Here are a few pointers on ecommerce websites
A monitised website is a site that is set up to make money with ecommerce (or e-commerce, which means electronic commerce) A monetised website can have one or more income streams, such as Adsense.
To most people the obvious ecommerce idea is to sell products or services. Thus...
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A website about alpine shrubs can monetise and sell, well... alpine shrubs
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An ecommerce website owner who specialises in retirement activities, can have information rich content and even sell an online e-book, for example "101 Retirement Tips."
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A travel site can take bookings and get a commission from hotels, motels and other travel related services
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A website full of advice on money management can make money from others — by Affiliates
Those examples are just the tip of the iceberg. Basically ANY subject for a website can be monetised with ecommerce. From paua art to potato growing, the net is your oyster.
E-commerce web design basics
With monetisation you need to have all the set-up features in place to have your online income rolling in, such as sales page and catalogue, shopping cart, post and packing calculator and payment options.
E-commerce payment options can be credit card facilities from a secure payment server, such as your bank or the likes of PayPal. You should also offer full contact details and downloadable forms for buyers to print and post or fax their orders with their cheque or money order.
Tell me about Adsense?
Many websites sell nothing themselves — zilch, but they make a passive income from Google Adsense (PPC — pay per click).
Very simply Adsense means having advertisements on your website that people click on, which then take them to other websites. Each time a person clicks on an Adsense advertisement on your site, you get paid (PPC).
Thus imagine you have a website on bicycle maintenance and you join up with Google Adsense. You paste in the Adsense code generated depending on various choices, and readers click on these advertisement links that go to other websites, for example, someone who sells bicycle bells... which means a nice little PPC amount goes into the Google Adsense account set up for you.
Exciting what you can do with an ecommerce website, isn't it?
It's not that difficult to set up your website the way you want to monetise it. See how inexpensive our website prices are, then contact us. We are here to help.
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No surprises what sales channel is growing at seemingly lightening speed!
Yes, the Internet — and you're looking at a current growth rate of e-commerce website sales of 100%.
This is an average worldwide trend, with some countries vastly outperforming that. NZ's monetised websites are well up on the commerce scale.
Traditional media like TV, radio and print, goes through humps and bumps, but is now averaging a growth rate of around 7% per year.
What's happened? Well, buyers — and we're all buyers at some stage because we need things, or think we need things, like blackberry devices, blackberries to quaff, blackberry coloured towels, blackberry bushes to plant — have fundamentally changed the way we make buying decisions. We research on the net first, then buy.
Sometimes we unintentionally buy after skipping through a few links off an interesting website to find ourselves with an irresistible online offer — and you know the rest! | |
