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How to boost your e-commerce performance
With dwindling shopper attention spans, any site delays can send your customers running. Ensure their satisfaction with these suggestions.
Research by Microsoft, Pew, and a host of other sources confirms what many have suspected for some time: tech gadgets are having a "shortening" effect on our attention spans. This has numerous long-term implications for our nation's education system and workforce...but in the near-term, it has implications for anyone running an e-commerce site.
read full article5 Ways Online Retailers Are Handling Marketing All Wrong
Established e-commerce brands are the model all marketers should aspire to, hoping to achieve the booming success of the e-commerce sector, where sales as a proportion of total retail have risen by a factor of seven [Opens in a new window] since 2002 and a compounded 10 percent growth rate is expected right through to 2017 [Opens in a new window] .
Or so you'd think.
Thing is, though, e-commerce growth is stagnating due to an ever-growing number of participants. While big players like Amazon.com and eBay have businesslike marketing that gets the job done, and smaller guys like Naked Wines or Dollar Shave Club exhibit flashes of brilliance, most online retailers aren't seeing anything like the revenue they could. Why? Their marketing just isn't good enough.
Read Full ArticleAussies Set To Spend $7 Billion Online Over Christmas Says Adobe
Get ready to splurge, Australia! An analysis by Adobe of over one trillion retail web site transactions over the last seven years, along with 350 million stock keeping units (SKUs) suggests seven billion dollars will be spent online in Australia this Christmas season.
Adobe has a solid track record making these calls and last year its Cyber Monday and Thanksgiving predictions came within two per cent of the mark.
Read Full ArticleSydneysiders Spend Double On Online Transactions As Melburnians
The latest quarterly Online Retail Report from eWAY has revealed Sydneysiders are now the biggest online spenders in Australia, overtaking Melbourne by 5.7 per cent and spending more than double the amount per transaction.
eWAY, which processes a quarter of all online spend in Australia, reported Australians spent $4.98 billion online in the third quarter of 2015, a 15.2 per cent increase on the previous comparable period (PCP). Online retail sales for this year to quarter end are $14.3 billion, with yearly totals tipped to surpass the 2014 record of $16.6 billion reported by eWAY.
Read Full ArticleRoy Morgan Research: Online grocery shopping still niche (but not for much longer)
Like taxes, bills and bad drivers, shopping for groceries is one of life’s inevitabilities. Yet according to the latest findings from Roy Morgan Research, less than half (47.4%) of the Australian population actually enjoy grocery shopping. Which begs the question: why aren’t more people sparing themselves the angst of the supermarket and purchasing their groceries online?
Some 12.8 million Australians are their household’s main grocery-buyer, yet only 3.0% of them (389,000 people) do their supermarket shopping via the internet in an average four weeks. However, this is a substantial increase on 2011, when 169,000 grocery buyers were making their supermarket purchases this way.
Read Full ArticleFacebook Continues E-Commerce Push With Shopping Tab
This week, Facebook quietly rolled out new e-commerce capabilities on the platform.
Now when scrolling profiles, you'll be able to see a section filled with product listings entirely separate of the news feed. The shoppable lists are completely customized for users, depending on what their interests and likes are from past activity on Facebook.FastCompany reports that initially access will only be available to a small group of retailers.
Read Full ArticleAussie Online Sales Rebound Strongly In August, But The End Of Daily Deal Sites Appears Nigh
Online retail sales increased 0.6 per cent in August following a sharp decline in July.
Traditional sales, however, still fell slightly during the month. The daily deals market is collapsing. In August it recorded its fourth consecutive decline of over 15 per cent. Has reality finally caught up with the Little Business Model That Couldn’t?
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