Saturday, 22 September 2012

Three secrets to successfully selling your services online

By Dave Bapsnill


Many SMME's and freelancers want to begin supplementing their sales by selling their goods and services online. Expanding from a shop front to online sales can often times be difficult, but can, if done right, make your clients experience easier.

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

You don't need a website!

If you want to start selling your products and services on the internet most SMME owners think you need an expensive website and e-commerce software. Although this is ideal for enterprise type businesses, many SMME's simply can't afford to spend a lot of money on something like this.

Using a ready hosted e-commerce system will eliminate the need for an expensive website and e-commerce software, while still giving your business outstanding results. Investigate your paths and go for a web-based system that offers you everything your business needs.

Automating processes is a way to save money

Using a ready hosted online e-commerce solution can cut the amount of money you spend on accounts and admin drastically. A great online service will allow you to earn extra money when your customers signup and save you money by automating the billing and account recon process. This type of automation will not only save you money, but leave your clients happy.

How to make online payments easy

If your business wants to sell your services online you also need to let your clients to pay you online. Having lots of payment gateways where clients can immediately and securely pay for your services online is a must. If you do your research you will find a lot of quality gateways that you can integrate with e-commerce systems in order to offer your customers this ability. You must remember that an immediate credit card payment gateway is probably the simplest and most secure payment method.

Using a payment facilitator to help you sell your services online will not only increase sales, but will assist you to earn more, get paid easier and improve your online presence. Automation of billing or recurring billing can be achieved through several web-based invoicing services, so your clients can sign up online and be immediately debited on a monthly schedule for the services or products they ordered. Now that's what we call hassle-free billing.




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