Build Your Business Online

BUILD YOUR BUSINESS ONLINE

Build your business online: You've got a great business idea, and you want to get it off the ground immediately. You start to look at retail locations that will generate the right kind a traffic based on your ideal customer, and price out rent, utilities, inventory, upkeep, renovation costs, insurance…are your eyes glazing over yet? Mine, too. Launching a retail store can be expensive.

This is why many of us are so attracted to eCommerce – the costs of launching an maintaining an online retail business are far lower than a brick-and-mortar store, and come with far less financial risk. Shopify is an excellent platform on which you can launch an eCommerce business for a low monthly fee, and it provides almost any tool you'll need as a shop owner.

You can even compete in the Build a Business Competition right now with any Shopify store that was launched on or after June 1, 2014 (you can enter below) to win a 5-day trip to Richard Branson’s private island and be mentored by some fantastic entrepreneurs.

However, launching an eCommerce store is not without its own challenges. You’ll be entering a highly competitive space in which giants like Amazon typically dominate.

Not only this, but companies such as Target and Walmart have entered the eCommerce arena in force and are quickly taking some large chunks of the eCommerce pie.



Learn more about shopify and see how easy it really is to build your business online.