Ten mistakes most of the first time ecommerce store owners are doing

I spent the last day of 2015 analyzing all the “review my store” requests(upto 35+ requests in last 200 posts) in https://www.reddit.com/r/ecommerce/. After typing in ten different threads I decided to prepare a common post for everyone asking for feedback about the mistakes they are doing.

1) Not defining a) your customer b) your user. [Very imp customer may not be same as user. You need to sell to your customers but your product will be used by users]

2) Not doing in-depth research about your customers and users.

3) Trying hard to sell but not trying to solve a problem for your customers.

4) Not trying unconventional ways to get first 10 or 50 sales.

5) Not trying to be different from other competitors.

6) Not providing customer service as per your target customer expectation.

7) Not describing the product in detail or uploading quality images.

8) Not providing a giveaway’s (might be simple beauty tips every day) to keep the prospective customer hooked up with the store.

9) Not proving your authority over the niche of the products your store is selling.

10) Not having human relationship with the users & customers.

I will explain in depth about any point if some users asks for it.