E-commerce has become one of the most promising and fast-growing sectors in Morocco. Getting into online retail and creating an e-commerce website has become a necessity.
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Taking Morocco as an example, although the country is still at an early stage, it saw strong growth between 2014 and 2019. Indeed, websites affiliated with the CMI processed 8 million online payment transactions, worth 3 billion dirhams, in 2018.
This shows that the number of Moroccans buying online is growing remarkably and rapidly.
Meanwhile, the number of registered .ma domain names rose from 53,750 to more than 80,000 in five years.
In today's world, with the immense competition spreading across every sector, having an e-commerce website is essential to the success of your project or business. Yet a large number of businesses still don't have one.
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If you are one of them and are still hesitating, Cap Connect gives you a few good reasons to order your domain name as soon as possible and start building your e-commerce website:
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More1 – Reach new customers and widen your catchment area
Naturally, the main purpose of creating an e-commerce website is to gain more traffic, attract new potential customers and, as a result, increase your turnover.
By creating a website for your business, you will be able to explore new markets.
If you are actually based in Morocco, for example, your website will let you break into the international market and reach customers on the other side of the world.
2 – Greater visibility
When your shop is closed or full, you tend to lose potential customers. An e-commerce site helps you avoid this problem, because you can receive orders and your customers can make purchases even outside opening hours. This can also help you build customer loyalty and raise your profile.
3 – Lower costs
By nature, e-commerce is a low-cost activity. The overheads you have to deal with when running an online business are generally very limited.
Whether you want to create an e-commerce website or get help with one, prices are now very accessible.
The costs you will have to cover are mainly related to shipping and delivering orders, storage and promotion.
However, compared with the benefits you can earn through your e-commerce website, these costs remain very affordable.
4 – ROI (Return on investment)
One of the most important advantages of adopting e-commerce is return on investment. Indeed, an e-commerce website lets you collect various kinds of information about your traffic and your customers, and measure precisely how effective the marketing strategies you have put in place to promote your business really are.
This indicator then helps you make decisions and create promotional content that is well targeted to your customers.
5 – Customer convenience
What makes e-commerce so popular and increasingly widely used is the great freedom it gives its users. In a shop, the buying conditions are not always favourable to satisfying a customer 100%. Customers tend to be short of time, and you tend to have to deal with several of them at once.
An e-commerce website gives your customers the chance to make their purchase safely, reliably and freely.
6 – More space, so more products on show to your customers
In a shop, it is difficult, if not impossible, to display every product you have to your customers. On your website, however, you can offer all your products, even those that are no longer in demand (for seasonal reasons, for example).
7 – A website sets you apart from your competitors
If there is one effective way to stand out from your competitors, it is an e-commerce website. When a customer is looking for a product you sell or a service you offer, they will feel safer buying from a business that has an e-commerce website.
8 – Crises
In the event of a national or global crisis, an e-commerce website is the perfect solution for keeping your business going.
Take the covid-19 crisis in 2020: with everyone in lockdown, businesses without an e-commerce website suffered, while those with one were able to keep trading, even remotely.
In conclusion, an e-commerce website gives you the chance to stand out from the strong competition your business has to face, gain more visibility and traffic, get to know your target audience better and increase your turnover.
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