What Resources are Needed For An E-commerce Startup?
As you investigate this business opportunity, you’ll be faced with questions. The answers that you provide will only lead to more questions.
You will feel overwhelmed. The unknowns will surround you.
Don’t be alarmed. It is a natural process.
Our goal is to provide you with as much information as we can. Instead of writing a 25,000-word guide that may or not answer your question, we decided to make a toolkit.
Let’s guide you through the most useful articles, YouTube videos, and podcasts to launch your ecommerce business. Don’t read all of them at once. That would be too overwhelming. Look for the standouts. Begin with the very first.
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Start your Ecommerce business with these Resources
1. Hire Your Ecommerce Team
Building a team is more effective than working by yourself.
This guide will explain how to find the best ecommerce teams and pay them accordingly. The article also explains what each position is about, along with what to look out for when interviewing.
2. Calculating Your Expenses: An Article
Many entrepreneurs are stuck in this stage. After getting excited by revenue potential, they start thinking about costs.
This article includes everything you need to know, from purchasing your domain name to hiring a professional photographer.
3. Build a Successful E-Commerce Business (Podcast).
The first episode in the Founders incubator series gives you a look behind the scenes at a coaching meeting between a CEO from a billion-dollar company and an entrepreneur.
It covers all the questions you may have (and many more in the future). This conversation covers any questions that you might have, and many others you’ll have shortly).
This is a great way to not only learn new things but to also be empowered and motivated.
4. Ecommerce Marketing (Video)
Gretta van Riel explains her marketing strategy for ecommerce in this short video.
Learn about:
- Content Strategies
- Collaboration Opportunities
- Consistency benefits
- Email List Building
- Techniques of Upselling
You may be already doing many of the things you see, but there is always something to learn.
: Video: Success Story of Ecommerce with MaurahRuiz
Ruiz, a model, and international entrepreneur who has launched two successful businesses tell Foundr how she built her brand.
In the interview below, she shares her experience:
- Avoiding advertising errors
- Influence marketing: master it
- Marketing budgeting tips
Here is an interview you’ll wish you had heard before you launched your first or five ecommerce businesses.
6. Common Ecommerce Mistakes
You don’t have to make the same mistake twice. Others are happy to share their mistakes.
It is important to read this article to avoid making some common e-commerce mistakes. There’s plenty of time left to fix them.
7. Ecommerce Social Media Strategies Article
The power of social media to spread awareness and increase sales isn’t easy. “Going viral” isn’t something that happens overnight.
This is the best place to start if you are looking to increase your sales and brand on social media.
8. Article: The Perfect Sales Funnel for Your Ecommerce Store.
A sales funnel will help you achieve success with your ecommerce website. You need to know how to turn your visitors into paying customers. Your customers should become loyal customers and brand advocates.
This does not just happen. A plan is needed.
The guide shows you how to build your own ecommerce sales funnel. You can use this guide to test ideas and to make an effective landing page. There are also funnel-building methods (like incentives or social proof) to encourage readers to submit their credit card information after reading.
In this comprehensive guide, you will learn how to build a funnel before even starting selling.
9. Profitable business ideas for 2021 (Video).
The short video will show you exactly which businesses Nathan Chan would launch if Foundr went bankrupt tomorrow.
10. How to find the best Ecommerce Brand Name (Video)
This video shows you how. Here’s a video that shows you the steps.
Gretta van Riel guides you through name-storming to help you find the best name for your business. You will get important advice to keep you out of the uncertainty pool. If you’re struggling to think up a good name for an online business, watch it.
11. A Bootstrapped Ecommerce Company Takes on Amazon.
Need some inspiration? Steve Traurig, Booktopia’s co-founder Steve Traurig has a podcast.
Steve and his business battled Amazon in Australia when it crossed the Atlantic.
Listen to Steve’s podcast and learn how to adopt a “never say never” attitude.
12. Automate your Ecommerce business (Article).
You probably didn’t start an ecommerce business because you want to be able to work weekends and late at night. Delegating work is a great way to run a profitable company.
You will be able to save hours in future weeks, months, and years by reading this blog.
13. Getting Your First Sale (Article)
This blog shows you how to work hard to make your first sale and build momentum for your business.
We will teach you how to sell your product in one day, not two weeks.
Start Your Ecommerce Business Today
Don’t worry if you don’t have any idea where to start. The ecommerce Masterclass will teach you all you need to know to create a successful online store within 12 weeks.
This course contains:
- Which product ideas are likely to be successful in 2021?
- How can you determine whether an idea for ecommerce is likely to be successful?
- Formulas for making sales immediately
- Scaling a profitable enterprise
You will get the eBook, “Idea To Brand”, for free. The eBook contains 130+ pages of case studies and tactics that have been tried and tested to build successful businesses online.
