Marketing is everything you do, whether your efforts are one-on-one, traditional marketing or online marketing. And ecommerce is just part of that effort.
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Marketing and Ecommerce
1. Glenn Muske
Rural and Agribusiness Enterprise Development Specialist
glenn.muske@ndsu.edu
July, 2016
Reaching the Consumer:
Marketing and E-commerce
MACI 2016
4. Marketing Defined:
1. Process through which goods and services move
from concept to consumer – Involves the 4 P’s
- Product
- Price
- Place
- Promotion
2. Everything you do!!
8. You
• One-on-one and Networking
• Elevator speech
• Tag line
• Storytelling
• Business card
• Thank-you note
• Reputation
• Brand – It’s who you are. It’s what sticks in your mind.
• Trust
• Reliability
• Customer satisfaction
• Word-of-mouth and Reviews
• 92% of people trust peer reviews over advertising
10. Traditional Marketing
• PR – Public Relations
• Community involvement
• Your service to the community outside of your business
• “You the expert” columns/speaking engagements
• News story about your business
• Paid Advertising
• Radio, TV, print, displays, and direct mail
• Promotion
• Sponsorship
• Give-aways
11. Traditional Marketing
• Customer Support
• Pre and Post
• Service
• Visual – The “Silent Salesperson”
• Signs, banners, billboards, colors, fonts, etc.
• Mix
• Stay up-to-date
• Distribution channels
12. Traditional Marketing Online Marketing
PR
Paid
Promotion
Distribution
Channels
Customer
Support
Visual
Mix
One-on-one &
Networking
Word-of-
mouth &
Reviews
Reputation
YOU
Marketing
14. Ecommerce
• 12% increase in 2015 - $349 billion total sales
• $92 billion at Amazon alone
• $40 billion done on smart phones
• $46 billion spent in May, 2016
• In comparison
• $56 billion was spent in general merchandise retail stores in May
• 21% of all retail sales excluding restaurants, autos, grocers, and gas
• Mobile influences over $1 trillion in sales
• Shipping charges causes abandoned shopping carts – 28% of carts
15. Effective E-commerce Sites
• Attractive – People do judge a book by its cover
• Product description – sell the dream (benefits), be accurate, make
them easy to read
• Great pictures
• Local availability
• Security – Plus inform consumer about what you do to protect their
data and how it will or will not be used
• Search capacity
16. Effective E-commerce Sites cont.
• Easy access to products
• Contact information
• Clear information on shipping/pickup options, privacy, and returns
• Payment options plus way to handle coupons, discounts, etc.
• Clean, good use of color and white space, good navigation prompts
• Help – FAQ’s, live chat, call-in
18. Ecommerce is much more than sales!!
Forrester Research – Today’s buyer is often 2/3 to 90%
of the way through the decision making process before
they ever interact with a person
19. Think About These Developments
• Ecommerce no longer an either/or situation
• Showrooming
• Location-based
• Brick and mortar adding ecommerce while ecommerce adding brick
and mortar
• Same-day delivery
• Real-time inventory checking and ability to hold
• Cloud
• Virtual-reality
• Connected – Your car, your home, you (FitBit), etc.
20. Online Marketing – More Than a Shopping Cart
New Tools –
Same Objectives
25. Social Business Stats
• 81% of small-business owners are using social media
• 90% of people follow brands in social media
• Why? Deals and discounts!!!
• 2 out of 3 social media users believe Twitter
influences purchases
• 75% plan to increase social media budget
• 90% smartphone owners use them for shopping
experience
• 95% will visit a mobile site
• 1 out of 2 will share their online shopping experience
• 87% report using agile and real-time strategies
• 90% of smartphone users are looking for directions
26. Steps to Going Online
1. What’s already there? Google your business. Check out your
reviews.
Where to Look
- Yelp
- TripAdvisor
- Angie’s List
- Amazon
- Google My Business
- Yahoo Local Listings
- Facebook
- Twitter
78% of Americans say online reviews
influence their purchasing decisions
28. Steps to Going Online cont.
3. Know why you are doing this and what you want from it?
4. Develop a roadmap and Allocate the resources
5. Start with a website
www.ag.ndsu.edu/smallbusiness
29. Steps to Going Online cont.
6. An optional step – Lurk
7. Pick your platform/s
– No more than two
- Engage
- Watch your metrics
- Post on a consistent basis
- Selling is just a small part of your activity
- Find the major players
- Reach out
- Learn the lingo and how to be effective
30. Your Major Options
.org or .com
• New ones daily
• Vine
• StumbleUpon
• SnapChat
• Podcasts
• Flickr
• Skype
• Periscope
• Slack
• Zoom
31. Paid Ads on Social Marketing
Some Options
Facebook
Google
Twitter
YouTube
LinkedIn
Instagram
Pinterest
Why??
8 times greater
click-through rate
(mobile is higher)
32. HOW DO WE
DO IT ALL?
Make it a priority
Use available online tools such
as:
Google Alerts
Hootsuite
Twitter Search
Set aside a regular time
Get help
35. Watch the Trends
Mobile
Video
Apps
Social Media Sales Opportunities
New Payment Options
Wearable
“Internet of Things”
Content and Interactivity
Speed
Virtual Reality
36. Glenn Muske
Rural and Agribusiness Enterprise Development Specialist
glenn.muske@ndsu.edu
July, 2016
Reaching the Consumer
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