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Top Tips for Starting an Online Fashion Store

  • 29/03/2017
  • Kiesha Meikle
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With customers preferring to purchase goods and services online more than anywhere else, it’s no surprise that a majority of entrepreneurs today own online businesses. Online clothes shopping provides customers with great prices, a much larger selection of items to choose from, and a convenient way to shop without having to leave the house or navigate the high street. If you are considering starting an online fashion store, here are some top tips to help ensure your success.

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Build Up a Social Media Following:
Today, social media platforms provide the best and most effective method of real-time customer engagement. For example, using social media features such as Facebook Live videos, opinion polls, and live Q&A sessions on Twitter can help your customers to build up a stronger relationship with your brand and increase your overall online exposure. Having an active voice on social media is essential when encouraging potential customers to engage and interact with your brand. Sharing videos, fashion tips, fashion news, ‘how-to’ guides, images, and more interesting content regularly on social media is crucial for increasing traffic to your online store.

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Choose the Right Platform:
If you are in the process of setting up your online fashion business, then you’ve probably been trying to suss out which is the best platform to choose. When looking for an online e-commerce platform, you should always look for a high-quality product and service, even if this means that you need to pay a little more for it. This is a purchase that you should certainly not try to cut corners with – your customers will expect an e-commerce store that offers easy navigation, a mobile-friendly viewing experience, and above all, a highly secure payment process. For more information, check out Shopify pricing.

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Develop an App:
With the majority of online shoppers now doing so from smart devices such as tablets or smartphones, online fashion businesses need to offer services that fit in well with this in order to be successful. When it comes to online shopping on a smart device, apps can make the whole experience easier. For example, when using an app, customers can leave chosen items in their shopping basket to return to later, whilst using their device for something else. Additionally, developing an app means that you can communicate directly with your customers by sending them push notifications based on their shopping preferences!

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Be an Authority:
When it comes to the world of online fashion, things can be very competitive. Starting out as a fashion e-commerce store, you will quickly discover that you have thousands of competitors to contend with. In general, clothing and fashion e-commerce stores that do well tend to be an authority voice online. In order to achieve this, provide your viewers with information such as fashion tips, news and information on the latest fashion trends or big fashion events, and tutorials and guides to help your customers get the most out of the items that they purchase from you.

Online fashion is a very competitive industry, but with the right strategies, your business can stand out.

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  1. Britanica says:
    06/04/2017 at 1:09 am

    A friend of mine has wanted to do this for sometime. She wants to focus on accessories though not clothing. I am going to share what I read here. It makes a lot of sense that if you want it to succeed, you have to approach it the right way and use the right media outlets to get the word out. I may start one myself 😉

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