E-commerce has come a long way, baby, over the past 10 years or so, with prospective online business owners having more options than ever before when it comes to where and how to set up shop. In fact, there are so many choices from where to register your domain name to who should host your site to how it looks to which shopping cart to use to how to optimize your site so the search engines and customers will find you it’s often hard know where to begin.
To help prospective captains of e-commerce plot a swift course, I spoke with several e-commerce experts, as well as folks who have gone through the process of setting up shop online. To read what they have to say, get invaluable links, and learn what every prospective e-commerce business owner needs to think about before selling online, read my article “Setting Up Shop: A Checklist for New E-tailers,” which was published on Ecommerce-Guide.com yesterday (March 20, 2008).
In a hurry and need some help getting organized? Here’s a handy-dandy e-commerce site checklist, provided by e-commerce and user experience consultant Carlos Manalo, who has worked with Crateandbarrel.com, CB2.com, and Landsend.com.
E-Commerce Site Checklist