17 August 2013

A Seller's Guide To Marketing Apparel Online

By Joe Smith


Having your own online clothing business has a lot of pros like flexibility and working from home, however without a proper business plan in place it won't be profitable. Our article below lists tips and tricks to take into consideration when setting up your business plans to make sure you're profitable.

Putting out a well designed catalogue for your apparel can do wonders. Hiring a professional to work with you on how to put the catalogue together to best display your apparel product can result in a 35-40% increase in sales just from having this resource available to your customers.

Don't neglect forums. There is a web forum for just about anything you can imagine. If you have someone participate regularly on a forum with a link in your signature it's going to increase traffic. The more your shop is exposed the more you sell. The more you sell the more you'll earn.

All of your policies should be clear and written out for customers to see. That way there is no ambiguity and they know exactly who and what they are purchasing from.

Trust and reputation are important elements of any business, which are to be developed further, if you are planning to run online apparel store. Care should be taken to build a better level of trust with customers so that they may not feel reluctant while finalizing any deal with you. One the trust developed, you can treat them as loyal customers.

Offering to sell others companies' apparel on your site can be a great way to make a little extra money. You would save on the transactions because you wouldn't be paying for the clothing or the storage and you'd be getting a cut of the profits on clothing sold.

Add a group sharing network where people can just chat. Free webinars or guest postings that offer how-to suggestions will attract more visitors. Give the group a name that will attract people with similar interests. Ask them to spread the word to their family and friends.

Credit card is often the preferred method for online payments. Make sure that you are extra diligent when accepting this form of payment by verifying the information and security code on each transaction. This is the only way to protect yourself against credit card fraud.

Navigation of your site is the key to keeping your customers. Due to the number of competitive sites online, customers will exit your site whenever they end up with a deadline and most of them will never return. So keep the navigation simple and make sure that all the links are working and leads to the correct places.

Educate yourself on the rules and regulations of hosting an online apparel store. You need to familiarize yourself with the law of contract and suitability standards so you can be successful and not be penalized for negligible actions.




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