Are you ready for E-Commerce?

You may or may not already have a web presence, and you may even be conducting e-commerce in some small ways in your business.

However if you are thinking about beginning e-commerce in your business then you need to sit yourself down and ask yourself some serious business questions.

After this workshop, please return to this page and use the following questions as a guide to assist you to think through your business plan for expansion into e-commerce.

1. What is your niche market?

2. What domain name will you use? (eg abc.net.au, google.com)

3. What will the main purpose of your web site be?

4. Who is the target audience for your site?

5. What will your customers find most valuable about your web site?

6. Who will develop your site?

7. How much will your site cost at the setup stage?

8. How much will your site cost to maintain - staff, bank fees, web/graphic designers?

9. Who will keep your site updated?

10. How often will it be updated?

11. Who will answer email queries from your site?

12. How will you market your site?

If you can answer these questions in detail you are on your way to being ready to step into the world of e-commerce.

Use this checklist developed by the Treasury Department to help ensure you cover important legal issues when using e-commerce.