How to create successful e-commerce?

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Okay, you have a great product to sell and have decided to start up an e-Commerce website. Now what? We will guide you through the key decisions you need to make to start selling online. It has never been so easy.

1. Choose a domain name and hosting solution
   A complete Netro Shopping Cart Solution includes quick and professional hosting on dedicated servers as well as new domain name registration or transfer of existing stores.
2. Determine your store design and functionality There are major issues which you need to consider before store setup:



• Do you intend to retail locally or internationally?
• How many products will you be selling?
• Do you want to include features like / promotional coupons / membership discount / related products / product reviews and other functionalities?
• How do you want to charge shipping?
• What kind of payment system do you intend to use?
• Do you want to have multilingual feature?
• Virtual or physical products



The cost of your store will depend on functionalities you want to have.

3. Which e-commerce software to use
   Depending on the size of your business, features and additional functionalities you need in your store, choose between the following NetroCart software products:



• Small Business and Individuals – Ready Solutions
• Medium and Enterprise – Custom Solutions



We aim at supplying the complete shopping cart solution would be tailored to your specific business needs and run flawlessly, requiring minimum effort to maintain.

4. Give your online store a unique design
   NetroCart breaks the constraints of template-driven stores. You get entirely customizable store pages. Whatever you can imagine you can create to get an absolutely unique look-and-feel for your e-commerce store. And no technical knowledge is required.
   
5. Make your web store a secure place
   NetroCart is a PCI compliant shopping cart which enables fully secure online selling and credit card processing. You can also set up your ecommerce site to require SSL during the checkout process to encrypt sensitive customer data. We can provide your storefront with a foolproof SSL online security certificate. So, with NetroCart you get real-time credit card transactions facility with multi-level fraud protection.
   
6. Enable online Credit Card payments
   You can accept credit card payments with either a PayPal account or an online merchant account. If you know from the beginning you are going to have strong sales and lots of online transactions each month, consider setting up an online merchant account. With NetroCart e-shopping solution, you can accept credit cards directly on your e-commerce site, and then have those funds put directly into your bank account.
   
7. Add your Products
   Now it’s time to add all your products, related products, product categories and subcategories, etc. to your web store. Enter product descriptions and images, pricing, stock quantity, etc. NetroCart enables you to add unlimited number of products! Remember that a picture is worth a thousand words, so always use photos of your products and go easy on the text. Make your product offerings readable and compelling.
   
8. Promote your web business
   TRAFFIC is the most valuable asset for a successful web business. The larger numbers of visitors you have on your site, the more thriving your business is. As over 90% of search engine traffic comes from Google, Yahoo, and MSN it is crucial for a web site to be submitted to the most popular search engines to generate most traffic. Take a full advantage of great NetroCart built-in SEO tools to make your e-store easy to find and quickly accessible to Internet users. Add meta tags/titles to your web store pages to make them SEO friendly. Netro software enables one click Google Analytics integration to track your store’s visitors and sales providing comprehensive monitoring of site performance.
   
9. Watch your business online performance
   Now, that your web store has been successfully launched and search engine optimized, start counting cash. Watch your ecommerce business growing. Easily manage your profits and track sales. NetroCart software solution provides direct QuickBooks integration, a wide variety of sales reports and analytics to keep you on track all the time.