We’ve covered the high-level strategy of building an online store that makes real money here.
But how do you create the ecommerce website itself?
In this guide, I’ll cover the 9 steps you need to take to create an ecommerce site in this guide. I’ve broken this guide into four sections:
The Prep Work — These are the things you’ll need to do before you start customizing your actual shop
The Framework — In this section I’ll help you pick the right theme for your online store
The Build — You’ll actually customize and create the ecommerce website in this phase
Get Paid — Connect a payments processor to your store and set the right prices
More specifically, this guide includes:
The one and only ecommerce tool we use to build our sites
The payment setting that can accidentally reduce your revenue by increasing refunds and chargebacks
The biggest myth of pricing and how real ecommerce website owners set their prices
What to put on your homepage to convert more customers
What an SSL certificate is and why you need one (also how to get one for free)
How to create an ecommerce website that’s profitable
You don’t need to finish all four phases in a day, though you could take a rough first draft approach and whip through them in a day, then iterate from there. Your choice! Let’s get building.
The Prep Work: Before You Build Your Ecommerce Website
Before we get into the actual work, I nee… Read More