Ecommerce is big business. Scratch that, calculated to be worth £121bn (around $186bn) back in 2010 and growing to £221bn (around $340bn) by 2016, it’s safe to say that ecommerce is massive!
Ever since my very first online purchase, from the UK to cdnow.com in the USA back in December 1995, I always knew that ecommerce was going to be big business, even if I didn’t fully realise it at the time.
Despite having some exposure to ecommerce, in the late nineties, through my employer, it wasn’t until five years later that I set up my first ecommerce business. It wasn’t particularly easy back then but, in comparison, it is relatively simple for you to do today.
Do you have an ecommerce idea you’re toying with? If so, now is a great time for you to start your ecommerce based business.