E-COMMERCE SALES
According to the U.S. Commerce Department, e-commerce sales in 2010 totaled $165.4 billion, that’s a 14% increase from 2009 in which e-commerce sales were $144.1 billion.
The U.S. Commerce Department reported $9.7 billion has been spent online in the 2011 e-commerce holiday season sale, marking a 14-percent increase versus the corresponding days last year.
Benefits of starting an online business
1. Minimal Start-up Costs
Unlike brick and mortar businesses, your start-up costs for online businesses can be minimal. You’ll need to purchase a domain name for your blog or website, and pay a monthly hosting fee. There are various business models to sell your products and market your services. Corporate Cosmo LLC can assist you in building your e-commerce site and develop a marketing strategy that can will translate website visits into sales.
With advancement of internet and the creation of social media platforms, starting a online business is not only affordable, but also very lucrative as well. The very survival of you business is having a search engine friendly web/blog site, developing and implementing a marketing strategy, connecting with potential customers by having a web profile through social networks such as LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
2. Work at Home
You can work at home with any online business.This is the best solution for moms who want to balance work and family. You can set your own hours.
If you provide services, make it clear to clients what those hours are and stick to them. The convenience of working at home and selling your products and services online will allow you the ability to make money 24 hours a day 365 days a year!
Getting Started
If you are serious about your e-business success, then allow Corporate Cosmo Merchant Services, handle your e-commerce credit card processing. E-commerce processing allows merchants to process electronic payment from their own website. By a payment gateway, merchants can securely transfer customers’ credit card information to a processor. CCMS’s e-commerce processing including: shopping carts for multiple items purchases, highly secure payment gateway for securely transferring customer’s information, a merchant account for accepting online payment at the lowest rates, a secured host payment pages, and encrypted pages for security purposes.
With online purchasing on the rise, consumers want flexibility in payment options. With our e-commerce processing, you can start accepting a variety of payments, including, all major credit cards, electronic checks, gift cards and signature debit cards. Our full feature processing allows you to easily manage and monitor your transactions from your website, receive payments quicker, prevent fraud and avoid sensitive data exposure.
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