Why Involve Your Business in Ecommerce?
A Home Business Article Contributed by Fiona Mclaren
Why Should You Embrace Ecommerce?
Ecommerce is one of the fastest growing methods of dealing with customers and businesses world wide. Ecommerce offers business owners the opportunity to sell their products to their customers every single day of the year. By making your company become involved in ecommerce, you can ensure that your company has a global reach. You will be able to connect to customers in every country, no matter the time of day, or day of the week.
Ecommerce provides the opportunity for sustained business growth. By having contact with your customers at the press of a button, you allow your company the room for growth and expansion.
If you have witnessed the huge valuations that web companies get in the stock market - even when they don't make a profit - then you can see ecommerce at work.
Using Ecommerce with the Home Based Business
Ecommerce is something that every home based business owner should look in to. Ecommerce will give your company the ability to provide the quantity and quality of service that larger companies can. It also allows you to work at your own pace.
Many electronic systems that work in relation to the World Wide Web can do so without much interference from the human hand. Your company could be taking sales orders whilst you sleep - and that's what ecommerce is all about.
That's not to say that you should rely solely on automated systems. Always make sure that you have a hand in the workings of your business. At the end of the day, the responsibility to your customers - and your business - lies with you.
Who Can Become Involved in Ecommerce?
The good news is that ANYONE can become involved in ecommerce. As long as you have the right tools, and some computer savvy, your home based business could enter the electronic market place.
Ecommerce is a fantastic way for you to maximize your business. Your customers can purchase your products or services through the Web, and you can complete your billing. Ecommerce has the ability to handle everything from point of sale to invoice.
To make it easier to understand who experiences ecommerce, read the list below:
1. Buyers - these are customers with money who are looking to buy a product or service (hopefully, from your company).
2. Sellers - these are the people who offer services or goods (sometimes both) to the buyers. There are two different kind of sellers: retailers who sell directly to the customer, and wholesalers (or distributors) who sell to the retailers. If you run a home based business, you will likely fall under the category of 'seller'.
3. Manufacturers - these are the people who produce the services and products that sellers advertise and sell to to buyers.
A manufacturer is always, by necessity, a seller as well, because they sell directly to the retailer or wholesaler. Again, if you run a home based business, you will probably be involved in some of the 'manufacuter' duties.
