People are looking to start their own businesses these days. While some open up the stores at physical locations, some move to the online world.
When you talk about online, eCommerce is one of the major platforms where people are making a move now. There are so many niche segments opening up, giving ample opportunities to start an online eCommerce store. Some of the options that we can recall easily include:
- Clothing store
- Jewellery store
- Electronics
- Makeup, etc.
You can think of innumerable options if you wish to enter the eCommerce sector. But if you have decided to go with the clothing store, you need to keep few things in mind.
In any case, opening up an eCommerce store, for any niche, is not a cake walk. You need to do an extensive research and invest a lot of time before you are ready with your website. Similarly, with the clothing store as well, many things need to be taken into consideration. Here we have mentioned few of them.
Target Audience
Before you move ahead and include any and every thing in your clothing store, you need to see where your customers would come from. People often overlook this factor. But this is extremely important. For example, if you wish to target people from defense services, you can include products such as Aviation T-Shirts, uniforms, etc. This target audience will then influence the sales and promotions of your website.
How are you different?
Since eCommerce sector is heavily saturated, there is a high possibility that other people have also started the same online clothing store like you. So how are you going to stand out?
The strategy here is to market yourself different from others and hit that one single needed point of your target audience. The products can be the same, but how you market them make all the difference.
For example, if we take Johnsons baby shampoo into consideration, there are many companies that manufacture them. But still this company is popular. Why? The products are same, the composition is same, still why? That’s because the company markets itself as the caretaker of babies. With Johnsons, the mothers don’t have to worry about the safety of their child and their skin. Obviously this is what most mothers fear about, hence targeting this made Johnsons & Johnsons popular.
Shipping
Another major component to look after is shipping. How are you going to ship your products to your end customers? Moreover, you need to offer free shipping to customers, since that is the expectation of everyone in today’s time. So offering low costs or no costs at all will save you here, rather than going with heavy shipping costs.
In addition, other store policies also need to be taken into consideration, such as free returns, and so on.