Low cost E-commerce solutions.

E-commerce is the sale of products and services over the Internet. It is the fastest growing segment of our economy. It allows even the smallest business to reach a global audience with its product or message with minimal cost.

• Currently, there are more than 250 million people using the Internet internationally.
• Sixty-nine percent of the online population has made at least one purchase in the last 90 days. By 2007, two-thirds of U.S. households will be online shopping.
• According to the January 2005 Trend/Forecasting report of The Dilenschneider Group, in the U.S. alone, the 2004 holiday season online shopping jumped by more than 25% from 2003.
• The average income of Internet households is over $66,790, making the Internet user a very attractive customer for you to target.

You need to answer the following questions: What types of customers will you attract? How will these customers interact with your website and how can you make your website promote that interaction? How many sales do you expect to make each month? Do the monthly profits justify the monthly costs? Setting up a professional website is a big project and setting up an e-commerce system on top of that is yet another big project. Be sure to consult with professionals in this field; who have experience in e-commerce not just web design.

Hiring a professional website developer
Before hiring a web developer, it's important to do determine:

• What is the purpose of your site?
• Is it to serve as an online brochure of your products, or do you plan to actually sell your products or services over the Internet?
• What is your budget? Who will be responsible for continued maintenance of the site?
• Who will provide the art and content for the site?
• Who will own the copyrights for these materials?
• Will the developer be responsible for both design and marketing of your website?
• What are your top online competitors doing?

Please contact professional consultant if you need to establish an online selling tool.