There is almost nothing more frustrating than reviewing your abandoned cart stats and having them be a much larger number than anticipated.
No matter how long you’ve been in business it’s a safe bet that you’ve spent countless hours building your brand and meticulously identifying the best way to market that brand to your customers. The big question is have you spent some of those hours making sure your website (your #1 selling tool) is consistent with your brand? If the answer is no then continue reading and find out why you should consider making some changes!
In today’s market most of your target audience is going to find your website via social, email or Google campaigns and they’re going to expect to see the same branding across all of those platforms or else they might lose trust in the integrity of your brand.
Creating an email promotion doesn’t have to be a difficult task. If you already have your email marketing list in place and your marketing calendar planned out, you’re halfway there. Let’s look at what the next steps are to turning on the money faucet for your business.
For this example, let’s pretend you’re promoting a new line of Widgets from Brand X. It’s Valentine’s Day (a big holiday for Widget sales), and you want to offer 10% Brand X Widgets (for a limited time, while supplies last) with coupon code BRANDX10. That’s everything we need to begin.
Ventura Web Design & Marketing got a chance to talk with Jimmy Duvall, newly appointed Chief Product Officer of BigCommerce. Jimmy has over 20 years of ecommerce experience from companies such as Yahoo!, Magento, eBay, GSI Commerce. As CPO, Jimmy leads BigCommerce’s product organization, managing all aspects of product management, design and strategy.