Get Your First Online Sale immediately

Syed Abdul Wahab Shah

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Follow our tips below to quickly get your first sales order on an e-commerce website.

When a person opens an online store, he is very emotional and very happy, but getting the first sales order is very difficult, and if many days pass like that, disappointment sets in. But you don’t get disappointed, let me also tell you that when I started selling online, I got my first order within 24 hours, how I got it. But before that, let’s look at some other things.

How long does it take for the first sale order to arrive?

The answer is that there is no limit, it may take less time or it may take more time. However, there are certain factors that you can adopt to reduce this time. For example, the quality of your product. Price, market demand for the product you are offering, and then how much traffic you get to your store, etc.

Every online store is different, and every online seller is different. For example, if you already have a good following on Facebook, YouTube and other social media platforms, then it doesn’t take long to get the first order. Because when you suddenly tell your thousands of followers that I have started selling this product, they order immediately with great confidence and you get the first order within twenty four hours.

The same thing happened to me when I created my online store www.etopk.com and started selling online, my store was still under construction but orders started pouring in from an announcement on Facebook and YouTube. Because I have millions of followers. However if you don’t have followers, then it may take some time to get your first order.

There are some reasons that you can consider and come to the conclusion why you are not getting the order.

For example, price: Is your price higher than the market rate?

Traffic Analysis: Is the traffic coming to your store irrelevant traffic?

Checkout: Is your checkout process complicated?

Payment Methods: Do you only receive money from one source?

Trust: Do people trust you enough to buy from you?

Description: Have you been able to describe your product well?

Slow Website: Is your website very slow and slow to load?

17 Ways to Get Your First Online Sale immediately

How long does it take for the first sale order to arrive?. 2

Now read the following instructions carefully and follow them: 2

1. Identify your target market. 2
2. Create a funnel (cuppy) on your website. 3
3. Run paid ads on Facebook, Instagram.. 3
4. Run Google Ads based on keywords relevant to your product. 3
5. Start blogging. 3
6. Share your blog post on social media including Facebook. 4
7. Use internal banners to drive traffic to your sales pages. 4
8. Simplify your checkout system. 4
9. Hire social media influencers. 5
10. Create an email list. 5
11. Keep creating special discount offers for your customers. 5
12. A customer feedback page on your website. 5
13. Encourage customers to leave product reviews. 6
14. Use Facebook Product Ads. 6
15. Create a Google Shopping Add. 6
16. Answer questions about your product. 6
17. Listen to your customers. 7

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1. Identify your target market.

If you don’t know what I’m selling and who I’m selling it to. You don’t know your target market, you don’t know what people need your product, then you will be left wondering if the order is not coming.

If you get 10,000 visitors to your website but they are all irrelevant, then that traffic is useless. And if only 100 visitors come to your website, but they are relevant people, they are looking for the same product you are selling. If there are, then these one hundred visitors are better than these ten thousand.

2. Create a funnel on your website

A funnel is a vessel we use, which has an open mouth on one side and a narrow and long pipe-like mouth on the other side. The digital marketing term funnel also means that your website design is like a funnel. That is, get traffic through Facebook Google Ads, then get engaged on the website, and slowly drive the traffic through your spiraling funnel to the sell.

If someone is interested in one of your products but hasn’t yet bought it, retarget that customer repeatedly with remarketing, reminding them periodically via email, or the same product with Google targeted ads. He kept seeing it again and again on Facebook, Google.

3. Run paid ads on Facebook, Instagram

Facebook is a platform of millions of users and Instagram is also a part of Facebook.

Run paid ads on Facebook and Instagram to jumpstart your sales, targeting specific people you want to sell to or potential buyers of your product. In this ad campaign, you apply filters to see which people in which country, which city, and which people see this ad. What is their gender, what is their age, what is their field, what is their education, what are their interests, by applying all these filters you can show ads directly to the people you want to show. Similarly, you can also target only those people who have visited your website once, and targeting such people is more useful.

4. Run Google Ads based on keywords relevant to your product.

Ads based on keywords related to the product are shown to searchers at the top, meaning that when someone searches for something on Google with keywords similar to those keywords, your ad appears. Clicking on it will take you to your website. Now the part of the website they land on should have some incentives, offers, and guidelines to get them to do something after they land. It’s up to you how you manage the visitor. .

5. Start blogging.

You also need to start blogging to sell your product. That means you write informative articles about your product. Write and share research articles related not only to your product but also to that category and sector. Doing so will also improve your page’s SEO and increase people’s trust in you.

For example, if you sell cotton cloth, then you should write on your blog periodically about the types of cloth, their quality, their manufacturing, their import and export, and share the latest news related to cloth.

6. Share your blog post on social media including Facebook.

If you want frequent new visitors to your website, the benefits of sharing your articles and informative writings on other social media platforms including Facebook:

1. Your old visitors will come back again and again.
2. New visitors will also be gained.
3. Your social interaction will increase.
4. You will get backlinks.
5. There will be an opportunity to target new customers.
6. Your brand exposure will increase.
7. When you run an ad campaign, you’ll be able to target visitors.

7. Use internal banners to drive traffic to your sales pages

Your website won’t just have your products, there will be a lot more, so you should have banners above or below the sidebar or post of each of your pages that drive traffic to the product page.

Every time someone comes to your website, try to convert them from a visitor to a customer. Several methods are adopted for this.

For example, somehow encouraging the visitor to give you their email address, phone number, etc.

Encouraging visitors to turn on your website’s notifications

Encouraging a visitor to become a subscriber to your website.

8. Simplify your checkout system.

A checkout system means that if a customer wants to buy one of your products, and puts it in the checklist, the next process is very easy and quick to complete. The customer should not face too many questions and complexity, otherwise he will leave. Just ask for his address, phone number and let him know the easy way of receiving the payment so that he can easily buy the product as soon as possible.

Likewise, all avenues available in your country should be open to the customer for payment. For example, Easy Paisa, Jazz Cash, Bank, Cash on Delivery etc. in Pakistan.

9. Hire social media influencers.

Many small brands have gone from earth to heaven through influencer marketing. I think you too can achieve success by adopting this strategy.

Choose people on Facebook who write well and have a large audience. Then send them a gift of half of your products so they can unbox it on Facebook and say that such-and-such person or such-and-such company sent it to me, thank you very much. This will promote your product in an invisible way. You must have seen posts on Facebook that are actually meant to promote a product.

Don’t panic! You can also send me a gift. Hahaha.. Hahaha

10. Create an email list

Email is also one of the best ways to keep in touch with your customers, and it produces very good results. You can use different methods to get people’s e-mail, for example, give a ten percent discount coupon, and to get the coupon, the customer has to enter their e-mail, which is on your record. And you add him to your email list.

Now attract people on this email list to your product through periodic emails, offer special discounts to old customers.

11. Keep creating special discount offers for your customers.

In Western countries, there is a special discount day called Black Friday, on which millions of dollars are sold. Similarly, you can also attract your customers through special discount offers.

For example, fifty percent discount for 24 hours.

50% discount for coupon holders etc.

12. A customer feedback page on your website

Customer feedback, and testimonials play an important role in getting your website up in Google rankings. And this process increases your sales. Because new buyers read reviews and testimonials from old customers and are ready to buy very quickly, that’s why you may have seen many people on Facebook sharing screenshots of testimonials in their customers’ WhatsApp messages. They do and it also benefits them a lot.

13. Encourage customers to leave product reviews.

Your product reviews can also increase your sales and cause temporary losses. But this review option is better overall. Because positive reviews increase your sales, and negative reviews make you think about your products and try to improve them.

The problem is that people who like the product usually don’t leave a review, but those who don’t like the product are very vocal, and immediately leave a review saying that the product is flawed.

However, this option is generally good, and you should encourage your customers to leave reviews and feedback.

14. Use Facebook Product Ads

Facebook turns your product into a complete ad. When creating this ad, you can also specifically target people who have already come in contact with you, or visited your website, or viewed your products.

15. Create a Google Shopping Add

Google’s shopping feed, also known as a product listing ad, appears at the top of organic search. This type of Google Ads is very useful in increasing your sales. This makes your brand well known.

This Google system automatically finds your users and customers and shows them your product. For example, a person saw your product on your website a month ago, and clicked on it, but could not buy it then, thinking that I would buy it two or three days later when I got my salary. So he returned after seeing. So this Google ad campaign will show him the same product over and over again everywhere and remind him.

16. Answer questions about your product.

When your product starts selling, people mention your product on various forums like Facebook groups etc. and ask various questions, you should always be ready to answer these questions.

If your brand is popular enough, you can use Google Alerts to keep track of where people are talking about it and then go there and answer questions.

17. Listen to your customers

One of the secrets to success in the business world is to listen to your customers, what do they say? With this you can improve your business, correct your mistakes.

There are many ways to listen to customers and one of them is survey form. Every platform including Google, Facebook provides survey form where you can get people’s opinion through survey.

Thanks

Hope you have learned a lot from these seventeen things. If your answer is yes or no, then definitely express it in the comment below, you can also ask more questions in the comment which I will try to answer in the light of my experience.

Thanks

Syed Abdul Wahab Shah

www.etobs.com

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