10 Reasons why eCommerce is important for budding businesses.

Shreya Akhouri
Gult
Published in
3 min readJan 27, 2018

With an increase in demand for online purchasing, more and more business are moving to e-store.

People prefer finding things on the internet rather than running errands, so having an e-commerce business is a win-win situation for both the retailer and the customer.

The retailer can showcase their product globally without any restriction and the customer gets a wide variety of product they are searching for.

Following are some of the benefits of an e-commerce business

  1. Convenient- E-commerce is one of the preferred ways of shopping because it is convenient to buy products at any time of the day sitting back at home. The e-commerce site is built in such a way that it is user-friendly and the customer saves a lot of time.
  2. More customers at the online store- One can always attract more customer online through advertising and it is likely that a customer even ends up clicking on a website link they have never heard of before. It is not so common that a customer visits a physical store they haven’t heard of before.
  3. Web-based inventory management- With e-commerce business, retailers can cut their inventory management cost as they can automate it through the web-based management system.
  4. Global Reach- With a physical store your customer reach is limited within a specific geographical area, but if you have an online store you have a reach all over the globe without any restriction or geographical boundaries.
  5. Available to the customer 24*7- Your online store is open 24*7 for the customers, there is no time bound for the store to open or close and it becomes easy for the customer to buy products whenever they are free.
  6. Feasible- For an online store you don’t have to invest a lot of money on the infrastructure or on the physical store. It is economical to have an online store as all you need is a well designed website with some unique and attractive products.
  7. Get Product Information and reviews- You can always get detailed information about the product in an online store and the customer reviews about the product. All the given information is provided by the vendors so that it becomes easy for the customer to purchase a product with that information.
  8. Analyze your website data- Through e-commerce business, it is easy to calculate and evaluate sales effectiveness, customer data, marketing campaigns and so on.
  9. Decrease Costs- Online Store Decrease your marketing and advertising costs as you don’t have to spend hefty amount. Customers reduce their travel costs as they do not have to travel a long distance to reach the store.
  10. Change your website presence without spending much- If you want to alter your physical store it will cost a huge amount but on the contrary, if you want to change the presence of online store you can alter things and change according to the going trend.

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