How to open your online shop

robmcgee123

Hi everyone,

I want to open my online shop where I am going to sell mainly shoes and I'm a bit straggling from which step to start. I have found a guide here: https://www.market-inspector.co.uk/web-design/ecommerce-website-design but I want to hear your personal experience or maybe recommendations. All kind of information would be useful.

Thank you in advance.

Robert

VITSUSA

Check out these six simple steps to opening a successful online business:
• Decide what products to sell.
• Choose the best e-commerce solution for you
• Start building your store.
• Pick a domain name
• Get paid - before launching your store is to decide how you'll receive payment from your customers. Many first-timers start off with PayPal or Google Checkout, but you also have the option to accept credit cards directly on your site, which is the preferred and more professional route. If this is the case, you'll want to research credit card processing options, particularly merchant accounts to make sure that you're clear on all of the rates and fine print.
• Market your business - Once your website is ready for the world to see, you need to drive customers to your store with marketing.

root

VITSUSA but you also have the option to accept credit cards directly on your site

AND you INHERIT all the legal ramifications should your server leak data.

You realise that a secure server in finace circles is not https... well it is on the software but the physical security side of things...

One of the interesting jobs I had was to deliver these servers that were as tall as me, some were empty racking, some were full computers needing a fork lift to get off the waggon.

To get in tot he data centre, I had to pull up to the security gate that had a guard with a firearm, not all had armed guards, only those data centres that had a government computer access point. Eg, the local tax office, well that what I deduced as all my deliveries of a type of device was at a location in the country where a tax office was. Made sence, they need to back up to the system...

So security is tight, fenced, nasty guard dogs that would rather eat you and security doors that were wood on the outside to fool you but have a set of steel inner doors.

Went to a few places like that.

So that was a "SECURRE DATA CENTRE"

Now where did I mention HTTPS... did you see any https in that security?

Well lets face it, there are many levels of security and this is the main reason bitcoin is dangerous. Decentralised or not, control, just who is in control, security and perception of security are as you have been shown, many different things and span many levels and transcends those realms.

F5Studio

Hello Robert
Try to start by choosing one of the following methods:

Make a website from scratch by yourself.
Hire a freelancer who will make the site for you.
Use site builder.
Use the services of a web agency.

If you choose the first option for yourself, then only one guide will not be enough to create a product that will be competitive.

Try searching the Internet for information about the benefits of each of the above methods of developing an online store.

You can start by querying a “website from scratch means” at Google.

Kivan

For starting the online shop the most important things are:

having a clear goal for it, understanding what certain products you want to sell and what sphere will be the best for you (also always remember about general competition in various spheres)
finding your best ecommerce website builder (it'll be a basis for your whole business, finding such builder will be your first and main step in fact)
preparing a well-made business plan and following it (it should be strongly connected with the size of your business, budget and growth ambitions)
choosing a domain name for your store (in case of online business it's one of the main keys for making it successful because it identifies your store’s name, establishes your brand and builds trust with customers https://www.allbusiness.com/why-domain-names-are-so-important-681-1.html)
making an interesting and unique design for your ecommerce site (you can make it with your own hands in case of ready templates, there's a plenty of them in net)
adding your products, their description, payment and shipping methods
online advertising and using different tech innovations https://theappsolutions.com/blog/development/what-is-big-data-analytics/#contents_9 for improving your general marketing strategy (for example,various apps are often used for various types of business because they're very effective for finding new customers and increasing the brand loyalty)

Hope that was helpful!