Starting an Ecommerce Business
While it’s great to embark on your new ecommerce business with lots of big ideas, we suggest putting aside your ambitions and focusing on the most practical steps of your ecommerce business plan first.
For starters, you really need a simple online medium to sell your products. A basic store template on a reputable platform like Shopify serves this purpose perfectly well.
We did a guide to starting your first ecommerce business to help you. It might take you more time than 30 minutes to get started, but be careful about the amount of time you put in during the beginning.
Remember the wise words of LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman who famously said, “if you’re not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.”
This certainly applies to ecommerce businesses as well. The key is to launch quickly and start thinking of ways to generate sales through ecommerce marketing. This will eventually breed opportunity to improve other things along the way.
And once you’ve started your ecommerce business, use this handy checklist to ensure you covered all the right steps:
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