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Over time, you might find that your once profitable eCommerce business is now flagging and not bringing in anything like the revenue that it used to. Finding the reason for this won’t be easy, especially if you have built it from the ground up and have a massive emotional as well as financial investment in it.
If you want it to survive, however, you’ll need to take a step back and try to assess where it is all going wrong so that you can put it right. This will entail looking at three important areas of your business (highlighted below)and making the necessary changes either by yourself or by engaging specialist help.
1. Assess your product quality and range
You might want to start by looking at what you are selling. Quality is all important when it comes to providing products for customers so you need to check that your manufacturer or wholesaler is still providing the same top-quality goods they did at the start. If that is not the case you need to look at finding a new source for your products, or change tack entirely by exploring new product ideas.
This second option could be a good idea anyway, as it will create interest and bring new customers to your website.
2. Hire experts to audit your sales site
This is where you should look next. There is a very good chance that your website looks old and tired compared to other newer options so you need to get it updated. This is one area where you should probably get the experts involved and preferably somebody local rather than an agency somewhere across the globe.
If you are in the UK, for instance, using MageCloud Magento agency in London would make sense, as they are in the same time zone and provide immediate feedback. This could be in regard to the audit they carried out on your current site and suggested improvements like moving to Magento, Shopify, or a similar solution. They can also help with setting this up from scratch, so your own lack of technical expertise will not be a problem.
3. Invest in customer service
It is also a good move to find out what else you can improve about your site, and to do this you need feedback from customers about their experience and their likes and dislikes. This can be incorporated into customer service functions and after-sales care, so you can see which areas need work straight away.
Human nature being what it is, you are far more likely to get complaints rather than praise, but this gives you a clear picture of where your time and effort needs to be invested if you are to stop your business from failing.
A few final thoughts
Once you see your business failing, then rapid action is needed. Product quality could be a problem, so you need to start looking there—closely followed by updating your website and moving to a dedicated eCommerce business platform.
There could be other issues as well, and these can be unearthed from customer feedback, giving you an easy checklist of what else needs to be improved.