If you are thinking about designing, setting up and maintaining your own ecommerce store here are a few points to consider:
- What will be the cost of designing the website?
- If you are building the store yourself, how much will this cost in time, what skills will you need to learn and what software is required?
- Will the end product look professional and enable me to compete with even my largest competitor?
- Will the finished design instil confidence in my potential clients?
- Will the store be easy to navigate?
- What will the hosting cost and who will provide support?
- How many different points of contact will there be to administrate and maintain the service?
- What additional costs are there in taking secure credit card orders?
- If you are to maintain the store yourself or plan to let an employee undertake this task, what will be the real cost?
- Who will monitor the effectiveness of your website?
- Who will market your website to ensure good search engine visibility?
Of course, there are many variables within these questions that can vary from business to business and so it would be unreasonable of us to try to put figures to these questions.
Try to answer these questions as truthfully as possible and then compare them with the service that Corner Shop offer.
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