Bring Them Back! Let’s accept the fact that most of the consumers don’t buy anything on their first visit. They need a lot of nurturing through different means to attract them back. These different touch points will help them convert from a mere visitor to a customer, but it might take different amount of time depending on your business. Let’s look at some of the tactics which can help you in converting your visitors into customers.
Follow up Emails
On an average 68% consumers will abandon their carts, which mean a lot of opportunity. Here, you are already sure that the users want those products as they have done a lot of research and added those items in the cart. If you can send a follow up email about their cart within 2-3 hours, it increases the chances of a complete transaction.
Retargeting
Retargeting helps in reinforcing your brand. If properly used, it acts like an alarm, tempting the customer to come back to your site right away. Tools like Google remarketing, AdRoll and Facebook remarketing are being used widely. It’s very easy to setup once your site is getting enough traffic. You can set rules, for your retargeting audience, depending upon which pages they are visiting.
Referral Marketing
Many of the retailers are using this strategy to get their most recent and happy customers talk about their purchase. Review/suggestion by a friend is still one of the crucial factors while making a purchasing decision. So, it’s quite an important area to harness upon. You can start giving offers like a $25 for referring to 50 friends or a 10% discount if a referral buys from your site, etc.
Signup Popups
Whatever said and done, email marketing still plays a crucial role in getting customers. So, if you can build your list through sign-ups, nothing better than that. Many retailers show a pop up at the beginning and ask for a sign up before navigating into the website. It might not work all the time as customers don’t like to provide their details before shopping. But you can ask them to subscribe as an optional measure. You can even give some cashback offers for doing so.
Upselling Products
This works a lot in online retail. For example, if a person a buying a camera and your product page recommends him camera batteries; he will certainly buy those too. So, you can come up with some combo packs which will upsell your secondary products easily. Forrester says that, such product recommendations are responsible for an average 10-30% of the revenue. There are many such tactics which you can build upon and start getting more customers and eventually more sales. Pricing still plays the lead role, but you can bank upon other psychological factors which can help in shooting up your sales. End of the day, all customers are human and we need to heed to their psychological needs as well. Watch them closely and you will know what they want from you.
Conclusion
E-commerce organizations want better conversion rates. What’s going to deliver higher conversion rates? Technology upgrades, data driven decision making and targeted marketing will help a lot. They should have these techniques a try to see some dramatic improvements.
How can we help
Our vision is to help e-commerce organizations achieve one simple thing – Develop your software product/ platform within 60 days, test it within 15 minutes and achieve the envisioned profits 2x faster. Our solution accelerators give you both speed and customization without compromising quality.
Rapid Development Framework
Develop and deploy new software product within 60 days using strategies such as prototyping, iterative development and time boxing.
Release Expeditor Framework
Accelerate existing software development & release next version of powerful applications within 60 days by combining DevOps, Microservices architecture and 100% test automation strategies.
Selenium Accelerator Framework
Manual testers & QA organizations can implement automation within 15 minutes without knowledge of Selenium or any other automation tool.
Python Omnicommerce Framework
Enable a unified branding experience across all channels such as online, mobile, social media and call center.