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Running Head: Milestone Two: Internship Activity 6

Milestone Two: Internship Activity

IT 210

Southern New Hampshire University

August 14, 2019

Before starting an online store or a business site in general, one need much time to think of about what product to sell, conduct market analysis for niche competition, and find out how you will want your site or online store to develop. These are very important factors to consider as this will help you to determine your product brand you will be selling to the public. Meanwhile, Harrison Kirby needs to buy a matching domain name in advance to brand the products he will be selling. More so, domain name registration should be done in advance to build an online shop and careful examination is needed when choosing a domain. There are companies such Fiverr.com, a great place to paid lower price to professionals who can assist research credible and excessive traffic generation and Alexander high level domain that will speed up your online store ranking to increase store traffic to increase sales.

After many research activities and study of Harrison service needs, I have come out with some suggestions that will help Harrison Kirby runs a Golf Shop. 

My Proposed Companies Overview                 

Shopify Company: Shopify is an E-commerce platform company by Canadian, with headquartered located in Ottawa, Ontario. The company was founded in 2004, and they concentrated in the development of computer program for online stores and retail point-of-sale (POS) system. When the company was founded its program were depended on Snowball which software developed their previous inventors. The company’s mission is to ‘Make Commerce Better for Everyone.” Shopify system is very easy and flexible to used compared to other companies like, Bigcommerce, Evolution, Magento, and many other. The services provided by Shopify are just amazing, making store customization, including products, design, and payment integration make their services unique. Other wonderful products include free apps, and free SSL. This shopping cart has received great reviews and rated the best platform.

Amazon Company: Amazon.com, Inc., fused on May 28, 1996, offers a scope of items and administrations through its Sites. The Organization works through three parts: North America, Global and Amazon Web Administrations (AWS). The Organization's items incorporate stock and substance that it buys for resale from merchants and those offered by outside vendors. It likewise makes and offers electronic gadgets. The Organization's North America section essentially consists of retail offers of customer items (counting from suppliers) and memberships through North America-centered Sites, for example, www.amazon.com, www.amazon.ca, and www.amazon.com.mx. The North America fragment incorporates send out deals from its North America-centered Sites.

Features of My Chosen Company and Reasons for the Pick

Firstly, I have chosen Shopify for Harrison to established his Golf Shop because Shopify offers many features made Shopify on of the best shopping cart. Shopify provides customers with easy platform that allow anyone to build an online store within few hours. Shopify offers their customers services such as increase stock size of products to sell, they offer great hosting services that come along with your store and you don't need to buy a separate hosting service. There is always 24/7 customer service available to provide necessary support to clients. There are numerous social media integration such as Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Google Plus, Pinterest and many other major networks to help store owners drive traffic and boost sales. When it comes to accepting payment from customers, Shopify made it easy to accept payment from within and around the globe. Shopify also offer free domain services with self-hosting service as well as free SSL certificate which will enable customers to have confident shopping at Harrison store. Besides all these great reasons for Harrison to open the Golf Shop on Shopify, the company is PCI compliant and Harrison don't need to worry about that. Not to forget, another most interesting thing about Shopify is their pricing, the pricing for their service is the best compared to other platforms. With their lowest service that's $29.00 per month, comes with free domain and hosting, free SSL, customer support, unlimited product listing and many other great services. Finally, when Harrison go with Shopify platform, not only would he sell his products on Shopify, instead, he will be able to sell on other marketplaces like Amazon, Ebay, and Facebook through Shopify integration.

In conclusion, I strongly recommend going for Shopify for Harrison as this will help him stay with the competitive marketplace will be able sell to other marketplaces through Shopify integration with Amazon, Ebay and Facebook store. For easy store management and faster customer support, Harrison with to establish his Golf Shop without difficult. More so, since Harrison has 150 products to sell Shopify will be the best option as he will be able open his store with Shopify low package fee of $29.00 which offers unlimited product to sell if Harrison decides to increase his inventory. I hope my suggestion will help solve the needs of Harrison.

References

Amazon Services. (N.P., n.d.) April 20, 2015. Sell your services on Amazon. Retrieved March

30, 2017. From: http://services.amazon.com/selling-services/benefits.htm?ld=AZUSVAS-globalfooter

“The First Shopify Store was our own.” Shopify. N.P., n.d, Retrieved. March 28. 2017

http://www.shopify.com/about.