For virtually
every business, the idea of selling products or services
on-line is hugely appealing. An eCommerce website offers many benefits - expanding your geographical reach, your store open 24 hours a day and your shop front visible by the
entire world to mention just a few.
Here at Red Box we're passionate about eCommerce. From our studio in Stafford we'll work closely with you to design a professional, efficient eCommerce website that works for your business. We'll integrate everything from an online product catalogue through payment processing and order fulfillment. We'll design and build your eCommerce website on a solid platform that offers your customers a seamless online shopping experience.
There's a lot of competition
out there so it's important that you have a solid strategy to
ensuring your eCommerce website is a Success.
The Basics to Building a Successful eCommerce
Website
Easy to Navigate: A good
eCommerce website should allow visitors to navigate through
the pages and products with ease, to either find the product
they are looking for or to browse for ideas without getting
lost. A well thought out product catalogue with logical categories
and a search facility is essential.
Easy to look at: All the
information should be easy to see. This means text is easy
to read, products imagery is of a high quality, product descriptions
are informative and pricing is clear.
Easy to purchase from: The
checkout and payment process should be simple to follow, guiding
customers step by step through the purchasing experience. It's
no different to high street shopping, if the customer has a
good experience they are more likely to return.
Expandable: As
the eCommerce side of your business grows, it's likely you'll need to expand
your website. You may need to add new product categories, improve
search facilities or add a customer registration facility.
A good eCommerce website is designed using a modular structure
allowing future developments to be just bolted on with out
the need for a complete re-design.
Stable:
As your site grows so will its traffic.
Large eCommerce website can have 1000's of people all shopping
at once. This requires a solid platform to ensure the site
provides each one of these customers with the shopping experience
you want them to have.
Secure: Your website will
be handling customer's personal and financial details. It is
therefore essential that your website is built an a secure
platform to protect this information.
Let's Make Your eCommerce Website a Success!
All our customers are different - and we're sure you will be too. Therefore we adapt our working style to suit you. Whether that means giving you full control of your website and leaving you to get on with updating products or us carry out all product maintainance for you. It doesn't matter - all we're interested in is making sure that your eCommerce website works for you!
This leads us nicely onto our philosophy - 'We are NOT a one hit website design company'. We see the design and building of your eCommerce website as the start of a long term relationship. Whether you're based here in Stafford or the other side of the country, we'll ensure you never feel forgotten. We'll supply you with a monthly website statistic reports so you can see information such as how much traffic you're getting, what pages people are looking at and how long they are staying on the website - all this is great for analyzing the website's successes and any gaps that need looking at. As you get feedback from customers you may want to fine tune elements or add features. We'll offer advice and support at every stage as your site matures. Finally, we'll keep an eye on your competitors and make sure that your eCommerce website is always leading the way.
We hope this page has given you an insight into how Red Box can work with you to ensure that your eCommerce website is a success. There's a lot to think about so if
you want to discuss your plans, whether it's just an
idea or a ready to go project, please get in touch or call into
our Stafford studio.
If you think it's time to go 'eCommerce'
or you just want a chat about your options simply call 01785 248101, fill out the short enquiry form on the contact
page or pop in to our Stafford studio.
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