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Few facts about online shoppers— 1: They are impatient and unexcited about reading your 2,000 word product description. 2: They hate making a bad purchase decision, but the alternative of comparing multiple products on multiple sites isn’t ideal either. To solve for 1 and 2 consider adding an infographic like this on your product page—
Your #1 goal for a landing page ISNT’T to make a sale. It’s to slow the visitor down.
Because I’ve been obsessing over ecommerce for 8 years I often erroneously start believing I’m an expert. I’m not. Case in point— on my virtual stroll through ecommerce stores I stumbled on bikesdirect.com. Please stop reading, visit their homepage and return in 10 seconds. I didn’t take bikesdirect.com seriously because it was obviously a “small” site with a “1995” look. …
… reviews of customers who live near you. Lifesourcewater.com understands this and that’s why they have a cool feature called “Search For Reviews In Your Zip Code:”— The shopper can enter their zip code and see listing of reviews of shoppers near them— Basically lifesourcewater.com re-sorts reviews starting from the searcher’s zip code. This is a good tactic for sites …
There are two ways to let your shoppers know an item isn’t available. Bad— 5x better—
Humans are evolutionarily predisposed to see patterns, we confuse coincidence with correlation and correlation with causality. Always keep this in mind when studying your analytics data. Fun example— pirates cause global warming: A little about us Thank you for reading this article. We are Frictionless Commerce and over the last 11 years, we’ve thought about just one thing: how do we get online …
Noticed something new and am not sure if it’s a bad idea or a brilliant one. On sprinklerwarehouse.com when you add an item to the cart, and start the checkout process, this popup appears: At one level it feels brilliant because $2.95 is a small enough fee but at the same time, I feel it may end up annoying anyone …
Leisurepro.com sells scuba gear and offers free returns all year round. But they understand during holiday gift-buying season non-scuba divers are on their site buying for scuba divers, so they make 1 small tweak to their free returns message— Every time you change a word to something that relates to the shopper’s state of mind it gets their attention. This …
Came across this really interesting article by Baymard Institute with examples of mobile sites where form fields (think checkout pages) weren’t configured properly with keyboard ‘type’. Do your site checkout pages make any of these mistakes (see notes below screenshots)?
I wasn’t super interested in this item. But seeing this … … increased my interest level 10%. Why this is a clever tactic– no one really ever buys 4 units in one order but seeing a purchase limit has a psychological sway on the subconscious mind.
A very cool tactic to drive up signups. This popup appears when the site visitor has spent a certain amount of time and visited a certain number of pages–
Received an email from titanium-jewelry.com. Like most marketing emails this one had a coupon code, but what was different was the way in which the coupon code was presented. Read the underlined section in the screenshot below (underlined in red by me)— This is a very clever line because it creates a sense of exclusivity in the mind of the …
Allaboutdance.com has a sweepstakes page where shoppers can spin a digital wheel and win a giveaway— Is this a good idea? I’m not sure, but I give allaboutdance.com props for testing something different.
There are many tactics to improve website conversion rates (here, here and here). But that’s what they are, tactics. If your aim is to actually change the way site visitors think there is only one true way to do it— dulcet copywriting. Here is an example from zingermans.com where they are talking about their spicy cashews (posted below)— Spicy Cashews …
There is something that’s bothered me for years. Some ecommerce sites (example www.fast-growing-trees.com) have banner ads promoting other businesses. This is the banner ad that’s currently on display at the footer of www.fast-growing-trees.com — Mind you, www.fast-growing-trees.com isn’t a low traffic site, their traffic is impressive— I can see why a tiny ecommerce site would have link-sharing with other sites, …
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