E-Commerce Setting Up An Online Store Part 1

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Is your business ready to sell online? Australian e-Commerce sales reached more than $37 billion in 2013 and in recent years sales have continuously increased by $3-4 billion every year. With such increases, understanding what it takes to sell online and how to start your e-Commerce journey may be critical to business survival in the coming years. This workshop was developed for people with minimal e-Commerce knowledge or businesses currently selling online who would like to improve their confidence in what they are doing. This session is part of the Capital Region Digital Enterprise program. For more information visit www.crde.com.au This workshop was presented by Threesides Marketing www.threesides.com.au

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Capital Region

e-Commerce 1

Presented by Threesides Marketing

Housekeeping

RDA Southern Inland

Region

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We help these businesses with their online marketing:

Old Bus Depot MarketsNational Parks NSW

Retail 360Lantern Apartments Thredbo

Sportsmans WarehouseDDCS family Lawyers

RGT TrainingTrev’s café Dickson

(and more…)

Learning outcomes

1. Summarise the basic requirements for online selling (5 P’s – People, Products, Promotion, Place/Platforms, Price/Payments)

2. Know what tools and resources to research to identify your e-Commerce needs.

THE AUSTRALIAN LANDSCAPE

The average Australian internet shopper spends

$285 online per four week period,

with Travel, Entertainment & Leisure, Electronics, Fashion

and Food & Beverages the Top 5 categories by expenditure

www.roymorgan.com – June2013

NAB online retail report – July 2013

…for the first time, Australians who don’t buy something online in an average three month period are in the minority. – June 2013

www.roymorgan.com – June2013

NAB online retail report – July 2013

shoppers who bought online in the last three months are increasingly less likely to go to an actual store: 23% of online

shoppers go to stores less often now, compared to 10% in 2003

www.roymorgan.com – June2013

NAB online retail report – July 2013

What do the following online businesses have in common?

http://www.pinkfrosting.com.au/

http://www.bunyiptoys.com.au/

http://www.jordoschopshop.com/

http://sw.com.au/

THE E-COMMERCE EXPERIENCE

The offline experience

Shopfront / website

Select products

Shopping cart / purchase product

Checkout / Payment gateway

Process payment

Confirmation / Shipping

External sales engine

Merchant Account fees

Card Fees Gateway FeesReturns / follow up

The online experience

http://googleshopping.blogspot.com.au

THE ‘GET STARTED’ QUESTIONS

The simple 5 P’s of e-commerce

People

Products

Promotion

Place / Platform

Price / Payments

What are you selling Is their a market for it What is your range Do you have images, video and

descriptions Can you maintain supply How will you deliver it Who are you competitors Can you support servicing Can you innovate it Can you sell more than one

Products

What are your costs of production?

What is your profit margin? Are you competitive locally? Are you competitive

domestically / internationally? Will you use price promotions? How does fulfillment add to the

cost? What payment gateway will

you use?

Price / Payments

People

Who is your target market? Will they buy your products? Who is going to run the shop? What tech skills are in your

team? Who will manage fulfillment ? Who will manage payments? Who will manage the other P’s

(promotion, platform etc)?

Promotion

What is your online promotional plan?

How will you drive traffic? For 2-4% conversion how

many lookers do we need? Who will develop content? How will we promote offline? What can we afford for

marketing? What are we evaluating

results against?

Place / Platform

What will the shop look like? Who will help build it? How will it work? Who will maintain it? What payment gateway will we

use? How will it support our shipping

options? How will it promote our customer

service? Platform or marketplace?

SET UP AND JOIN UP?

Platforms vs. Marketplaces

Installed or hosted Stand alone Fully branded Customised

Payment gatewayGranular control

HostedMultiple sellers Integrated paymentsBasic brandingPlay in the box

https://flippa.com/

4 BITS OF KIT TO INVEST IN

1.Web platform / shop2.Payment gateway / Till3.Shipping options / bag

4.Customer service / friendly face

Next steps…

1. Do your homework

2. Investigate the platform, payments, shipping and customer care options

3. Review the questions

4. Start a list of things you like in other stores

5. Start a budget

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Workshops and Consultations

Digital Consultations

4 hour digital business consultations

Develop and digital business plan

Identify 3 get started now actions

Help you start in the right digital direction

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