E-Commerce Essentials Information
Starting an online business is a great way to spark your entrepreneurship journey and build up passive income—but where to begin?
Join BigCommerce’s Tracey Wallace for this one-hour class where you’ll dive into all the essentials and explore how to identify marketable products, create a store, and build a successful marketing strategy to drive traffic and sales. Tracey breaks down the process of getting started into a manageable step-by-step process that you can easily follow. You’ll learn how to:
- Choose the right product by finding your product niche
- Ensure you can sell it by evaluating market viability
- Understand the competition by conducting a competitive analysis
- Determine the right platform for selling your product
- Make your business profitable by creating a content marketing strategy
Whether you’ve got a side-hustle you want to turn into a full-time gig, or have been looking for a way to break out of the 9-5 grind and work for yourself, this is the place to start.
By the end of the class, you’ll have the foundation you need to set yourself up for long-lasting success and a toolbox of tips that you can constantly draw from as you continue through your journey.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Introduction to e-commerce: Understand the basics of e-commerce, including its benefits, different business models, and industry trends. Gain insights into the potential challenges and opportunities in the e-commerce space.
- Niche selection and market research: Learn how to identify profitable niches and conduct market research to validate your business idea. Explore techniques for assessing market demand, competition, and target audience to find a viable e-commerce opportunity.
- Product sourcing and inventory management: Discover different methods for sourcing products, including dropshipping, wholesaling, and manufacturing. Understand inventory management strategies to ensure efficient operations and customer satisfaction.
- Building an e-commerce website: Learn the fundamentals of building an effective e-commerce website. Explore platform options, website design best practices, user experience optimization, and conversion rate optimization techniques.
- Product listings and optimization: Understand how to create compelling product listings that attract customers and drive sales. Learn about product photography, product descriptions, pricing strategies, and effective use of keywords and SEO techniques.
- Payment gateways and security: Explore different payment gateway options and understand the importance of secure transactions in e-commerce. Learn how to set up secure payment processes and protect customer data.
- E-commerce marketing strategies: Discover effective marketing strategies to drive traffic and generate sales. Learn about search engine optimization (SEO), social media marketing, email marketing, content marketing, and paid advertising techniques.
- Customer service and retention: Understand the importance of excellent customer service in e-commerce. Learn how to provide exceptional customer support, handle returns and refunds, and implement strategies for customer retention and loyalty.
- Analytics and performance tracking: Gain insights into e-commerce analytics and metrics to track and evaluate the performance of your online business. Learn how to use tools and data to make informed decisions and optimize your e-commerce operations.
- Scaling and growth strategies: Explore strategies for scaling and growing your e-commerce business. Learn about expansion opportunities, partnerships, outsourcing, and automating processes to achieve long-term success.
About Author
Tracey Wallace is Director of Content at Klaviyo. Prior, she was the editor-in-chief at BigCommerce, where she built their blog to more than 1 million sessions per month and 10,000 downloads per month. She works with retail experts and influencers to educate business owners, E-Commerce managers and the c-suite at large, enterprise retailers on how to drive more traffic, increase sales and connect disparate data streams to fulfill consumer shopping expectations.
With a strong track record in building end-to-end campaigns and programs to attract, inspire and convert B2B buyers, Stacey is a firm believer in the value of brand and narrative to build stronger acquisition pipelines and customer lifetime value.
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