Ecommerce business

Starting an ecommerce business is hard work and demands many steps and decisions that need to come together at the right time.

Over 40 Million of Nigerians reportedly have a side hustle, running a side hustle brings in some extra income but it takes time. Running an online business is not a easy task at all, it involves strategies not hard work. Well, I will take you through series of approach you can Implement in growing your ecommerce business online. Stay tune, grab a cup of coffee, let’s get started!

What is Ecommerce
Ecommerce is just a fancy name for selling things online. Well, visitors have been making online purchases and orders on website for years now and businesses are finding ways to make use of ecommerce to achieve their sales goals online. Then, how will I start and grow my ecommerce business online?


Start by finding your Niche

This is an important decision and the most challenging aspect when claiming your niche online. Before, you can think of claiming your niche, Ask yourself a few questions. What benefit do I have to offer? How good are you in your niche? How relevant will it be to my audience? Who are my target audience? What’s my short and long term goals? What do I have to offer? Now, if you can answer these questions correctly, then you’re in a good order.

Find your website

Let’s say, you finally discover your niche, then, how will people get to know your niche? Well, it’s simple, start by building a website, website is a home online, this is where potential and existing customers get to know you and what you have to offer them.

Are you going for full-functional website?

If you’re going for the gold, like, shopify and magento. They provide options and features like product search, inventory management, check out pages, customer account and so on.

Offline Vs online customers

Let’s say, an offline customers � walks through the door of your fashion shop and browse the cosmetics, accessories, clothes sections on display. While, an online customers should be able to see those same products even though they won’t feel and touch the fabrics and quality of the products. Start by including lots of photos, detailed descriptions, customer’s reviews.

Third party payment

One of the primary goals of any ecommerce � shop is to accept payments online. Of course, you want to make things flexible for your customers, by accepting payment online. There are number of online payment service like PayPal etc. These types of payment method let you add a button to your website which customers can click to make payment.

Set a key performance indicator

This helps you to understand and improve your business performance. It is useful in helping a team understand how progress will be tracked and measured. Before you identify Key performance indicator, you must know your team/department goal, then your business goal.

Drop shipping

If you’re looking to run ecommerce business part-time, you’re probably going to consider a dropshipping task. It is a perfect option if you are looking to reduce the amount of time you actually spend on your business. This is how it works:

You simply act as a middle man i.e
Customer – you – suppliers – The customer order from your store, you contact the supplier for the order, then the supplier send the order to your customers.

Content marketing

It helps in capturing people’s attention, increase sales and leads by directing traffic and boost awareness of your brand, thus, building more trust among your audience. Start by making your content unique and special, use engaging headlines, title, descriptions to capture your audience attention, include a compelling call to action like “buy now” “call now” and so on. Make sure your audience perform a specific action on your ecommerce website. Read more at by clicking the link below

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Nice write up...I like the droshipping kind of business

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Third party payment

One of the primary goals of any ecommerce � shop is to accept payments online. Of course, you want to make things flexible for your customers, by accepting payment online. There are number of online payment service like PayPal etc. These types of payment method let you add a button to your website which customers can click to make payment.

Mentioning PayPal is a clear indication that this post is copy and paste

Well, the content is not meant for Nigerians, I write my content based on audience interest. 60 percent of my traffic comes from USA. Guest posting it here is just for backlinks, nothing more. Type the title of the content on search engine or you can also use ecommerce as the search query, if you find any duplicate content then inform me by typing it here.

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