In many ways I wish I had someone there who could show me a simple “how to” setup a successful eCommerce business, which would have saved a lot of the countless hours. Luckily for you, you won’t need to spend more time trying to search the information as I am going to give you a step by step guide on how to setup your own eCommerce website over a course spanning a few weeks. I will link everything back to this post when this course is finished.
Firstly, the assumption I am going to make is that you are looking to install an open source software. The one I recommend is Magento Commerce, which is an extremely powerful platform to use for any eCommerce business.
Once you’ve gone through its review, here is an outline of what you will learn:
1. Choosing your eCommerce business domain name
2. Finding a reliable hosting service to host your eCommerce website
3. Setup your domain name to redirect to your hosting provider
4. Preparing your site for a pre-launch
5. Uploading and installing Magento Commerce on the hosting server
6. Setup your email servers using Gmail
7. Configure Magento Commerce with SEO optimization add-on
8. Which pages to include on your eCommerce website – about us, contact us, privacy policies, shipping and returns policy, etc.
9. Uploading your products images and descriptions to appeal to your customers
10. Launching your eCommerce website
By the end of this course you will be able to setup your own eCommerce website and start to see profits. If there is anything that I may not have covered, please leave your comments below and I’ll add it to this course. Any feedback is appreciated.
