5 effective strategies to convert your online store visitors to customers

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1 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 prop- erly used, it acts like an alarm, tempting the custom- er to come back to your site right away. Tools like Google remarketing, AdRoll and Facebook remar- keting are being used widely. It’s very easy to set- up 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 Info-Wallet 5 Effective Strategies to convert your Online Store Visitors to Customers

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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 EmailsOn 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.

RetargetingRetargeting helps in reinforcing your brand. If prop-erly used, it acts like an alarm, tempting the custom-er to come back to your site right away. Tools like Google remarketing, AdRoll and Facebook remar-keting are being used widely. It’s very easy to set-up once your site is getting enough traffic. You can set rules, for your retargeting audience, depending upon which pages they are visiting.

Referral MarketingMany 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

Info-Wallet5 Effective Strategies to convert your Online Store Visitors to Customers

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decision. So, it’s quite an important area to harness upon. You can start giving offers like a $25 for refer-ring to 50 friends or a 10% discount if a referral buys from your site, etc.

Signup PopupsWhatever 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 ProductsThis works a lot in online retail. For example, if a per-son a buying a camera and your product page rec-ommends him camera batteries; he will certainly buy

those too. So, you can actually come up with some combo packs which will upsell your secondary prod-ucts easily. Forrester says that, such product recom-mendations 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 even-tually 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.

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about expeduxFrequent innovations, 3-click away purchasing models and the internet of things world are constantly push-ing the boundaries for both online and offline shopping. As the digital and virtual in-store experiences shape the retail experience for end customers, it is opening up exciting new possibilities for the out of the box retail-ers. With this power shift comes a great opportunity for retailers, the front runners choose to adopt the tools and insights from the web to close the gap between the smart online consumer and the offline retailer, which enables them to stand out in a fiercely competitive & crowded marketplace. The biggest question now for the internet retailers is – How will I increase my revenue from X to 2X within the given time frame? Who has the mindset to help me achieve my revenue targets promised to my stakeholders?

Expedux technologies an Online retail specialist operates with a single minded focus towards achieving one goal – Increase the online retailers revenue from X to 2X for our customers. We frequently push our bound-aries in technology and marketing perspectives to achieve our customers end objective of maximizing their online presence and revenue within short duration. Online retailers interact with customers through count-less channels—websites, physical stores, kiosks, direct mail and catalogs, call centers, social media, mobile devices, gaming apps and more. Expedux can help Online retailers to have their presence across all the above mentioned channels with the technology and customer engagement best practices.

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