Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Better ways to sell your products and services online

By Dave Bapsnill


Selling products and services on the web is something that most small businesses wish to do. If done correctly, this can make your customers purchasing experience a hassle free one. It can also earn you tons of additional income for very little extra effort.

Check out the secterts below to see how you can start selling online:

No website required

Having an expensive website with online shop functionality is great if you're a large business. But small businesses who want to start selling online often don't have the money to dish out on creating a pricey new website.

This is where services that offer ready hosted online shopping functionality comes in. There are many online services out there that let you to sell your services without it costing you an arm and a leg. Shop around for software or systems that offer ready hosted signup forms and don't need you to have your own website.

Save time and big bucks with automation

A system like this will enable even the SMME business owner to start selling his goods and services online. And if you have the right system most of the manual processes you do now can be automated. This could mean an online signup form that issues clients an invoice automatically when they purchase a product or service. Great for saving on the costs of employing tons of administration and accounts staff.

Help your clients pay for your services

If you want to sell your services online you also need to allow your clients to pay you online. Having many payment gateways where clients can instantly and securely pay for your services online is a must. If you do your research you will find hundreds of good gateways that you can integrate with payment facilitators in order to offer your clients this facility. Just remember that an immediate credit card payment gateway is probably the best and most secure payment method.

Using a payment facilitator to automate subscription billing and sell your services online will really help your SME business to be more profitable. When you sell online you increase your profits without huge capital investment. You also improve your businesses online presence by using a ready hosted payment facilitator and you allow your customers to pay you more easily by giving them the ability to instantly pay online. So what are you waiting for? Find a web-based billing system and start selling online.




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