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E-commerce top tips Ways to improve and track the UX

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E-commerce top tips Ways to improve and track the UX

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Agenda

Measuring your website Where should you send potential customers Tracking Engagement / usability Persuading customers to buy Simple purchase Retention Testing

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Web Analytics Make sure you have the fundamentals in place Understand what the key visit / sales drivers are Know your audience demographic and how they perform

Surveys Keep it simple Great insightful feedback Survey Monkey, Demographix

Before you make changes……measure your website

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Dovetail Subscriber Survey Data is ready for viewing Top line and detailed analysis

Before you make changes……measure your website

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Web analytics – dashboard reports

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Web analytics – where are the gains?

Channel Sessions Transactions Revenue Average Sale ConversionAdditional

TransactionsAdditional Revenue

Referral 100,000 1,250 £25,000.00 £20.00 1.25% 1000 £20,000.00

Direct 60,000 2,000 £60,000.00 £30.00 3.33% 600 £18,000.00

Organic Search 20,000 800 £28,000.00 £35.00 4.00% 200 £7,000.00

Paid Search 10,000 1,000 £25,000.00 £25.00 10.00% 100 £2,500.00

Social 5,000 50 £1,000.00 £20.00 1.00% 50 £1,000.00

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Fundamentals

Agree the business goals

Breakdown the key activities

Identify the metrics you’ll use to measure each activity set

Measure the results

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Where do visitors land?

Landing Page % Visitors Bounce Rate %

Home page 20% 18%

Category page 30% 31%

Product page 50% 54%

Understand where you send your customers

And what impact this is having on bounce rates

Remember you want customer to check out as quickly as possible

Hot leads should be taken straight into an offer page

Promotion Destination

Brand offer (on-line) Product page

Brand offer (off-line) One stop shop / Purchase page

Portfolio Category / Portfolio page

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Where do visitors land?

Deep link to the appropriate offer

Use geo-targeting to improve overseas conversion

Test removing the promotional code box

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Where do visitors land?

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Where do visitors land?

Deep link your offline channel to the appropriate site page

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Where do visitors land?

Use landing /category pages to promote portfolio activity

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Remember to track

Append campaign tracking to your online activity

Provides real insight into what is working!

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Remember to track

URL BUILDER

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Engagement - branding

Theming a page will help reduce bounce rates

Conversion rate improvements

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Engagement - content

High quality images Look inside SEO friendly copy Reasons to purchaseResearch completed by the Nielsen

Group, showed 79% of their test users scanned any new page they came across with only 16% reading word by word B

on research done by the.

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Engagement - content

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Usability - responsive

Mobile/tablet traffic can be as high as desktop Conversion rate improvements If you’ve not optimised – work out the benefits

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Persuading customer to buy – proposition

What makes a good proposition Desired product Well presented Attractive, clear price Right payment choicesIn a recent survey of 2000

online British adults, it found that 50% of those who regularly shop online said that if their preferred payment method is not available, they will cancel the purchase.

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Persuading customer to buy – proposition

Offer urgency

Currency inclusion

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Persuading customer to buy – promotions

Create appealing special offers

Studies show that 62% of online shoppers are looking for a discount

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Persuading customer to buy – promotions

Subscriber discounts on your merchandise Be wary of shipping costs – in an online study, 93% of customers

would be encouraged to purchase an item with free delivery

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Studies show 61% of customers read online reviews before making a purchase decision

Dovetail integrated with Feefo

Go Beyond The Customer Review.. Testimonials Amazon book reviews App store reviews

Persuading customer to buy - reviews

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Simple purchase

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Simple purchase – checkout

Keep the basket page simple and informative

Address uncertainty

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Simple purchase – checkout

Isolate the checkout Clear progress

indicators Security logos Collect email first Shorter forms Show customer care

information Account registration

in the background

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Simple purchase – checkout

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Simple purchase – checkout

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Simple purchase – one click model

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Simple purchase – tracking

Track any changes made to the checkout

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Retention

Make the login page simple

Choose a sign in mechanism that works best

Track bounce rates

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Test

Understand via analytical insight what is worth testing Start of simple Choose a testing tool. Google Experiments, HoK, Qubit…. Action and monitor

A/B suggestion…. Price / Incentives Urgency Payment methods Branding

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Summary

Make sure you have the fundamental website tracking in place, and use this to understand performance and where you need to improve.

Deep link customers to right page Serve relevant, informative and engaging content Ensure the customer understands the proposition Keep the checkout process simple and address uncertainty Testing will help understand what to change When you make changes, ensure you understand how they

performed and whether they achieved the business objective

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Questions?Carl FaulknerEmail: [email protected]: 01795 414565