E-Commerce Website Development

It’s actually important that you learn about e-commerce as soon as you can because it (especially mobile e-commerce) has grown by 300% over the last few years with revenue of $700 billion in the US just last year. It is expected to make up 17.5% of global retail sales by 2021 (up from 7.4% in 2015), and sales are predicted to hit $4,878 billion in the next few years. It goes without saying that brick-and-mortar setups are bound by location, and depending on your product or service, this could be key to your revenue. But even if you think that your business ‘needs’ to stay local, expanding globally could allow you to expand into new facets of your business. For instance, if your business is primarily service-based, you may want to complement your local offerings with products that people can purchase online from you, such as a hairdresser offering specialty accessories. It may even be that you are able to capture the travel and tourism market much more simply if you progress towards online merchandising.

It goes without saying that brick-and-mortar setups are bound by location, and depending on your product or service, this could be key to your revenue. But even if you think that your business ‘needs’ to stay local, expanding globally could allow you to expand into new facets of your business. For instance, if your business is primarily service-based, you may want to complement your local offerings with products that people can purchase online from you, such as a hairdresser offering specialty accessories. It may also be that you are able to tap into the travel and tourism market more easily if you move towards online selling.

Because e-commerce tends to carry far lower costs than brick-and-mortar setups, adding an online component to your existing business doesn’t need to be a high-risk investment and in fact, in most cases would be a far better choice than opening another storefront if that’s something that you feel you could easily lose money on.

You won’t have to pay in-person staff and in fact could consider integrating something like a chat-bot into your social media and customer service activities instead of live help. You may also want to hire an overseas virtual assistant or marketing specialist if you are looking for people to handle customer service or other activities on a 24-hour basis.