All About E-Commerce
Step
1 - Why Is ECommerce The Wave Of The Future?
Because more
than 38 million Amercians are getting wired, and more than 78 million
are currently on-line?
People are buying
everything nowadays on line from houses to gifts to shopping to computers
to software to books to music to ...well, everything. And being able to
process credit cards and financial transactions in real-time will increase
your profits like nothing else.
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Step
2 - Great Resources For E-Commerce
There are so
many sites about ecommerce on the Internet that it will make your head
spin. Here are the following three that I think will answer all of your
questions.
- Ecommerce
Tutorial - Kevin Hackman. Step-by-step with very easy descriptions,
it walks you through the steps required.
- Web
Commerce Today - Simply the most comprehensive collection of easily-read
articles about Ecommerce you can find anywhere. Most excellent.
- E-Retail.Net
- Not solely about Ecommerce, it includes all aspects of retailing on the
Internet.
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Step
3 - Who I Use To Process Credit Cards In Real Time
I have been very
happy with the following two sterling businesses.
EMS
2000 - They provide merchant accounts. I have always been able to chat
with the owner, and ask questions without feeling like a fool. Very excellent
customer support.
Securepay
- They provide me with my real-time credit card processing as well as a
very easy-to-configure shopping cart for my products. Again, I have always
been able to reach customer support and talk directly with the sysadmins.
Ask for Tony.
Looking for
books? Consider:
E-Commerce:
Internet-Enable Your Cash Flow by Donna M. Hinshaw - a "fast start"
for understanding all the aspects of E-Commerce.
 Customers.Com:
How to Create a Profitable Business Strategy for the Internet and Beyond
by Patricia B. Seybold - she writes "In the electronic commerce
world, knowing who your customers are and making sure you have the products
and services they want becomes even more imperative than it is in the "real"
world.... The corner grocery needs only to approximate what customers really
want because the convenience factor brings in the business. But when you
eliminate this advantage--when customers can go anywhere to get what they
want--you'd better know what they're looking for."
NEW! The
most popular Ecommerce titles from Amazon.com
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