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How to improve your e-store’s customer experience

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How to improve your e-store’s customer experience

‘The first impression is the last impression’- This adage is not only true for jobseekers or prospective dates, but also an impactful impression for first-time e-commerce customers. 


Every e-commerce store aims to increase sales and profitability. This isn’t possible if your customer service isn’t up to the mark or if customers have more bad shopping experiences than good ones on your e-commerce store.


If you’re an e-commerce store owner who wants to improve sales figures without spending a bomb, you have come to the right place.

Here are 5 tips you could use to improve customer experience.


Upsell and Cross-sell


When someone expresses an intent to buy something, you could suggest them buy a complimentary product or other relevant products that match their needs. For instance, if a customer is on track to buy shoes, you could suggest them add socks and floaters before they check out and make the payment.


However, do not suggest irrelevant products or make things difficult for your customers. This could alienate them, resulting in abandoned purchases.


Work towards reducing abandoned carts


Abandoned carts are a challenge every e-commerce store faces. In fact, it is estimated that more than 80 percent of all shopping carts are abandoned across niches.


Introspect the reasons why people would want to abandon their shopping carts- Were they forced to give certain details? Did the additional shipping charge demotivate them? Was their preferred mode of payment absent?

Solve these issues one-by-one. Ensure your customers get a seamless, quick, and easy-to-understand checkout process. Offer some discounts or incentives for those who have abandoned their carts. You could remind them to complete the payment through email or SMS.


Personalize communications


A little bit of personalization goes a long way in customer retention. You got to make the customer feel valued and special. For this, you could

  • Provide them personal discounts and offers
  • Remember their purchase history
  • Communicate with them in their native language
  • Personalize emails- send them birthday and anniversary greetings, invite them to a members-only event or give them the chance to check out and buy products before launch.


Optimize social media marketing


Only a fool would not use social media to promote their wares. Social media is not just about engaging with customers; added features mean you can use it to sell your products directly to your target audience. Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and other social media platforms also help you engage directly with customers via chat. In fact, there are ways you can save time with the help of automated chatbots which can solve some common queries.


Enable mobile shopping


With most people shopping online via their mobile phones, having an e-commerce mobile app is a must. It is easier to serve your customers with a mobile app than a website. Your customers can give reviews, chat with customer care executives, lodge complaints, browse products and do much more on a mobile app rather than a responsive e-commerce website. It is, therefore, more economical to get your customers to download the mobile app rather than shop through the website.


To encourage people to use your e-commerce mobile app, you could offer freebies or discounts for purchases made on the app.


In the end


Every design and feature element on your website can either encourage or discourage people to make purchases. It is, therefore, extremely important to plan your e-commerce website and app’s features in such a way that would help you increase conversions while giving the customer a great shopping experience. Besides this, your e-commerce mobile app and social media marketing should be at par with peers, so that customers trust you and make repeat purchases.

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