Great content should be the focus point of your marketing efforts to ensure the future success of your online store. Why? Because customers are information seekers at heart, especially when they buy online, so what better way to "feed their need" than to give them what they really want! We'll be discussing how to use content marketing in eCommerce, along with some best practice tips, and then open the floor up to find out which strategies are working for merchants, which ones they'd like to try, and how this is changing online buying behaviours.
6. Top of the Funnel
Questions they have:
How do I…?
What’s the best…?
Should I…?
How do I address this
problem?
2. You have LOTS
of money to spend
on marketing
7. Top of the Funnel
Questions they have:
How do I…?
What’s the best…?
Should I…?
How do I address this
problem?
3. Growing your
business is not a
priority
8. Top of the Funnel
Questions they have:
How do I…?
What’s the best…?
Should I…?
How do I address this
problem?
4. You know every
customer
personally
From Inbound Commerce book: Traditional ecommerce strategies rely on lazy fallback of discounts and price incentives to drive buyer behaviour, and blast your email list twice a week with discounts and sales. This has potential to turn customers that arent already highly price sensitive into ones that are by framing the entire conversation and relationship from the perspective of competitive price. Fails to address the fact that consumer have different buying cycles, and not all customers are the same!Today’s leading marketers have changed the way they think and they are using inbound marketing to attract customers to their business using marketing people love. They create their own content and they become what their potential customers are interested in, not ads that they try to ignore. They personalize the shopping experience to segments of buyers, adapting the website and email to each type of buyer. These inbound marketers are getting higher ROI and grow faster at a lower cost.Defining specific personas can help you target the types of customers who will bring greater economic value to your company!
The more content you have to back up your products, the more confident your buyer will be, and thus more likely to checkout.
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