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How to Run an Ecommerce Business

June 3, 2020

If you’re committed to the idea of running a highly successful business, which will enjoy sustained, long term success, you’ve come to the right place. Below you’ll find a handy ecommerce business guide, which will help you build a resilient, successful online business.

How to Run an Ecommerce Business:

Search for merchant processor solutions:

You may or may not be aware that as an online merchant, you’ll be required to find merchant processor solutions, if you wish to accept credit card payments from your customers. As your business doesn’t have the authority to legally process credit card payments and must use a third party merchant processor solution, in order to process and accept credit card payments.

Remember that customer service is key:

Customer service is just as important for online businesses as it is for traditional businesses, which offer physical premises. As if you fail to give your customers great customer service, they will be unlikely to deal with your business again. So it’s well worth ensuring that either yourself or a member of your customer service team responds to customer queries within 24 hours.

Give your customers multiple ways to get in contact with your team:

Ideally you should give your customers multiple options to get in contact with your team. As an example, you may want to use social media pages to answer customer queries and to offer a dedicated email address, for customers to contact. When your business starts to grow you may also want to use a chat based messaging system, in order to talk to your customers.

Encourage your satisfied customers to give your online business glowing reviews:

In order to win the trust of potential shoppers, it’s critical to ensure that your online business has plenty of positive reviews. As most potential customers who visit your business’ website, for the first time, will look for unbiased reviews about your business and its products and services, before they’re comforting handing over their credit card information.

So it’s a wise idea to offer small rewards such as a one time percentage discount off an order, to verified customers who prove that they have left a positive review for your business online.

Ensure that your products are quickly delivered to your customers:

One way to win over customers is to partner with a courier company who can quickly and safely deliver your business’ products to your customers. Although if you want to avoid shipping and delivery issues altogether, it’s also worth considering offering virtual products, that your customers will be able to download online. If it’s your first time launching a business, you may find that offering virtual services or products, is the way to go. Especially if you have little knowledge about production chains.

Properly market your business:

Make sure that your business has a proper marketing strategy put in place in order to introduce brand new customers to your business’ brand and to encourage current clients to continue shopping with your business.

So there you have it. A quick and easy fool proof guide to launching an ecommerce based business which will grow from strength to strength and which will allow you to work for yourself.

 

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