How Ecommerce companies can increase site traffic in 90 Days without blowing thousands

How Ecommerce companies can increase site traffic in 90 Days without blowing thousands

If you want to increase traffic to your ecommerce website without breaking the bank, there are several techniques you can use. They’re effective enough to place paid ads as a last (or complementary) resort.

 

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1. Engage in Social Media

 

It’s no wonder 52% of businesses have a well-planned and consistent social media strategy. Creating a solid online presence through social is crucial for any brand to establish a deeper connection with their audience, as well as grab prospects’ attention with eye-catching posts.

Still, it can be challenging to stick to several platforms at once. How can smaller ecommerce brands make themselves known when the big guys are everywhere, including Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, and more recently, TikTok?

Unless you have a dedicated marketing team to help you stay consistent, trying to keep track of everything on your own is the recipe for poor business management. But there are alternatives that can help you juggle both.

You can use apps like Hootsuite to manage all of your social media channels and schedule posts in one place. Or, you could laser-focus on one or two channels instead of them all. However, it pays to have a social media manager develop and distribute your brand campaigns while you manage other aspects of your business.

The bottom-line is: social media is often put in the backburner when it should be the star of the show. 

While the above initiatives are certainly helpful, social media can do a lot of the heavy lifting. 

Regardless of the platform, humanising social media interactions makes a world of difference.

 

2. Plan a Giveaway

 

While you may not be able to afford giving products away too often, giveaways are a great tactic if you want to see a few quick traffic spikes–both on your social media page and on your website.

 

As you can see, they’re pretty simple to establish. While different giveaways will have different rules, the blueprint usually involves:

 

•     An official giveaway image (like the one above)
•     Setting a closing date for the giveaway
•     Having participants tag a number of followers on the official image
•     Requiring each participant to follow the page that’s hosting the giveaway
•     Randomly picking a winner (using apps such as Gleam)

This way, people who want to take part in the giveaway will be led directly to your ecommerce profile in order to follow it. Then, if your products interest the viewer, they might end up clicking on your CTAs that lead to your website. Hopefully, they’ll be filling up their carts after that.

 

3. Offer Free Shipping and Discounts

 

It’s happened to you: you saw a product with free shipping, and instantly the final price wasn’t that big of a deal.

If there was a shipping price, however, even £5 made you reconsider your purchase, regardless of how much you needed the product. Or at least how much you thought you needed it.

It’s true: recent statistics have shown that 79% of consumers affirmed that free shipping makes them more likely to buy.

Interestingly, according to a survey by Return Customer, 93% of customers seem to prefer free shipping over discounts. That’s your sign to go for it if you haven’t already.

What’s more, making the words “FREE SHIPPING” prominent on your website instead of burying them in a corner will help your conversions, especially if you’re using it as a differentiator.

But does that mean you should abandon discounts over free shipping? Not at all.

Discounts can be applied to dissolve bottlenecks in the customer journey. For instance, if you’re looking at high shopping cart abandonment rates, including coupons in follow-up emails is a great strategy to get those customers back.

Exit intent pop-ups are great places to offer coupons, especially if you notice high traffic, but little to no conversions. Or, if you’re up to engaging your visitors, you’d be interested to know that gamified opt-ins can increase ecommerce conversion rate by 400%. They’re a great way to engage visitors and grow your email list.

 

4. Keep Reviews Coming

 

If you knew that 97% of consumers read reviews before making a purchase, would you still disregard them? When a potential customer is comparing products during the consideration phase, a top-rated review can be a deal-breaker.

 

Reviews start conversations around your brand.

 

If customers aren’t talking, it’s about time you get the chat going. Still, that can be hard to pull off when customers don’t seem to care.

Note that getting reviews doesn’t always depend on a customer’s goodwill. Most of the time, all you have to do is ask nicely for them to leave one.

Also, the most important reviews should come from loyal customers, not only because they’re likely to leave high-rated reviews but because they trust you enough to provide valuable feedback.

And if a few negative reviews come along, don’t fret. If a brand doesn’t have any slightly negative reviews or constructive comments, that means something’s wrong. Instead, you can use the customer pain points your product was unable to solve as a way to improve your marketing strategy and product development.

 

Growing Your Ecommerce Brand is a Matter of Leveraging Both Organic and Paid Strategies in a Smart Way

 

PPC is a great strategy to rely on for fast results. It’ll put your business on top of the search engines as long as you pick up your credit card.

Rely too much on it, though, and when you least expect it, thousands of dollars have been wasted on unsuccessful campaigns.

Hopefully, you’ll leave this article knowing that ecommerce marketing is primarily about your long-term achievements, and whether your customers will still choose your brand over the competition in the long term. Your PPC campaigns might have driven traffic to your site thanks to your paid ad, but the question is: will the spikes stick after a week? A month? A year?

That’s why establishing your online visibility and subsequent authority with organic marketing strategies is key. Social media, free shipping, giveaways, and influencer marketing are great ways to start.

Try committing to the above strategies for at least 90 days and see how it goes.

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