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Introduction........................4
Why e-commerce works, and why now more than ever...5
What do you need to launch a successful e-commerce site?..9
Planning and research...............................11
Does this business idea work as an online business?..........................................11
Study the competition.............................12
The practicalities of running an e-commerce sit....14
Your audience is who?...............................15
How will you deal with these people?.................................15
Shipping charges.........................16
You need a customer service policy........16
Before you start building your site........18
General e-commerce site guidelines........20
Site creation...22
Product sourcing...................................29
Using drop shippers................................30
Buying in bulk overseas....................32
Order fulfillment and your own products ....34
After this comes marketing...............35
Conclusion.............36



Why e-commerce works, and why now more than ever
There are plenty of reasons why starting an e-commerce site for your business makes a great deal of sense for both you and your prospects and customers. There might never be a better time than right now.
From your own businesses point of view, if you have a way of enabling customers to transact business online through an e-commerce site, you stand to benefit from many advantages.
Firstly, being able to offer your products online instantly multiplies your market reach beyond your neighborhood or city to take in the whole of the country, or even perhaps the whole of the world.
While there are some potential problems in dealing with the global marketplace arranging delivery, accepting online payments and things of that nature these problems are far less troublesome nowadays than they were even a couple of years ago.
Online security is better than ever, so whereas accepting secure online payments for transactions conducted online might have given you cause for concern in the past, it should no longer do so because online payment systems have improved since those times.
Added to this is the fact that global markets are becoming inherently more open, meaning that it is becoming more normal for people to trade across borders. Nowadays, it is not that much more difficult to buy goods from China than it is to buy goods from a town 20 km down the road.
If you are thinking of starting a new business, then cash flow is always an extremely important consideration, and once again, operating an online business has significant advantages over running a business from a high street store or an office in a tower block.
Firstly, in contrast to running a real-world business, you do not need significant amounts of start-up capital to launch an online business. There is no need to rent premises (removing a drain on your income), you do not need bank loans to fund inventory purchase (another cash drain) and staff are for the most part something that other people need to worry about (although taking on staff once your business starts to generate an income is certainly something that you will need to consider).
As a general rule, most businesses that sell their products online will get paid more quickly when they do so than if they were trading locally. This makes a good deal of sense

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