How start up an eCommerce business in Nigeria

eCommerce is simply the act of buying and selling goods online, as opposed to traditional trading practices where you visit the market or shopping mall to shop for items, in eCommerce an online store serves as a platform that displays your products, and handles payment of products or services purchased. Items purchased are either delivered to your door step if its a physical products or downloaded for downloadable products such as eBooks, audio, software and mobile applications.

According to a July 2014 report from the Business Advisory Division of Phillips Consulting Limited, online shopping in Nigeria increased from N49.9billion in 2010 to N78 billion in 2012. With consistent year-on-year growth of 25% in this sector, it is expected that online shopping will hit N152.3 billion by 2015.

With eCommerce giants like Konga and Jumia offering quality products and great shopping experience to consumers, online shopping has become a more preferable alternative to visiting shopping malls and markets place to purchase items, because it provides a more convenient means of shopping, offering a competitive pricing and a variety of products which you can easily order from the comfort of your home.

With the ever increasing demand for eCommerce in Nigeria, most physical stores are now taking up the eCommerce business model there by taking their business online in order to reach out to more customers and boost sales. This article covers the basic steps for setting up an eCommerce business in Nigeria.

1. Develop a brand idea
The first step to starting an online store/ eCommerce business is to first have an idea of exactly what kind of product you want to deal on, where to get your product supplies from, your marketing strategy and how your online business model will operate, we will call this stage the conception stage. This is the most important stage in the startup of any business, planning can mean success for your business or failure.

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I have a good E-commerce idea, not the typical ones we have. Just need partner or investors, cant really pull this on my own

Prechy08:
I have a good E-commerce idea, not the typical ones we have. Just need partner or investors, cant really pull this on my own

Investors...to put down money for what


Partners...developers....or what area is this

Prechy08:
I have a good E-commerce idea, not the typical ones we have. Just need partner or investors, cant really pull this on my own

You need to explain more. A hint on what you mean or trying to pull through.
That way, it will be easy to get partners/investors

Prechy08:
I have a good E-commerce idea, not the typical ones we have. Just need partner or investors, cant really pull this on my own

Explain and hint us, on what your model is about..

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Average Nigerians don't know the full potential of eCommerce or even the basic of eCommerce business in Nigeria. The usual mental picture is that any business that looks like Jumia and Konga is a typical e-commerce business.

You'll be surprised as dudes are making over a million naira monthly income with just a single page simple e-commerce website in Nigeria. You don't necessarily have to have tons of products like Jumia. Simply selling your service is an e-commerce business.

As a matter of fact, you don't need to have a product to sell or services to render before you start up your eCom business... simply connecting the two together could just be the necessary cue you need to get started.

Here's a typical way to start the modern e-commerce business in Nigeria from scratch!

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