So you're ready to start selling your products online. Where do you begin? Analyzing your business' goals is the most important step when making the leap to e-commerce. Today there are hundreds of ways to sell online, the simplest being E-bay and the most complex being a full-blown custom built shopping cart solution. Most small businesses benefit from something in the middle. Integrating a pre-built shopping cart solution is the most cost-effective professional way to achieve your e-commerce goals. This generally involves a web developer designing a web site for you that will allow shopping cart software to be installed behind the scenes and sell your products. Some solutions go as far as offering you prebuilt templates with their shopping cart software allowing you to start selling your products "right out of the box". The problem with these solutions is they are often very costly and involve significant monthly fees - convenience often costs money.
My programming team and myself developed the Cart 2.0 system to fall right on the median of convenience, professionalism and cost-effectiveness. We custom build each company’s website, which costs more than a template, but has a much more professional and unique look for each site. By integrating our cart software into your site, you benefit from ease of use and save a lot of money on a custom solution. It's basically the best of all worlds. Our shopping cart system is not right for every company but we have found that our customer base ranges from 1 man shows to larger wholesale companies, and our feature set has greatly benefitted all of these companies.
If you would like more information on selling your products online, please see the e-commerce section of our main website.
Jason