12 Signs: Your Custom eBay Storefront Design can be a Disaster – Part 1

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12 Signs Your Custom eBay Storefront Design can
be a Disaster Part 1
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• You are super excited about a custom eBay
  storefront design, and it's very difficult to
  contain the excitement. There are so many things
  to put into place when you go for an eBay store
  front design immaterial of readymade or custom
  made. The basics remain the same.
• Excitement may end up in a mess when you try to
  put together the resources, plans lofty ideas
  into reality.
• Lots of incoming advice from many sources like -
  who should do what, how long it will take, and
  how much it will cost etc. Finally, you're lost
  not sure where to start from.
• Here are the 12 sign that your custom eBay
  storefront design is not on the right track and
  what can be done to avoid them.

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Absence of strategic decisions

• Select, design, craft, create or order do
  anything but an eBay store front design must be
  based on your business goals.
• Not like your home interior designing project
  where everyone advices you on each everything
  you realize that something is wrong till
  decoration has gone wrong.
• Providing strategic direction to the designer,
  your new design must be firmly rooted in driving
  your prime business objectives.
• Your design should be built to play an active
  role in your sales and marketing efforts rather
  than just being a fancy brochure.

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• Ask lot of questions to your designer or service
  provider. Set a deadline for this task so that
  your project is not off the track.
• Dont forget to make tough calls cut unnecessary
  things from your wish list add on some things
  that offer more value.

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We Design Fast

• Someone who is promising your design to deliver
  in 24 hours or luring to get it done in the
  fastest way is very much likely to give a poor
  result.
• Fake promises over eagerness always lends you
  in tight situation.
• The tight situation is on both the hand the
  vendor as well as the client. He is dying to sell
  or make a design that is a complete waste of
  money the later one is in dire need of a
  design.

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• Then what is the real procedure? An ideal
  designer will first examine your service or
  product wants needs before any commitment.
• This kind of approach is realistic. Mutual
  discussions on designs, structure, layout,
  content, links etc. gives a good outcome.
• Hence, dont fall prey to fake promises. If the
  designer is not interested in listening to you
  then how will he/she deliver what you want?

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 Lack of knowledge How eBay designs are crafted?

• Typically, there is an entire team of experts
  involved in engineering an excellent eBay design
  including web designers, web developers,
  analysts, programmers etc. job of a designer is
  to make the design look beautiful a developer
  ensures that everything works in the way it is
  supposed to.
• Now if you hire a service provider who is good in
  one not in the other one you may end up in a
  real mess.

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• OK, solution is to consider a team of
  professionals for the work who has the expertise
  to provide maximum value from both aspects that
  is delivery the project budget.
• We assume you are enjoying this interesting piece
  of information. For your convenience we have
  divided this blog into parts. This is the first
  part follow our blog post for the second one.

To be continued