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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Online sales up by 50%
Yes it's true, the BBC news is reporting that once again businesses who are selling online are taking advantage of the opportunities for growth available in virtual market places.
While high street sales are in decline this Christmas internet based retail has grown again, this year by a massive 50%.
And that's something we at Shopfitter can confirm, in fact we're seeing a 300% increase in the number of sales through our servers. Naturally we're very pleased to see our users becoming more successful each year, and the longer the e-commerce sites exist the better they seem to do.
Over the years we've had people hesitate over whether to take the plunge and start trading with a webshop, concerns over security and not being able to cope with increased demand put many small businesses off.
Fortunately, the buying public has, on the whole, got over the worries about security, online systems are now seen to be as secure as any other form of transaction.
With regard to not being able to cope with a massive influx of new orders, the reality is that it takes months or years to really build up the order numbers - and because it's fairly organic growth it's easy to extend the capabilities of your business as you need to.
One thing that's certainly clear, the internet retail growth is set to continue. So if you don't have an ecommerce website at the moment but would like to share in the online boom next Christmas then now is the time to be planning and building your webshop.
Remember, it will probably take a couple of months to build your site, even with an easy to use system like Shopfitter 4, then another three months for Google and the other search engines to notice and index your site. That takes us into early summer, just right for getting ready for Autumn and the busiest month online - November.
So don't put it off too long, the sooner you get started, the better you'll do next Christmas and the one after that...
While high street sales are in decline this Christmas internet based retail has grown again, this year by a massive 50%.
And that's something we at Shopfitter can confirm, in fact we're seeing a 300% increase in the number of sales through our servers. Naturally we're very pleased to see our users becoming more successful each year, and the longer the e-commerce sites exist the better they seem to do.
Over the years we've had people hesitate over whether to take the plunge and start trading with a webshop, concerns over security and not being able to cope with increased demand put many small businesses off.
Fortunately, the buying public has, on the whole, got over the worries about security, online systems are now seen to be as secure as any other form of transaction.
With regard to not being able to cope with a massive influx of new orders, the reality is that it takes months or years to really build up the order numbers - and because it's fairly organic growth it's easy to extend the capabilities of your business as you need to.
One thing that's certainly clear, the internet retail growth is set to continue. So if you don't have an ecommerce website at the moment but would like to share in the online boom next Christmas then now is the time to be planning and building your webshop.
Remember, it will probably take a couple of months to build your site, even with an easy to use system like Shopfitter 4, then another three months for Google and the other search engines to notice and index your site. That takes us into early summer, just right for getting ready for Autumn and the busiest month online - November.
So don't put it off too long, the sooner you get started, the better you'll do next Christmas and the one after that...
Labels: Christmas sales, ecommerce up by 50%, high street decline, onlines sales growth
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