Why Ecommerce is Ideal for Home Business
A Home Business Article Contributed by Christopher Kyalo
Why Ecommerce is Ideal for Home Business
Ecommerce could have been specifically designed for the home business. Truly no other invention or development in past, present or future generations will impact on home businesses the way ecommerce has.
And yet we all know the history of ecommerce. We know that it was actually more "serious" and life-threatening concerns like keeping communications links open in the event of an apocalyptic nuclear war, which caused developers to make the breakthroughs that finally made ecommerce possible.
Ecommerce is an Excellent Part-Time Business
Most home based businesses start as part time businesses with the owner-entrepreneurs continuing to earn their livelihood elsewhere. Ecommerce has made it extremely easy to run a home based business on a part-time basis.
Web sites can continue to receive visitors at any time of the day or night. Ecommerce clients can even leave queries at an email address which the entrepreneur can later access and answer at their convenience even when they are out of town going about their employer's business. Ecommerce has even made it possible for payments to be received and processed, no matter where the business owner is.
And if that still doesn't impress you, then what about the latest software that enables almost every aspect of business from a web site to be run automatically. And that includes stuff like prospecting and marketing. That's how far ecommerce has brought the home based business entrepreneur.
Any Hobby Suddenly Becomes Very Viable with Ecommerce
Remember the days when a feasibility study was so important? All this was because it was critical for an entrepreneur to check whether there were enough potential clients out there to sustain their new venture. It is imperative to add here that many feasibility studies have been proved dead wrong at great expense to many a home based entrepreneur.
What ecommerce has done to make almost any hobby a hot business possibility is to expand the target market from a small locality to virtually the whole world. What this means is that even a business that has a very narrow market niche can now survive by targeting the whole world.
Ecommerce has also dramatically brought down the costs significantly enough so that a smart entrepreneur can easily and cheaply launch a web site on a test mode first before changing to full blast mode when the idea has proved viable.
Ecommerce Has Pushed the Business Possibilities to New Frontiers
Amazon.com for example was not possible before the age of ecommerce because it is not physically possible for any book store to keep the kind of stock that is available at this site. But ecommerce has made possible the distribution system the largest book store on earth uses where they don't need to stock everything but can still supply a customer with almost any book.
The result is the kind of turnover Amazon.com enjoys today - unimaginable for one book store just a few short years ago.
Instructively this business has created plenty of other niches for a successful home based online book store which are yet to exploited.
