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Start a Internet Shopping Mall
The traditional shopping mall can be found, in our various neighborhoods, nearly all around the world. How about a online shopping mall?
A popular business enterprise, has been in creating a website that caters to networking with online stores, department stores and nationally known retailers on ONE site. This type of business may require low start up capital depending if one is buying a existing site or building your own. Price comparison to the traditional brick and mortar store will prove to be less costly and promotion helps with being part of a larger community.
The well designed online shopping mall that can provide a variety of web stores and merchandise, can provide a visiting customer a enjoyable shopping experience, in the comfort of their own home. A benefit for those in rural locations, during travel, etc. A internet web mall can be considered similar to a directory except instead of text one will see merchandise. Who doesn’t enjoy browsing while shopping ?
The design and set up of a internet shopping site can generate income with allowing you to monetize your site with various advertisement partner’s, membership due’s, or collect on commissions of sales from the various stores. It will depend upon your own decision which would prove to be a good business mix for income.
A few considerations to keep in mind for customers and prospective store vendors while designing your site are as follows;
– Security, ensure a secure shopping environment. Take measures to prevent loss of customer and store vendor personal information during transactions. Tip! a site with https// indicates a secure site.
– Speed, ensure shopping is a quick and easy experience.
– Comparison, make price comparisons available.
– Bargains, provide quick access for available bargains.
– Coupons, provide access to available savings with coupons.
– Ease, a functional site is preferable to a busy and difficult- to- navigate site.
– Customer Service, ensure customers can make contact quickly and easily to you or store vendors.
– Information, provide detailed information and instructions regarding warranties, shipping, refunds or complaints. Be aware each store vendor may have different policies.
Owning your own secure shopping site will require you to have the business management skills equal to the brick and mortar store owner, in the following areas ;
– Sales
– Marketing
– Accountant
– Public Relations
The marketing of this site will require a few creative ideas such as social networks, shopping search engines, email, shopping related ezines, and directories, to start generating a traffic stream. It will be important to have a name that will be easily remembered and a system to remain in contact with customers for repeat visits.
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I highly recommend that you develop a good business plan. This will reveal qualities and information in areas such as ;
– Management abilities
– Profitability
– Competition
– Promotional strategies
I have touched only on a few aspects of this business venture and added elements that can help in exploring a possible small home business venture. A good point to keep in mind is that the best way, to enter this business, is with experience and knowledge in a area that you are passionate and knowledgeable. What sort of site would have you happily jumping out of bed?
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Thanks for this hub. I found this well written and informative, but not sure it is for me yet... I've tried to sell some of my excess books on e-bay but not always with the desired outcomes - I think postage is difficult and pricey with books.
catching up on hubs . seeing what everyone's up to . good info hub.
Exceptional article, very well written you pretty much covered it all. Great job!
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Dear Dame scribe,the one thing I do not like about virtual, or computer shopping is that you need one thing I do not have, nor desire to have, a "Credit Card" one cannot pay cash neither can one pay by cheque.
Sincerely,
Dave.
Hello DameScribe.
Like clean juicy meat with no bones.
It is the most informative hub to me. Thank you v ery much. I certainly will look into that.





















Dame Scribe Hub Author 2 years ago
Hi Gramarye, I agree that postage is one area that can bite into costs due to weight. Maybe look around to all available shippers to see if finding one may have more reasonable prices like express companies. Thank you for visiting and sharing your comments. :)