Whereoware: 5 E-commerce Trends to Try Out

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5 E-Commerce Trends to Try Out

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How can the latest tech trends help your business? Wondering how tablets can help you boost sales? Curious to see how video or a more dynamic website can grow profits? Whether you manage a website and want to see the latest trends or just want to be better able to discuss e-commerce with your customer, this presentation is sure to be an eye-opener.

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5 E-Commerce Trends to Try Out

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Us: Whereoware

Online strategy, design, development + marketing

The stats: • Thirteen years in the business • Work with B2B product, B2B services, +

B2C

About me: Teya Flick, Director of Marketing – with Whereoware for 4+ years

Twitter: @Whereoware

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Agenda

8.15.2011 | Page #

• History of e-commerce • The shrinking B2B + B2C gap • Top trends

• Dynamic site experience • Mobile/tablet shopping • Video • Search • Sophisticated merchandising

• Key takeaways

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History of e-commerce

Twitter: @whereoware

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The B2B + B2C gap is closing

2003

2006 Comparing two leaders in their industries:

B2B + B2C e-commerce companies are becoming more and more alike.

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The B2B + B2C gap is closing

1996

2011

B2C: ETHAN ALLEN

2000

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The B2B + B2C gap is closing

1996

2011

B2C: ETHAN ALLEN

2000

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The B2B + B2C gap is closing

1996

2011

B2B: UTTERMOST

2000

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The B2B + B2C gap is closing

1996

2011

B2C: ETHAN ALLEN

2000

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The B2B + B2C gap is closing

1996

2011

B2B: UTTERMOST

2000

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Looking ahead to 2012

What is popular in B2C now will make its way to

B2B tomorrow…

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Looking toward the future

Tablets

Video

Search

Personalized shopping

Sophisticated merchandising

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Personalized shopping

• Personalized + targeted content improves conversions and reduces abandonment.

• Almost 12 years ago, Amazon started this with personalized product recommendations.

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Personalized shopping

B2B translation: personalized portals

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Personalized shopping

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Tablets

Improving shopping + selling • Tablet shoppers convert at a

higher rate and tend to place bigger orders. (Forrester research)

• Some cite that sales reps are more likely to hit sales targets while using a tablet.

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Tablet shopping

TABLET USERS CONVERT

AT A 33-66% HIGHER RATE THAN SHOPPERS USING PCS

(WSJ, 2011)

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Tablet shopping

97% of tablet traffic in the US is driven by iPads (ComScore, 2011)

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Tablet shopping

40% of mobile traffic is tablets

100% of tablet traffic is from the iPad

127% growth in tablet traffic over the last 6 months

From Whereoware B2B companies…

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Tablet shopping

Make your site tablet-compatible

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Make the entire e-commerce experience

tablet-compatible

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70% OF SALES REPS WITH A COMPANY-ISSUED TABLET

HIT SALES TARGETS COMPARED TO JUST 62.5% OVERALL*

Tablet selling

*cited by Huthwaite, a sales performance organization

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Tablet selling CUSTOMER DATA

SEARCH, FILTER + SORT

CATALOGS

PRODUCT INFO PHOTO CARDS

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Video

• Video is the new product image. Instead of just showing an image of a shoe, now you will see someone actually model a shoe.

• Convert more visitors • Rank higher in search results

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Video

WEBSITES DISPLAYING VIDEO CONVERT 30% MORE VISITORS INTO BUYING CUSTOMERS ON AVERAGE* *CBS INTERACTIVE BUSINESS NETWORK

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Video

VIDEO IS 50X MORE LIKELY TO BE ON THE 1ST PAGE OF GOOGLE RESULTS THAN A TEXT PAGE*

* According to Forrester research: http://blogs.forrester.com/interactive_marketing/2009/01/the-easiest-way.html

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Video/audio

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Video/audio

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Video/audio

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Video

PR 5

PR 4

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Search

• People are more likely to purchase if they find what they want

• As e-commerce becomes more commonplace, visitors expect more sophisticated ways to find the product they need

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Search

80% OF VISITORS WILL ABANDON A SITE IF SEARCH FUNCTIONALITY IS POOR

*(GOOGLE ENTERPRISE, 2010).

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Search Make it visible

Search suggestions

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Search

Allow for search of both keyword + sku #

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Search

Allow for search of both keyword + sku #

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Search Allow for filter +

sort

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Search Shop from

search

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Search Shop from

search

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Sophisticated merchandising

• Instead of the standard white grid allow shoppers to purchase directly from the merchandised product shot

• Provides opportunity to cross sell

• Helps the customer visualize what the product will look like in their store

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Sophisticated merchandising

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Sophisticated merchandising

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Sophisticated merchandising

Cross sell

Visualize it in a store

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Key takeaways

• B2C e-commerce trends affect B2B trends.

• The next trends are: • Personalized shopping • Tablet shopping + selling • Video • Search • Sophisticated merchandising

• Start off small

Twitter: @whereoware

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Questions

Teya Flick [email protected]

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