10 Clever Ways to Boost Ecommerce Store Sales So, you are going to setup your own ecommerce store? Yes, of course you do, as many ecommerce platforms like Shopify nowadays make it easy for everyone to create ecommerce store with ease. Online shopping is not only increasing, but it is turning into every consumers preferred method of spending, as 71% of shoppers believe they will get a superior deal online, than they will in stores. If you have decided to defeat through the eCommerce waters, keep on a reading! To make money online, there is no other better and easy way than creating ecommerce store. But wait, just creating a store is not worth if it’s not generating enough sales. You have to do a lot of efforts to make your store goes to a number of people that eventually helps in increasing your traffic as well as boost sales. Today, in this post, I am going to discuss ten great ways that help you generate sales for your ecommerce store. 1) Paid Traffic If done properly, Paid Traffic is one of the great way to generate ecommerce sales. It’s quite expensive and many people spend a lot in it but not get satisfactory result. You thought if this doesn’t provide good returns, then why I am suggesting it to you? But, as I already told you that if you do it properly, it will definitely take your business to the new heights of success. The people or businesses those who was failed in Paid traffic be likely to make common newbie mistakes that leads in no success. So, here I am discussing some things that you need to protect your ecommerce business and get success with Paid Traffic.
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10 Clever Ways to Boost Ecommerce Store Sales
So, you are going to setup your own ecommerce store? Yes, of course you do, as many
ecommerce platforms like Shopify nowadays make it easy for everyone to create ecommerce
store with ease.
Online shopping is not only increasing, but it is turning into every consumers preferred method
of spending, as 71% of shoppers believe they will get a superior deal online, than they will in
stores. If you have decided to defeat through the eCommerce waters, keep on a reading!
To make money online, there is no other better and easy way than creating ecommerce store.
But wait, just creating a store is not worth if it’s not generating enough sales. You have to do a
lot of efforts to make your store goes to a number of people that eventually helps in increasing
your traffic as well as boost sales.
Today, in this post, I am going to discuss ten great ways that help you generate sales for your
ecommerce store.
1) Paid Traffic
If done properly, Paid Traffic is one of the great way to generate ecommerce sales. It’s quite
expensive and many people spend a lot in it but not get satisfactory result.
You thought if this doesn’t provide good returns, then why I am suggesting it to you? But, as I
already told you that if you do it properly, it will definitely take your business to the new heights
of success.
The people or businesses those who was failed in Paid traffic be likely to make common newbie
mistakes that leads in no success. So, here I am discussing some things that you need to protect
your ecommerce business and get success with Paid Traffic.
The most common mistake people make when they start paid traffic is that they spend a lot of
money in first time as they thought spending big money brings big result. But, this is not true.
Firstly, spend small amount and see the results.
Dumping a lot of money in the campaign is something like ‘killing the goose that lays golden
eggs’. Start with not more than $50 because there is no any surety of the success of your Paid
traffic campaign.
If you invest lots of capital in first campaign and it will not work, then you get a huge loss. On the
other hand, if you spend less amount, you can again create another campaign.
Other than this, if you still wish to spend some good amount, then don’t invest all your money
on a single campaign. Create multiple campaigns and devote certain sum of capital in each and
every campaign. This help you keep track of the campaign that brings traffic, and also those which
doesn’t provide any result.
When you spot this difference, you can start spending on the campaigns that give you positive
results.
With right campaign, you will know your right audience, which increase the chances of enhanced
ecommerce sales.
Another method to find out the right customer is to send surveys to them via email if you have
an email list of all customers. Add coupon code or some prize for the customers who will
complete those surveys. This way, customers will send you the survey and you will get to know
your right audience.
Make use of Social Media Platforms
Now, the next method to generate sales with Paid Traffic is use social media platforms- Facebook,
Twitter and Instagram.
Each platform work in a different way, so let’s discuss each one and see how the platform help
in driving traffic as well as sales.
There is not enough information available for Twitter, so let’s start first with Twitter:
Here, I will going to discuss the process of creating Twitter ads.
1) Open the link – business.twitter.com and click on “Twitter ads” button.
When you click on this button, a new page comes in which you have to select your country and
permanent time zone to continue. After selecting click on “Permanently save these details”
Next step is to select the objective of your campaign you wish to create. Select from the list and
continue.
After this, you will be taken through the setup process for you ad. The process contains 4 steps –
Overview, Audience, Budget and Creatives.
(A) OVERVIEW
In overview section, give a name to your campaign and select the time when you want to run the
campaign.
(B) Audience
In audience section, select the location that best represents your target customers.
When you select the country, for example you select “United States”, then twitter will show you
the estimated audience size of your selected location.
Select the gender based on the products you are promoting in this campaign.
Select the language to ensure that ads are shown to people who understand the selected
language.
Now you need to select “devices and platforms”. If you are selecting mobile devices, then make
sure your website is responsive that run properly on all selected mobile devices.
No need to select “Target new devices” at this moment.
Now, the next and most important option in Audience section is “Select Additional Audience
Features”
Here are several options that help you target audience. Keywords option let you target the user
who use your selected keyword.
When you enter your keyword, you have the option to decide what twitter will do with the
keyword you selected.
For example, I want to sell “Leather wallet”. I can choose the keyword and also decide that I want
all variations or similar versions of it to be targeted with “Broad match, Any Order”.
“Phrase Match” option facilitates you to target the phrases of your selected keyword.
With “Exact Match” option, the keyword you selected will be targeted exactly as it written.
By using “Negative Match” keywords, you can do the same in reverse. Here you can eliminate
the keyword you selected.
You can see what would happen if you choose “Negative Phrase”
“Negative Exact” avoid the searches that have no other word than the keyword.
After selecting the keyword with suitable option, Twitter will tell you the global daily volume of
Tweets containing each keyword.
“Add Followers” Option help you target the users of Twitter who have similar interests regarding
your selected keyword.
“Add Interests” Option let you target the users who are interest in the category you add select
here.
“Add Tailored Audiences” help you target the list of all your current customers as well as
prospective buyers who have already visited you store.
With “Add TV Targeting” Option, you can target the audience who are engaged with the TV
programs or advertisement in specific market.
You can target specific shows too with “Add Shows” option. For example, for my keyword
“Leather wallet” I will target television shows based on Men’s Fashion or Accessories.
Add the networks as well as genres facilitate you to target the users based on network and
different kinds of genres.
Pick the genre from here:-
“Add Behavior” Option help you target the audience based on their online as well as offline
behavior.
With “Event Targeting” Option, you can target your ad based on global or regional events.
Other than this, you can also limit your targets by eliminating tailored audience and behaviors.
As I already told you, the better you sense your target audience, the better you take advantage
of these features.
(C) BUDGET
Set your daily budget or the total budget of the entire campaign. When you select the total
budget, you will see the estimated reach on right side.
With this, you can see the potential of you market as it show ‘645K’ as estimated reach and ‘1M’
as targeted audience. This way you can easily get the users or audience that will convert.
(D) CREATIVES
In Creatives, you need to create a new tweet or you can also select a tweet from the existing
tweets.
If you are creating or composing a new tweet, then make sure you add fresh and engaging
content in it that catch the attention of customers towards your tweet and ultimately on your
campaign.
Other than this, if you are using the tweet from the existing tweets, then make sure you add call-
to-actions in it, which will eventually help you boost brand awareness.
If you wish to make the most of the influence of your tweets, do add your website card. It will
facilitate you to add a bigger clickable image with your tweet.
Now, the last step is to make the payment and launch your Twitter ad. This way, you can make
use of Twitter ads to drive traffic and generate traffic.
Next social media platforms are FACEBOOK & INSTAGRAM. Let’s cover these 2 also-
Facebook and Instagram both are two different platforms, but as Facebook owns Instagram, you
will create the Instagram Ads inside the Facebook Ad manager.
Setup Lookalike Audience
Based on audiences that are similar to the ones you’re already targeting or serving, Facebook will
show your ads. This will be done because you create something known as a ‘Custom Audience.’
Facebook will then evaluate that Custom Audience and target other people on Facebook who
share similar behaviors. This diminishes the amount of time you have to spend adjusting targeting
settings, while also facilitate for your ads to be shown to the right audience.
Facebook will need to investigate your website visitors or even just a list of clienteles you have
in your possession to create this audience.
If you wish to create “Lookalike Audience”, go to this link –
https://www.facebook.com/ads/manager/audiences/
When you reach to this page, you will see 3 kings of audience here- Custom Audience, Lookalike
Audience and Saved Audience.
For lookalike audience, first you need to create “Custom Audience”. Click on “Create a Custom
Audience” option first. After this, select your Source Audience.