twitter and never forget pinterest. Share you product images on pinterest for better exposure.
  11. COD – Try to offer Cash on delivery to all possible regions. It will improve the trust on your brand and service.
  12. No delay in shipping. Try to commit with best shipping agents and do not make any delay in shipping the order. Make sure that order reached customer with full safety.
  13. Dont miss any special occasions like Christmas, New Year, Valentines day and more. Offer special discount, deals and combo for customers.
  14. Do maintain the mailing list to use for email marketing.
  15. Perform the business administration role well. Do not trust anyone, do enter into field and monitor each and every work of your ecommerce business.