Video created from content here: https://growmap.com/greatest-ecommerce-competitive-risks/ Running an eCommerce business is challenging. Many struggle with whether to have their own site or simply sell on Facebook, Amazon, eBay, Etsy or other platforms. While they may be your partners, they are also your strongest competitors. Are you a brick and mortar business with no online store? You need one – yesterday! Each new study that comes out shows that ecommerce sales are growing. Even if your in-store sales are solid, why not capture a piece of the online market, too? Own Where You Sell. Have your store on a domain you own. Choose the Best eCommerce Platform. Competing with Amazon Shipping. Do you know what the greatest risk to individual ecommerce stores is today? I believe it is the discounted shipping deal that Amazon has arranged with USPS, FedEx and UPS that no smaller ecommerce seller can match. How can your business compete? What can you share with customers? Benefits of buying from small businesses. Point out why they should not support bad corporate citizens. Talk about the better pay and treatment small business employees receive. Tell them how much you appreciate their business. Share with them about your business, employees, and possibly family. Many people are not aware of the importance of choosing where to spend their money. Some are because of what they’ve read on social media or in blogs or seen in videos on YouTube or Facebook. Promote Small Business similar to Buy Local. Show how where shoppers spend their money has a great impact on their local economies. On Twitter, Use Hashtags, Photos, and Stats. #buylocal, #shoplocal, #eatlocal. Facebook and LinkedIn Have large eCommerce groups dedicated to specific locations. Spread Small Business and Customer Success Stories. The #1 Reason Customer Shop Elsewhere, is Because They Didn’t Think Their Current Supplier Cared. Make Sure Your Customers Know You Care About Them! Written by Gail Gardner: GrowMap.com. Video Created by Julie Weishaar: NewHorizons123.com.

1. GREATEST ECOMMERCE
Competitive Risks to
Small Business

2. Running an eCommerce Business
Many struggle with whether to have
their own site…
IS CHALLENGING
or simply sell on Facebook, Amazon,
eBay, Etsy or other platforms..

3. While They May be Your Partners
They Are Also Your Strongest Competitors

4. Are You a Brick and Mortar
Business with No Online Store?

5. You NEED One
YESTERDAY!

6. Studies show
that eCommerce
sales are growing

7. EVEN IF YOUR IN-STORE
SALES ARE SOLID…

8. WHY NOT CAPTURE A PIECE
OF THE ONLINE MARKET, TOO?

9. Have Your Store
OWN WHAT YOU SELL
On a Domain You Own!

10. Choose the Best
E-Commerce Platform

11. Competing With
Amazon Shipping
I believe it is the discounted shipping deal that Amazon has arranged
with USPS, FedEx and UPS that no smaller ecommerce seller can match.
Do you know what the greatest risk to
individual ecommerce stores is today?

12. HOW CAN YOUR BUSINESS COMPETE?

13. Better Educate
Your Customers
Tell them about the benefits of
buying from your small business!

14. 14
Benefits of buying from small businesses:
Point out why
they should not
support bad
corporate citizens.
Talk about the better
pay and treatment
small business
employees receive.
Tell them how
much you
appreciate their
business.
Share with them
about your business,
employees, and
possibly family.
Many people are not aware of the importance of choosing where to
spend their money. Some are because of what they’ve read on social
media or in blogs or seen in videos on YouTube or Facebook.
What Can You Share With Customers?

15. Promote Small Business
Similar to Buy Local
Show how where shoppers spend
their money has a great impact on
their local economies.

16. Photos, and Stats
On Twitter, Use Hashtags,
#buylocal
#shoplocal
#eatlocal

17. Facebook
And LinkedIn
Have large eCommerce groups
dedicated to specific locations.

18. Spread Small Business and
Customer Success Stories

19. The #1 Reason Customer
Shop Elsewhere, is Because
They Didn’t Think Their
Current Supplier Cared.

20. Make Sure Your Customers
Know You Care About Them!

21. Content Written by Gail Gardner:
GrowMap.com
Video Created by Julie Weishaar:
NewHorizons123.com