Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Creating a Strategy 9
Strategies to Implement 13
Conclusion 29
Intro to eCommerce Marketing
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• Voice-assisted devices like Amazon Echo
and Google Home are being utilized to make
purchases
• By 2020, experts predict more than half of all
product searches will be done by voice or by
image
• Online purchases aren’t only happening on
eCommerce websites; they’re happening on
Amazon, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and
many other platforms
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Goals for eCommerce marketing typically include:
• Increasing Visitors
• Increasing Conversion Rate
• Increasing Average Order Value
• Increasing Lifetime Value
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What Makes a Great
eCommerce Strategy?
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So what does this mean for you?
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Knowing How to Create Content That
Resonates
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Knowing to Leverage One of the Most
Powerful Digital Marketing Tools
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on your use of high quality imagery and messaging
to drive attention and traffic to your website.
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Knowing How to Write Content Relevant to
Your Website Visitors
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Influencers build communities of people that know,
like and trust them. Therefore, it’s easy for them to
garner attention around your online product through
a recommendation or “sponsored post.”
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questions that match high volume, long-tail keyword
searches to get more users to your site.
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Components of
eCommerce Strategy
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Consider goals that can be measured with KPIs like
conversion rate, website visits, click-through rate,
time on site or customer acquisition.
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Nurture Your Customers
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Creating a Strategy
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• How new are the buyers?
• How often do they buy?
• How much are they spending?
• Gender
• Age Group
• Geographical Location
• Income
• Education
• Job type
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Two users with identical demographic data can be
motivated and influenced in totally different ways
through their interaction with your product. As a
result, savvy eCommerce marketers will need to
persuade them differently.
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Speaking of platforms, at this point in creating your
strategy, it is time for planning for implementation:
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12 eCommerce
Marketing Strategies
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1. SEO
2. Email
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3. Inbound Marketing
4. Social Media
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The best eCommerce social media strategies include
posting at least three times a day, engaging with
followers (follow-backs, liking photos, comments and
responses), and personalizing the buying experience.
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6. Paid Search Advertising
7. Retargeting
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The good news is, you can do the same for your
store. Many platforms can enable retargeting
campaigns (think Facebook, Google Ads or
HubSpot). The success of retargeting campaigns
begins with the strategic placement of cookies
(pieces of code) on specific pages on your website.
Retargeting ad units use that information to
track those visitors to other websites with ads
showing product(s).
8. Landing Pages
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9. Post-Purchase Email Follow-Up
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11. Optimized Cart and Checkout
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reviews allow you to capitalize on user generated
content (UGC) and bad reviews may lead you to
re-evaluate a product or buying experiences.
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eCommerce Marketing
Success Story
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The Challenge
The Approach
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segmented the contacts into three personas based
on their next potential purchase:
A/B Testing
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Workflows
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This is important to note: customers should be
nurtured after purchase, but not with the same
promotional content. No one enjoys seeing an ad for
a product that they have just purchased.
The Results
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Final Draft exceeded both the product launch and
Q4 revenue goals.
Business Impact
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Conclusion
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to do the heavy lifting for you
5. Be willing to try new things - successful
eCommerce doesn’t happen overnight. If your
first strategies don’t work, try some more! The
internet is a big place and your customers are out
there waiting to find you.
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