Ecommerce Tips

An Ecommerce Template is an Easy Ecommerce Hosting Solution

Choosing a Shopping Cart Program and Ecommerce Website Hosting

Ecommerce Issues for Webmasters Using Ecommerce Hosting Solutions

Give Customers Added Security with Ecommerce Hosting

Trends in Ecommerce Web Hosting

An Ecommerce Template is an Easy Ecommerce Hosting Solution
You can't design your way out of a paper bag and you'd be the first to admit it. So, how are you going to design an attractive and functional website for your ecommerce hosting site? The answer is simple. You aren't. Instead, you can use a professionally designed ecommerce template to create an attractive and user friendly site. Eventservers's ecommerce hosting solution includes a site builder software that has easy to edit templates for businesses. Designing that professional looking site is as easy as following the site builder wizard's step by step prompts. In no time, you'll have an ecommerce site that will inspire awe and amazement in those friends who know you well enough to laugh at the thought of you designing anything, let alone a business site.

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Choosing a Shopping Cart Program and Ecommerce Website Hosting
If you are new to the world of ecommerce website hosting, you may be a bit puzzled by all the references to shopping carts. After all, there is no way you can wheel one of those clunky things into your computer and a cute little graphic rolling across the screen isn't much use. So, why do you want a shopping cart for your ecommerce business?

Actually, a shopping cart program is a way to allow customers to select and save several items as they browse your site. Once they are ready to pay for their choices, customers are led through a process that gets shipping information, gives shipping costs and creates a bill. The bill is then forwarded to the ecommerce site's payment processor of choice. Since an ecommerce shopping cart is so essential for making sales, you'll want to make sure you choose the right one through Eventservers. To be sure you choose the right cart, you should:

• Only use an open source shopping cart if it has been around for awhile and has favorable reviews from other users.
• Check to be sure the cart will work with the payment processor you want to use.
• Find out how easy it will be to make changes to the cart's template.
  

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Ecommerce Issues for Webmasters Using Ecommerce Hosting Solutions
If you sell products in a local shop, people know exactly where to find you if their cheese is moldy or if their movie of "Adventure Epic 27" contained a disk for "Fuzzy Bunny Fun" instead. However, online shopping often leaves customers feeling a bit vulnerable and unsure about making that purchase. One of the main ecommerce issues that webmasters who use ecommerce hosting solutions to sell products face is convincing shoppers that they are trustworthy. To build customer trust, Eventservers recommends that ecommerce hosting solutions users should:

• Join the Better Business Bureau or a similar organization and display the organization logo prominently on your website.
• Make sure your site is secure and display a secure site seal. Verisign and Thawte are two secure seals that frequent online shoppers recognize.
• Have contact information on the site. An email address or contact us form, a phone number and a physical address all reassure the customer that you are not planning to vanish into thin air.
  

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Give Customers Added Security with Ecommerce Hosting
If you are selling products, then looking for a hosting company, such as Eventservers, that has sound eCommerce partnerships is a good idea. Eventservers is more aware of problems online stores face and, with our Partners, have developed policies and have added programs that can help make ecommerce easier.

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• Eventservers allows for password protection so that it is hard for hackers to access your information.
• The company also provides POP-3 email accounts so that you can have several email addresses for different departments in your company. This can help a small, start-up company look bigger and more successful than it is.
• Eventservers has an open source shopping cart or other shopping cart program available so that you can easily load your inventory to the site and have a way for customers to buy it.
  

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Trends in Ecommerce Web Hosting
If you are planning to sell products online, you've probably been following some of the ecommerce trends with a lot of interest. After all, shelling out cash for Eventservers's ecommerce web hosting and then paying no attention to what's going on in the world of ecommerce makes as much sense as turning on your hose to water your garden during a torrential downpour. Following ecommerce trends allows you to be one of the first to offer new and improved services to your customers, which can help increase sales. Some current trends in online shopping that you may have noticed are:

• Using Google Checkout to make purchases. Customers love being able to buy without digging out a credit card every time they shop. Google Checkout allows them to shop til they drop without having to stop to root around in a purse or wallet. In addition, Google Checkout passes on a bit of its reliability and reputation to online stores that use it. Customers feel safer ordering from stores if they know Google is the one in charge of keeping their information secure.
• Live chat help for customers. Being able to have questions answered immediately turns people who are on the fence into paying customers. If they can't get questions answered, they will look elsewhere. Remember, an hour in real time feels like a week to many Internet users. They want answers and they want them now.
  

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