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According to recent researches professionally designed website attracts more customers and thus ensures dynamic development of your online business. It’s a fact that the majority of customers judge online services by the look of their websites.
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Web statistics and analisis gives you an opportunity to track your visitors path over your site, shows which pages are popular and wich are not, track keywords and search engines that bring you visitors. Lots of useful information like banwidth usage, unique visitors, hits, visiy length, countries and languages of your visitors.
Free tools provided by every hosting company are Webalizer and AWStat, which are quite inaccurate and do not give overall information. We recommend free statcounter.com . Also there are hundreds of commercial solutions we do not want to advertise, but the majotity of them really worth buying. These analitics tools usually provide full and overall information on you visitors and give useful advuces. Hey! Almost forgot about Google Analitics, it also rulez!

Ok, I suppose you have already got a design for you ecommerce engine, hosted it successfully, submitted to search engines and exchanged a couple of good links. Now its high time to think of getting cash from your clients. I prefer and recomment 2 ways of doing it.
First one is PayPal, its probably the fastest, the most secure and the cheapest way to get money from client. Its very convenient if you live in EU or US. This payment system works great both with US and Euro banks. You can withdraw money at your bank account right after your identity verification.
The problem is that PayPal does not work with all countries and territories, so if you live in a country not supported by this payment gateway you will not be able to register and work using it. As an alternative we would advise 2CheckOut which may be an official retailer of your goods. Its a bit more expensive, not so secure, charges for chargebacks are higher and in general not as convenient as PayPal, but it supports much more countries and works with all credit cards.
Such old and classic methods of money transfer as Wire Transfer and Western Union are quite expensive, Moneybookers frankly sucks, CronoPay has not quite clear reputation as for me.
Well, I must say that there are other payment gateways billing credit cards and paypal accounts, but I have no experience working with them and can say nothing about it.

Or how make google love you. First question is why you need this. The reason is that people search some goods and services with the help of search engines, and for sure you want them to find YOUR goods or services. Search engines bring targeted traffics, which means that if you sell “mortgage” you will get people who want just “mortgage” but not “viagra”, “casino” or God knows what. To make them find you we will need a bit of optimization. To my mind a keystone of success here is good and unique content of your web page plus good backlinks.
First of all is content development. First of all write good old meta-description, meta-keywords and titles(read HTML tag manual), its really essential. Do not be lazy and write really extensive and keyword concentrated descriptions of all your products and services. This will be good both for your visitors and web-crawlers, they gonna love it. Do not forget to cross link all pages of your site, make a google sitemap(read manual at Google) cause this will help it to index the site better and faster.
Try to exchange links with other sites, though its better to avoid reciprocal links.
By the way nice link exchange is a whole sphere of SEO. One of my friends used to pay for 2 links from PR 7 page about $140 per month… and expected for PR improovement after next rotation.. but it gave no result as a web pages where from he got links were not considered by google as somehow they knew that these links are being sold. Thats the story.
There are thousands of companies offering to bring you on the top of the SERP in a couple of weeks and at reasonable price.
I would advise to stay away from so called “black SEO” as it brings more harm then use. You may raise for one day and be banned for the rest of your life. Ok, enough about sad
After you are done with texts and meta-tags submit your site to search engines. This will make them to start indexing your pages faster.

Supporting your clients is one of the most responsible and important aspects of your online commercial activity. First of all its a vital tool which allows you to keep in touch with your customers, to study their needs and hear advices or abuses. And what is even more useful - to increase sales and make your customers return. We are not the first who state that personal communication contributes to understanding of mutual needs and thus leads to enjoying clients confidence. Its definitely a reliable way to make your customers happier and your incomes growing.
Ok, enough of theory. Lets think of how to put it into practice and not to give an arm and leg to your supporting company.
We dare to suppose that there are 2 ways to support your clients online. The 1st one is to get your own Support Department, the second one is to use Supporting Service(outsourcing as a variant).
If you are going to provide support by yourself you will definitely need some communicational software like live chat and ticket system. The only decent OpenSource Free software that satisfies both these functions is Help Center Live 2.0.6. It includes core Live Chat engine with a number of plug-ins including OsTicket module which allows to receive and handle support tickets.
At your initial steps you will be able to create your FAQ Database and study needs of your clients.
The software mentioned above will enable you to track operators statistics, run several departments and much more. Here is a list of available features:

Brief Feature Review
Unlimited Operators
Unlimited Departments
Unlimited Users
Real-Time Chat Sessions
Real-Time Visitor Monitor
Unlimited Chat Sessions
Initiate Chat Sessions
Assign Operators to Mutiple Departments
View User’s Information
Operator to Operator Chat
Per Department Status Icons
Request Polling
Collect Visitor’s Information
Track Visitor’s Footprints
Track Visitor’s Referrer
Typing Notification
Display Operators Picture in Chat Windows
Autosave Chat Transcripts
E-mail Transcripts
Print Transcripts
Hot Pages
Transfer Files
Transfer Chat Session
Canned Messages
Canned Commands
Push Web Pages
Leave a message
Toggle sounds on/off
Toggle status online/offline
Implementation to your Website
Plugin Modules
Modify the Source
Runs on your server
Fully Customisable to fit your Website
For sure you can use any commercial software but as we stand on Open Source positions we recommend free soft.
If you think of your expenses optimizing then you should take a look at outsourcing Supporting Companies, usually these guys give you a good chance to save a bunch of dollars on tax, office and personnel expenses. Why paying $3K to some guy (we do not include taxes and office expenses) if you can get 24/7 support for less? Yep its one more thing for pondering.

So what we expect from our hosting company. Stability, no hidden fees, 24/7 support, good connectivity, affordable price. Of course you will need PHP, MySQL and SSL support. Its precisely what majority of hosting companies offer now. If you are running serious business dedicated server would be perfect for you, though do not forget that you will need somebody to administer it.
Happily there is such forum as webhostingtalk.com and many others where you can read overviews of hosting companies and get an idea what to do next. But in any case there is a list of some questions that you are to ask your hosting provider. Does the hosting company support you ecommerce engine (be it CREloaded, OsCommerce, Zen-cart or any other). Can your hosting provider offer you dedicated SSL serificate. Do they already have clients runnyng ecommerce solutions.
Below comes the list of hosting providers offering solutions for ecommerce whom we’ve been working with and respective comments.

Probably you will ask what are your options? The options are custom development and pre-designed templates. The first one is evident from its name. Its comparatively expensive, takes some time for development, provides unique design(until someone steals it). What is website template - its a pre-designed and user friendly skin for your website that comes at affordable price($25-65) and can be modified without deep knowledge of web technologies with any WYSIWYG editor. Though its not quite true if it goes about flash templates. You will need at least basic knowledge of Macromedia Flash and the editing software itself, which is rather expensive(happily still there is 30 day trial of Flash and a bunch of customization service companies that will do all the job for $200)

Okay. After “parsing” Google for a couple of days and consulting with your friends, wife and a guy in the bar you have a serious dilemma. To use or not to use web site templates? It really depends, lets think and count together.
Suppose you are running serious business, like an international car dealer, or providing loans, or huge real estate company or some business consulting agency or maybe military aircraft plant, or some old IT company. Suppose you are IBM! You want to be as unique as possible, underline all your outstanding features, emphasize your brand, make unforgettable impression on your customer. Make them understand that you are THE ONLY one. Then template is not a variant, that’s for sure. Perfect custom design with an indecently large budget and best designers. If you are not IBM and even not Samsung, then $1500-3000 will be quite enough to make something of the kind but with another logo.
But the majority of the guys reading this manual are not from CISCO, or even Forex, or whatever. They just intend to sell sport apparel online and don’t want to get involved into serious financial risks. Probably you need online store design that can be easily integrated into your existing Oscommerce engine and easily edited in FrontPage or dreamweaver. And the budget is about $400. Then pre-made website template is just what you are looking for. It can be always customized and adopted to your specific needs, and which is more important you get what you see when you pay(I mean that there will be no over creative designers assuring you after you’ve paid that what they will give you is just what you need. And they know it better
After searching for “website template” or “flash template” you found hundreds of websites selling the same templates under different brands. They are resellers or affiliates or maybe partners of huge design studios producing 70% of overall designs on the net. If you don’t want to spend hours surfing these sites and comparing prices(which are all the same) then just take a look at http://webtemplatebiz.com - resource that collected most wide spreaded web templates in one place. Another resource with powerful search engine and convenient navigation is http://sunnyflash.com . We recommend them as well tested and reliable partners offering wide range of services at reasonable price. Once you’ve bought a template don’t forget to modify it a bit, change images slogan and company name . Or you have a serious risk to find a dozen of sites whose owners bought the same template and look like your tweens.

If you are planning to sell some goods online with its further shipping(via real post or virtually via email) you will need some engine to publish the catalog of your products and enable the customer to pay for it and maybe left some comments or remarks.
Of course you may order some custom engine from programming company, but this variant we will review later. Now lets take a closer look at pre-made online business solutions. What features would we want from our ecommerce engine.
1. Ability to customize (We suppose you do not intend to have one design for the whole life? Thats why it would be nice if its possible to make some skins for our store. Or already have them ready)
2. Good manual pages (as we are not interested in finding some “our personal bug” and fighting with it for ages. We would like to have well documented software with well tested cook-book).
3. Affordable price(free of charge would be the best
4. Intuitive control panel and easy installation (as we intend to be up and running in half an hour)
5. Customer friendly interface (our customers are human beings and will not spend a week looking for “Add to Cart” button and one more week trying to proceed to checkout )
Well basically that’s all. Briefly we need something easy manageable and convenient for customer.
Good news is that ecommerce pre-made engines market offers pretty large choice of shopping cart software. Bad news is that only few of them correspond to all our demands.
We will not say a word about any of commercial solutions for online business. First of all we do not intend to advertise any product, then we consider that Free Open Source solution is the best decision for every merchant for a number of reasons.
So here we will review 2 most popular FREE OpenSource ecommerce solutions which are Zen-Cart and OsCommerce.

ZenCart is truly user-friendly ebusiness system created by talented programmers, designers and competent consultants. It makes use of combination of perfect programming and amazing usability. You do not have to be an expert in IT to install and run it, every a housewife with very basic knowledge of computing can do that after reading and following a short and understandable manual page. In a word it was designed with shopper in mind. Being quite an easy in use it offers a wide range of features and good support backup. Checkout main features included in Zen-Card ecommerce gear:

Easy Installation

* checks the database and server for requirements before installing
* installs using a built-in installation tool
* prepopulates the basic store information
* optional demo products

Global E-Commerce Ready

* multiple language support
* multiple tax support
* multiple shipping methods
* multiple currency support
* multiple payment methods

Customer Status Modes

* unrestricted shopping
* must register to view prices
* must register to view prices and merchandise
* showroom only

Catalog Status Modes

* showcase mode without prices
* showcase mode with prices
* normal shopping mode
* down for maintenance mode

Categories and Products

* unlimited category depth
* physical merchandise
* downloadable virtual products
* products can reside in multiple categories
* product options as dropdowns, radio buttons, checkboxes, and text input

Customer Retention Tools

* periodic newsletter in plain text or HTML
* order status emails and records in the customer account
* referral tools
* gift certificates

Promotions, Sales and Discounts

* individual special prices
* global sale reductions
* category-wide sale prices
* discount coupons
* customer group discounts
* quantity discounts
* one-time charges
* minimum and maximum purchases per product
* prices by attributes

Powerful Administration Tool

* configure your minimum and maximum values, image sizes and customer details
* choose which layout settings to use for the spotlight listings
* pick which details to show on your product details page
* edit your policies pages with HTML (if desired)
* add, delete, move, link or copy your products
* create and manage your product attributes
* manage product reviews, featured products, specials and storewide sales
* shipping and payment module installation and management
* price and taxation control
* banner advertising controls
* newsletter creation and sending
* content management tool, easily add new content pages

Fully Customizable Catalog Templates

* XHTML 1.0 compliant - nearly table-less layout
* change the colors, fonts and many graphics using Cascading Stylesheets
* add, move, remove sideboxes via the Admin Tool
* template overrides that do not get overwritten during upgrades
* override functionality without having to learn PHP
* create as many different looks as you would like and choose them from the admin

Another Open source shopping cart system that is a serious competitor of Zen-Cart. Its OsCommerce ebusiness engine.
Released by GNU GPL it provides immense range of services and features available right out-of the-box. Over 10000 online shops are running under OsCommerce gear. Supported by large community of users and developers it became really large international project(supports 141 language) making it hard to compete even for high cost commercial software.
Our team gives this engine #1 position among contemporary commercial and free ecommerce solutions. None of gears supports such number of features(plug-ins skins language packs and contrib.) and has so detailed documentation.
Every of features listed below worth writing separate article, so we will be very very short just to give the general notion of OsCommerce project scale:
All contributed work is freely available under the GNU General Public License.
Credit Modules
201 Packages
Features
1100 Packages
Images
252 Packages
InfoBoxes
257 Packages
Languages
141 Packages
Order Total Modules
55 Packages
Payment Modules
468 Packages
Reports
66 Packages
Shipping Modules
218 Packages
Templates/Themes
94 Packages
Zones
72 Packages
Other
497 Packages
Impressive, right? This is the reason why template providing companies make skins for Oscommerce engine, it is really wide and eternal market.
Of course its up to you to decide what to choose but if you don’t want to have pain in your head we advise you to use one of these solutions.