Whether or not there will be reliable Covid-19 vaccine from China, Russia or Japan by the end of 2020, it is crystal clear that tens of millions of people can be forced into self-isolation at home by a minute size (65 – 125 nm) virus. Living in this new reality, the procurement of most daily necessities – food, apparels, household items etc – are being performed via ecommerce channels while brick-and-mortar business stores are closed.
According to a recent article published by Forbes, major facts were being emphasized as follows:
- U.S. retailers’ online year-over-year revenue growth is up 68% as of mid-April 2020, surpassing an earlier peak of 49% in early January 2020.
- U.S. and Canadian ecommerce transaction value had increased by 129% year-over-year as of April 2020
- There was also an impressive 146% year-over-year growth in worldwide online retail transaction value as of April 2020.
It is safe to say that Covid-19 has escalated the realization of ecommerce potential for businesses worldwide. Business owners are placing much higher degree of strategic attention on the customer journey quality of their existing ecommerce stores than they did at this point of time a year ago.
Even some of the most confident business owners operating without any online sales channels previously, are now in the process of rapidly setting up new ecommerce stores with strong website security and associated customer conversion application.
The setting up of ecommerce stores nowadays is being made simple by website building platforms such as Wix, Shopify, WooCommerce and BigCommerce. The tricky portion is always on the long-term web development and maintenance strategy, which must be well planned and consistently implemented to meet the ultimate objective of sales generation.
At Vista Profits, our services of ecommerce store development have always been performed with result-oriented initiatives. Specifically, we take pride in our effective consultation which boosted quality traffic and elevated conversion rate for worldwide clients of diverse industries.
While the Covid-19 pandemic is the accidental catalyst for the growth of global ecommerce demand, Vista Profits is the opportune catalyst for the growth of your ecommerce store today.
This article is written by Alex Chong, founder of Vista Profits.