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E-Commerce...selling stuff on the Internet!
E-commerce can expand your business to a nationwide, even worldwide market!
Electronic commerce "levels the playing field," allowing small businesses to compete with mega-corporations...in many cases becoming far more successful on-line than their overweight corporate competition.
E-commerce can improve your customer service with a 24-hour a day sales tool, friendly and easy for your customers to use.
With an on-line catalog, you can add, delete and change product listings and prices as often as you want...daily from your own desktop computer if you wish!
A shopping-cart site can pay for itself in a remarkably short time, cutting your costs and increasing your profits.
Consumers becoming comfortable with secure ordering, and discovering the on-line businesses they wish to order from today and for years to come.
Effective businesses are discovering the power of the Internet as they put up remarkably successful on-line versions of their best-selling items, daily bargains and special sales, even complete catalogs.
There are many options to Electronic Commerce.
- Product pictures, descriptions and prices on-line.
- Technical support, product manuals and documentation on-line.
- Order forms that can be printed, so traditional customers can easily fax, mail or phone their orders to you.
- Secure on-line ordering, so customers simply click a "submit" button to place their credit card orders safely and easily.
- Full interactive shopping cart functions! Customers click "add to cart" buttons, then see their order form, with prices, shipping charges and sales tax added and automatically updated, as they shop your web site.
- On-line credit card processing where funds are transferred automatically.
- Search functions, so customers can easily find the items they want on your site.
- Site statistics so you'll know how many visitors came to your site each month, what they looked at, where they came from, and more!
So which features does my business need?
Every business is unique, and very few require all the e-commerce features listed above. I'm happy to consult with you...to help you determine your own needs and best investments.
...and what does it cost?
Adding e-commerce features to your web site can cost any where from:
- $200 (to create, for example, an effective order form your customers can print...)
- to $2000 (to build a full interactive shopping cart for 50 or more items)
- to $4000 and up (to fully cart hundreds of items with automatic on-line credit card processing, etc.) See my Terms and Policies page for current charges and details.
The price depends, obviously, on how many features you need and how many products you sell. Site hosting fees will average $40 to $50 a month for a secure site, and there may be additional software costs and licensing fees.
Check out some of the E-commerce sites I have designed and maintain:
Tognar Toolworks Ski & Snowboard Tuning
KidsArt
The Raceplace Ski Racing Gear
Dr. Trudi Pratt Chiropractic
Personal Study Centers
Ultralight Outfitters
Mark Kistler's Imagination Station
You can't afford to wait!
Call or email for a free initial consultation.
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