e-Commerce or Online Shop Website
A custom designed website, with a full content management system (back office). This enables you to easily update the entire website’s content from within a control panel. You can add as many products, categories, and pages as you need. You can also change quantities and pricing. No additional software is required on your computer, nor any knowledge of code - all that is required is your internet browser and a connection to the internet.
This type of website is more specialised and designed specifically as a shop front with a virtual basket and checkout system. The base version uses Paypal for checkout and payment so you will need to set up a Paypal account to use this type of website.
The upgraded version uses SSL (Security) which enables you to accept credit cards. (You should still offer Paypal as a method of payment as well).
www.mywebsite.co.uk/3xam9l3. You will be presented with a page where you can add product, descriptions, and change pricing. This page is also password protected so you are doubly secure.
The ONE drawback is you will need to be fairly confident with a computer. However once you know what to do it is fairly straightforward. Please don’t worry about this as part of the package you can have a day of onsite training during the system handover.
A Small Business Website
So should your business have a website, even if your business is small and sells products or services you don't think can be sold online?
YES! If you have a business, you should have a website. Period!
Don't be so hasty and dismiss your product as one that can't be sold online. Nowadays, there's very little that can't be sold over the internet. Millions of shoppers are now online, purchasing everything from books to computers to cars to jet airplanes to natural gas to whatever! If you can imagine it, someone will figure out how to sell it online.
The point to be made here is that you should at the very least have a presence on the web so that customers can quickly and easily find out more about you, your business and the products or services you have to offer.
However be careful, just any old website will NOT do! You must have a professional-looking site if you want to be taken seriously. Since many consumers now search for information online prior to making a purchase at a brick-and-mortar store, your site may be the first chance you have at making a good impression on a potential buyer. If your site looks amateurish with poor colour combinations and layout then your one chance at making a good first impression will be lost.
One of the great things about the internet is that it has levelled the playing field when it comes to competing with the big boys. But remember you have only one shot at making a good first impression. With a well-designed site, your little operation can project the image and professionalism of a much larger company.
Don’t worry if yours is a small operation, when it comes to benefiting from a website, size does not matter. It does not matter if you're just a one-man show or a 10,000-employee corporate giant; if you don't have a website, you're losing business to other companies that do.