eCommerce Store Setup - A brief Guide to Creating an Online Store and Selling Internationally with Shopify

The true cost of creating a fully functional online store can be hard to determine, but you can expect to spend 500–2,000 USD if you use an up-and-coming design agency, or 2,000–20,000 USD if you use an established Shopify design agency. Alternatively, you can read this guide now and create a fully functional online store on a small budget without any development experience or programming skills.

Developing an e-commerce store used to be a puzzle with thousands of pieces. It required complex programming skills, leaving those with the intention of selling online no other option but to acquire the paid services of programmers.

With the rise of no-code e-commerce platforms like Shopify, anyone can now develop an online store, sell internationally with no programming skills, and start making money online. And even if you’re already running a physical store offline, selling on Shopify would help you diversify your sales channel and make you extra money.

I pride myself on simplifying complex hacks so that readers will never find them simpler anywhere else. In this guide, I will create an e-commerce store from scratch with Shopify in the spirit of simplification and share screenshots every step of the way so you can replicate the process to create your own store as you read. So, whether you've got this brilliant product idea to sell online but can't spare enough funds for developers to help you build a Shopify store, or you just want to build a test store to position yourself as a store designer, you have got the right book in your hands.

There are three parts to running a successful e-commerce store: Build. Sell. Grow. This book will help you master all three parts. Because this is not a definitive guide but a handbook that should be as brief as possible, this book will not teach you how to make any customizations that require code.

However, this book will help you:

• Build a Shopify store from the ground up
• Create pages and terms and conditions
• Choose trendy products to sell
• Add your products and create collections to categorize them
• Set up payment and shipping in minutes
• Set up your domain and go live
• Drive traffic to your store from Google Shopping, social media, and eight other free traffic injection doorways
• Find the best free and low-budget Shopify apps to help you scale and sell internationally
• Find certified Shopify Experts to help level up your business
• Observe the prelaunch and postlaunch checklist when migrating your store from other platforms to Shopify
• Learn how to earn passive income from the Shopify partner program
• Learn how to set up an in-house development team for your business rather than outsourcing freelancers as your business grows.

I will try to keep it as brief as possible without missing other hacks that can supercharge your business regardless of your niche, and I hope you enjoy it every step of the way!