Ecommerce Checklist

I would suggest spend some time on finding a product (research), then go from there. Website, hosting, etc all that stuff can be figured out later for sure.

Hey bud, check out this guy's youtube channel. He has step by step how to setup an e-commerce store online. He's real and he is a nice guy. Extremely helpful information regarding e-commerce stores as well as products.

McKinnonsTraining - YouTube

Take care.

You need to do more research before you get started so you know how the process works. It's no good having the best product in the world if no one knows it exists.

Equally it's no good having loads of traffic if you're sending them to a website that doesn't convert visitors into sales.

Find something that you are happy to sell and that can produce a good profit. If you're starting out it's worth picking a niche product with less competition (you'd have a hard job selling 'books' against Amazon) something specific like 'backpacks' and then build the best site you can around it.

Get some traffic (quickest way is paid) and get a good number of visitors. Test your site and find your conversion rate. Can you make money, are visitors buying? If so build it out further and scale. If they are not buying find out why buy looking at your anayltics.

Try and become the 'resource' site for that product.

You don't have to stock hundreds of rucksacks in this example. You could just stock 3 and say 'you search for the 3 ultimate rucksacks for every budget and this is what you discovered' .... and this is why yours are so good.

I sold patio heaters but only sold 1 design - and sold thousands simply because I could show they were the best and then we gave the customers a great offer.

Hi Luke, as PublicImage has said, definitely pick something you like or at least know lots about. It's so much easier to remain interested and sell something you're genuinely passionate about. It's also easier to source products within a niche you already know and like as you'll have a broad knowledge of it and will instinctively know what prices you can sell for etc.