How do you go about building an eCommerce site?

Yes, I never built any, but want to get into this
Hopefully some of you guys who has experience in this area can share some wisdom here.

1. Is it possible to run an eCommerce site without having to deal with the customers, products entirely, e.g. like you do with adsense or affiliate sites and have your dropshipper take care of all that? If not how hard is it outsource?
2. How frequently do you usually need to update an eCommerce site with new products, prices, discount?
3. Do you promote your eCommerce sites with seo or ppc mostly and what can you usually make with say 10k uniques per month, all from google serps?


thanks in advance!

 

1. If basically you don't wanna touch the whole ecommerce thing.
you can hire a whole team for that. But u'll still need to make orders to your dropshipper...
unless ur site is build up with their system. and yes, some company does that
2. Twice a week, if u want search engines to start to like you
3. it's easy to make 10k a month with SERP, if ur product is good, unique. or ur really good @ seo, and can beat others up in competitive keywords.

 

I suppose that for your ecommerce site you need an ecommerce template, which you could customize here
http://www.websitetemplates.bz/
Customer Department will definitely help you if you would need some technical support.

 

You definately dont need to deal with customers, products if you find the right company to dropship with, your simply the middle man
To be effective and to let the customers know you care, I'm pretty sure you would need to update and keep your site up to date, no one likes a site that hasn't changed since they were last there a month ago, you cant just plonk up a site , do no work and expect it to be successful

 

You can contact we will experience developer to build the e-commerce website, we are also e-commerce website builder from the past 5 years experience, Yes, You can get the customer by doing SEO for your website.

 

A good shopping cart software and a good droppshipper you can forward your orders to so they deliver them for you should do the trick.

 

Try Product2Web. they've got soup-to-nuts solutions. I had them design by ecommerce store which links to their backend ecommerce CRM. So I dont have to deal with the cusotmers or shipping at all. The backend communicates to my fulfillment house to ship orders and to my call center fro customer issues and inquiries. It's a seet package!

www.product2web.com

 

If you have no experience, I would stick with yahoo business or shopify.com. these are easy to setup shopping carts that take care of credit card processing.

1. No, an e-commerce business means you are selling something either something physical or digital. This means you will have a buyer. Buyers always have questions, want refunds, exchanges, etc...

2. It depends, I would say if you were making good money from the site, don't change anything...

3. If you know what you are doing, yes!

 

I'm stepping in to add my voice to answers to 1, and reiterate what's been said:

You are ALWAYS (one way or another) going to have to deal with the customers in some way shape or form, or you're just outsourcing. For the latter, then you're maybe not looking at it from the right angle - develop the e-commerce solution to sell to others if you want to be mr. middle dude Though you'll still have customers to deal with ...

And 2. Depends what you're selling. If you could sell coc@ine online, legally, without competition, I can't see you ever having to update your product line. Nor advertise. You'd be an overnight success. If you're going to be selling mp3s, then ... good luck with that - you can update every minute and an advertising budget in the billions and you'll still have a hard time getting customers. No fixed answer, methinks it depends on what you're selling, and what's driving the buying decision.