Creating an online website can sometimes feel time consuming. This is particularly true for those seeking to create an online store. While selling products online, you need to take extra care on details such as product images and descriptions. Customers won’t touch products if you haven’t a good images with full description. Online business utterly depend on high quality images and good written product description. Those want to sell their products from their own online store should ask their web host about shopping cart script, then get images from the product manufacturer and hire a content writer to write the product description or if you have a good writing skills, then you can also write description and there is no need to write a thesis type content; just explain your products feature in brief.
Ask your web host about having shopping cart script installed; if it hasn’t been installed already, then you need to installed it. Remember that some shopping cart software requires license, however, there are many open source applications available in the market. But before going to use any open source platform you need to ensure it is not storing or transmitting credit card information to payment gateways, because this may violate PCI compliance.
Choose a niche, or a brand of product you would like to display in your store. For an instance, if you want to sell car accessories and other stuff, you might want to look into selling product for cars and bikes, etc….
Establish your store so that has an easy to use navigation either in the sidebar area or in a menu just below header of your website. Use decent categories in your navigation menu such as different auto spare parts made by your chosen company, as well as specification and feature.
Ask the product manufacturer for images, Mostly, manufacturer have already taken a lot of images of their products, but remember that some companies will allow you to use their images to represent their products only. If the products are ones you have made on your own, you can take quality images by using a digital camera.
Hire a content writer to write the product descriptions for you. Make sure the descriptions describe the product and tell your readers why they should purchase them. Explain what makes that product so good to use or unique to behold, as this will give visitors a reason to make a purchase.
Include a return policy on your website so clients know how much time they have to return a product either for store credit or a full refund. Add a way for customers to contact you on this same page if they have any questions.
Include money back guarantee on your website so customers know how much time they have to return a product in case of dissatisfaction, but make sure you explain TOS descriptively. Also add ways for customers to contact you through website if they have any question regarding to your services.