After so much advancement in ebusiness, SME are still to be blessed. 

There are so many technical service provider offering ebusiness services, but many of them dont think long term. Recently I was in touch with a service provider they sign a contact with one of our client and I was later appointed as a consultant to finish the project on urgent basis, what I found was that this company was buiding a CMS system and then adding hand coded payment transaction and no backend admin management, I was shocked, I said for this amount a person can buy a ready to use ecommerce software or open a store on yahoo store or some good store.

So, SME got to be smart, there are economical and reliable service provider available, all you got to do is check for the authenticy with the body they are register with a complain if they dont perform well, including me

Many small and medium businesses are still scared of having their website online, there are many factors that delays the setup and finally force them to close down.  Let us discuss some of them

1.  The foremost question is of getting the right ecommerce company that would understand product, market and company requirement

2.  Finalizing the store design and layout that would have all sorts of requirements like promotion area, product brief, etc.

3. All contents like privacy, terms of use, refund policy and more

4. Taxation, Shipping and other additional cost

5. Addon features like color variance, matching shoes, matching ties and so on

6. Marketing aspect

7. Prompt support from service provider, the ecommerce service provider must be sound to look after hosting, addons, critical payment issue, etc

These are few things that needs to be kept in mind