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From Idea to Online Store

From Idea to Online Store


Building Your Digital Presence
A practical guide to launching your brand, website, and e-commerce presence

Use as practical reference or guided path
Responsible David Silva [xCTO]
Last Update 12/27/2025
Completion Time 6 hours 45 minutes
Members 4
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Why Your Online Presence Matters
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Storytelling prompts to get started
Storytelling prompts to get started
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A strong brand starts with a great story
Intro
Intro
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This course focuses on helping you create something useful and real based in our lived experience in creative direction, brand management, ecommerce and startups

Module 1: Brand Foundations
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Finding your voice

How to create simple, engaging explanations

Practical Tools: Logos, Images & Color
Practical Tools: Logos, Images & Color
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Start exploring visual and storytelling elements, lightly and intentionally


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Storytelling & Reflection: Defining Your Brand
A brand is a promise. a good brand is a promise kept
Module 2: Website Basics
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Website as a Home Base
Website as a Home Base
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A flexible format to create a hub for your brand
Practical Guide: Pages, Content & Structure
Practical Guide: Pages, Content & Structure
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Practical checklist for structuring your website
Using Markkët CMS To Publish a Website
Using Markkët CMS To Publish a Website
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A Content Management System (CMS) is simply a way to organize information so it can be displayed on a website



Module 3: Engagement, Trust & First Conversions
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Storytelling Exercise: Designing the First Meaningful Action
decide what you’re really inviting people to do when they land on your site
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How People Actually Engage Online

Trust is built through consistency, not persuasion

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Practical Guide: Engagement Tools That Don’t Feel Salesy
Engagement doesn't mean pressure
Module 4: Customer Relationships and Operations
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Exercise: Where Does Your Product Belong Right Now?
Where can you start today
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Reflection: Design for the Business You’re Becoming

You don’t need to jump to enterprise systems, but you should design with intention

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Designed Operations: From Scrappy to Scalable
Operations are also a design choice
Module 5: Payments, Trust & Operations
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Trust Signals, Legitimacy, and Operational Clarity

Trust isn’t built with design alone. It’s built with clarity


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Reflection: What Level of Structure Does Your Business Need?
Align your operations with your goals
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Practical Checklist: Receiving Payments
Open your site, store, or checkout flow and walk through this checklist honestly
Module 6: Launch Before Is Perfect
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Feedback Loops That Don’t Break You
Design healthy feedback loops, and listen selectively 

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Reflection: What’s the Smallest Launch Can Do?

What’s left isn’t knowledge

It’s movement

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Soft Launches Are Real Launches
soft launch it’s a deliberate strategy
Module 7: Conclusions
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Reflection: Closing Thoughts & Next Steps

This final section is here to help you orient yourself, not to tell you what to do, but to help you decide what makes sense for you right now

A practical, self-paced guide to creating an online presence with e-commerce tools

This course is designed for creators, founders, nonprofits, and small teams building an online presence

Each module is designed to stand on its own, so you can jump to what’s relevant now and return later as your project evolves, or you need a refresher