It is tempting to want to buy fancy extensions and apps for your website. We recommend that you stick to the basics.
Some extensions and applications take considerable time and effort to set up, and advanced knowledge to optimize.
You should wait until you make some money. At that point, you can invest revenue back into your company and start purchasing professional images and apps.
Until then stick to the basics.
There are many excellent free web tools and even resources online, including free stock images, and other online tools.
Google Search Console allows you to check to see if your website’s pages are appearing correctly on Google’s search engine. It also monitors many other aspects involving your website’s visibility.
Apps & Google Analytics allows you to analyze traffic to your website and apps and to see in “real time” how many people are visiting your website. It allows you to see what pages they are visiting.
If you are managing your own website, do not rush to purchase paid (or “Pro”) versions of web tools for every free plugin or extension you have installed.
From our years of experience, we have seen many websites that we have optimized, where paid web tools was not performing as promised.
There are many great apps online. Many of them are free. These include:
Once you have all your web essentials together, remember that the most important thing is sales. It doesn’t matter how much traffic you can generate if that traffic generates no sales.
It may be tempting to create a beautiful, complicated, unique design for your store. You may want to spend money on fancy widgets, a custom template, and all the bells and whistles. However, the best thing to do is keep it as simple as possible.
A slow connection could mean missing out on customer questions, interaction, and even orders. Another question is if you are selling one particular big-ticket item, or a large amount of items.
Try to keep all your items to a single theme or niche. You could build a shop selling one particular vanity, or a shop selling vanities and popular vanity accessories, but always make sure it fits a theme.