The staggering size of the industry corroborates optimistic scenario for the industry in the days to come. According to latest statistics available, globally, the industry is worth about $700 billion. Indian e-commerce market is sitting pretty well at $10.3 billion. Fuelled by the demand, the domain is soaring at a striking rate of about 35% to 40%.

Challenges

There are a plethora of web portals or websites catering to a wide array of requirements of people from almost all the segments of society, ranging from a jeans loving teenager to a book loving professor and sports loving college guy to a fashion aficionado girl. Having shared that I would like to categorically admit, there are challenges too to fuel the growth and capitalize on the augmenting net users. Here I am sharing some of the challenges the e-commerce domain is encountering: 

• Hesitation among visitors to register in the e-commerce sites as many irrelevant issues crop up, too many field required to fill in before placing order, this scenario kills time; 
• According to studies about 25% of people visiting e-commerce websites walk away without registering as cryptic process is involved; 
• Time to deliver the product is not crystal clear; 
• Downloading relevant content takes too long;
• Accessing and placing order of the desired product takes time as cryptic process is involved; 
• Some players can’t survive the heat as big enterprise offer great features;   
• Many of the websites are not streamlined with the latest technology.

 The way forward 

Considering industry size many new players are lured to enter the domain. Foraying into the domain may not augur well for some small and novice enterprises as not all have the capability to survive in the long run. Here comes the significance of pre-commerce. If you are planning to venture into e-commerce, follow the ‘PIME’ strategy: 

• Plan: Do comprehensive planning, including research on competitors
• Implement: Implement the entire process based on 4/5 Ps of marketing
• Monitoring: Keep close vigilance on the flow of business
• Evaluation: As and when a certain issue crops up, plug it then and there before it aggravates                                     

Leveraging state-of-the-art digital technology                       

Keeping abreast with the latest e-commerce technology will solve many of your woes. How to do that? When your business is thriving, you want to move further ahead to sustain your strategic objectives. Leveraging state-of-the-art technology, you can accomplish your goals. Forge an alliance with the industry leader to keep pace with the market dynamics. Employ the simple, feasible, reliable and affordable technology. Don’t hesitate in investing on technology front reason being it’s the technology, which influences decision making process of the prospective customer.

So, what are you waiting for, streamline your technology as per market dynamics and be a leader but a follower.