"There are 9 marketing methods that every eCommerce business should consider. eCommerce Marketing: How to Drive Traffic that Buys to your Website covers how you should approach each of them, including the pitfalls to avoid and the keys to using them successfully. Many of the 9 marketing methods are deceptively simple – but if you want them to work for you then you need to follow the advice in this book" -- Publisher description.
Do you struggle to work out where to spend your marketing budget to grow sales? Are you always getting distracted by the latest 'must-have' marketing tool? Have you struggled to work out how to improve your marketing? This easy-to-read and hype-free book will help you to understand what marketing you should be doing, and how to optimise your marketing for sales growth. Written to help time-poor eCommerce marketers and business owners, this book will become the marketing handbook that sits on your desk ready to help you solve each future marketing challenge. As well as walking you through each of the essential eCommerce marketing methods it includes tips that will improve your marketing in every channel. But this isn't just a list of ideas, at the heart of the book is the Customer MasterPlan Model. An easy to use, powerful system you can use to make the marketing decisions every time in your business. eCommerce Marketing: How to get Traffic that BUYS to Your Website is the only eCommerce traffic book you need. Including: 10 specific eCommerce marketing methods explained Complete guide to the Customer MasterPlan Model - your new decision making tool 7 Marketing Maxims - ways you can quickly improve the performance of any marketing you're doing How to improve BOTH customer acquisition AND customer retention Follow the advice in this book to create the marketing activity that will supercharge your sales growth. Already helping businesses around the world to grow their sales: "Everyone in your business should read this book, whether they are in marketing or not. Why? Because it removes all the smoke and mirrors around marketing for eCommerce, channel by channel, but still delivers for your marketing team on detail and how to plan for success. Chloë's candid, straight-talking style makes it feel like she's explaining it over a cup of tea and the content delivers in spades on practical, tangible and achievable actions that you can put into practice in your business right now" Nicola Fox, Head of CRM, MissGuided "As someone who built and runs an 8-figure (and growing) eCommerce business, I'm often asked for advice about how to do what we've done. Happily, I can now hand them Chloë's book instead of trying -- unsuccessfully, usually -- to lay out the framework and the requirements for eCommerce success. Comprehensive and practical, eCommerce Marketing is a book you should read over and over and, more importantly, put its lessons into action." Steven Sashen, CEO and co-founder, XeroShoes.com Chloë is the author of multiple best selling books and the host of the popular eCommerce MasterPlan Podcast. Through her books, podcasts, training videos and keynote speaker appearances Chloë has helped 1,000s of eCommerce businesses all over the world solve their marketing problems.
In this book, I'll be sharing with you some of the most effective e-commerce tips I've learned over the years. These tips will teach you how you can improve your web store to make more money over the next holiday season, drive more traffic, and strengthen sales and leads to maximize your return on investment (ROI). I've done my best to cover everything you need, to help you get more revenue, opt-ins and profit from your e-commerce website. Get actionable advice for your ecommerce store, for example: Making More Money this Holiday Season Getting More Website Traffic SEO Tips Promotional Email Campaigns Analytics Setup and Review Creating Landing Pages Improving Conversion Rates Generating More Opt-In Leads Increasing Retention Anyone selling products or services online can benefit from this book. You will learn exactly how to make your website more successful and increase the amount of money you make from your website or e-commerce store. This also includes clear, actionable steps for you to increase retention and create loyal customers that will come back to spend more money. Plus, you can get examples of each case study listed in the book. The book starts off with general advice about driving traffic to your website. Then, it details how to better understand your target customer. This is where we start to understand exactly to whom you should be marketing and why. Creating personas and your customer avatar will help you determine how and where you should be marketing your products. Next, I dive into specific areas of an e-commerce website. Each section has specific tips to maximize the effectiveness. I recommend trying as many of the tips as possible. Not all the advice will work exactly as I have outlined it. You need to test and experiment to determine the right approach for you. Finally, you will read specific suggestions on how to make more money from your e-commerce website. This money will come not only from new customers but also from repeat customers. This strategy is to help improve retention, resulting in a larger lifetime value. That includes suggestions for when your customers receive their products at their home or office. Apply the tactics listed in this book to any self-hosted shopping carts or hosted ecommerce solution. The most popular hosted ecommerce software includes Shopify, BigCommerce, Volusion, NetSuite, Magento and Wordpress.
Conversion rate optimization (CRO) is about understanding people and behaviour, not simply website visits. This book is an all-encompassing guide to the how, the why and the tools and techniques. Grounded in best-practice theory and research, E-commerce Website Optimization brings together usability, analytics and persuasion to offer a detailed, step-by-step guide to increasing the percentage of visitors who buy from your site and subsequently the amount that these visitors spend when they do. In a complex and evolving field, it will help you improve conversion rates, increase ROI from online marketing campaigns, generate higher levels of repeat business and increase the e-commerce value of websites. In the fast-moving world of e-commerce, this fully revised second edition includes updates on test metrics, prioritization and personalization, alongside updated case studies and newly recommended tools. E-commerce Website Optimization is an invaluable book for those seeking to implement a data-driven ethos for their organization's e-commerce programme, for everyone from chief digital officers and heads of online sales, to entrepreneurs and small business owners.
Ecommerce and Beyond is a simple, non-technical book for bricks-and-mortar shop owners, entrepreneurs and store sales managers who are ready to succeed online, or can't figure out why their ecommerce website is not selling as much as it should. In this book, Rodolfo Melogli explains his very basic yet effective ecommerce strategy. This practical 9-step, bullet-proof system has helped countless small and medium business owners across Ireland, the UK, the USA and Italy build and maintain profitable websites. The author shares all the up-to-date, expert knowledge and insights that ecommerce managers need to take charge of their online success . Ecommerce and Beyond combines the basics of internet marketing together with practical expert tips, so that online retailers can: Attract the right website traffic Engage and turn browsers into buyers Leverage referrals and product reviews Skyrocket online sales This book is not about web design. Plenty of shiny designer websites out there simply do not convert sales. Ecommerce and Beyond is about turning visitors into leads and browsers into buyers . That is the essence of good ecommerce marketing – having your website sell globally, 24/7, 365 days per year and automatically, even while you sleep, and without a degree in rocket science.
Introduction -- The 12 core principles of ecommerce -- pt. I: Evolved strategy : Funnel-based ecommerce ; Recurring income core -- Think before you sell ; Conversion tricks, sales boosts, and profit maximizers -- pt. II: Evolved intelligence : Your target market ; Your competition ; Exploit your data -- pt. III: Evolved marketing : Advertising channels ; Front-end marketing ; Back-end marketing-- Final thoughts.
The nuts-and-bolts for building your own online business and making it succeed Is there a fortune in your future? Start your own online business and see what happens. Whether you're adding an online component to your current bricks-and-mortar or hoping to strike it rich with your own online startup, the sixth edition of this popular and practical guide can help. Find out how to identify a market need, handle promotion, choose Web hosting services, set up strong security, pop up prominently in search engine rankings, and more. The book explores the hottest business phenomenon today—social media marketing—with full coverage of Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and other technologies that are now firmly part of the online business landscape. Dives into all aspects of starting and establishing an online business, including the very latest big trends Highlights business issues that are of particular concern to online businesses Reveals how to identify a market need, handle promotion, choose Web hosting services, set up strong security, pop up prominently in search engine rankings, and more Covers the hottest social media marketing opportunities, including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and blogs Shows you specific types and examples of successful online businesses Provides the latest on B2B Web site suppliers, such as AliBaba.com Build a better online business from the ground up, starting with Starting an Online Business For Dummies, 6th Edition!
Aimed at students, this work covers various aspects of e-business - focusing on sales and marketing, as well as detailing procurement, supply chains, and the legal and security considerations. It contains a range of features to help you learn effectively including margin definitions, international case studies, activities and web links.
Does your ecommerce site attract visitors but fail to convert enough of them into paying customers? Are your sales numbers not where you want? Have you got an ecommerce site but not yet spent any time on improving the design? If it's time to upgrade your website's user experience then Designing Ecommerce Websites is the only book to tell you exactly how to do it. It provides you with 66 guidelines on how to best use every element on each page of an ecommerce website. This book contains the results of a decade's worth of UX design experience, and several years spent consulting with a wide range of different ecommerce startups. It is based on knowledge learned from user behaviour data and running many different usability tests. It tells you what works in reality, not in theory. The book itself was born from teaching the principles in workshops for over four years. These are principles that are useful to a range of job roles (not just designers) and no matter what your experience level. This book will take you step by step through the ecommerce funnel that applies to almost all ecommerce sites via scannable text and simple illustrations. It's a reference book that is designed to be easy to pick up and quickly learn from. Design LANDING pages that stop users from being confused and bouncing; Create LISTINGS that help your users find a product they actually want to buy; Design PRODUCT pages that don't leave the users with any fears about buying from you; Develop a CHECKOUT flow that results in more successful payments; And learn MORE advice about the other key pages on an ecommerce site. This is the second edition of the book and it features completely rewritten and updated advice for 2019, 15 totally new guidelines, and links to further reading for every guideline (so you can learn even more). The first edition was an Amazon Kindle bestseller in the ecommerce and technology business categories.
Want to make money online? If done well, guerrilla social media marketing can help you persuade, command attention, establish dialogue, differentiate yourself, capture new markets, and outmaneuver the competition--all on a shoestring budget. Whether you're selling digital goods and services, physical goods, or local services, this book has the answers.
