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Be In The Know
- TikTok Launches Holiday Playbook for Small Businesses
- Facebook Launches New Fundraising and Community Assistance Tools as Part of ‘Season of Giving’
- eCommerce Statistics and Trends 2020 [Infographic]
- Snapchat officially launches in-app TikTok competitor called Spotlight
How to Capitalize on 2020’s Unique Holiday Shopping Season
This year has presented unusual challenges for online brands and retailers to say the least. With the busiest shopping season of the year fast approaching, we can think of it as the big event we’ve spent the year training for. Here’s Visiture’s advice on how to capitalize on 2020’s unique holiday shopping season.
- Enhance Inventory Management. Amid COVID-19, brick and mortar retailers, as well as eCommerce shops, have struggled with supply chain disruptions. Do the necessary market research to better forecast demand for your products. Planning ahead will help ease the headaches of any further disruptions during this shopping season.
- Leverage PPC Advertising. Get your products in front of people on Google, Facebook, Instagram, and other highly trafficked destinations. Utilize Google Shopping ads to visualize some of your offerings above organic search results.
- Optimize the On-Site Experience. Don’t let your website be a bottleneck for your sales. Ensure your site is set up to facilitate smooth transactions. Optimize for both desktop and mobile so anyone who visits can purchase your products with zero hassle. A clunky site will steer people away toward other sellers.
- Offer a Generous Return Policy. Many people will research items online but ultimately make purchases offline at brick and mortar stores. In a year where brick and mortar sales have declined, offering a great return policy will give buyers the peace of mind they need to make their purchase decisions. Remember, you may be competing with brick and mortar stores that already have well-known return policies.
- Elevate Customer Service Expectations. Many older people who typically shop in stores will turn to online shopping this season. Anticipate questions regarding product availability, shipping times, and item tracking. People will have questions because of the general uncertainty surrounding supply chain issues experienced this year. Make sure your customer service channels are ready to answer these incoming questions and give people the assurances they need.
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Whoop!
Running Google Shopping ads is an excellent PPC strategy for many brick & mortar and online retailers. It gets your items to the top of the SERPs while working with your budget and taking into account what people are searching for. Whoop! helps you set up these ads so they’ll work wonders.
Take a more granular bidding approach with data-integrated bidding and machine learning. Wish Google Shopping would natively allow bidding on search queries? Whoop! will let you do just that while providing helpful data visualizations to make the most informed decisions for your Google Shopping ads.
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Let’s workflow it
We all know by now it just isn’t feasible for us all to receive everything we want from Santa Claus. He has his own supply chain issues to flesh out as well as a tight delivery deadline. Of course, there is a much larger factor at play.
ServiceNow brings us this ad showing the North Pole’s toy fulfillment operations in full swing. Luckily, with the right workflow software some, but sadly not all, disasters can be averted. RIP Frosty.
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