Making your website a commercial success can be difficult, we all know that. However if you could pinpoint one thing that acts as a catalyst for success, what would that be?
Well let’s start by detailing all the other important factors you need to get right in turning your website into an e-commerce behemoth.
Usability
This is of huge importance to how many sales you make through your website and if you get this wrong (or ignore it) this will result in your website not fulfilling its potential. Usability is a major issue affecting your bottom line and improving this will have a strong positive effect on your ROI. Basically, Usability is the process of removing the ‘roadblocks’ from your website that stop potential customers from buying.
Online Marketing
If you are not receiving quality traffic to your website then there will be no one there to buy your products. And if you don’t receive traffic then it will be really difficult to perform website usability testing . The best way to generate traffic is through search engines and for this you will need some SEO or PPC services to drive this traffic from the search engines to your website.
Many businesses spend thousands of pounds on their website but have no budget for marketing it. If you are one of these businesses then I have a question for you – how will people ever find your business?
Some businesses reply to the question of marketing by saying “We don’t have the budget at the moment for this; we are waiting to see how the website does first before we invest in online marketing”. I can save you time and tell you right now – nothing will happen if you don’t properly market your website. When deciding on taking the leap into e-commerce you must budget for marketing, otherwise your flashy website will just gather dust. You have just spent £1,000-£5, 000 on your website, surely you want a return on that investment.
Demographic
Another much overlooked area but essential to the success of your website is Knowing your customers. I cannot emphasis enough the importance of knowing the demographic of the customers who buy your products. Do your research as this will help determine how your website looks and will influence your SEO and PPC strategy.
If you have a blog this will also help you determine what to write as you need to write engaging content that your potential market will relate to.
1 Defining tip to make your Ecommerce Website a Success
So ok, now we get to the most important factor that overrules all of the above. If you already run a successful website then you should already know the answer to this. The answer is a Sound Business Model
So many websites fail because they simply don’t have a sound business model. So many people still think that making money on the internet is easy and all you have to do is throw a website up there and watch the money roll in. Those days are long gone and without a sound business model then forget it! Get that right then use the recommendations above and in no other order!
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