How can i design an E-commerce website and promote it effectively?

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Hi,
I need to know how can i create an E- commerce website and what are the effective and efficient steps to promote it.
please reply to my query if you have the relevant answer.
Thank you!
#design #ecommerce #effectively #promote #website
  • Profile picture of the author medigap4seniors
    Hi,

    Contact the web designer and developers, and say them to what you want, and what your site.
    than, when you complete your site, then you can seo, smo work on it.
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  • Profile picture of the author mgreener
    Hi,

    Take a look at the Adsense/SEO sub-forum for promotional tips. As far as ecommerce, there are tons of great open source platforms to setup your site on, do a search and pick one.
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    • Profile picture of the author katied772
      Check out some of the shopping carts. I am in the process of setting up an ecommerce site right now and have been trying out and comparing the different shopping cart program. You can design your whole site on them and some are optimized well for SEO. They also have lots of info. about setting up and successfully running your site. Big Commerce is the one I will probably go with. I also looked at Shopify and 3dCart.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tammyjones
    Thanks for your answers. You all gave me a brief insight of the procedure. I would like to know more about open source platforms.
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    • Profile picture of the author csschimp
      There are lots of free CMS in the market but i think the best one is WordPress and is easy to use for a newbie. You can find a list of lots of eCommerce plugins which you can add and start using them
      Joomla is an another good option
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  • Profile picture of the author Seoboxes
    Get in touch with companies who have already setup an e-commerce site or get help any help with specialist companies.
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  • Profile picture of the author ltrain_riders
    The best e-commerce sites are ones which have been custom designed for you. I find sites using free templates to be less professional because most of them take the cheap and easy way out. The more work you put in, the more serious it shows you are about your e-commerce site.

    As others have mentioned, find somebody or a company who have experience creating successful e-commerce sites. View their portfolio and see if you would buy from the sites they created.

    Once you have an e-commerce site that converts, then promoting becomes the easy part, believe it or not. You can build an email list, PPC, post on related forums, use social sites, SEO for organic traffic, youtube... the list goes on and on.
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  • Profile picture of the author mikespencer1957
    I would recommend you to use Magento as it is specialised to make e-commerce websites and provide you with several extension to support your needs...But if you want some customization then you have to outsource your work from the organizations who provide specialized services
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  • Profile picture of the author ChrisBR17
    Magento is a very complex piece of software and without good knowledge of web programming languages you may come up stuck...

    Opencart is a much easier and simplier bit of kit. There are many templates out there to use and you can be up and running in less than a day.

    I will be happy to help if you need any further help getting in touch with the right people however a good place to start looking if you wanted just a theme would be themeforest

    Good luck
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  • Profile picture of the author Tammyjones
    Thank you so much all..you guys are really helping me a lot. I have heard a bit about Magento and Opencart and would like to know more about it.
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  • Profile picture of the author kylilemana
    There are many things that have needed to start out Associate in nursing e-commerce web site. Similar to every dissimilar web site for this in addition one must purchase a website that's the name of the web site. Once the domain is obtained, one ought to look for the correct host United Nations agency can host this web site. Succeeding issue is to own an internet designer and a manager to form changes to the web site whenever necessary. There are some attributes that has got to be taken into thought whereas coming up with Associate in nursing e-commerce web site. The primary issue is that the user ought to have a nice expertise where looking. Applicable data about the merchandise ought to run therefore on fully satisfy the possible customer's curiosity.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dessie Miller
    You may create an eCommerce website using WordPress with Woocommerce plugin, Joomla with J Store, Virtuemart. These are the easiest CMS for creating eCommerce websites. Another, option is using web designing software like template-toaster, dreamweaver etc., such tools also allows to create an eCommerce website using WordPress using Woocommerce, Joomla with Virtuemart etc..
    For promoting a website you may take the help of social channels, create high quality blog contents, etc..
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  • Profile picture of the author Arcsn
    I also suggest an open ource e-commerce platform (magento, open cart, pretashop, wordpress, shopify - you choose) and then promote it.
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  • Try this video out. It's about creating a WordPress site for eCommerce.

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