e-Commerce and online shops
Sell your products online, safely and securely with an e-commerce website
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Woocommerce website
To develop a successful e-commerce store, I'll first meet with you to fully understand your brand, the products that you offer and the results that you want to achieve. This will allow me to design and develop an e-commerce website with a unique look and feel and features and functionality that are developed for your requirements.
I recommend using WooCommerce on a WordPress platform for your e-commerce website as it offers a solid e-commerce website base that can be extended and customised to meet your needs. This has the benefit that you only build what you require and the site will not include features that you don’t want.
WooCommerce is an open-source, completely customisable eCommerce platform, but there are costs involved with design and development and then ongoing hosting thereafter.
Whatever way you choose to go, I will guide you through the process of successfully setting-up and establishing your e-commerce website, making the process easy and enjoyable.
Shopify e-commerce website
The second option that I’d recommend is using an e-commerce platform such as Shopify. This is a cloud-based e-commerce platform which provides you with a pre-built e-commerce store that you can customise. I will set-up the store and help you to establish your Shopify e-commerce website after which you can run the site yourself, or I can help manage it for you.
Shopify has been used by over 600,000 businesses and is ideal if you want an all-in-one package and you're happy with the features it offers for a monthly fee.
Whatever way you choose to go, I'll guide you through the process of successfully setting-up and establishing your Shopify e-commerce website, so you can maximise the success of online sales.
The essentials for a successful e-commerce website
Domain name
Choose a memorable domain name for your e-commerce store.
Eye-catching design or template
Make your e-commerce site stand out with a customised design or template.
Products
Include product descriptions, variations and price.
Basket & checkout
Customers can add product to a shopping basket and then checkout and pay.
Offers & coupons
Run special promotions and offer money-off coupons to encourage sales.
Payment gateway
Offer a variety of payment options including credit card and Paypal.
SSL certificate
An SSL certificate ensures your site is safe and secure.
Shipping & delivery
Offer a variety of postage and delivery options.
Fulfilment
Consider how you are going to manage and fulfil your orders.
Customer service
Decide how you will offer customer service when customers need help.
Reviews
Consider using a review system like Trustpilot or Feefo to build trust.
Manage your e-commerce store
Manage your e-commerce store with a simple web-based administration interface.
Secure, reliable hosting
Use secure, reliable hosting to ensure your e-commerce store is always available.
e-Commerce costs
The cost of an e-commerce website or online store vary depending upon the platform that you choose to use and the number of products that you are planning on selling. If you choose to use WooCommerce, the site will need to be developed from scratch, whereas Shopify already has many e-commerce features built in. Factors that affect the price include the complexity of the design, the content required for each product including the imagery and copy, and the functionality of the site, including how you want to take payments and the kinds of promotional and marketing tools that you may want to include.
I'll meet with you to fully understand your e-commerce requirements and then provide a full written proposal and fixed budget. This will be defined by the time the project will take and the complexity of work involved. I have also provided some e-commerce packages below which feature the most popular options as a guide. Contact me to start the conversation.
e-Commerce packages
Website
e-commerce
Professionally written content
Writing and posting three blog articles
Writing and posting to social media
Regular content updates
Marketing consultancy
Ongoing Search Engine Optimisation
Registered with Google toolset
Ad-hoc updates*
Domain name management
Payment gateway
SSL certificate
Secure hosting
Website monitoring and back-ups
Monthly analytics report
Website
e-commerce
Professionally written content
Writing and posting one blog article
Writing and posting to social media
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Optimised for search engines
Registered with Google toolset
Ad-hoc updates*
Domain name management
Payment gateway
SSL certificate
Secure hosting
Website monitoring and back-ups
Monthly analytics report
Website
e-commerce
Professionally written content
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Basic search optimisation
Registered with Google toolset
Ad-hoc updates*
Domain name management
Payment gateway
SSL certificate
Secure hosting
Website back-ups
Monthly analytics report
Minimum one year contract. * Fair use policy applies
CASE STUDY
Schwabe Pharma UK
Schwabe Pharma UK's website leads their direct sales activities and they wanted to update the site design. I recommended moving the website and e-commerce to a new platform which would provide a much better user experience for their customers.
A brand new site was designed specifically to work across multiple devices from mobile to tablet and desktop. All existing customer and sales data was migrated from the old platform to the new and the switch from old site to new managed without data loss. I provide onngoing marketing and support for the website including e-mail marketing, social media, search engine optimisation and technical support.
Based in Hertfordshire. Available across the UK.
I'm based in Royston, in the North of Hertfordshire but work with clients all over the UK.
Of course I can meet you virtually using Teams or Zoom or Slack if you prefer, and I do enjoy using these sorts of collaborative tools to work with my clients. But nothing can beat a face-to-face meeting and I like to meet with my clients in person, especially at the start of a project and for updates thereafter.
I'm happy to travel to your offices or meet somewhere inbetween, having clients as far South as Surrey and as far North as Manchester.