what is the important factor to e-commerce in this time?

Discussion in 'eCommerce' started by lorraine02, Oct 24, 2012.

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    nowadays ,e-commerce is becoming so popular,but starting a new e-commerce for your products,we should consider for importan factor for it
     
    lorraine02, Oct 24, 2012 IP
  2. Tommo791

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    Apologies, I don't quite understand your question. Are you asking what is the most important factor for an eCommerce business to be successful?

    If you are, I would say there is no single factor that is the most important. In fact, there are many, and you really have to have them all to be truly successful.

    A good website
    Good products
    Fast delivery
    Hassle-free returns
    Prompt communication

    All are equally vital to success in eCommerce!
     
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  3. Will1am

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    Internal Factor :
    - Easy navigational site
    - Customer can find the product just only a few click
    - Fast responses and delivery
    - Secure Transaction
    - Nice and responsive web design
    - Web Load speed
    - etc

    External Factor :
    - Great SERP
    - Branding popularity
    - Social media
    - Improve your Customer Database Management
    - etc


    Regards
     
    Will1am, Oct 24, 2012 IP
  4. Joss Board

    Joss Board Greenhorn

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  5. umeedngo

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    easily to navigate and proper information about the products
     
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  6. danieldot

    danieldot Greenhorn

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    We should consider the below factors to success in ecommerce business.

    => Site should have quality content
    => Responsive template should be mandatory
    => Do not concentrate more on paid CMS
    => Go with Magento development
    => Have a better UI
    => Site should be SEO friendly
    => Every product should link with sub-category and category page
    => Use the latest Magento ECG approved plugin/code, it is very easy to operate user-interface
     
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  7. umeedngo

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    good one..check my site www.umeedonline.com .what it required to be modified
     
    umeedngo, Oct 24, 2012 IP
  8. sigmainfo

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    As everyone said, there are many factors to go with an eCommerce Website that can ease your business and increase your ROI.
     
    sigmainfo, Oct 25, 2012 IP
  9. seo_buzz

    seo_buzz Well-Known Member

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    Ecommerce website usually have many pages with products. So getting all those pages indexed is the key.
    Also make sure the URLs are index friendly for crawling.
    Title and meta description are some other important points that you need to take care of.
     
    seo_buzz, Oct 25, 2012 IP
  10. sbrettoncm

    sbrettoncm Greenhorn

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    The most important factors of great ecommerce are

    1) The site should be user-friendly.
    2) The site must have detailed information about the products it has to offer.
    3) The technicalities and functionalities and differences between the different models of a product specially applicable for lab instruments.
    4) An service page where technicians can be accessed anytime.
    5) A must shopping cart software presence.

    ..Please let me know if I forgot to mention anything :)
     
    sbrettoncm, Nov 3, 2012 IP
  11. candytwirp

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    One important factor in eCommerce is the marketing strategy. It's really hard to compete or getting ahead on some big companies. It will take a pound of effective strategy to promote the website to be on top. Some of my friends invest more on SEO to promote their websites selling promotional products. And they come to achieve the number of customers they want.
     
    candytwirp, Nov 7, 2012 IP
  12. ECommOuttakes

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    Make it an enjoyable experience.
     
    ECommOuttakes, Nov 8, 2012 IP
  13. JerrickYeoh

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    #13
    - USP ( cause online commerce is so competitive now )
    - Know who is your niche market online
    - How to gain traffic and how to reach your target market
    - Learn to study your traffic data to improve it
    - Have a good design website that bring high conversion rate .
     
    JerrickYeoh, Nov 9, 2012 IP
  14. sbrettoncm

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    There are many factors important for a good eCommerce site.

    According to a survey report that I read a few weeks back, it said that many eCommerce sites have faced abandonment due to lack of good checkout process, or navigation of the website is poor, or the range of products is not impressive, and many more such issues were raised.

    I think a good eCommerce website should cater to all such needs of the consumer, because if they enjoy the experience given, they will tend to come back for a repeat purchase.
     
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  15. cftrade

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    good,I want to know how
     
    cftrade, Nov 9, 2012 IP
  16. Shafqat123

    Shafqat123 Greenhorn

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    the success of e-commerce in this era depends major on security issues and online SSL connections. So that no theft of transactions is to be made.
     
    Shafqat123, Nov 13, 2012 IP
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    Good looking website.
    Optimized pages, with good keywords and tags.
    Good SEO.
    Affiliates and member option.
    Coupons and good prices.
     
    TheChallenger, Nov 13, 2012 IP
  18. paypoint.net

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    Good points. I agree that quality content is very important to attracting new prospects. Making it benefit driven will increase its likelihood of being read and will improve prospect time on your website.
     
    paypoint.net, Nov 13, 2012 IP
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    wetbupa Peon

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    More and more people try to run their business and offer their products online. The online method of selling products or services is called ecommerce, or electronic commerce. After establishing an ecommerce site, you will be able to supplement your income and become your own boss. What is missing? American ecommerce hosting. Where to go? Go for ecommerce web hosting reviews, be it editorial or customer feedback based ones. It is easier to run an online business, than running a perfume shop, for example, but still there are some facts the user should know before starting small business on the net.
    eCommerce is surely one of the fastest growing sectors in the Financial World (www.independentmerchantgroup.com) and it is getting developed day by day.


    There is a great number of ecommerce solutions nowadays (http://smallbiztrends.com), but sometimes it cannot be easy to choose the right ecommerce solution if the user doesn’t know what he is looking for.
    First of all, you are to decide how many things you are planning to sell via your online shop.
    If there are less than 10 products on your sites which are planning to sell, a small hosting plan will surely suit you (for example, with 500 mb of diskspace and 5 Gb of traffic).
    In case the number of goods provided on your site starts rapidly growing day by day and the total number is not less than a thousand, then you will need higher bandwidth and disk space limits set for your hosting plan (at least 30 Gb of diskspace and 500 gb of traffic, aka “unlimited”). Moreover, you will need a secure certificate (SSL certificate) which will help you to protect the customers’ privacy.
    An important fact for an ecommerce website is the payment tool you are going to use to get payment. You can either collect the payments yourself or automate the process by using the third-party payment service (here you will find the list of most popular payment services - www.shopify.com).



    If you decide to collect payments yourself, you will need a secure connection which can be established for your site by means of SSL certificate. The secure connection is necessary so that the information (adding ssl certificate to oscommernce to store credit card information, for example) which is entered by your customers couldn't be intercepted and read by anyone else.
    To have secure connection for your site, you can apply for an SSL from different providers, like Verisign, Geotrust or Rapidssl, or read a godaddy ssl certificate review at webhostingtalk.com. As soon as the certificate is generated for your site, you will be able to install it on the server and connect to the site using https connection.
    If it is more convenient for you to handle your transactions via a third party service, you can always choose the appropriate service (like Paypal, Geotrust, Authorize.net or Quickpay). As soon as the customer makes the payment on your site, he will be instantly redirected to the site of the payment service and there he will have to fill in his payment details. Pay attention while using the third party services, because they sometimes charge a setup fee and then they keep a percentage of each sale which they process for you.



    While ordering a top ecommerce plan, you should also pay attention to the shopping cart feature offered by the hosting provider. A shopping cart is rather important when operating online business, as it connects your customer’s funds with your bank account, ultimately closing the sale and giving your visitors the most convenient experience possible.They also help you to followup constant site buyers, suggest related items for the customer to buy before checking out.The shopping carts also sometimes have a rating system which gives the customers an opportunity to post reviews.
    The most popular shopping carts offered by the business web hosting companies are: Miva Merchant, Agora, osCommerce and Zen Cart. Make sure that your shopping cart is compatible with your payment service while choosing the cart for managing your sales.
     
    wetbupa, Nov 14, 2012 IP
  20. Isuru

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    I think you should provide good support, because finding new customers is really hard. But keeping old customer to buy from you is the good strategy. To do that you should provide good service.
     
    Isuru, Nov 15, 2012 IP