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Ways to create a successful e-commerce strategy

Written by Nidhi Thakkar | Jul 3, 2017 5:30:00 AM

Impact of dynamic e-commerce system on businesses

With the advent of digitization, the e-commerce system is transforming. Considering the past decade, the varying e-commerce paradigm has generated massive confusion amongst businesses that are willing to establish and optimize a successful e-commerce strategy.

Possibly, the rationale of this perplexed behavior is that there are very few informative e-commerce strategies available for references where rests of them appear quite confusing. For instance, according to the study, the add-to-cart conversations were pretty low for an e-commerce business, irrespective of the fact that their overall website traffic was on the rise.

What e-commerce businesses should do to avoid confusion?

To avoid confusion, e-commerce businesses must follow a simple approach of concentrating on the buying behavior. Once you are able to contemplate and map the customer’s buying journey and respective buying personas it will help you to determine the core strategies required for targeting your prospects.

Below mentioned are some recommendations for your e-commerce businesses. If you are able to follow them you might rethink upon the strategies for your business success.

  • The approaches such as product recommendations can increase your brand visibility and generate traffic but they are not enough. However, focusing on the ways to create content that can attract your visitors or hold their attention can help. Apart from that, using the PPC or re-targeting methodology can be beneficial.
  • Your prospects tend to have a habit of comparing products with your competitors as it helps them to understand the product offerings and costs. To attract the customers’ e-commerce businesses must offer a grid or intuitive graphic displaying the comparisons of the product for a specific marketplace.
  • One of the major reasons for cart abandonment is high shipping cost. Customers usually go through shock during the checkout process where the shipping prices are unrealistic. Therefore, it is recommended to maintain transparency with your customers in context of the shipping charges to avoid the bounce rate.
  • Customers want to know all the stages of their product once they buy it i.e. from packing to the arrival stage. Thus, leveraging this type of strategy might help you in attracting more customers to your site and the customers would know that you care for them.

Conclusion

Perhaps your e-commerce business is an established one and has been around for quite long. But one should remember the fact that having a winning e-commerce strategy is highly vital for your current and long-term growth. The above mentioned recommendations might help you to stay ahead of the game. So start working on it today!