Lots of people dream of entrepreneurship, but before the internet, actually starting a business was a difficult prospect. Now, building an eCommerce website and selling products online is within reach for anyone with the time and gumption.

Even if you’ve never built a website before, the tools now available ensure anyone can create an online store with ease. By the end of this post you’ll know how to find a good product and niche for your store, how to build out your site, and the approaches you can take to generate sales.

Before we jump into the how, let’s take a look at the why.

1. People spend money online.
While some shoppers still prefer the experience of buying clothes in a store and will eagerly get back to doing so when it’s safe to, many prefer to skip the trip and do their shopping from a computer screen or mobile device.

If your competitors make their items available online and you don’t, you’ll lose that business.

2. An eCommerce website costs less than a storefront.
Running a physical storefront requires paying:
Rent for the space
The paychecks of staff that man the store during business hours
Proper licensing and permits
Utility bills
Furniture and decorations
Building maintenance
Cleaning supplies
All of that adds up to a lot of expenses – and most of them are ongoing.

Selling products on a website, on the other hand, cuts out most of those costs. You will still need to pay for things like web hosting and marketing. And you may still need to hire some staff, depending on the size of the eCommerce store you run, but the costs are overall more manageable and easy to plan for.

3. Online shopping provides convenience and safety.
Even at times when going to a store in person is safe, when you’re tired, busy, sick, or just feeling a little lazy – you probably don’t want to spend time driving somewhere and browsing a store for the items you want to buy. And for many people who live with disabilities, a trip to the store is a difficult endeavor.

By comparison, browsing an eCommerce site online and making selections is easier, faster, and requires a lot less energy. People are more likely to spend their money when it doesn’t feel like work to do so.

Online shopping isn’t 100% effortless – but it’s pretty close. When you sell your products through an eCommerce website, you remove a lot of the barriers to buying that exist with a physical store.

4. An online presence gets your products found in search.
85% of people turn to Google for product discovery and shopping.

Without an eCommerce website, your products have no chance of showing up when potential customers start looking for what you sell online.

But when every product you sell is listed on a page on your eCommerce site, all of them will be indexed by Google. That’s the first step to your products showing up in search results.

If you want those product pages to show up on the first page of Google, that requires an investment in SEO best practices. But before you can even start thinking about that, you need an eCommerce website for your products.

5. The growth in mobile means people can buy from anywhere.

NOW LETS GET TO IT
Openresume is an online portfolio website builder for no-coders what allows users to own any kind of pre-built websites. With openresume no-coders can build and manage websites without the need of a developer eliminating hosting fee, website maintenance and security management as openresume.io websites are completely managed.

To make your digital storefront where you can sell your products online,
1. Go to https://openresume.io
2. Click on the Get started button on the homepage
3. Register an account with your email address or choose any other sign in option
4. You'd be required to verify your email. Once that is done, complete your profile registration.
5. It is time to build your websites. In the Let's start your website page, Enter your store name
6. Select your preferred URL, you can change this later
7. In the select Template view, Ensure that you select Storefront - Ecommerce
8. Once that is done, follow the instructions and add your first product, your website will be live almost immediately

Alternatively, you can get started on building your Ecommerce website from here https://openresume.io/templates/storefront/

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