You could argue that Ecommerce has been around for decades. As early as the 90s, people were selling things from computers. You could buy stamps and postcards from home businesses, if you had access to a computer in the late 90s. But Ecommerce as we know it now is much more sophisticated. It's revolutionized how we shop and it's only going to get more and more of the market share as it develops. We’re already seeing how it will reshape home deliveries as drop shipping takes on a more literal sense. Amazon and others are leading the charge, but here is how we got to where we are now.
Why Ecommerce?
It was inevitable when you think about it. Selling things online, having them shipped to your door? Makes perfect sense to us right? It actually began when retailers started to offer home delivery services. You could go to a bath and bedroom store, pick out the products you wanted and then have them delivered to your door. Then you could buy sheets online, pillow cases and more. Then rugs, bath mats and louffas became the next kinds of products to be offered to customers. Before you know it, anything and everything can be sold online and delivered to your door. It's convenient, something which in-person shopping will never be. You have to go to the products you want, instead of the products coming to you. It's just the natural evolution of human beings, technology and commerce.
Paid for platforms
And as Ecommerce grows, it becomes more and more available for anyone. This is what platforms like My Business Venture want to make sure of. They offer anyone who can afford it, a brand new website with a personal domain, access to 15,000 products you can choose from for your online store, business training so you know how to sell, market and plan your business, etc. this is something that newbies will want to go for, as they don’t need to design their own website and they learn how to do business, in their personal learning center or university. Making Ecommerce more accessible has become the best thing to happen to it. Now you can buy anything you want, but not just from a small network of brands like Amazon and eBay.
Drop shipping expansion
Since you don’t actually store the items yourself, you have to hire a warehouse to do it for you. But you also want to deliver them when customers order them from your website. So why not just merge these two services? That is what drop shipping has done. It's now evolving to use drones which fly with your package and then drop it off in your garden. This is something that makes deliveries more economical and thus, opens up the field to more drop shipping zones.
Ecommerce has had a blazing rise up to where it stands now. It hasn’t stopped pushing the business world to greater heights and it's more accessible than ever.
