how to build an ecommerce business ?

1. Select A Domain Name

Selecting a domain name for your company's international website(s) is the first important decision you'll make and can potentially have significant marketing implications.

2. Register at Search Engines

Help potential customers find your website by registering with the major search engines in the countries you wish to target.

3. Choose a Web Host

Find a dependable web hosting service to house your localized website(s). Many hosting providers offer additional value-added services such as site maintenance, search registration, site development, etc.

4. Website Content – Localize and Internationalize

Target international customers by tailoring your website to local language and cultural tastes.

5. Execute Orders

Enable your customers to use a variety of payment options that meet local business practices and be aware of other considerations when doing international business such as taxes, shipping, customs duties, and after sales service.

Easy to know Ecommerce and it's benefits

Define E-Commerce

E-commerce or electronic commerce is online commerce verses real-world commerce. E-commerce simply put, is the process of buying and selling things over the Internet includes retail shopping, banking, stocks and bonds trading, auctions, real estate transactions, airline booking, movie rentals—nearly anything you can imagine in the real world. Even personal services such as hair and nail salons can benefit from e-commerce by providing a website for the sale of related health and beauty products, normally available to local customers exclusively.


Today the notion of e-commerce covers everything from one-man-bands selling novelty t-shirts out of a spare room, to interntational airlines allowing passengers to buy their tickets and check-in from the comfort of their own livingrooms.

Benefits of E-Commerce

E-commerce can provide the following benefits over non-electronic communication:

Reduced Costs : reduced labour, reduced paper work, reduced errors in keying in data, etc.

Reduced Time : shorter lead times, faster delivery of product.

Flexibility with Efficiency : the ability to handle complex situations, product ranges and customer profiles without the situation becoming unmanageable.

Enhanced Long-Term Trading Partner Relationships : improved communication between trading partners leads to enhanced long-term relationships.

Lock in Customers : the closer you are to your customer and the more you work with them to change from normal business practices to best practice e-commerce the harder it is for a competitor to upset your customer relationship.

New Markets : the Internet has the potential to expand your business into wider geographical locations. However, it is necessary to develop the appropriate production capacity and distribution channels to support market demands generated by promoting your business to a larger marketplace.