E-commerce Design Services
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So you may be asking yourself what is E-commerce and how is it different than a regular website and why might I need an E-commerce site rather than a normal website?
Basically an E-Commerce site is an online store for a business entity. With an online store you get the benefits of not only a web site but also a way acquiring your visitors contact information and a place to showcase your services and/or products as well as a payment gateway to provide your customer with the ability to purchase your services and/or products directly from the website.
Note that having an online store does incur more investment costs due to added security, payment gateway fees, additional required space, etc albeit the the potential of online sales, advanced analytics, inventory control and many more benefits can really amp up your marketing game and your sales and profits.
Some pro's that you get include and online ledger for sales, analytics tools, automation, inventory tracking, building an integrated customer contact list, more advanced Search Engine Optimization (SEO) abilities specific to your inventory listings and increased exposure and the list goes on.
A lot of user friendly tools are usually integrated into the tool-sets you will receive with your E-Commerce Sites whether you have them custom programmed or if you use any of the pre-built applications such as WordPress and many more options available to you. Pre-built options are usually kept up to date by the developers and are expandable via plugin architectures to add tools you may need as your needs grow with your company. As the business owner or your staff you will have access to many tools providing control of your stores inventory and relevant tools and abilities to manage your site and keep it current whether you are a complete novice or an advance power user type you will have the tools you need at your level of ability.
Once your site is built and set up you will also be able to change the appearance of it via template and theme changes as well but I highly recommend subbing those tasks out to designers and developers as the skills involved and required can be pretty daunting for a typical business owner and user but if your up to the task you definitely do it yourself. Be advised though that the themes and the templates and the plugins may not remain compatible and any changes or any updates can certainly break things due to lost compatibility. If you do decide to take on fully maintaining your e-commerce site after it has been designed and setup, definitely do your research and make sure you maintain regular backups to revert back to when something breaks.
In summary having an E-Commerce site is a huge step and provides many benefits to help your business grow, but, also adds a lot of complexity so I highly recommend paying a developer/designer to perform the maintenance and initial setup whether it be an in-house position or if you sub it out to a company or freelancer. This said I can help if needed whether it be developing, setting up, or, maintaining your E-Commerce site!
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