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WHY CREATE AN E-COMMERCE SITE in Cameroon and Africa?

An e-commerce site in Cameroon and Africa allows you to get started at a lower cost compared to traditional businesses. Plus, you can get started much faster. The management of an e-commerce site does not require a physical presence in a specific place, except perhaps for the storage and the preparation of the orders which you can quite outsource, or even better if you do not have stock (we will talk about this later in the article).

It has never been so easy to launch an e-commerce site these days, just look at the number of e-commerce sites in Cameroon and Africa to realize it. With the evolution of technologies, the media suddenly have a success story, (if I can assure you, I also fell in the trap) e-commerce has long been seen as an El Dorado . Suddenly, increased competition has emerged in many themes.

It is now happening to who wants to start to professionalize and stand out from other sites. Suddenly, you must know the many choices available to you to create your e-commerce site . What technology used? How much is it going to cost me? Do I need to have significant technical skills to build my site?

TECHNOLOGIES TO LAUNCH YOUR E-COMMERCE SITE in Cameroon and Africa

We will get to the heart of the matter: the technology itself. Before, a very long time ago, you had to be a developer to set up your site. Now, between CMS and turnkey solutions, it becomes very easy to get started .

CREATE YOUR E-COMMERCE SITE WITH A CMS

CMS means in English “content management system” which means content management system in French. With this type of open source solution, you download the source file that you install on your server and you just have to configure your store: with free or paid themes (the skin of your site) and their modules also free or paid (the features of your site).

The simplest solutions to set up your site at a lower cost are:

Prestashop;
Magento;
WordPress with the woocomerce module.

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Technical knowledge :

However, once you buy your theme, you have to customize it. If you don’t have a minimum of technical knowledge to touch the code or the CSS, you risk spending sleepless nights pulling your hair. This type of technology therefore requires a little technical knowledge, to be preferred if you have an intermediate level in HTML / CSS.

CREATE YOUR E-COMMERCE SITE WITH A TURNKEY SOLUTION in Cameroon and Africa

A few months ago, I was resistant to this type of solution, because for me, with this type of solution, we are too locked up. In my vision of things, “making a real site” is done on a CMS, prestashop in mind, because it’s a CMS that I have been using for quite a few years now.

I thought, wrongly, that this type of store was not pro at all. Again, this is a serious mistake. If I have the skills to install and configure my prestashop store, why not create a turnkey online store to test and see if the rendering is just as professional and if the solution meets all my expectations. So, I created my store with Shopify and there I was pleasantly surprised.

When I needed a few days / weeks to launch my site, with shopify in a few clicks it was settled ! Everything is easily editable, I don’t even have to touch the code. Via my interface, I can move the blocks of my site, add a slider, a call to action button, everything can be changed quickly. What about unprofessional rendering? The site looks great and it looks very professional! For $ 20 / month, my store is launched, even cheaper than with prestashop. And it allows me to quickly confront my market and see if my store and my products are going to please rather than waiting weeks and weeks to work on a site without even knowing if the sauce will take.

Here is a non-exhaustive list of turnkey solutions:

Shopify (in English but one of the most efficient);
ePro Shopping (by far the easiest);
wizishop
Oxatis

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We have seen that it is now possible to create an e-commerce site at a lower cost, but when is it in stock? It is expensive to build up a stock, you might say? We will see in the rest of this article that not necessarily.

SELLING IN DROPSHIPPPING in Cameroon and Africa

As I told you above, buying a stock is expensive! Now you can launch your online store without stock! How? ‘Or’ What ? With dropshipping . No need to buy or store products anymore, it is your supplier who sends the products to your customer for you. On the other hand, you must test the seriousness of your supplier and this one must not put an invoice or logo so that the customer does not know that it is not you who send the product.

Dropshipping has several advantages in Cameroon and Africa :

The low cost to get started;
You can offer a large catalog;
You don’t need to have a warehouse to store;
You can test your market quickly;
You can have a nice margin with Chinese dropshipers.

But also some disadvantages:

Delivery times are important and this can be disappointing for the customer;
You have no control over delivery.

Despite these drawbacks, dropshipping is ideal for getting started and testing your market quickly. But as soon as customers multiply, it is advisable to build up a stock to avoid customer disappointment.

SELLING ON MARKETPLACES

With marketplaces , you can sell without having an e-commerce site . Marketplaces like Amazon, priceminister, Cdiscount or even Durrell Market in Cameroon have enormous traffic. You can therefore sell your products on these platforms. However, to sell on these sites you must have a business and above all have stock. But you will not have to pay to have traffic and above all you will be able to test your product. Be careful, however, marketplaces take many costs between the subscription and the commissions on sales.

SOME TIPS FOR LAUNCHING YOUR E-COMMERCE SITE

Here are some tips to get you started as quickly as possible without money:

Open a turnkey store ( LocalHost does it from 150,000F)
Invest in the facebook ad (50,000F / month);
Increase your budget if sales are there;
Work on your SEO;
Build up your first small stock;
Register on marketplaces like Durrell Market (5,000 FCFA / month per marketplace + commissions).

CONCLUSION

We can clearly see that it is possible to get started quickly without money and without special technical knowledge . I advise you to quickly start dropshipping in Cameroon and Africa and especially not to put too much money on your site. Above all, you need to have a marketing budget to bring visitors to your store: this is the sinews of war. Because like I said, you can have the most beautiful store. Without traffic, you will never make sales . Once you have tested your market you can then buy a stock.

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Launching a Dropshipping Website in Cameroon and Africa – The Complete Guide by LocalHost Digital

WHY CREATE AN E-COMMERCE SITE in Cameroon and Africa?

TECHNOLOGIES TO LAUNCH YOUR E-COMMERCE SITE in Cameroon and Africa

CREATE YOUR E-COMMERCE SITE WITH A CMS

CREATE YOUR E-COMMERCE SITE WITH A TURNKEY SOLUTION in Cameroon and Africa

SELLING IN DROPSHIPPPING in Cameroon and Africa

SELLING ON MARKETPLACES

SOME TIPS FOR LAUNCHING YOUR E-COMMERCE SITE

CONCLUSION

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