The pitfalls which a customer and a businessman must avoid!

Everything needs marketing, starting from a simple day-to-day product to a high brand product. Everything needs promotion. Without marketing the products, no one will get to know about them. Even worse than that if no one knows about your product then how can you sell them? Success quotient of a business is often spread like a rapid fire but the failure stories are always forgotten, else overlooked.

Often many people fall into the trap while selling or buying the online products. Suppose you want to buy electronic appliances. Then how do you know from where to buy the electronic goods? Please keep in your mind the following points before purchasing anything online.

While shopping from an online store, make sure you have heard of the merchant’s name or the products he sells. If you have not heard about it then make sure that there are no negative reviews about the company or any of its products.

Make sure that they are able to keep your personal details safe and sound. It means they must follow a secure fund transfer mechanism in which your personal details will be encrypted and go to the merchant account without any interruption/snooping from the others.

Before purchasing anything makes sure that the company has a valid email address and phone number. Make sure that the company has real existence.

If you are not completely satisfied with their information details then do not purchase any product from them.

Now, like the customers, the merchants might fall into a big trap. Then how to avoid it..And what are the traps which he may fall into?

While making a website for your organization, be sure to choose a domain name that is brief and has a huge relevance / resemblance to the products you sell or the services you offer. It is both beneficial for the search engines and consumers to have a domain name which goes with the products.

A business man’s success depends on a huge extend on how well he markets his products. Look at high PR sites that market the products similar to yours. See what type of marketing policy they use. Try to follow them. Add keywords on your web content and on the description of the products. Keyword optimization is a very good SEO technique as well as a marketing policy to bring your website to the very top of the search engine results. Keep the description and titles short and descriptive.

Do not sell the products at a lower price than your other competitors. Many might be attracted towards your store but many might also go away thinking the product’s quality is poor as the product’s cost are low. They might not buy from you. You are ultimately losing your customers.

Provide your customers with a proper shipping facility like USPS, UPS and FedEx etc. If you do not look after the timely and the proper delivery of the products then people will no longer like to come back and shop from your website. Do proper internet marketing to provide the perfect eCommerce solution for your customers.