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How to open an eCommerce from scratch with Shopify

Written by power2Cloud | 30/04/20

Due to the pandemic, the digitization of products and services has accelerated sharply for both supply and demand.

Many are wondering how to open an eCommerce business from scratch. This is because customers, forced into quarantine, began to prefer online shopping out of necessity and convenience, and so did some entrepreneurs. Some were already ready, others organized to make up for the closure of their businesses.

If you don't have an eCommerce business yet, here are four reasons why you should start now:

  1. Move your business online. Those who sell products and/or services off line can expand their market share and offer a unique experience to their customers while meeting new market challenges, including competitors.
  2. Sell more. If you already have a ready inventory you just need to increase sales by leveraging the online channel.
  3. Create and maintain relationships with your customers. Communication is the key to success; you will understand that without face-to-face interactions it is more important than ever!
  4. Provide more options for takeout or delivery especially now that social distancing is mandated, get organized to plan and organize everything carefully.

power2Cloud is a Shopify partner in Italy. Our team is qualified to show you all its features, tell you use case, help you open your first online storefront in no time.

 


Creating an eCommerce with Shopify. Who is it suitable for?

You put the idea and the products, Shopify takes care of the rest! Now you have the right tool to create your eCommerce and sell online worldwide in no time:

- Open your own store.
- Use a single platform to sell your products to anyone, anywhere online.
- Promote your business, market with integrated tools that help you create, execute and analyze Facebook and Google campaigns.
- Manage orders, shipments and payments with a single dashboard, wherever you are.

See what it can be suited to especially at this time.

 

Shopify as an eCommerce for restaurants

Restaurateurs and those in the industry are moving services/products from the physical store to an online storefront.

Because of the pandemic, social distancing will cause quite a few losses to the revenues of these businesses who will have to limit seating and consider more distance between people.

Some during the lockdown have begun advertising delivery and takeout using Social, but nothing is more professional and secure than eCommerce, both for business owners and the customers who use it:

  • publishes the menu with the dishes you can order
  • schedule a takeaway for your customers
  • use tools that allow you to sell a greater volume of products/services
  • share updates with your customers about promotions, special initiatives, opening hours
  • provide a takeaway or delivery option.

If that's still not enough for you, think about the idea you want to convey, talk about your products, update content, give visibility to your business in a unique way and make it easy to manage orders and payments. This is so you are not unprepared for an increase in demand.

In addition, thanks to Shopify you have many useful tools to support communication and marketing. If you have never thought about this aspect for your business, now you have a good reason to start doing it with a good help.

 

Shopify as eCommerce for grocery stores

We have all at least once shopped online these days looking for organic products, rewarding small producers, the ones we always found available when large retailers had their sites completely down.

These smaller, less structured realities have organized themselves and are continuing to do so by posting on their eCommerce 0-mile fruits and vegetables, jams, products from a supply chain made up of small farms or less industrial production.

If you are part of this sector and do not yet have an eCommerce for your business remember that thanks to Shopify you can:

  • track your inventory
  • keep track of sales between multiple suppliers
  • take care of wholesale sales
  • schedule pick up/delivery

 

Shopify as eCommerce for beauty salons, hairdressers and the beauty industry

What about hairdressers and those in the beauty industry? Many realized that it was pointless to wait until the quarantine was over, and they did well.

Because women and men tried to take care of their aesthetics at home as well, thanks to the advice that these professionals continued to bestow from their channels.

The more forward-thinking ones started to organize eCommerce with dedicated services, oneto-one consulting for color and products suitable for customers and new patrons, expanding their market share.

So thanks to Shopify they opened online storefronts sold conditioners, shampoos and dyes even to those customers they could never reach, even abroad.

If you operate in this industry thanks to Shopify you can:

  • share your products/services to a wider audience
  • sell products/services and convey them with unique and professional content
  • offer paid or free private sessions.