Hi,

i am a student working on a essay and I was wondering if anyone can gived me some walid information for the pros and cons for ecommerce? thank you so much

Sait Student

Well you ask what are the pros & cons of running an on line shop? right, well I have worked for many years in a shop in the centre of town, loved it, was great to meet and chat with the people, you do not get that with an on-line shop, can be very lonely doing shops that way.
One pro side of an e-commerce shop is that it's very easy if run in the right way, you get automated stock taking, once you sell and item, just click a button and replace item sold, that has got to be better than having to order from a firm that tells you your min order has to be £900 for stuff you know wont ever sell.
Another con with an e-commerce shop is that hardly anyone buys from shops that do not belong to big names, eg Currys Elec/Comet, Sky TV, if your not a trusted name very few will buy.
It can and often does take up to 4 years before you get known as a shop on the net, I know 100s of e commerce shops that were built in 2005 and still going but have sold nothing yet.
Hope this truth helps you ok.
bye
David

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E-Commerce is the electronic online process of conducting business.It can have a positive and negitive impact on the success of a small business.There are many pros to e-commerce.
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The Cons.

DSR, distance selling regulations, too heavily weighted in the customers favour.

PSP/Banking, no bank will ever lose money (at least not to us) so whatever happens banks push any possible loss onto the merchant.

Fraud/Theft, just like any business you will find yourself the target of some dodgy people wanting things for free although you do learn very quickly how to spot them.

Can take's over your life, be prepared if you're serious about having a site that will bring in the money you're going to have to keep it up to date and maintained and you can get sucked in.

Too many so called marketing compaines will 'guarantee to get you to the top of Google'. DON'T LISTEN, IT'S BULL

The Pros.

You can make money when you're sleeping, nothing better waking up on a wet and windy morning know you have got the days takings in the 'bag'

Smaller overheads.

The whole world is your market place and can become your customer.

With some planning you can run a busy site and still have time to enjoy life (I've just not found it yet)

In all

I feel that if you can set yourself a monthly sales target and when you reach it be happy and see any extra as a bonus you'll have the money in the bank and some time to enjoy life (and spend the money) however if you don't set targets you'll constantly be chasing your tail.

Now I just need to pratice what I preach!!!

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