How To Become A Millionaire In E-commerce With The Following Simple Steps. Part 3.

Marketing in E-commerce.

Marketing (The promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service; the work of a marketer; includes market research and advertising)
Marketing can be also called advertising as marketing is a bit wider to advertising.

You can market your products of e-commerce in various ways but because we are looking about working online hence we shall look at how we can market our products online of the e-commerce.

The following are the ways in which you can advertise or market your products Online.

I) Use of Social media.

This is the major way of marketing online social media include Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram etc. Using this is a great way if have more friends or followers.
Let me talk about Facebook mainly, if you have a Facebook page or an account you start marketing you products by listing them on your Page or Facebook timeline with the purpose that your friends will see them hence getting customers.

II) Website in form of Blogs.

You can create a blog expressing your products to the market place by writing relative article about the products you are selling this is a great way of marketing as most people who read blogs are most likely to buy products you have written about.
You can also write about blogs which have description about products, this gives a buyer a clear picture about what he/she needs to buy or to shop hence your products are being marketed in such a way.

III) Online platform.

Creating a platform gives you a great opportunity, when a person is interested in a certain product just visit the platform and buy the product for example Amazon platform.
A good online platform should have a list of products, their description, price and others relative information about the product this informs the customer on how, what and how much the price is.

IV) Email.

If you what to succeed in e-commerce business you have to make a large list of email.
The most important advantage of using email is that if you send a person or an individual an email you get all the attention from this person hence you have to be smart while doing this.
Because there are a lot of scammers Online, be careful not to send many emails to a person because they act scamming to most people.

You can use all the methods laid out as they act to be the best methods I know also there are many methods but they are not favorable and one of them is using other people as affiliates.

E-commerce business logo.

A Logo is visual symbol or emblem that acts as a trademark or a means of identification of a company or organization.
This is also a primary pass which you should not skip however these must be the first things to consider in your e-commerce.
Make sure that the logo you have decided to use is very identical from other business Logos.
You can either design your logo or employ some experts on platform like Fiverr or Upwork where someone can design you a Logo at a fee.

One of the advantage of Logos is that they differentiate your business from others competitive business, e.g. eBay is different from Amazon with their names and Logos.

Name of e-commerce business.

You can do this at the start the name should be attractive and memorable to anyone who wants to shop using your e-commerce business using your website.
The live examples I can give you here is this; there are many website or platform which have the same functioning but the difference is just in names this companies include eBay and Amazon, Upwork and Fiverr, 500px and Shutterstock and many others.

Hence is a vital importance to give you e-commerce business a suitable name. If you don’t have any idea of giving you business a name you can still search for a name at Google either for free or at fee by employing someone to do it for you.

E-commerce business plan.

I have written this in one of my article about business plan but with e-commerce business plan is likely the same order of the physical business plan it should have the following contents as follows;
CONTENTS;
A) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.
B) BUSINESS OVERVIEW.
C) MARKET AND COMPETITION ANALYSIS.
D) SALES AND MARKETING STRATEGIES.
E) OWNERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT.
F) OPERATIONS PLAN.
G) FINANCIAL PLAN.
H) FUTURE PLAN.
I) CONCLUSION.

E-commerce business plan may act as a business proposal which will help you do something great than you think.

Reasons why a business plan is highly needed in e-commerce business.

• A business plan acts as a business proposal which helps you to get extra funds for your business.
• A business plan gives you a clear direction on where exactly to handle in time of confusion.
• A business plan also helps you to know what you really need in order to make a successful e-commerce business.
• You have also a privilege to access government acceptance of business permits and License a
• With business plan you can be able to predict the future as it all moves with one universal law of writing records down.

Hence e-commerce business plan is a must write.

Register your e-commerce business.

Registration is very important as there are guidelines taking care of the online including e-commerce business.
You can mainly register your business in accordance to your national government according to the their respective laws this mainly considers for only local e-commerce businesses.
For International business the registration becomes trick as different countries have different laws but there is also an international allow any person to trade anywhere.

The 5 main advantage of registering a business (e-commerce).
Why you should register your e-commerce business.

• There is no liquid risk after registration as the business is at least one the hand of the government.
• It reduces expenses as the government awards little benefits to the individual involved in the e-commerce in order to promote their goods and services.
• If there is a cause of any accident or incident of your products or service within the country or in a foreign country the government send you a hand of help.
• You also enjoy the benefit of working in unit with others people as you gain trust from others people.
• You are also updated about the status in other countries or your country in order to produce or supply what is really needed.

The only disadvantage of registering an E-commerce business may be due the costs for registration are small but there is a continuous pay of taxes to the respective government or country.

Before registering a business the following must be considered;

• Make sure that you have already composed a business proposal for your E-commerce.
• Go forward and search about the market as this is the life of business.
• Make sure that you will follow the rules, this will help you to be on the safe side.
• Before registering go forward and look into the guidelines as you may fail to maintain the e-commerce business.
• Make sure that you are done with everything and what is remaining is only registration.

After registration of your business let us go forward and start operating the e-commerce business.

Thank you for reading, continue reading part 4.