
Apr 08, 2019 Category:
WEB DESIGN
Hope you are not one of them, are you? Are you also afraid of selling products online?
The competition today, is so much that your physical store may not be fetching you good results, right?
There may be many concerns, not allowing you consider starting your online store like, botheration about all that paperwork, getting clearances from the government, lack of technical know-hows, resistance towards change and of course, fear of failure. There may many more reasons, these are just a few!
So you have ample reasons in your pocket, to show. Well, there are ample benefits of eCommerce websites too, and they are too strong for you, to ignore!
We have listed 10 benefits of using eCommerce website which play a big role in getting your business to a competitive edge.
As a businessman, you would not want your business to get stuck up at a particular phase, and would want it to grow, won’t you manage just one store, all your life, you definitely would not want this for your yourself. Obviously, you would love selling your products at a global level.
With an eCommerce website, you can achieve this and can run your business at a pace that you must have always dreamt of. All this is not possible from that single store standing on a piece of land. Ecommerce is the platform that takes your business to places and therefore, you need to expand your market with a smart eCommerce website. Let your customers get the privilege to buy your products the way they want, right from the comfort of their homes, in just a few clicks.
Growing the business becomes possible with an eCommerce website as then, you are able to provide 24*7 support, which gradually uplifts your business. All that is not possible with your physical store as its simply impossible to keep it open round the clock. That can be possible only with your online store!
Your online automated store can stay open all the time with all the transactions being carried over even while you are asleep. You can easily manage your online store which will require no staff and costs involved in physical one. You will be able to save a lot, managing time efficiently. Time is money which leads to growth in business.
Are you feeling concerned about further investments that you may be required to make in setting up your e-shop? Your worry is unnecessary, as it is just a matter of little investment that will be required to make, to start your eCommerce website. No heavy investments are required, like you do in setting up in a fully equipped physical store along with staff, etc. You just need a great idea, quality products, and a well-designed website to draw attention of your customers and sell them your products.
Your eCommerce website acts like a sales person who works for you 24/7 at a very low cost.
You can equip even your website with top features to attract more customers and increase your sales. Your eCommerce website will be able to get your customers a nice user experience as they will be able to find what they want, within few seconds. You just need to make sure that you provide your customers flexible buying options, space for feedback, variant options to make choice from, and quick delivery option. All these features make customers become loyal to the shop.
The ever-increasing sales competition among business owners and companies leads them to come up with good discount offers, to lure their customers. You may ask them for feedback as reviews and ratings for your product or service. Product reviews and ratings play a substantial role in driving sales, as customers find your product getting them value for money. So it is important to make sure to get as many reviews and testimonials, as possible. This will certainly help in getting more customers to your online shop.
With online selling system, organizations can easily analyse all the data that gets stored and find out the effectiveness of sales, learn about customer behaviour, understand marketing campaigns, customer engagements and much more.
Apart from preventing processing errors and increasing efficiency, eCommerce system eliminates the use of paper as almost everything gets digitalized. The environment-friendly practice definitely is the need of the hour, when we need to save our natural resources for our sustenance. Apart from this, you get rid of all the piles of papers as a well-sorted database is maintained.
Targeted communication always leads to something. To be able to do that you need email address and the personal information of the potential customer. You also need to understand their online behaviour, habits, likes and dislikes. To fetch all that information, you need to create a registration page in the website. Once you get access to all the information, you may send across, all that you wish to let them know about you, and update them to convince them to buy from you. So a meaningful connection is established between you and your customer. Along with this, you may also use social media platforms to retarget and remarket your products to your potential customers.
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About 79% of Americans shop online, and a larger number of individuals prefer online shopping as it is the most suitable opportune choice. In fact, 78% of online shoppers consider product reviews by other shoppers, which leads them to stick further to online buying. So, it becomes really important to understand the shopping tendency of people and make best out of it by launching your own eCommerce website to be able to catch up with the fast growing market.
With professional eCommerce development services, you can develop a capable eCommerce presence of your business and can grow your organization without as much effort as expected.. You can easily take care of market demands and customer requirements, simply by presenting on diverse sales channels and reaching market segments in various innovative ways. Thanks to the constantly evolving technology!
Usually, it’s pretty easy to kick-start an eCommerce business at low-cost and low risk, whether you have a physical store or not. With an appropriate business plan, you can generate potential for passive income and better ROI, in a matter of time.
The digital media team at Tarika Technologies develops smart eCommerce websites that represent and benefit your business very well. We provide eCommerce marketing services to help you leverage the best of your website in terms of both revenue and image generation.
Lamuel Datoru Biambo is a dynamic and results-driven leader with over a decade of experience in business development, human resources, facility management, IT and media services consulting.
A techy in online radio setup and production, Lamuel has successfully setup a couple of online radios (personal, community and commercial) and still counting.
As the CEO/CTO of LifeSERV Integrated Services Limited, he managed multiple departments and successfully serviced as a subcontractor for Julius Berger Nigeria Ltd as a Contract IT Manager, Head of IT Support Unit, Media & Events Manager.
Prior to this role, Lamuel served as Group Head of Accounts at Tolobs Marine Services Limited, an oil servicing company where he sourced for clients, liaised with local and international clients to ensure smooth operations, and prepared PDAs/invoices for proposed jobs, as well as liaised with finance departments of local/international organizations and other financial stakeholders.
Lamuel’s expertise extends beyond business management and administration to web development, cinematography, creative writing, and oil and agro consulting. He has developed and managed over 300 websites, administered training to top executives and staff of organizations, and provided ICT consultancy and research.
A hardworking, proactive, and trustworthy individual, Lamuel is a reliable problem-solver with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively in a team. He is fluent in English, his local language Kirike, and elementary French. He has a personal interest in tennis, basketball, soccer, scrabble, music, and cooking. He is happily married with children who loves his cooking skills and every fun moment spent with them.
20+ years of professional experience
William Yaw Ansah, Chairman, and CEO, Origin8 Limited in Ghana is an accomplished executive with experience spanning multiple sectors – Publishing, International NGOs, Education, Consultancy, and more.
Most recently, William was appointed as Course Manual Author Monitor for Chartered Institute of Marketing, Ghana. He was also appointed as a Member of the Management Committee, School of Arts, University of Ghana. He is also a Member of the Institute of Directors Ghana, an Accredited Member of the Institute of Public Relations, and a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketers, U.K
Over the years, he has been a mentor and advisor to a number of new ventures in Ghana and has trained several organizations such as SSNIT, Ghana Revenue Authority, Ghana Water Company Limited, National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme among others.
William has authored a number of books such as Simple English for Senior High Schools in Ghana, Simple English books for Primary Schools in Ghana, and Simple English books for kindergarten, among others.
William received his Master’s degree in Global Marketing from the University of Liverpool, the U.K, and a Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts from the University of Ghana, Ghana. He started his career in Ghana as an Instructor, Consultant, and later management member of Afram Publications, Sahabia Publications, Comland Ghana, Origin8 Limited to mention a few.
30+ years of leadership experience
Joe leads the company’s strategy development and team building processes to formulate and enact the mission and goals. His strategic decisions involve the commitment of various resources for the fulfilment of goals and purposes of the organization, with a positive impact on its various aspects of growth.
With over 30 years of leadership experience, Joe has lead transformation projects, new business ventures, and execution of change management strategies.
In his previous role in C/C Financial Corp, a start-up financial technology business, Joe served as President & CEO. The start-up was scaled up and acquired by a large publicly traded company.
Joe started PeakFormance Leadership Consulting, a leadership and strategy advisory firm that specializes in helping busy executives develop high-performing team and organizations. His experience and proven strategies have helped him lead organization development projects with Fortune 500 companies as well as small to medium size start-ups.
With a strong passion for leadership, Joe has demonstrated the ability to develop cohesive teams, aligned and collaborative teams that achieve extraordinary results. Joe’s passion for leadership and team-building and vast experience enable him to connect with executive leaders and partner with them to improve performance.
Joe holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Minnesota State University, and an MBA in Organization Leadership from Walden University. He enjoys spending time traveling, golfing and training for Ironman triathlon competitions.
20+ years of professional experience
Sachin has over twenty years of experience managing innovation and development of solutions and optimizing complex business processes; Business & Technology Architecture and Integrations. His proficient leadership and exceptional communication skills, technical expertise, combined with industry experience have delivered extraordinary results for his firm and clients.
Sachin instituted Tarika Technologies to support businesses by implementing a strong process-oriented system and the virtual CIO model, managing a team of offshore and onsite professionals. He performs complete business and technology assessment, advises on Enterprise Architecture and provides solutions for mid to large companies, globally. Under his leadership, Tarika Technologies has acquired several key accounts, providing Enterprise Solutions, Infrastructure Solutions (PaaS, IaaS, SaaS), Software & Web Solutions and Mobile Applications.
In addition, Tarika Technologies provides technology and communications infrastructure set up and has successfully launched several products in the ERP, Communication, Entertainment & Media domains. Today, Tarika stands as a global company with presence in America, Asia, and Africa.
Sachin is the CIO to a leading firm in Bethesda, Maryland USA that provides acquisition support services; and technical advisor to the Crisis Center Hotline located in the state of Maryland in the United States. During his career, he also served as Director of Information Technology at a prestigious infrastructure management firm in the DC area providing IT consulting, infrastructure design and enterprise solutions for small to large corporations all around the mid-Atlantic region, as well as governmental organizations. His innovation in business process has led to a patent with the United States Patent and Trademark Offices for one of his clients.
Sachin’s keen interest in International business has formed key alliances and relationships worldwide apart from just Technology. In recent times, he has partnered with Origin8 Limited, a leading PR & Advertisement firm located in Ghana, extending all the products and services offered by Tarika to the African region. As an integral part of this partnership, Origin8 will be heading the sales and marketing of EBIMS AirWatch in the West African market; a cloud-based ERP solution by Tarika, supporting the needs in the Media industry providing real time strategic planning, monitoring, management of operations, automation of collections and complete digitization of payments through integrations to local payment gateways. He is also the Chief Technology Advisor for Origin8 Limited, driving advanced digital solutions for clients in Ghana; and introducing customized ERP for businesses across West Africa.
His keen interest in international business has formed key alliances and relationships worldwide in areas aside technology. Other areas of his expertise include managing and streamlining business processes, vertically independent Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure Management, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, high-level network and systems architecture, design and development capabilities of secure distributed applications for both private as well as governmental organizations.
Sachin holds a Master of Science in Information Architecture with highest honors; a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Associates in Computer Engineering Technology from Capitol Technology University in Maryland, USA. In his leisure, Mr. Agrawal enjoys playing musical instruments and practices Haidong Gumdo, the Korean swordsmanship, as a senior martial arts practitioner. His personal blog can be found at www.sachinagrawal.com.