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Here’s a quick rundown of what’s required to build a website from scratch for an eCommerce store:

 

A domain name

A web hosting provider

An integrated payment processor

A platform or tool to build your store

Initial capital to create your products

Packaging for product shipping

Consider the following questions to determine if you have what it takes to sustain yourself in the niche:

 

Do you care about the market you’ve chosen?

Do you have any pre-existing knowledge you can rely on?

Can you see yourself working in this space for 5 years or more?

Do you care about the people that you’re serving?

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Building an eCommerce website is similar to the process of building other websites, except that it needs to be set up to sell physical products. You should anticipate a bit more work upfront to get your website ready.

1.      Market Research and Finding Your Niche

Before you start your eCommerce business, you need a physical product to sell. But you definitely don’t want to put the work into building an online store only to find out that no one wants to buy what you’re selling.

2. Getting Ready to Sell

Before you settle on the product you want to sell there are a few more considerations to take into account.

3. Choosing Your eCommerce Platform

When the time comes to choose the platform for your eCommerce store you’re going to have a lot of different options at your disposal. For first-time eCommerce entrepreneurs, some of the most popular options include:

 

WordPress/WooCommerce

Magento

Website Builders

4. Choose Elements to Include on Your eCommerce Website

Before you get to the building, take some time to consider what functionalities you want your website to have and how to best organize it.

5. Building Your Online Store

The step-by-step details of building your online store will vary based on the platform you choose. But in each case, creating product pages that effectively highlight the items you’re selling is the most important part.

6. Launching Your Store and Selling Products

If you’ve done everything above, then congratulations, you’re just about ready to launch your store. However, it’s important not to launch your store before it’s fully polished. After all, you only have one chance to make a first impression.

 

Spend some time double-checking every page on your site for typos, broken links, or other things that don’t work. You’ll also want to run through a few sample purchases to make sure the checkout process works smoothly.

Here are a few of the most common eCommerce marketing methods:

 

1.      Content Marketing

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2. Social Media Marketing

3. Influencer Marketing

Influencer marketing has been used to build some wildly successful eCommerce stores. It’s the process of reaching out to influencers (most often on social media channels like Instagram) and having them promote your brand and products to their audience.

4. SEO

Search engine optimization is the collection of tactics that increase your website’s authority according to the factors valued by search engine algorithms.

5. Email marketing

Email marketing is arguably the best way to turn website visits into relationships. Every consumer that opts into your email list is telling you they want to hear from you. It’s an invitation to keep the relationship going, which is a big deal!

6. PPC advertising

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