eBook Bounty Times eZine Issue No. 27

July 7, 2007 by eBookBounty · Leave a Comment
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“Helping You Succeed In Your Internet Business”

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FEATURE ARTICLE - Opening a Web Shop with E-Commerce Software
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Author: Keith Bowman of eBookBounty.com

If you have products to sell, then your number one reason
for starting a website is likely to be promoting them. Have
you considered, though, that you could sell your products
directly, online? This is e-commerce - basically like a much
better version of mail order, where the descriptions can be
any length and your customers can communicate with you as much
as they like before they buy. To start up an e-commerce ‘web shop’,
however, you need to take a look at e-commerce software.

The Free and the Expensive.

E-commerce software, more than any other kind of web software,
varies massively in price. There are e-commerce solutions out
there that cost thousands of dollars, but at the same time there
is open source software like osCommerce that you can download for
nothing. What’s the difference? In my experience, very little.

If you want to make a good profit from your website, then, you
should really be looking at the free e-commerce solutions, or
alternatively writing your own. It’s madness to pay thousands
for e-commerce software when you can get software custom-built
for your website for a few hundred - or, of course, for free,
if you’re a programmer yourself.

Integration and Templates.

One of the most important things about an e-commerce shop is that
it shouldn’t appear separate from the rest of your website: you
should make sure to keep its design consistent with your site’s
overall look and feel. In most e-commerce software, the way to
change the design is with templates: you should look into how
difficult it will be to turn your site’s design into a template,
or get a template version of it made for you. In some cases, you
might even find it easier to come up with a whole system of your
own instead of producing templates, if you have a lot of unique
information about your products that you want customers to be able
to see.

Hosted Solutions.

The idea of going to all that trouble and setting up e-commerce on
their site only to make a grand total of zero sales is what puts a
lot of people off. In this case, you might appreciate hosted
solutions such as Yahoo Stores (smallbusiness.yahoo.com) that offer
you a ready-made e-commerce store to drop your products into and
link to from your website. The monthly fees and setup fees can be a
little high, but it at least gives you an opportunity to dip your
toe in the water without getting too burned if it all goes wrong. If
you really want to try things on the cheap, take a look at eBay
Stores (stores.ebay.com), which lets you list products for roughly
the same price as listing them in eBay’s auctions section.

Things to Do and Avoid.

When you’re opening an e-commerce store, there are some things that
you should always remember to do, and some things that you really
shouldn’t do. Here’s a little advice.

Describe products well. You’re not limited by space here: put in
every detail that you can think of about every product you sell.
If you don’t take the time to put in all the information you can
get your hands on, don’t be surprised when nothing sells.

Make searches work. Any e-commerce site needs to be easily
searchable - at an absolute minimum, someone should be able to
type in the name of any product and have the product’s page appear.
You should never, ever say ‘no results found’: display a selection
of your most popular items instead, with a message saying “we
couldn’t find that item… maybe you were looking for one of these?”

Sort results by most popular first (that is, best selling first).
Whatever you do, don’t sort by price unless the customer asks for
it: sorting by lowest price first makes your customers look at the
cheapest items before the rest, while highest price first make you
look like you’re trying to fleece them.

Have pictures. It’s commercial suicide not to attach a picture to
every single item description, and preferably more than one. Make
them small, but make sure users can click them to display a bigger
version, if they want to - this saves on both screen space and
bandwidth.

Here are some of the most popular free open source ecommerce shopping
carts available:

http://www.oscommerce.com/
http://www.zen-cart.com/
http://www.cubecart.com/site/home/

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Guest Article: Build Your Own Online Store
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Do you want to start selling your products online but don’t want
to pay several thousands of dollars to have a professional web
developer design your web site? You can save money by building
your own ecommerce web site. The easiest way to build your own
web site is to use a easy to use web based shopping cart software.

Using web based shopping cart software, you can design the look
of your online store; add products to your catalog; and select
shipping, payment, and tax options. After you set up all of your
products in your store, publish it and you’re in business.

There are various types of shopping cart software to suit any
business size. Find an ecommerce plan that will accommodate the
number of products you offer in your store catalog. Find a web
based shopping cart system that will help you quickly and easily
build a professional, high-quality online store that you can host
anywhere you choose. There are many shopping carts available, so
shop around to find one that has the features you need. Some of
the features available include coupons, gift baskets, ability to
export your products, shipping tools and inventory tracking.

Many online store builders include everything you need to build an
online store and accept orders. The shopping cart software should
collect all of the buyers payment information using a secure checkout
system. Select an Ecommerce Store Builder that supports a number of
different payment methods, including credit cards, PayPal, personal
checks, cash, purchase orders, and cash on delivery (COD). Some
shopping carts even have the ability for offline processing and
electronic checks.

Before selecting an ecommerce shopping cart system, look at other
stores that are using that system. Make sure that those stores make
it easy to search and find products and have a simple checkout system.

Your ecommerce store will make it possible for you to sell to
customers that you would have never been able to reach in a
traditional retail store. The possibilities are endless on the
Internet.

Beth Floyd is the owner of http://www.roegraphics.com/, a web
design company in Jackson Tennessee. Beth Floyd has been designing
web sites since 1995.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Beth_Floyd

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