Fifty-five percent of consumers turn to Amazon first when looking for products online. Now that’s a sizeable number of your potential customers. It also means that on-site search influences offline sales as customers search, compare, gather, and evaluate information before making the final purchase. Ergo, it’s important that your brand is discoverable when customers are searching for your brand on-site. These are some of the things that brands should implement to boost sales on-site...
https://yourstory.com/2018/07/boost-on-site-sales-ecommerce-platform/
In recent years, I’ve noticed my online shopping experiences have become more personalized. The data that online retailers have collected on me has been used to sell me the appropriate products at the appropriate time, creating an enhanced shopper journey. However, this trend has only occurred online and not in physical brick-and-mortar stores. So how do offline retailers adapt? During a recent panel discussion at the 2018 GMA Leadership Forum, this topic was discussed in-depth by retail industry thought leaders.
https://www.smartbrief.com/original/2018/08/innovating-customer-experience/
E-commerce business models are undergoing a dramatic shift. Initially businesses relied on consumers to do the 'heavy lifting' to discover the product and to make the purchase decision. The vendor's role was to ensure that the product was discoverable and — most importantly — available at the geographic location where the transaction potentially would take place.
https://www.retailcustomerexperience.com/blogs/digital-transformation-driving-the-personalized-retail-customer-experience/
No matter how loyal shoppers may be to certain retailers, online shopping can test even the most dedicated brand ambassadors. Those warm and fuzzy feelings shoppers have for favorite stores or designers often evaporate when the dire need for lowest price, fastest shipping, and special sizes outweigh the emotional bond a shopper may have with a particular company.
Let’s face it: Customer loyalty is always fleeting. And during peak seasons, it can be doubly easy to lose and much harder to gain.
https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/news/2018/08/15/can-brand-loyalty-survive-online-shopping.html/
De Bijenkorf, a renowned retail brand within the Netherlands known for its premium and personal service in stores, has had an offline presence for almost 150 years. It sells products such as clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry and much more. The Bijenkorf website is an extension of their offline presence which enables their brand to reach all of Holland and Belgium. De Bijenkorfs online vision is to offer an online shopping experience that matches its premium standard provided to customers in stores.
https://mopinion.com/customer-success-story-de-bijenkorf/
The life of an e-commerce manager can get a bit hectic with running reports, balancing resources, long hours at the office and marketing campaigns designed to hit the target with the right message.
Between balancing all of these responsibilities, it’s easy to forget about the most important step; the customer’s experience.
https://www.technative.io/customer-experience-optimization-the-online-customer-deserves-the-right-experience/
Ninety-one per cent of retailers expect online revenue growth this year, and are focusing on personalisation, mobile and customer experience, according to a new report by SLI Systems.
The 2018 E-commerce Performance Indicators and Confidence (EPIC) report highlights focus areas for the year, areas of investment and analyses how mobile initiatives have been used since the year prior.
https://www.insideretail.com.au/news/most-retailers-expecting-online-revenue-growth-201808/
In B2B e-commerce you must focus on your online tactics and technology, bringing in new customers, and keeping the existing ones happy. You also have to maintain an optimal revenue mix of new and repeat customers, to boost business growth and achieve sales goals. We discuss five B2B e-commerce tips to boost sales and increase repeat customers.
https://www.martechadvisor.com/articles/ecommerce/improve-b2b-e-commerce-sales-and-increase-repeat-customers/
86% of customers are willing to pay more for a better customer experience. Give them what they want. Your customers expect an experience on your site. A great experience; an experience that has been personalized for them. Where do you start when making something like that a reality?
This Exponea e-book will take you through the early stages of improving the customer experience on your site, followed by specific personalization strategies to start using, and a comparison of different product recommendation models so you can pick the best one for your business.
https://www.drapersonline.com/business-operations/industry-insight/industry-insight-building-a-great-ecommerce-customer-experience/7034986.article/
Does your ecommerce website run on the Magento platform? Then we’ve got good news for you. Mopinion has just launched a user feedback extension for Magento that enables Magento-based websites to run Mopinion feedback software on their site.
https://mopinion.com/mopinion-launches-user-feedback-extension-for-magento/
