Do you know how to attract mobile shoppers?
Are you struggling to gain customer momentum?
According to comScore, 72% of the mobile market has a smartphone, and Facebook ranked as the leading app. Mobile devices are part of our everyday shopping habits—whether comparing prices or reading customer reviews.
Tackle social commerce. Here are 6 ways to engage your mobile shoppers.
1. Create Mobile Product Videos
Consumers want to experience the products firsthand. Selling online makes that difficult for the shopper. Product videos are the next best thing to help the customer make a decision.
According to a white paper from eCommerce services company Invodo, “57% of consumers said that product videos make them more confident in a purchase and
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Add Social Logins
Poor checkout processes will encourage shoppers to abandon their mobile purchases. Use social logins to streamline the checkout experience and retain the consumer’s attention.
Most online consumers suffer from “Password Fatigue”—the act of growing tired of thinking of new username and password combinations.
As a result, shoppers usually abandon their shopping carts or enter false information to speed up the purchasing process.
Social logins help improve the user experience. Using existing social accounts, like Facebook and Twitter, make it simple and convenient for shoppers to login.
A Gigya study found that 64% of people between the ages of 18 and 34 use social login because they dislike spending the time to fill out registration forms.
Pixlr lets its users easily login with Facebook if they don’t want to create a new account. See below.
3. Incorporate SoLoMo Capabilities
Consumers desire personalized offers from their favorite brands. Sometimes, those offers depend on location. Give shoppers the best deals by enabling SoLoMo technology.
SoLoMo is the “convergence of collaborative, location-based and on-the-go technologies.” It allows marketing teams to send push notifications to mobile users based on their
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This opportunity lets companies segment their consumers to deliver personalized deals.
Walgreens is executing digital strategies to improve their customers’ in-store experience. The pharmacy’s app lets customers navigate “in-store product searches, clip and save coupons, and fill prescriptions with a few taps.” The retail chain wants the out-of-store mobile capabilities to lure more customers to their physical locations.
4. Promote Social Gifting
Social commerce has inspired a new generation of gift givers. Shoppers want to send gifts in a convenient manner without any hassle. Promote social gifting as a solution to your consumers’ needs.
Social gifting lets consumers send physical items or gift cards via Facebook or email. It eliminates the shopper’s frustration of driving to multiple stores to find the right gift and then standing in a post office line to mail the package.
Now, customers can easily find a gift online, make the purchase, and deliver the gift through a social media channel.
In 2011, Heinz launched its “Get Well” soup Facebook campaign in the UK. Participants were encouraged to purchase a can of soup for their sick
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The increased interest of social media usage has led numbers of company and business to provide new experiences for their customer to leverage media platforms to make more efficient and effective purchases (Rad, 2010). In addition, the emergences of Web 2.0 technologies are dramatically changing the web collaboration concepts, which made the web more social and interconnected. The aforementioned phenomenon is called “social commerce”. It is a subset of electronic commerce, which utilize social media, or online media that support interaction and user contributions to enhance the online purchase experience.
Facebook and Pinterest, the two most renowned social media brands have adopted the concept of social commerce. With the "buy" button offered by both of these
“4.2 billion people access social media sites via mobile devices with 189 million Facebook users being ‘mobile only’.”
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Social media merged into people’s daily lives in many ways. The younger generation learn and adapt more easily with the fast-paced innovation of technologies, so that they can be more active when getting involved with virtual society created by people who are using the social media applications, such as Facebook, Forums, MSN, etc. As to the middle age individuals, even though some of they are unkindly to some social media tools like Facebook, due to privacy concerns. They are still using other kinds of social media applications to some degree, and take keen interest in using them, as the applications are more convenience then the traditional ways of exchanging information, like e-mails and short text messages. However, compared with the individual users below 55 years old, the percentage of that above 55 years old and still using social media in New Zealand is usually around 30% or less (see Figure 1 below.
As in Indonesia, this social media marketing phenomenon has been growing rapidly in these past few years. Social networks are an indelible element of the online world in Indonesia and a reflection of the social nature of the country’s culture. With cheap smart phones and affordable internet, it is becoming easier to access Internet. Therefore, social media marketing has also become popular among Indonesian companies.
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