How to start with an Online Business to sell Clothing and Accessories?

In order to start your clothing and accessories business you will have to think about the customer base and overhead costs. Either if it is offline storefront or an online store. If it is an eCommerce clothing store you will have no restrictions that arise from having a traditional local retail store and you will be able to sell from anywhere to anyone in the world.

 

But before doing anything, you require a proper market research to develop a realistic plan and a well built ecommerce website. 

1. Research: Look at the competition, pay attention to categories and sub-categories, choose your consumer base.

2. Plan: What kind of clothing to sell, what would be the price range, what are the accessories, where to get them, think about the supplies, materials, source, salespeople, and more.

3. Technology: Since you will be starting out a website, choose a readymade eCommerce website platform that has pre-built features at less cost, instead of going with a website developed from the scratch as it may cost you lots of bucks for starting out.

4. Law: Know about the sales tax in your locality, what you must be paying for your physical store and get to know about the consumer protection guidelines and business administration to stay relevant with law.

If you are in need of a low-cost budget friendly readymade ecommerce website with in-built features to drive sales, look at EWDC’s ecommerce website platform which may be suitable to start your online store for clothing and accessories!

This post is Originally appeared in Quora