How i planning my eCommerce site?

[Shabnam Bithi]

hello,i want to start eCommerce site.but i need proper planning.please help me...

[Dylan]

checked http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-commerce

[Jake]

It's worth your investing in a book or paid video course on the subject. In addition to setting up the site, shopping cart and payment processing, you may find advertising to be the biggest expense, if you opt for not going the slow free traffic method. Try searching for ecommerce forums.

Using a marketplace like Ebay or Amazon to wet your feet and test the market would cost less and potentially get you more traffic than a new unknown site of your own.

[jamie]

Try looking for an e-commerce WordPress theme and install it on your server to get started. Then you can start adding products to the site before generating traffic.

If you're not familiar with WordPress, here's a video to help you get started:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5NAFFfCAis

[Carter]

To start your ecommrce site you need to plan on what items would you like to sell. You then have 2 main options in creating your website:
1. To use complete hosted ecommerce site like BigCommerce
2. To use self-hosted ecommerce website using free shopping carts such as Magento, Zencart, Cubecart and OsCommerce.

[Neha]

This actually needs four steps/parts to start or plan an ecommerce website. They are as follows:
1. The first part is very important which involves developing your product and business plan like decide what you want to sell, find the perfect niche accordingly, make a business plan and the most important register your business.

2. This phase includes building your own online store which includes register a domain name, choose a web hosting service which is a must, design your website, choose an ecommerce software, and setup a merchant account.

3. The most important comes now which says using an all-inclusive eCommerce service that includes researching on all-inclusive ecommerce services which I personally assume that Magento is the best, then look into reselling products for profit and now consider tips for general sales.

4. Now last but not the least, moreover the important point comes that includes marketing and promotion, attracting and retaining customers using social media like facebook and twitter, start a blog and email marketing.