Saturday, October 17, 2015

Business website vs Facebook for Online Shopping in Bangladesh


In Bangladesh online shopping tendency is growing rapidly. There are hundreds of online shops are available right now in Bangladesh. 

Facebook is playing a bigger role in online trading. Facebook is giving opportunity to everyone to sell and buy things online. One will just need a facebook account which is absolutely free. User are creating, joining groups in facebook what help them to build their brand more popular in short time which is not may be possible just by building a which has online shopping facilities.

This post is for them who are thinking that business website is not necessary for online shopping. 

There is no doubt that Facebook is the only medium right now to get introduced with new people rapidly and to expand the business network as well.

But there are some things that is important to note:

1. To receive online payment you will need a payment gateway
3. You will need a specific platform which is used only for online shopping and that is not possible without your own hosting server.
4. You will not be able to have your domain name like youcompanyname. com in Facebook
5. You will not be able to use your own business mail which is part of reliability for the customers
6. Your Brand will need its own identity which is only possible if you have your own domain and hosting (server)
7. You will be able to research your visitor's statistics in your website which is important while having product campaign or branding or marketing activities which will tell you how effective they were.
8. Your all kind of online existence will be linked to your website not only Facebook
9. Your website will give you the opportunity to interact with your customers in several ways like survey, contact form, your account and inventory software solution, management software solution online which is very important for a company

There are lots of more things that I will bring to you step by step.

Most of all Facebook and business website need each other to establish a company. Facebook will help your website get popular and your website will guide your customers to be linked socially from one central position.