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How to Use Endless Aisle to Improve Customer Experiences
What’s more frustrating as a customer than when you see the words “out of stock”? When your customers can’t buy the items they want, they’ll buy from your competitor who does. It’s a missed opportunity for a sale. It’s a bad customer experience.
Having readily available inventory that can be shipped to customers is a major competitive advantage in retail. Customers that can rely on you to have the items they need will buy from you again and again. They won’t need to turn to your competitor. They’ll trust you to have it. That makes them a loyal customer.
How do you ensure your inventory is always available to customers? The “endless aisle” makes it possible. In this post, we’ll discuss what it is, why it’s important to customer experiences, and the requirements you need for it. (more…)
How to Use Magento to Improve Customer Loyalty
In eCommerce, it’s not enough to just have a webstore. Your webstore has to be tailored to exceed your customer needs in order to turn first-time visitors into repeat buyers. As an e-retailer, you know that the ability to stand out from your competitors is what makes or breaks your online business.
If you want to stand out–to be the go-to option for your target customer–you need to build customer loyalty.
Magento is the #3 eCommerce software provider to the top 500 e-retailers in the US and Canada. They have achieved this ranking by giving users the tools they need to reach more potential customers and increase sales. In this post, we’ll discuss how to build customer loyalty to your Magento webstore using some popular Magento loyalty extensions. (more…)
Improve Customer Loyalty Using Shopify
Today, over 100,000 businesses use Shopify to power their online stores. Shopify has fine-tuned the process for selling online so much that opening a store is relatively quick and easy for almost anyone.
But, today’s demanding customer requires more than just a webstore. In order to build loyal customers to your Shopify store, you need to consider some new strategies.
Exceptional Customer Experience: How to Deliver Incredible Retail Experiences
(This post was originally published on January 13, 2015. We’ve updated it for accuracy and completeness.)
Customers don’t just buy products anymore. They buy experiences. They buy communities. They buy identity.
That means trying to sell anything less than “wow” (to borrow from Michael Hyatt) will not work. In a market where your customers have all the power, you cannot afford to under-deliver on customer experience.
You need to understand what makes up an exceptional customer experience. You need to understand how to deliver them. Let this post be your guide.
Why Customer Loyalty Programs Don’t Build Loyalty
Enrolling customers in a loyalty program is a common practice for retailers. The value proposition for a loyalty program is simple: the retailer gets to track customer data, the customer gets discounts or some kind of incentive for loyalty. Sounds like a win-win.
But, the reality is that customer loyalty programs are not as effective as most retailers think or expect.
Creating a customer loyalty can be an effective strategy for retailers, but to be successful you need to do more than hand out membership cards. You must focus on customer experience to create loyal customers.
