Elegant Boutique Online: Need your Advise and Comments

Discussion in 'Introductions' started by elegantlaos, Feb 27, 2010.

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    Dear All,
    As I need to introduce myself, I am a young designer/tailor from Laos. With my boyfriend, we have opened a shop named “Elégant”.
    Our shop is located at Vientiane, in Laos! Eh yes!
    Shop of clothing in silk or cotton and silk blended, and many another accessories such as scarves in silk, hats, hand-bags etc and also of the silver jewelries.
    Products which we make by ourselves: clothing (ready-to-wear and made-to-measure), we create our own collection of fashion and other products are carefully selected.
    The customers targeted are mainly foreign customers to Laos such as resident-foreigners or tourists), it is therefore very limited.
    We wish to widen our sphere of activity by creating a shop online.
    We have been confronted with various problems, in particular for the mode of payment online. Indeed the banks in Laos do not propose yet a merchant account with payment gateway online. PayPal does not support fully Laos, only functions available are “to make payments” but not to “receive payments”.
    We were thus obliged to open a PayPal account located in neighbor country, in Thailand. But our business not being recorded in Thailand, we cannot still propose a payment directly with Credit card online (as we cannot open a merchant account in Thailand with payment gateway).
    In conclusion, we have only Paypal as solution of payment.
    In spite of this, we wished to create our website, and finally here it is: www.elegantlaos.com (in English only for the moment), but we wish to do it in several languages, soon in French, then in German.
    So that’s it for the presentation!

    We have now many questions, about referencing our website, to make it known, to analyze it.
    Other interrogations as for the website itself: what about its design, its speed of launching (it seems too slow to us).
    What must be improved? What you think about the photo, the presentation of products etc…
    In short, all your suggestions, comments etc… will be welcome.
    Thank you in advance.
    Best Regards
     
    elegantlaos, Feb 27, 2010 IP
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