Getting your first online order
Posted by System | Sunday, November 30, 2008
No matter what type of business you run getting momentum is important, this drives your business on and fills you with confidence. Getting your first order is a fantastic feeling, the small amount of profit doesn't matter - it is the fact that a web surfer has found your website from the comfort of their home, navigated around, found a product they like and had enough confidence in your service to checkout and hand over full payment for the product!
Whether it takes 1 day, 1 week, 1 month or even longer after fully trading on your own E-commerce website it is a great feeling and in some ways signifies the real birth of your business. It shows your website can convert customers; your price, payment options and website all satisfied the customer enough for them to buy. It is important to build on your first sale and continue pushing your business.
I like to think everyone has their own 'business ball', the faster you can get it rolling the more profit you make and the more growth your business can experience. Your first sale is like the first roll off the start line, you only reach the finish line when you sell the business in many years time for lots of money!
Now you have started your business ball rolling you want to build up momentum, know what you are good at and really work on it, and what you are not so good at get someone else to work on it! Try and find out how your first customer came to your website, if it was a particular form of advertising then repeat it over and over again (as long as it makes financial sense!) . Soon you might work up to an average on 10 customers per month, then build up to 20, then to 40, and before you know it you have hundreds of happy customers every month!
Many online businesses lose momentum, sometimes because the owner loses interest and sometimes the business ends up completely fizzling out and disappearing. Get your business ball rolling and don't stop pushing, keep pushing and the business will eventually have a large customer base and be bringing in regular good quality profit.