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Archive for March, 2010

Email Marketing & Maximising the conversion

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

So you have sent out your email with your great offers, the subscriber opens the message, likes the offer and clicks through to the site to make the purchase.

Great the email worked, but what if you could get it to work much better for you.

How do you take the steps to make sure they are a repeat customer?

You have around three opportunities to market to this customer following the transaction.

1. The customer receives an order confirmation. Most customers will open and read this as they are expecting this and want to confirm their order. You could offer a discount code for their next order. Again this is another great opportunity to promote products that compliment their current order.

2. Shipping emails, again the user will open this as they want to know their product has been shipped and again another great opportunity to market products. You may have special offers or you could put a recommend a friend link. What happens here is a customer can enter friends email addresses to receive a discount on their first purchase and you could even offer your original customer a discount code for any friends that make a purchase.

3. Final point is to survey your customers on their experience. Get the interaction with them and find out ways to improve the experience for them and other customers. There are many free survey websites out there so it wouldn’t cost the earth to set up.

Remember a happy customer is a returning customer.

Creating Website Landing Pages

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Spending money through PPC can be even more costly if your site doesn’t deliver what the user is looking for when they arrive at your site.

A few tips to avoid when choosing and creating your landing pages.

1. Give them exactly what they have asked for, I recently picked up on a story of a grandmother who specified that she wanted a Wii version of Beatles: Rock Band when she typed her query into Google. The query returned a list that included a familiar store. She happily clicked on the link, but the store’s landing page didn’t present the Wii version of the game as the first result. “The site [wavered] on the platform, presenting a decision our shopper didn’t know she needed to make.

Two problems arise from this, one she could have bought the wrong version or two realised that it was the wrong console and gone somewhere else.

2. Give the User Help, Shoppers like to be guided, present them with options and routes you would like them to take. Suggest top sellers, you may also be interested in as long as these are relevant to the product they have landed on.

3. Give them exactly what they searched for, I know that’s the same as number 1, but i can’t stress this enough. You only have a few seconds to capture potential customers and if the messages you present them on screen aren’t right they will be out of there as quick as they arrived. 

4. Check your analytics, monitor the bounce rates on your landing pages and do some split testing to see how you can improve the conversion of that page. When making changes don’t change to much at once as you won’t know what changes worked and what changes didn’t.

Doing some of these simple things can really help you ROI.

If you would like any more information on this feel free to contact us and see how we could possibly help you out.

Web Design Company Adeo Group

Allfex launched

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Allflex UK has launched it’s new eCommerce site.

Selling tags for sheep and cattle visitors can order various tags for their animals via a fully featured front end.

RedBack eCommerce has been fully integrated into a Sage 200 back office system.

Visit Allfex at www.allflex.co.uk

Taking Payments on your Mobile in Retail Stores or on the move

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

The launch of Square in the States is pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved when it comes to taking payments directly from your mobile phone.

A few simple steps could get you online and give you the ability to do this.

1. Apply to square who then send out a card swipe device that plugs directly in to your Iphone audio input jack.

2. Then whenever you sell an item in store or on the move you just plug in the square and swipe the card

Its that simple.

Square also has the ability to track payments and repeat custom. The beauty of this is that you can access card transactions virtually anywhere and customers can receive their receipts via text or email and of course this is all the better for the environment and the customer doesn’t have a physical receipt that they could end up losing.

The benefits don’t stop there either; because customer data is tracked you can come up with unique ways to reward clients. This could be something as simple as donating money to charity of their choice every time they use you.

We are in the very early stages and they are currently in beta tests in select cities, San Francisco being one.

The company hope to roll this out fast though and as a UK ecommerce development company we are excited about this coming to the UK.

If you want to see a little more of how this works check out the video from the recent tech conference

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2747998

http://squareup.com/