A few years ago I decided to do something nice for a customer after wrapping up a major project. Instead of just sending them a thank you email, I decided to send them a small gift. Brownies. Gooey, chocolate brownies. I had a recommendation for an ecommerce store to use,...
Winning a new customer costs more than getting an old customer to come back -- Some business proverb Getting your past customers to come back and make repeat purchases is the holy grail in ecommerce. Regular stores at industry rates might get 27% of their customers to come back...
I'm a runner and for the past few years I've only worn one brand of shoes, Luna Sandals. I've bought five pairs of their sandals over the years, worth probably $500 or so. The company is also headed up by a character, Barefoot Ted, who seems like a great guy...
Timing is everything. Whether you're asking someone out on a date or closing a sale, finding an opportune moment to close the deal takes some finesse. A little experience and targeted research about the people you want to connect with makes the job a lot easier. Timing for ecommerce sales...
My daughter started talking at a young age. Now that she's four, she never stops talking. Yesterday morning she was eating her breakfast as usual. chomp chomp chomp Mommy, are you going to send emails at work today? chomp chomp chomp I'm wearing long sleeves because it's cold. But then...
What do Marie Curie, Dr. Frankenstein, and Wile E. Coyote all share? Experimentation Marie Curie performed experiments with Radium. Dr Frankenstein performed experiments with corpses. And Wile E. Coyote performed experiments with... well, let's just say ACME technology. Each of them weren't sure of success. Failure was always sitting there,...
We had a snow day in Portland recently. We got about ten inches of snow and the city pretty much shut down. State of emergency and all that. I know ten inches doesn't sound like much but for Portland it is. We're not used to or really equipped for it....
A customer made a big boo-boo last week. She contacted me asking why JSON-LD for SEO wasn't working for her store. I started with what I normally do. I opened her site in one tab and Google's Structured Data Testing Tool in another tab. That's when I noticed that her...
Tracking metrics can become an obsession for e-commerce entrepreneurs. As you gather data and measure your performance, it's easy to get hooked on a few numbers that seem to give you a clearer picture of what's happening with your business. One of those key metrics is the AOV -- your...
Ecommerce has broken a lot of rules in the retail industry, but some things never change, like the value of a great first impression. Too often, online store owners are so slammed with the day-to-day details of their business that they forget that improving new customers' first visit to their...
Each tip includes a way to improve your store: customer analysis, analytics, customer acquisition, CRO... plus plenty of puns and amazing alliterations.