E-commerce

Shipping Cost

Shipping Merchandise.

Shipping is a major cost of being an online merchant. Expect shipping charges to range from 5% to 15% of your gross sales. You will need to learn about shipping cost, freight claims, proper packaging and the paper work required. The following is enough to get you started and point you in the correct direction to learn more.

UPS & Fed-X Ground & DHL

Web Site PromotionÂ

Placement on Internet search engines is still the key to getting your retail web site seen. Over the years this task has gotten more difficult to do as the number of web sites has grown and the search engines change their methods of ranking sites. If you have read through this book, you know that what you choose to offer for sell, can have a large effect on your web site's search engine rankings. Here we will cover META tags, doorway pages, page optimization, and other things you can do that will help you get or improve your position.