What is my ecommerce website missing?

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Choosing an e-commerce platform? What does it takes to be successful online? Through this presentation, I hope to cover the technology essentials required for your online success.

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Does your technology complement your business?

Overview

About Me

Selling online? What does it take?

Does your technology complement your business?

5 minutes | 10 questions

Me

Amit R GBiz Solutions Manager @ Iksula

Amitrg99@gmail.com+91 987 079 4423

Let’s Dive In!

Selling Online?

What does it take?

Engagement Merchandising Traffic

Google User Interface Shipping Brand After-Sales Site Speed Experience PPC

Photography Social Media Display

Price Delivery-Time ADS Design Competition

In a nutshell !

Marketing

Merchandising

Website Experienc

e

What will we cover today?

Marketing

Merchandising

Website Experienc

e

Does your technology complement your business?

5 Minutes | 10 Questions

Find out in….

How fast are you?

Use FEO + CDN

1.

http://www.getelastic.com/site-speed-infographic/

http://www.getelastic.com/site-speed-infographic/

Source: http://www.marketingtechblog.com/infographic-why-webspeed-matters/

Speed = Value

INCREASED REVENUES

10% increase in revenue (for every 1s of improvement)

12% increase in revenue (by improving page load speed from 6s to 1.2s)

5% increase in revenue(for every 2s of improvement)

50% more page views for fastest visitors (relative to slowest)

9% more traffic(for every 400 ms of improvement)

INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY

2% increase in productivity

100% increase in productivity (when application sped up by 2.7s)

Fewer errors, a faster engineering cycle & enhanced data integrity

25% increase in productivity

You may think if it’s that important,It’s taken care of!

Study done by WebPerformanceToday.com age speed and composition of 400 top European retailers, as ranked by Internet Retailer magazine, to see how these sites would load for visitors using Chrome 23

Source: http://www.webperformancetoday.com, March 2013

Solution…

“There’s no single magic bullet for making pages faster.”

Front End Optimization (FEO) =

Transformation

and

Content Delivery Network (CDN) = Delivery

Evolutionary Process…

Delivery = “I will deliver what the server gives me as efficiently as possible to the browser.”

Transformation = “I will transform what the server gives me, and optimize it for the user’s browser.”

Front End Optimization

and

Content Delivery Network

How dependent your page load time is??

Use Asynchronous Loading

2.

Integrations, Social elements create dependencies on how fast your site loads

So… if Facebook resources load slow one day, it slows down our site

Then add Twitter, Pinterest, Buffer, etc. to that and your site’s chances of loading fast are reduced to virtually nothing

That’s known as synchronous loading

External Dependencies

Elements loading one after other

Download Link: http://friendlybit.com/js/lazy-loading-asyncronous-javascript/

Elements loading asynchronously

Vs.

How quickly can the user find the product?

Site Search

3.

Amazon found that a 0.1 second slower search results in 1% loss in Revenue

Source: http://www.marketingtechblog.com/infographic-why-webspeed-matters/

Users want to combine text searches, taxonomy term filtering, and other search criteria

You want to hint users at related content they might not have thought of looking for, but that could be of interest to them

Your site has too much content for it to be displayed through fixed navigational structures, but you still want it to be navigable

You think that "advanced" search forms are not fun to use

Why use Faceted Search?

Features

Faceted Search

Show similar product blocks… can be used for cross selling

Customized search results, layout

Use Apache SOLR Search or Equivalent

Do you know where you customer is from?

Use localization

4.

Localization: Translate your website to the language of the user

GeoIP: Give personalized website experience to people from different locations

Localization

Do you offer personalized experience ?

User Segmentation

5.

User Segmentation

User Tracking

Advanced user scoring of events

User segmentation based on website behavior

Product personalization based on segment

Product recommendations based on segment

User Segmentation

“How will this look on me?”

Use virtual trial rooms

6.

“I’m sold. What’s Next?”

Checkout

7.

When a customer enters checkout, there is only one place you want them to go

order confirmation!

Navigation Menu removed

Isolate the checkout

Order Summary

Discount Coupon

What stage am I on?

Address populated for second-timecustomers

How many stages?

Delivery Time

City, State populated Based on Zip Code

(is the zip serviceable?)Ask only

Call to Action must be Visually Salient and Visually Isolated

How portable are you?

Mobile Theme and Apps

8.

Source: Flurry, January 2013

The time spent on retailer apps grew by 525% between 2011 and 2012

Responsive Web Design

Optimized for different screen sizes

Experience based on screen size:Fluid layout

Increase LTV of customers by leveragingNative Apps

Does your website offer gifting options?

Use intelligent gifting module

9.

Help Me.. I’m confused

Help Me.. I’m confused

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“Can I choose?”

Customizable products…

10.

Questions?

Contact…AmitRG99@gmail.com

+91 987 079 4423