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Selling Online: E-commerce for Small Businesses

A practical beginner course for founders and small-business owners who want to sell products online. Learn to choose between your own store, marketplaces, social media and messaging apps, build product pages that sell, count the true cost of each order, take payment safely including cash on delivery, deliver and serve customers well, read your shop's numbers, and handle consumer rules, privacy and fraud risks.

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Modules
6
Lessons
29
Duration
4h 4m
Level
Beginner
Quizzes
6 graded

Course content

6 modules · 29 lessons · 4h 4m

What selling online involves from first visit to delivered order, and the main ways a small business can sell: its own store on a hosted platform, marketplaces, and social media and messaging apps.

  • What Selling Online Involves
    Preview
    8 min
  • Your Own Store on a Hosted Platform8 min
  • Selling on Marketplaces8 min
  • Social Commerce and Messaging Apps8 min
  • Choosing Your Channel Mix8 min
  • Ways to sell online — quiz6 questions · pass 70%

Topics covered

E-commerce
Online Selling
Marketplaces
Cash on Delivery
Online Payments
Small Business

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Part of a program

Small Business Owner · 12 courses

  1. 1Starting Your Company: Legal Set-up and Intellectual PropertyFree
  2. 2From Idea to OpportunityFree
  3. 3Customer Discovery and ValidationFree
  4. 4Pricing StrategyFree
  5. 5Marketing FundamentalsFree
  6. 6Digital MarketingFree
  7. 7Selling Online: E-commerce for Small BusinessesThis course
  8. 8Your First 100 Customers: Sales for FoundersFree
  9. 9Bookkeeping and Double EntryFree
  10. 10Cash Flow and Working Capital ManagementFree
  11. 11Tax and VAT BasicsFree
  12. 12Contracts for Non-LawyersFree
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