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To really succeed on the Web, you
need more than just a Web site. You need "traffic" - a steady stream
of visitors coming to check out your products, services,
information, and everything else you offer online. In order to draw
people to your site, you need to be listed in the Web's most popular
search engines and Web directories. DuncansOnline offers many Free Web Tools
to help you optimize your web pages using Meta-Tags,
and then submit
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Submission. We also have Search Engine
tips for making your Web site more easy to find online.
The success of a Web site is
generally measured by how many visitors it gets. Your Web server
automatically logs each time someone accesses one of your Web pages.
Looking at these logs can tell you how much traffic your site gets,
how popular different parts of your site are, and when your site is
the busiest. Analyzing your traffic can even give you an idea of
which parts of your site may need to be improved or expanded.
All DuncansOnline Web hosting plans
come with built-in tools that you can use to help you analyze your
traffic. Once you become a DuncansOnline Hosting customer, it is
easy to log into a your Web Control Panel and access current site
statistics, see which pages are most popular, where your traffic is
coming from, and which keywords are being used. These statistics are
stored on your server so you can compare them and view monthly
reports to see if your marketing efforts are paying off.
A Web store is a special-purpose
Web site designed to display and sell products. Just like
traditional brick-and-mortar stores, Web stores can sell just a few
products or thousands of items, they can advertise their products,
have sales, and accept various forms of payment. Unlike
brick-and-mortar stores, however, Web stores can reach customers all
over the world, instead of being limited to one city or
neighborhood.
The Storefront
From a customer's point of view, a
Web store is special-purpose Web site that offers products for sale.
A Web store has one or more pages that display and describe
products, and a shopping cart where customers can buy those products
by giving their name and address and, typically, providing credit
card information. The look and feel of a Web store can vary quite a
bit, depending on the number and types of products being sold, and
the taste and skill of the person who designs the store!
Fulfilling Orders
This will require you to have a
merchant account (Call 1-202-580-8696 for help getting one). When
the customers makes a purchase, you would be notified by email that
an order came in. Your store could process the transaction(s) either
of the following ways:
- manually - you would retrieve
the customer information and enter it manually into your POS
(Point of Sale) terminal, or a "Virtual Terminal" provided
- real time processing - this
automatically takes the information and verifies it, letting you
know whether the credit card was approved or not
If you have one of our E-commerce
Plans
Each time an order comes in you will be notified via E-mail. This
email will have a Product Description, Product ID#, and let you know
who placed the order. To manually process their credit card
information you will need to log in to your Web Control Panel and
click on the "View Completed Orders" link in your Commerce Tools.
You can then process their card online on your Virtual Terminal, or
use the terminal of your choice.
Note:
If you would like the customers' credit cards to be processed
automatically, there is a one-time fee of $49 to set up your
"Real-Time Processing".
DuncansOnline Commerce Hosting and
Enterprise Hosting plans offer advanced features so that you can
provide your customers with the easiest and most efficient online
store available. All customer information is stored online in a
secure database. You can easily access this information by logging
into your Web Control Panel. Orders are automatically entered into
the database and can be viewed many ways (individually, by month,
from /to date, etc.) Orders can also be viewed as a Reports
spreadsheet, or downloaded at any time for accounting and inventory
purposes.
E-Commerce Web hosting adds an
e-commerce application to a Web hosting package, which is what
allows you to have a store on the Internet. There are basically 2
kinds of E-commerce Web hosting:
- Built-In: This means the
e-commerce software applications are pre-installed on the web
server, so you don't have to install anything! These Hosting Plans
are designed specifically for doing business on the web. They
would include a secure internet connection, an SSL Certificate, a
database, and have all of your E-commerce Tools built right in.
This would and allow you to easily set up your storefront, create
links for each of your products, and view / process orders over a
secure connection.
- Add-on: This is a Web
hosting plan that allows you to easily add on a specific brand of
E-commerce software and have it integrate into your web site. You
would have to go to their website for documentation and support,
since it is an Add-on application. You may also need to purchase a
secure connection and an SSL Certificate, or rent a payment
gateway for payment processing.
DuncansOnline offers 2 Hosting
Plans specifically designed for E-commerce. These plans offer
everything you need to build, maintain, and run an online
storefront. The orders are processed over a secure website
(included), and all order information is automatically stored on an
MS Access database for viewing, download, etc. View E-commerce
Plans!
What is an e-commerce
application?
An e-commerce application is
software that makes it easy for you to build and operate a Web
store. Online retail giants such as Amazon.com spend lots of money
and hire large numbers of programmers to build and maintain their
site, but DuncansOnline offers e-commerce applications that let you
do it from the comfort of your own home or office without any
programming!
The e-commerce application is
server software, which means that it is installed and runs on the
server - you don't have to install anything on your PC. You access
it with your Web browser, and you simply click buttons and fill out
forms to build your store. You can check orders and make changes to
your store from any computer that has a connection to the Internet.
It's easy to learn and easy to use, so you can focus on running your
store instead of learning a program.
Built-In
Ecommerce
DuncansOnline offers special Hosting Plans that are made for
Ecommerce and have all the applications already Built-In. Our 2 E-commerce
Plans enable you to easily create your online store, choose the
colors and buttons for your shopping cart, add products, and process
orders via a secure connection with these Built-In Applications:
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Add-on Ecommerce
DuncansOnline also offers a multitude of Ecommerce Add-on
applications that are much more affordable, and allow you the
freedom of setting up your own store just the way you want it. They
include:
Our Unix Hosting
Plans now offer 4 affordable Shopping Cart choices:
1) osCommerce
, 2)
Cube Cart , 3)
Zen Cart , or the 4) Agora
Shopping Cart
All with easy "1 click" installation using Cpanel / Fantastico
We also offer the
Soholaunch Pro Ecommerce Plugins that
enables Novices to create an Online Store with No Experience!
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TRIAL
SSL certificate - Each of our servers has a server-wide SSL
certificate installed. You have free access to this certificate for
your hosting account. (i.e. https://....).
This allows you to secure e-commerce websites so your customers can
securely transmit credit information to you.
We can also create
and install your own Certificate for as little as $30 /yr.
There are two primary tasks
involved in building and opening a Web store: planning and
implementation.
Planning
Having a successful Web store
involves much more than just an "If you build it, they will come"
mentality. You aren't ready to get started until you've done a
significant amount of planning.
Decide What to Sell
The products that you offer for
sale are - of course - a critical factor in ensuring the success of
your store. Here are some questions that you should consider when
evaluating your product offerings:
Uniqueness - Are you
offering unique items for sale, meaning that they are either
one-of-a-kind or are not offered for sale anywhere else? Or are the
products in your store easy to find in other Web stores?
Competition - If your
products are also available from other Web stores, have you spent
time browsing in those stores? Have you compared their prices with
what you plan to charge? What is it about your store that will draw
customers away from competitors' stores?
Profit Margin - For products
that you buy at wholesale, is your markup enough to provide you with
some profit? For products that you make, will you earn a fair return
on the time that you invested? Most merchants aren't trying to run
their Web stores as non-profit organizations!
Organize Your Products
The ease with which customers can
find the products that they're looking for is a critical factor in
sales. If you are planning on selling more than one type of product,
you need to have planned out the organization of your store prior to
building it. You should categorize your products in ways that your
customers are likely to look for them, and then plan to place them
on pages that reflect those categories.
Obviously, a store with thousands
of products will require a more advanced organization.
Even great advertising can't
replace good organization in helping your store to succeed.
A Picture is Worth...
Your store will be more useful and
appealing to customers if you include pictures of each product. You
should also consider having an appealing logo on the first page of
your store, and perhaps a smaller version of the logo on all other
pages.
Pictures must be in jpg or gif
format. If you have the ability to scan and edit images yourself,
you can simply create the images and store them for later.
Otherwise, hire a graphic designer to take photographs, or use
photographs that you supply, and use them to produce images in jpg
format. When you receive the images from the graphic artist, store
them on your computer. You'll be able to upload them to your Web
store when you're building your store.
Gather Product Information
Knowing what you're going to sell
and having pictures of those items is a large part of the
preparation for building your store, but you should also gather
other information about your products. Having product information on
hand will make building your store much faster and less frustrating.
Specifically, you should have:
- Product names.
- Product descriptions.
- Product pictures.
- Product prices.
- Product SKUs or other tracking
numbers if you use that information for inventory and shipping.
- Product shipping weight, if you
intend to charge for shipping by weight.
Planning Payment, Tax, and
Shipping Policies
Once you've planned your products,
you need to plan for transaction processing and fulfillment.
Specifically:
- What types of payment methods
will you accept in your store? If you're planning on accepting
credit cards, how will you process those payments? You can perform
offline credit card processing, such as with a POS machine, or you
can perform online credit card processing with our E-commerce
Hosting plans. Any method of credit card processing requires that
you have a merchant account and an account with a transaction
processing company. DuncansOnline can help you sign up for those
accounts.
- How much tax do you need to
collect, and from whom? You will need to collect tax from
customers in states where your store has nexus - which is defined
as a physical presence - even if it is just your office or
warehouse. You may also need to collect at a higher rate from
customers in your home city or county. You generally do not need
to collect sales tax from customers in states where your store
does not have nexus. These are just general guidelines and may not
apply to your situation-consult a tax professional to make sure
that your store complies with the laws of your location.
- What shipping methods will you
offer and how much will you charge? E-Vendor and Marketplace plans
offer real-time UPS shipping charges, and all plans offer many
other methods of calculating shipping charges, such as shipping by
weight, shipping by currency (price), and charging a base rate
plus an additional amount for each product. You should register or
contract with a shipping service and find out what you need to
know in order to charge the correct amount for each product and
shipment.
Implementation
Once you've completed your
planning, you're ready to get started with the implementation. We
can help you find the right kind of hosting plan if you Click HERE,
then you can decide on the size vs. price. Remember that you can
start smaller and then upgrade your plan when your business grows,
but the additional features in the E-Vendor and Marketplace plans
can help your store to grow more quickly.
After you've picked a plan, call a
DuncansOnline sales representative at 1-202-580-8696 and sign up for
that plan. Your account can be active in just a few hours, and your
sales representative can help you apply for merchant accounts and
credit card processing, too. You can start building your store while
you wait for your application to be approved.
Once your account is set up, you'll
receive an e-mail message that has a link to the back office of your
store. Click on that link and log in with your username and
password, and then the store building wizard will walk you through
the steps of setting up your store.
Here are a few simple questions,
just click on the links for your answer.
- If you need built-in Web Site
Creation Tools
click here
- If you will be needing to run
any Databases
click here
- If you want to have a
professional online store
click here
- If you just want a basic web
site, that is upgradeable click here
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Now all of our Unix Hosting Plans
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There are 175 great looking designs and so many features. There are
even Premium Features that include Ecommerce, Searchable Databases,
and much more .... all designed for the Novice to create
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SiteStudio
If you want a website but don't
know how to create one, you are in luck! DuncansOnline
offers web hosting plans with SiteStudio,
the online Site Building software that lets you design beautiful
websites using a simple interface that is like Microsoft's WORD
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Databases
There are basically two kinds of
databases . . .
- those that need Microsoft
Operating Systems (MS Access, Excel, Foxpro)
- those that don't, which can
run on other operating systems (mySQL)
- If you need to run Microsoft
Databases such as MS Access click here.
- If you don't need to run
Microsoft reliant databases click here
E-commerce
If you want to sell products or
services online, choose one of our E-commerce
Plans that enable you to easily create your online store, choose
the colors and buttons for your shopping cart, add products, and
process orders via a secure connection with all of your applications
and tools Built-In.
Unix Hosting - flexible and upgradeable
Our Unix Hosting Plans
offer all of your basic hosting needs, and a great way to start.
They also allow you to add many interactive features (such as Chat
rooms, bulletin boards, forums, etc.) from your Web Control Panel
with just one-click. They also feature 50 of the most popular
programs on the web that can all be installed with "1 click" using Fantastico.
Some of these programs are for Ecommerce, Content Management, Blogs,
Auctions, Customer Support, and even Website Building! We
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