Bristlecone Web™ has built, managed, and grown ecommerce websites generating Millions in annual revenue for our clients. No project is too big or too small. If you have a targeted market which you believe has a strong potential for online sales, then we encourage you to contact us so that we can make the business a reality. Come visit us at the Denver E-Commerce Meetup Group
The process is relatively simple
- We will do a preliminary analysis of the market to determine the viability of the business.
- Negotiate a mutually beneficial contract for services.
- Website implementation.
- Client / Staff training on use of the website systems.
- Begin advertising campaign.
- Follow through search engine marketing techniques to drive free traffic to the site.
- Maintenance
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Does your business model require specialized features not found in most e-commerce platforms? Do you anticipate annual sales in the $millions? Does your e-commerce website need extreme flexibility, order management, inventory control, and reporting functionality? We can deploy a platform tailored to meet your needs while keeping the system based on one of the worlds most widely used shopping cart platform.
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With software developments today, it is possible for smaller companies to obtain the same technology that historically cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to deploy. We find that most business owners are looking for an easy to use system that allows them to sell their products online to reach a national or global market, and our standard system does that. Business owners can add, update, and edit their product catalog any time without assistance. Managing inventory, processing orders, and accepting credit card payments are one of the many daily processes which can be automated to reduce your expenses and management labor.
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How to lose your money... what not to do |
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Here are some top mistakes business owners make when looking to start an e-commerce website.
- Underestimate your time investment
- Growing and maintaining an e-commerce website is an extremely time consuming process. Between shipping, customer service, employee training, advertising, budgeting, research, buying, updating, and tinkering - a website is no small chore. Make sure to ask how much time the website will consume.
- Do your own research, then hire a developer to build or complete the system as you think it should be done.
- A very common mistake. There are literally millions of websites out to harvest your money for a substandard product. You are also likely purchase a product that does not meet your needs (you might discover this immediately, or worse, later down the road). You are then left to either hire an expensive custom developer to hack the software, or lose your investment all together. Bottom line, don't spend your money until you know EXACTLY what you will be receiving, and KNOW that it meets your needs for today and tomorrow.
- Overpay for hosting.
- We see many businesses paying $50 to $100 a month for an outdated host that should only cost from $10 to $20 per month. We've seen some owners throwing away several hundred dollars a month and more. More often than not, this spending is very wasteful, and could be easily cut.
- Have insufficient capital to build the business.
- You don't go to a steak house with fifty cents in your pocket, and you can't build a business with no investment. Websites are not magical money machines that deliver cash to your bank account; they are businesses like any other - they just happen to run much more efficiently if constructed properly.
- Expect a turn key system.
- Developing a profitable e-commerce website demands very consistent communication and good working relationship between the webmaster and the owner. The webmaster should recognize the business owner as the ultimate source of knowledge and expertise for the product. Similarly, the business owner should recognize the webmaster as their ultimate source for practical application of ideas and systems. Without the teamwork, you may as well be building a website to sell auto repair services in Antarctica - because the site simply will not work. With that said, it is possible to drastically reduce your time investment by outsourcing your work or delegating authority to your employees. This decision should be discussed with your webmaster.
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