20 Facts & 20 Questions For Every E-commerce Entrepreneur.
- Men want to spend more money, more quickly on larger packaged offerings. Are you proactively prepared to take it?
- Visitors prefer going back to sites that they can trust. Is yours one of those?
- Online shoppers love to share their experiences. What are they likely to see about their time spent on your website?
- Visitors consistently abandon their cart at a 60 to 70% clip. Is your ecommerce site contributing to that stat?
- Ecommerce is expected to represented more than 90 % of all sales withing 20 years. Will your site be part of that explosion?
- Online shoppers prefer the option of not setting up an account. Are you smart enough not to force them to do so?
- Most online transactions start or end on a mobile device. Is your customer’s journey on a smartphone a turn off?
- An ecommerce website that opens slow is an absolute “No Go” for more than half of those shopping online. How quickly does your site emerge?
- Organic traffic can increase by more than 150% when effectively using online videos. Is your website cashing in on that fact?
- Quality ecommerce imagery is an expectation of 90% of your website’s visitors. Do your pictures tell your story or are your photos and product shots amateurish?
- Facebook drives online B to C traffic more than all the other social media sites combined. Is that news to you are you already taking advantage of that knowledge?
- Visual content on your website gets shared 40 times as often as written content. That doesn’t really surprise you, does it?
- It is proven that your visitors pay attention to reviews and do their research. Are you doing everything possible to give them access to both?
- The number one reason people buy online is that they can shop at any hour of any day. Knowing that, does your ecommerce site contain an FAQs section that addresses virtually any concern or question that they may have at 2AM early Sunday morning?
- Facts confirm that buyers will spend more to reach a reasonable threshold of free shipping. Have you built your offerings and price structure with that in mind?
- More than 7 in 10 shoppers expect to get more value by buying online. Will they be disappointed when they visit your website.
- Building affiliate relationships are key as 6 in 10 online buyers visit a site based on a blog. Are you getting left behind?
- Online consumers credit ecommerce for influencing their buying strategies. Do you have an email strategy of your own?
- Many ecommerce sites have glaring grammatical errors or visual imperfections. Has an outsider proofed every aspect of your website?
- Your ecommerce success is all about the ease of your customer’s journey from the minute your site is set to open to the moment a sale is confirmed. How often are you having a non-biased individual walk through every step of the process to affirm it delivers as claimed?
