How to Start an eCommerce Company

1Identifying the Basics

Before you get to make tons of sales online, you'll have to understand the complexities of your business on a simple level. Once you're familiar with key numbers it won't be any issue to do so. 

Key numbers to identify:

• Initial Startup Costs
• Overhead
• Business Equipment
• Return on Investment
• Market Share (Both Online & Offline)

If you like to get messy in your notebook, that's fine. Make large circles a part of your visual and get used to compartmentalizing your facts for you to see them later. You should make this a part of your practice if it's not already, it'll pay off instantaneous for your big dreams and thoughts. Get creative and draw out your knowledge, and get visual with it. Input your data into graphics on your computer where possible with appropriate software.

Use your data and your own research to your advantage in the digital business space. Many times people rely on the automated portion of the digital/online business world and let the software be the only place they record their important data. Make a habit to write your data somewhere in your computer as a document, print off a copy, or write it out by hand.

Ultimately, your ecommerce will extensively allow you to downsize very expensive equipments, much sooner than later. So starting with a lite business model that can be expanded with the assistance with online software, will probably guarantee a higher ROI with historically low risks on investment.

2Leveraging Your Natural Authenticity

Emotion in the workplace is often debated, and quickly the conversation can become about egos and the involvement of personality in one's work. In any case, too much of a good thing can be a bad thing. Here's where you'll want to identify what validates your entrepreneurship spirit and reason to take on your industry. While you identify what makes you really you, this is also the point where you determine how you'll communicate this to your customers and build your B-2-C relationships. 

So many times businesses and companies wait too long to explore this integral part of their operation, thus coming off inauthentic with their brand. In moments where you can't defend or protect your reputation, the damage is done, and you'll have to work in a reintroduction at some point.

Taking advantage of the room to grow, you can identify this early and capture a great positioning as a new company.

3Choosing Your Marketplace Platform(s)

Do you like the idea of market dominance? Or are you more interested in a niche market and small community to cater to? 

Depending on your approach, you can decide to create a brand presence and store on a platform that has the most appropriate tools integrated for your convenience. Not to mention some platforms offer customer support and repairs to your store. You'll want to get used to learning about different marketplace platforms because, just like being in a supermarket, you may be exposed to shops that help you sell faster than being associated with others. Additionally, you may be poised to take proper advantage of a marketplace that doesn't have many users.

Understanding the company culture and mission behind online marketplace platforms is key, and if you think the platform is serving people of your background, you may want to look into that platform.

If you want to dominate multiple platforms, you should look into services that help integrate you across a number of platforms up to around 15-30 to sell worldwide and in different markets. Post Affect offers small & medium sized enterprise support and will integrate your products across 15+ platforms and adjust pricing across platforms to reflect your profit goals for 0% extra fees. 

4Social Media Presence

Taking social media serious in the 2020's shouldn't be the same hard conversation it was in 2010. A lot of people rejected it until they slowly appeared on your friend's list with a side hustle and DM'd you with a link. We're not judging, but we do think taking the time to process what technology can do to benefit people is integral to understanding other people's needs within social settings. And that is important AF.

Creating a professional page on the big social networks couldn't be easier in this gen. It's easy to comprehend that your page is a professional business and that you offer services. Now it's on you to maintain quality JPG images and uniform approach that can translate to new eyes. Social media is all about helping people, believe it or not, so the changes that took place mirror that people need to be told the truth and understand more of what they're engaging with.

5Marketing Your Business

Once you're all online in the right places, it's time to let people know where to drop the dollars off at. You could be integrated with an online payments processor or you could be attached t a Marketplace Platform with it's own payments processor, which they usually charge extra for  providing. However your setup is, make sure when people press "pay now", your account is who receives the payment, so you may deliver the product.

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Think about people who really would like nothing more than to take your money and put your logo front and center where people can see it. This can be a local business, a festival, guerilla marketing with stickers and flyers, cold-calling, a radio ad, tv ad, newspaper ad; the options are endless!

Consider the places where you'd benefit from the same community knowing about your product. This definitely increases your odds in actually making new sales on your leads, and provides a great ROI on your ads. The best place to have a great ROI at is on advertising costs, which reflects that it always pays off and brings in more clients.

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