Building An Online Store On A Tight Budget

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Building An Online Store On A Tight Budget
Doing a business is all about risks, calculated
risks, more precisely. You cant just go out
there with your idea and start your business.
There are many ideas, waiting to be sold. So,
the question arises - is it that
simple? Honestly? Its not simple, but its not
difficult either. "If you really want to do
something, you'll find a way. If you don't,
you'll find an excuse."--E. James Rohn The
easiest way to sell those ideas, would probably
be, going for an e-commerce platform. You have
the product, now you need to build a store - a
place where you could market, promote and deliver
them. So, whats the most important thing you
need to start a business - well, apart from that
idea you have? Money. A budget - a foolproof
budget plan, to start you off. Thats not quite
easy, right? How to plan your budget according
to your preferences? Especially, if you have
little money and you really want to start a
business. There are some important points you
need to keep in your mind while making a tight
budget, before creating an online store. Being
good at what you do. No need to experiment with a
new territory. Your intuition plays a big role
in here - go with it. Engage your business around
something useful. If you are still not sure, do a
survey of the things people usually need, and
come up with your own version of it. Dont
overflow your expenses. You can get carried away
with your thoughts while starting a new
business. Just go for the simpler version of what
you think is cool. Tools like Ideator and
Evernote, can really prove fruitful. Use less
costly services. For menial tasks, there are
service like Fiverr and Upwork, from where you
can really cut down your costs, and still have a
good webstore.
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Be Saleable Starting a business requires some
knowledge about SEOs or content writing,
marketing etc. Sell your services too, by
selling the knowledge you have. We have the
know-hows with us, what about some online selling
portals which enable the sellers to create an
online store? One of the best e-commerce
platforms that provides these services at a
reasonable pricing, would probably be
BuildaBazaar.com. This ecommerce platform
offers multiple plans to meet different business
requirements, where you can choose one which
best suits your needs and also get started with a
15 days Free trial. It offers an easy to use
interface to modify and manage your store, a host
of design customization tools for your store, on
top of features like social network integration
and SEO optimization to boost sales. There are
no additional bandwidth charges even if your site
is attracting high traffic. They also offer
discounts on Silver and Gold yearly plans when
advance payment is made, along with the free
trial. There are different features for
different types of plans - ranging from SIlver,
Gold, Gold Plus and Enterprise. The Enterprise
one is request based. Apart from it, the
Marketplace Listing feature is available in all
the plans. However, the advanced ecommerce
modules are available on the Enterprise plan -
which include multilingual support, product
comparison, widget library too. Social media
logins are available in all the plans - be it
Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin. As compared to
its counterparts like Zepo, Kartrocket and
Shopify - Buildabazaar provides a better
platform for online selling. Being the first of
its kind, it still has an edge. It provides
marketing solutions with Ignite, along with
Marketplace Integration and Email marketing. It
even has an integrated shipping partner, called
Shipdroid. A SaaS-based platform, BuildaBazaar,
has another feather in its hat - a free plan,
offering to create an online store at no cost at
all. With no set-up fee upon registration, it
enables you to upload and sell up to 100
products, and unlimited number of products listed
on Infibeam. Even better is the option to have
unlimited number of pages and hosting any number
of visitors on your store. You also get to
customise it according to your preferences, with
almost 35 template themes available.
It's Payment gateways include PayPal, Paytm etc.
With 100 in-built and 40 external apps to go
with, BuildaBazaar is undoubtedly the platform
that you should go for.
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Online selling requires a bit of research, but
when you have the required knowledge, everything
becomes easy.
Source SaaS GeeK