Thursday, November 19, 2015

Latest trends in ecommerce

Consumers will demand more from the digital properties they visit and businesses will race to not only provide a streamlined user experience. To support the growth, ecommerce companies focus on improving the overall customer experience and reducing friction wherever possible, to drive and support sales. Here are the ecommerce trends that will dominate the year.

Mobile marketing:
Most of the ecommerce sites is done across mobile devices, and customers leave a site if it isn’t mobile-friendly. Consumers increasingly feel comfortable doing their shopping in an app or on a mobile site.

Getting It Right on Every Device:
Responsive design must have for mobile sites, ensuring your site is designed for optimal viewing for all mobile or tablet device is being used. For ecommerce merchants easier payments, reducing costs like credit card processing fees and taking advanage of the potential opportunity

Couple content and commerce:
To create rich lifestyle-oriented destinations more ecommerce sites will couple content and commerce that keep shoppers coming back. Content will also double as a tool for SEO and branding. Etsy does a great job at combining content and commerce. Birchbox is another excellent example of an ecommerce site successfully creating high-quality content to generate repeat business.

Social media marketing:
Majority of e-commerce brands use Social media to drive a bulk of their potential customers. more brands using social data to personalize experiences on the website, as well as applying testing and personalization to their own Social media pages. social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest etc., as they start monetising their networks.

Offline experience:
E-commerce has continued to chew into brick and mortar, but offline is quickly evolving into a buyer experience.Retailers integrated with online and offline experience are winning by perfecting the buyer experience on the buyer’s terms. The online world is being merged back into the offline one, and the successful players are finding ways to leverage the digital investments in the stores, and focusing on providing that ultimate user experience in-store.