The benefits of having an online shop or store

With or without the effects of COVID 19, having an online shop for your customers in 2020 is crucial. With the current situation, more of us are shopping online and it’s becoming harder for customers to get to their favourite shops. Here are the reasons why you should consider having your businesses products and services online

24 hour Shopping

With an online store, you’re always open. The opportunity to make profit is always there, as you can take orders non stop without any intervention, and all you need to do after that is provide the customer with the product or service once it's ordered.

Without an online store, you’re losing hours of business when you are not open physically, and you could be open online. A customer may look at your website, but then see that your website has no online store, and therefore go somewhere else. If you don’t have an online store you will miss out on these potential customers.

More Potential Customers

Depending on how far you want to or can deliver, the size of your audience can massively increase. With a physical store only, you are mostly limited to only selling to people within your local area, however, with an online store your possibilities for trade becomes a lot more promising.

Your business can go from only trading in a small radius to trading across the country or even internationally. For a business in 2020, it’s imperative that your store is online so that you are not missing out on these potential customers who want your products or service.

Covid 19

With the Covid 19 pandemic this year, now is the perfect time to transfer more of your business online. More and more of us will be at home for the rest of the year and going into 2021, so you need to satisfy your audience and make it as easy as possible for your customers to get your products or service.

If your business only stays open as a physical store, the quieter high streets and less common shopping trips will result in your business suffering from a lack of customers, who will go online to get more of the products and services they need.

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