1. Choose a good web site address or domain name, URL. Make your new domain name a part of all your marketing, and include your new web store domain name on all your marketing and ordering documents. Setup and use your new e-mail accounts for your new store URL. Not only does it look more professional to have your domain name match your email name, it helps customers remember you online! And it reassures customers that they are dealing directly with your company.

2. Select the right shopping cart shopping to sell your products online. By selling 5 or 5000 products, online stores need to provide functionality, robustness, order management, processing and security. Allow your customers to quickly place an order. Before checkout, suggest other products that your customer might also be interested in purchasing. Cross-selling will result in larger sales per transaction.

3. Choose a professionally designed web site layout for your new store which prominently displays your logo, company name and tag line. Professional looking, ready-made templates are available that save money and time. These can easily be customized with your logo, sales tag lines and images to make your new store look unique. The most important aspect of online selling is to have a professional looking web site that is designed to sell. Your online store must provide your customer with trust and confidence that the store is legitimate, the transaction and shipping of the product will be properly handled, as well as proper measures are in place to ensure security and protection of their confidential information. Raleigh Tech Consulting web designers ,web developers, graphic artists and Advertising pros have developed the perfect Small to Medium sized business ecommerce solution, we enable you to quickly sell your products online. We combine full featured open source software with professionally designed CSS templates and world class tools specific to ecommerce shopping to produce an affordable online store.

4. Design your new online store to be user-friendly for your customers. Navigation links should be simple and obvious, and the products you sell online should be listed in categories or sub-categories, so search functions are quick and easy for your customers. We'll make sure that your the products your sell on your new store are presented well, with large, sharp product photos.

5. Apply for a Merchant Account to accept credit cards online.You will need both a internet gateway account as well as a merchant account. If you currently have a merchant account, you will need to add an internet gateway.

6. Secure your new online store for safe and secure credit card transactions. A SSL certificate should be installed on your web hosting account to ensure privacy and security for your customers' financial information.

7. Drive more traffic to your new online store. Search engine optimization (SEO), relevant keywords and allowing quality in-coming links to your site, all combine to boost your page ranking in online search engines. Develop a SEO plan to research the best keywords for your new online store and review your page ranking at least every 6 months after your new store is up and running. Our e-Marketing specialists can write product descriptions that are search engine friendly, giving your online products maximum exposure and placing them for optimum sales in you eCommerce shopping cart. Our shopping cart intelligently generates meta tag and description content for search engines. Each Product detail page can easily be displayed in search engines such as Goggle or Yahoo. Higher visibility of your product quickly enables the customer to find you product online with refined searchers targeting specific products or categories. Customers utilizing search engines to find a specific product typicality enter a very refined search , when results that are not relevant are returned , they turn to more generic searches, the key to sell products online is to have your product placed properly, when your potential online customer enters a refined search, would you like to be the first online store that offers the specific product in the search engine?

8. Choose the right Professional consultant for your Business

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