DIGITIZE your World
*E-Commerce is simply opening a shop online. The only difference is that your shop would be virtual.
*: E-commerce marketing is the process of driving sales by raising awareness about an online store’s brand and product offerings. Digital marketing for e-commerce applies traditional marketing principles to a multichannel, data-driven environment.
call to action (CTA) – the part of a marketing message that attempts to persuade a person to perform a desired action.
PayPal – an online payment service that lets its users make purchases and receive payments via a user-defined email address.
shopping cart – software used to make a site’s product catalog available for online ordering, whereby visitors may select, view, add/delete, and purchase merchandise.
The business model and process of one company selling to another.
The business model and process of a company selling to direct consumers
The business model of when B2B companies create digital strategies and go directly to a business where there is a known engagement with customers, or go directly to consumers themselves.
A business that has a physical store location (or multiple locations) where merchandise can be purchased.
A person or company that buys goods in large quantities from various vendors with the intention of selling them to resellers who then sell to direct to consumer. Distributors and wholesalers usually work together as channel partners.
A person or company that makes goods for sale.
The prediction of future revenue, net profit and value that a customer will generate during the entire relationship with a merchant.
Only one metric in a series of other measures that asses the health of your eCommerce business. It is calculated by dividing the number of people who complete a particular action by the number of visitors to a particular page/process.
The process of improving the user experience of a website with the goal of increasing the percentage of visitors that convert into customers.
A holistic approach to eCommerce growth. It is about user centric design, technical implementation, applied statistics, web analytics, and most importantly a dedication to continuous improvement through a cycle of testing and learning. It requires a curiosity to constantly identify new opportunities for improvement, develop hypotheses, and test solutions.
The process of creating, monitoring and tweaking landing pages to maximize the conversion of traffic.
A research and data based, semi fictional representation of your ideal customer.
Targeting your most profitable customer and those with the highest profit potential. These can include frequent shoppers, high average order values, few returns, customers that provide reviews, responsive customers (ie. respond to special offers and promotions).
A/B testing splits traffic into two different variations of a site. This allows marketers to test how specific changes impact behaviour on a site, independent of things that can also impact behaviour like promotions etc.
The term applied to a customer after they browse a site, add products into their shopping cart, and at checkout leave the merchant’s site without completing their purchase.
1. Pay-per-click advertising (PPC).
Running an effective PPC campaign involves strategic bidding on the keywords or phrases used in the ads you create. Your ads will appear above or below non-paid organic search results, with higher bids earning the #1 position. Search engines earn revenue on a per-click basis, while impressions are determined by user search query.
2. Search engine marketing (SEM).
Often used as a synonym for PPC, SEM refers to paid advertising campaigns. This multifaceted term is used by many marketers to describe all paid and organic efforts. It’s also used to describe efforts on Google’s AdWords platform and paid platforms on other search engines, such as Bing.
3. Search engine optimization (SEO).
Unlike the paid advertising methods described above, SEO traffic generates unpaid, “organic” results across search engines like Google and Yahoo. Successful SEO combines adherence to best practices on a product level in tandem with content creation, inbound links, social media engagement and many other factors taken into consideration by search engine algorithms.
4. Display advertising.
Display advertising refers to banners, sidebars and other predominantly-visual advertisements that appear on other websites. Display ads are facilitated by ad networks such as Google Display Network.
5. Affiliate marketing.
Affiliate marketing leverages product-focused referrals such as reviews, comparisons and testimonials, to drive traffic to an online retailer’s website. Receiving a set commission for referred sales, affiliate marketers typically have a loyal following or receive traffic from some of the above channels.
6. Email marketing.
Email marketing is used to target current, potential and past customers with newsletters, abandoned cart notifications and remarketing.
