What happened when COVID-19 first hit us and businesses started to close?
Everyone that needed anything started searching online for their supplies and shopping needs.
With the first lock-downs, there were very little people on the streets and on the highways, so they all had to be doing something. They were online searching for services and supplies, and most went to the Big Online Shops because they noticed that you were closed.Â
Most people search locally first, they might see your website, there is nothing new on in. They may have checked your Google My Business with no updates on it. So, that gave the impression that you couldn’t serve them, you had no Call To Action for them on any of your online sites, no news of when you might be open, or alternative ways that you can meet their needs.Â
Most people went shopping elsewhere, they went where they could shop anytime and have their products delivered to them. Most businesses were not prepared for that, they didn’t know how, didn’t have the technology or just some basic information on how to set-up online shopping options for their customers.Â
Most downtown merchants are used to providing a direct sales approach to their customers walking into their stores and buying merchandise, this is what they do everyday, how do you change that, or how do you expect to do anything different. They were not accustomed to doing online business sales.Â
If you haven't already started moving your business online or at least providing information online on how your customers can get products or services from you, it’s time to start looking at how much you should be doing online, or just move everything online.Â
Download a free copy of my 7 Steps On Winning Your Customers Back, we will show you the steps it will take to get your business online and getting more attention to your website and Google My Business listing.Â
What happened when COVID-19 first hit us and businesses started to close?
Everyone that needed anything started searching online for their supplies and shopping needs.
With the first lock-downs, there were very little people on the streets and on the highways, so they all had to be doing something. They were online searching for services and supplies, and most went to the Big Online Shops because they noticed that you were closed.Â
Most people search locally first, they might see your website, there is nothing new on in. They may have checked your Google My Business with no updates on it. So, that gave the impression that you couldn’t serve them, you had no Call To Action for them on any of your online sites, no news of when you might be open, or alternative ways that you can meet their needs.Â
Most people went shopping elsewhere, they went where they could shop anytime and have their products delivered to them. Most businesses were not prepared for that, they didn’t know how, didn’t have the technology or just some basic information on how to set-up online shopping options for their customers.Â
Most downtown merchants are used to providing a direct sales approach to their customers walking into their stores and buying merchandise, this is what they do everyday, how do you change that, or how do you expect to do anything different. They were not accustomed to doing online business sales.Â
If you haven't already started moving your business online or at least providing information online on how your customers can get products or services from you, it’s time to start looking at how much you should be doing online, or just move everything online.Â
Download a free copy of my 7 Steps On Winning Your Customers Back, we will show you the steps it will take to get your business online and getting more attention to your website and Google My Business listing.Â
What happened when COVID-19 first hit us and businesses started to close?
Everyone that needed anything started searching online for their supplies and shopping needs.
With the first lock-downs, there were very little people on the streets and on the highways, so they all had to be doing something. They were online searching for services and supplies, and most went to the Big Online Shops because they noticed that you were closed.Â
Most people search locally first, they might see your website, there is nothing new on in. They may have checked your Google My Business with no updates on it. So, that gave the impression that you couldn’t serve them, you had no Call To Action for them on any of your online sites, no news of when you might be open, or alternative ways that you can meet their needs.Â
Most people went shopping elsewhere, they went where they could shop anytime and have their products delivered to them. Most businesses were not prepared for that, they didn’t know how, didn’t have the technology or just some basic information on how to set-up online shopping options for their customers.Â
Most downtown merchants are used to providing a direct sales approach to their customers walking into their stores and buying merchandise, this is what they do everyday, how do you change that, or how do you expect to do anything different. They were not accustomed to doing online business sales.Â
If you haven't already started moving your business online or at least providing information online on how your customers can get products or services from you, it’s time to start looking at how much you should be doing online, or just move everything online.Â
Download a free copy of my 7 Steps On Winning Your Customers Back, we will show you the steps it will take to get your business online and getting more attention to your website and Google My Business listing.Â
Whether you have a brick and mortar store, or live in a virtual world with no physical assets, your business can thrive online. Many businesses have taken this route and many more have struggled to create a presence for their business. The Internet is both a blessing and a curse for anyone who decides to venture into eCommerce. The Internet creates a larger market, but it also brings a whole new set of challenges.
E-commerce can help your business generate revenue in many ways. They are simple steps to getting your business online, and a few tips to help you succeed.
Start your own E-commerce Store
You can start your own eCommerce website by utilizing an eCommerce template. These are easy to use WordPress based sites that are extremely easy to customize and provide the basis of your eCommerce store. You could also have a shopping cart built into the site, however this is rarely necessary in a WordPress based eCommerce website.
Customizing a WordPress Ecommerce Website
If you have a business, it is important that you customize your WordPress eCommerce website. Customizing the look and feel of your eCommerce website is extremely important and can have a dramatic effect on your profits. The look and feel of your site can be set with a simple command within WordPress, known as "Themes". Themes are simply collections of CSS stylesheets that can be added to a WordPress site to change the color schemes, themes, skins, backgrounds, etc. These are simply added stylesheets that can be changed to change the overall appearance of your site.
Other stylesheets are known as "Colors". Colors are simply another addition stylesheets that can be added to change the overall color scheme of your eCommerce website.
Once you have finished adding your stylesheets, go to your Administration area in the top navigation. You can then change some of the options for your store, including which currencies are available, and which countries are allowed.
The currency selector allows you to select countries in the left navigation, and currency input allows you to enter information that decides which currency is used by default.
Customizing the look of your site and your currency selector, and then selecting the currency type, and then clicking apply, will change the appearance of your site based on the entered information. This is necessary in order to get the appearance of your site appropriate to the country or country block where it is being done.
Check out the Administration area of your eCommerce website and select the "Customize Look" section. Here you can select a background for your home page and change some of the icons, including the email sign in and the cart.
Once you have added and changed the above items you are ready to upload your first product
The first step is uploading your products to your website. There are various ways to upload your products. You can upload manually to a directory, you can upload a folder containing hundreds of products (this is what I do with each new site I work on), you can upload a database with hundreds of products, you can create a product with WordPress, or you can create a product with the shopping plugin. If you use the database approach or the product with WordPress, your products will be saved with the date of last update, which is a problem when you want to make changes.
We'll go more into what each of these options mean in a second. First, we're going to go over what a product file is and what it does. Then we'll go over how to create a product. Lastly we'll go over how to upload your product.
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