DoctorGeek is no longer accepting
e-commerce site projects

The information on this page is for informational purposes only.

Sometimes all you really need is a few PayPal buttons. DoctorGeek still helps nonprofits and small businesses with those.

online store considerations

• What monthly operating costs work for your business?
• How secure are online transactions?
• Does size count for your online inventory?
• How visual are your products, and what other bandwidth issues are there?
• How much downtime can your business tolerate?
• What can you do to get search engines to notice your products?
• Whom are you going call when things in your online store “go bump in the night”?

integrated solutions

for online business, non-profits
and offline business

Don't lose business because your online shop is off the search engine radar, hard to use, unsafe, unattractive, or woefully out of date.

You can DIY and learn how to "piece together" an online store that generates revenue and makes you proud. Frankly, it's a better investment of your time and resources to let a web developer customize an engaging, user-friendly e-commerce solution that will significantly improve your bottom line.

Shopping carts enable online purchases of goods and services. Some cart features are essential, such as SSL certification for secure online transactions. Others are highly beneficial to larger merchants, such as built-in phone orders, batch order processing, or a customer loyalty program. Some are just cool. Others are useless or even worse, dangerous.

questions for online entrepreneurs

• What are your business goals?
• Will you sell to anyone, anywhere?
• What's the most cost-effective way to collect payment? To ship?
• How can you transfer money safely online?
• What's your return policy?
• Does automatic order & shipping confirmation email sound good to you?
• Do you want to offer special perks to returning customers?
• How can site traffic statistics help you improve your bottom line?
• How can you market your online store?
• How can social media increase your bottom line?
• Does an email newsletter make sense for you? A blog? A Facebook fan page? Twitter? Instagram? Pinterest? The next big thing?
• How much social media marketing can be done in-house?
• How much IT can be done in-house?