Back in the day, if you wanted to start your own small business, you had to locate a brick-and-mortar site where you could sell your products. You had to scrounge up the cash to either buy or rent the physical location while dealing with all kinds of overhead expenses.
However, things have definitely changed since then.
Today, pretty much everyone can begin their own business simply by creating an online store. The benefits of building an ecommerce website are plentiful.
Besides the low operational costs, online stores allow for greater customer reach and a boost in revenue. Furthermore, business owners are able to avail of customer analytics to better understand in which areas their stores are successful and where they can improve.
If you’ve been dreaming of starting your own small business online, there’s really no better time to start planning than now!
Why is WiziShop the best ecommerce platform for your small business?
Although your ecommerce business won’t require a physical location to sell your products, you’ll still need a “space” online where customers can see what you have to offer. This is where ecommerce platforms come in.
An ecommerce platform is the software that’s designed to simplify the process of building an online store.
There are many reasons why people opt to use an ecommerce platform when they decide to launch an online business. In addition to website creation, it can help you take care of inventory and payment management, sales reporting, and much more.
Despite all ecommerce platforms having the same general idea behind them, how they operate and what services and features they offer can vary dramatically.
As a new small-business owner, you’ll want to choose your platform carefully.
WiziShop has worked with ecommerce businesses of all sizes, and we delight in helping entrepreneurs just like you turn their visions into realities everyday. There’s no doubt in our minds that we have the perfect platform to make your small business successful.
To better demonstrate why WiziShop is the best ecommerce platform around, here are a few reasons to sign up with our solution!
1. It’s free to try!
We understand that taking that first step is often the most difficult, especially when beginning a new business venture. However, it’s also the most important! Maybe you’ve been putting off starting your small business because you’re afraid to commit to an ecommerce platform.
Fear not, dear future star entrepreneur.
WiziShop offers a 15-day free trial, giving you plenty of time to see if it’s the right solution for your online store. You won’t even need to provide us with your card details when signing up for an account.
There’s absolutely no hassle and no commitment. Our aim is to make it as simple as possible for you to dip your toes in the exciting waters of ecommerce.
With your 15-day free trial, you’ll have access to all of the advantages mentioned below. It’s never been a better time to get your new small business off the ground!
2. It’s super easy (and fast!) to set up your store
Does the thought of building a website make you want to completely abandon your small-business dreams? Stop right there!
With our ecommerce website builder’s intuitively designed interface, setting up your online store couldn’t be easier. You’ll be guided through each step of the process, and you won’t need to fill out any long forms as you customize your site.
Making changes and customizing your store are incredibly simple on our platform!
Got a computer and know how to use Google and log in to Facebook? That’s really all the technological knowledge you need to create the website for your small business using the WiziShop solution.
Easy peasy, right?
We also know that as a small-business owner, you don’t have time to be wasting on building your website. That’s why we’ve made it so that you can create your online store in just 90 minutes!
While other retailers may use ecommerce platforms that take weeks or longer, you'll be one step ahead with WiziShop. The sooner you create your store, the sooner you’ll get to see those well-deserved sales roll in!
3. You’ll have support every step of the way
It’s tough out there in the wild world of online sales. When you’re just getting started with your small business, there are a lot of unknowns that can cause you to lose some sleep.
We at WiziShop aim to keep those sleepless nights few and far between for our clients.
When signing up with our platform, you’ll be supported by our dedicated team of ecommerce experts, our Business Coaches.
No matter what question you have regarding your online store, our Business Coaches are happy to help make your ecommerce journey as smooth as possible. Whether it’s for a simple issue or something a bit more complex, they’re available to chat with you to find a solution.
Because our Business Coaches are so well versed in the ecommerce industry, they’ll do more than just answer your questions. Their guidance is personalized to suit your one-of-a-kind situation and can help give your business the extra boost it needs to soar above the competition!
Furthermore, we know that when you’re running a small business, you’re probably trying to keep expenses down. That’s why we offer this service free of charge with your account.
Plus, there’s no limit to the assistance you may receive.
Yep, that’s right! Whether you’re just starting out or have been with us for years, you can chat with our Business Coaches as often as you’d like, at no extra cost.
In addition, we only want to provide you with service of the highest quality. Our Business Coaches go through several weeks of training before they actually start assisting clients. This training is also updated every month, ensuring that the team is always informed about the latest trends and happenings in ecommerce.
4. We provide a TON of features to optimize your site
We’ve been in the industry long enough to learn that every online store is unique. Your business is going to require different features and options than your Aunt Suzy’s. That’s not a problem with WiziShop, as we have more than 400 features to improve your website’s performance.
With our 10+ years of experience helping thousands of small-business owners just like you launch their stores, we know what it takes to be successful online.
Furthermore, we’re constantly evolving our ecommerce solution to suit the changing needs of our clients.
All 400+ features were created by the WiziShop team. Some might involve third-party technology, but we’ve integrated every feature to assist in the optimization of your site.
Why is this so important? Ensuring consistency between the features and increased efficiency allows us to give our clients an even better user experience. That makes us happy.
We’re committed to helping all of our small-business owners achieve success with their online stores.
Our 400+ features meet the majority of our clients’ needs. However, it’s possible that your store might have a super-specific need that doesn’t quite match one of our available features.
Don’t worry, though. This won’t be a roadblock in the growth of your business with WiziShop!
You’ll read later in Reason #10 why this isn’t a problem for us.
At this point, you’ve probably understood that we’re dedicated to helping your small business get started ASAP so that you can begin selling. This is why we give you access to every single one of our amazing features as soon as you create your account with us.
What are you waiting for?
5. Our prices won’t eat up your profits
One of the biggest benefits of ecommerce for small businesses is the relatively low operational costs compared to running a brick-and-mortar store.
Once you’ve got your small business off the ground and created your website, you’ll of course be looking forward to seeing those sales come in. The last thing you need is to have the cost of your ecommerce platform taking a major chunk out of your profits every month.
For this reason, we offer a clear pricing system that is fair and based on the performance of your online store. We only succeed if you succeed.
This win-win model is what allows us to continually develop the WiziShop platform to better assist our clients. Your small business will always be in great hands with us.
When you choose WiziShop, you can opt for one of our three plans, with a monthly fee ranging from $27 (USD) to $297 (USD). Other than that, you’ll just pay a tiny percentage of the sales you make, ranging from 2% to 0.5%, depending on your chosen plan.
A major advantage of the way our all-in-one ecommerce solution handles pricing is that you won’t have any miscellaneous charges to surprise you every month. Everything is included. As your small business starts to grow, the sales percentage we charge automatically adjusts your bill.
We’re confident that we’re the best platform around for your online store. Nevertheless, we also offer no-commitment options that allow you to cancel your plan whenever you want and for whatever reason.
6. Constant innovation is kind of our thing
WiziShop is always looking for new and better ways to help small-business owners like yourself achieve success with their online stores. In fact, every year, we spend lots of time and resources developing features and services designed to help our clients’ online stores grow.
Curious about some of the best ecommerce innovations we offer our clients? Let’s get into a few of them below!
Smart Check-Out
These days, people want everything to be FAST. Online shopping is certainly no exception. With our “Smart Check-Out” process, your customers will be able to order from your site three times as quickly as they could from other stores.
How is this possible?
The WiziShop platform features all kinds of optimizations to improve the check-out experience. Your customers can opt to check out as guests rather than create accounts and can save their shopping carts for up to 30 days.
In addition, our platform automatically fixes spelling errors and other typos and assists customers with filling out their delivery addresses.
Speedy Change
Speaking of “fast,” we know that at some point, you’ll likely want to make changes to your online store, and you may need to do it quickly. With Speedy Change, you can edit multiple items on your website at the same time.
Maybe your small business wants to get in on the Black Friday or Cyber Monday) action and offer a sale for a limited period of time. Perhaps this sale will only include products that cost between $30 and $50.
It’s sooooo easy with Speedy Change!
This optimization also allows you to add a new delivery option, reorganize your product catalog, make adjustments for customers and orders, and more. All in just a few clicks of the mouse!
Auto-Mail Booster
Getting the word out about your small business is incredibly important, especially when you have a new online store. Email marketing plays a critical role in this.
For this reason, you’ll definitely want to take advantage of our Auto-Mail Booster. This complete emailing tool lets you personalize email content, send newsletters, and keep an eye on the live results.
What does this mean? You’ll be able to see how well a campaign did or discover which customers purchased which products – all very handy info to know!
Create a wide range of email campaigns to help encourage purchases, such as sending customers a special discount on their birthdays. This personal gesture shows people that you care and can do wonders for generating future sales.
Furthermore, this star WiziShop innovation allows for easy, automatic email follow-ups.
You’ll only have to choose the subject (first order, abandoned cart, etc.), write the email, and add your chosen client segment. Depending on the situation, this could involve your entire customer list, women only, or perhaps men under the age of 30 living in Los Angeles.
There are all kinds of customization possibilities available to suit the unique needs of your small business!
7. We offer training to boost your ecommerce knowledge
Not only will you have access to our amazing team of Business Coaches when you sign up with WiziShop, but also a complete training program. With this course, you can better equip yourself with the knowledge needed to bring success to your small business.
Did you know that we’re the only ecommerce solution in the world to provide training of this kind?
You’ll be able to learn exactly what it takes to be successful with selling on our platform. Even better, the program is organized in a way to be as free of stress as possible as you get started with your online store.
You’ll get to learn about a new aspect of ecommerce every week while receiving detailed to-do-lists to keep you on track. The training features all kinds of subjects, such as website configuration, legal topics, SEO, Google Ads, email marketing, and many others.
Don’t be afraid of starting your small business because you’re worried that you don’t know enough about ecommerce to make it. WiziShop ensures that you stay up to date with everything that you need to increase sales and stay ahead of your competition!
8. Google’s seriously going to be a fan of your site
Whether you realize it yet or not, search engine optimization (SEO) can be extremely beneficial to your small business. When SEO’s done well, it indicates to Google that you’re an expert in your field.
There’s then a greater chance that your website will show up higher in the list of results when people search for your product or other related keywords.
Search engines have the potential to drive significant amounts of traffic to your online store. If you’re a small business just starting out, think about how amazing this is!
You won’t have to exhaust yourself and your marketing budget with a lot of paid marketing. Customers will arrive at your store organically, which can seriously boost sales along with awareness of your new brand.
So what exactly does Google look at when ranking your website?
Well, it first considers the site itself along with its technical aspects. Next, it checks the content of your website, which should demonstrate that you’re an expert. Finally, it wants to know if other sites have linked back to your store, which indicates your site’s popularity.
We at WiziShop are happy to give you a helping hand when it comes to your online store’s SEO!
In fact, before we created our ecommerce solution, we had a web agency that centered on SEO. We assisted all kinds of businesses with making their way to the top of Google’s search engine results page.
Of course, after we launched WiziShop, we brought all of our SEO-related passion and knowledge with us to help our ecommerce clients!
When you sign up with our platform, we’ll manage all of the technical aspects of SEO for you. This includes image optimization, site speed, and all other SEO best practices.
Furthermore, our efforts to keep your small business up to date and ahead of the competition are never ending. We’re constantly monitoring to ensure that we can get a head start on any new features out there that can provide our clients with even more success.
When Google first highlighted the importance of web security, stating that every website should have an SSL certificate, we made this certificate available to our clients immediately.
The following year Google offered the AMP format to make websites faster on mobile devices. We got to work right away to provide this format to our clients, ensuring that their online stores were fully optimized for mobile use.
Now, when you build your website with our platform, it’s made with the AMP format automatically. You don’t have to do a thing!
Google retrieves your pages in a flash so that your customers can start filling up their shopping carts with your fabulous products.
WiziShop understands that when you’ve got a small business, you can’t afford to be lagging behind in any way, but especially technologically speaking. Our emphasis on SEO helps to give your store that extra competitive advantage that you need to succeed!
9. You can rely on our platform
When you’re the proud owner of a small business online, you’ll already have plenty to keep your hands full. You don’t want to be worried about what to do if your website goes down or if there’s a bug in the checkout process.
With our all-in-one ecommerce solution, you can count on us to provide you with the reliability you need to run an online store.
We’ve assisted thousands of ecommerce merchants with creating their websites, which has allowed us to adapt and adjust our platform to meet their ever-changing needs. Our clients’ feedback has helped us to work on improving our solution every day for over 10 years.
If there’s ever a problem with one of our features, we correct the issue ASAP for everybody. Because all of our clients use the same code for their sites, there’s much less hassle when challenges occur.
10. You’ll have freedom and flexibility
As a small-business owner, you won’t want to feel bound or restricted in any way when it comes to your online store. You already know that we offer no-commitment plans when you sign up with our ecommerce platform, but there’s more!
We have a wide range of design templates you can use to customize the look of your website. With our WiziBlocks system, which is based on the drag-and-drop functionality, you can design your store’s homepage however you’d like.
The freedom doesn’t stop there.
We want your online store to be a perfect representation of you and your brand. For this reason, we give you access to the HTML and CSS files of your site so that you can modify it even further.
Finally, as mentioned earlier, despite the 400+ features we have available to optimize your store, there’s always the possibility that you’ll still need something else.
WiziShop’s API permits outside third-party developers to create additional features to better meet your small business’s needs.
Perhaps you’ve already got a brick-and-mortar location and want to link your in-house checkout software to your online store’s product line. With our API, we can pull data and insert new data with ease.
This gives your business plenty of possible solutions if you need to create a special feature due to your particular product or industry.
The world is your oyster!
11. Lots of free resources are available for your use
You’re already familiar with our wonderful Business Coaches, who can assist you with their vast marketing and technical expertise. To further illustrate our commitment to starting your small business off on the right foot, let’s talk about the other resources of which you may avail.
When you sign up with WiziShop, you’ll have access to hundreds of free tools, including articles, documents, tutorials, and videos. In addition, take a look at our blog, which is filled with helpful articles designed to teach you how to develop your store and boost revenue.
Don’t forget to take a look at the administration area of your account and our help center as well. Here, you’ll find additional articles to further assist your small business.
More of a video person? Be sure to check out the WiziShop YouTube channel! It offers workshop and webinar replays along with all kinds of training videos dealing with a variety of ecommerce topics.
There’s something for everybody, no matter what stage of your ecommerce journey you’re at.
12. You can take advantage of our amazing partnerships
Know that when you sign up with WiziShop, you’ll never be without support for your small business. This goes beyond the excellent forms of assistance we’ve discussed thus far!
WiziShop has partnered with some really big names in the ecommerce industry, and our beloved clients get to reap the benefits of those partnerships. These include key players such as Google, Amazon, PayPal, and many other important service providers.
Whether you’d like to expand your business by putting your products on online marketplaces or want to get into Google Ads, there’s a qualified partner who can help!
Furthermore, every single one of these partners is very familiar with the WiziShop platform and offers various pricing options to accommodate all kinds of needs.
13. We give your business freedom to grow
If you’re just in the initial stages of starting your small business, it may be hard enough to imagine how you want it to look in 3 months, let alone a few years.
WiziShop is the perfect ecommerce platform for new online stores, but its flexibility and features provide businesses with plenty of room to expand.
Someday, you may decide that you want to increase your small business’s current offerings and create multiple stores. Our “MultiShop” feature makes this process super simple, allowing you to have several different stores with shared stock.
Huh? What does this entail?
Perhaps your original store consists of pet supplies. Next, using our MultiShop feature, you’d possibly create new sites for additional specialization. These might include a pet costume store, a pet food store, a pet grooming products store, and so on.
Of course, we want to keep your product management as easy as possible. Therefore, your stock for the pet food store would be the same as the pet food products you offer on the general pet supply store.
It’s easy!
Plus, when you opt to give the MultiShop option a go, you’ll get a discount for each new store that you start. Tempting, eh?
Later down the road, you might determine that you want to expand your small business internationally. If you want to do this, you’ll have to consider the other countries’ markets and cultures.
It’s not enough to just translate your website.
With WiziShop’s MultiShop feature, you can create different stores with different languages. Say you wanted to start an Italian store and a French store...totally possible!
Each would have a unique domain name and feature different products and/or prices if needed.
Again, though, our goal is always to make things easier for you. For this reason, we’ve ensured that managing the different stores is a breeze. With just a click, you can switch between them effortlessly, add new products, and utilize shared stock.
In case you’ve forgotten, everything is included with your chosen pricing plan! This also means that you can benefit from our MultiShop feature at no extra cost.
Ready to get started with creating your new online store?
We at WiziShop would be more than happy to accompany you and help you to bring your small-business dreams to life!
It’ll soon be possible to create an account with the English version of WiziShop and enjoy all of the wonderful benefits that our platform has to offer. Be sure to visit our homepage and provide your email address to sign up for early access and email updates!
