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What is a Customer Avatar and How Can 10x Your Ecom Revenue (With Examples)

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Reading Time: 4 minutes You’ve probably all heard of customer avatars by now, but what you haven’t heard is that having a detailed customer avatar can spark an exponential upturn in your overall revenue.  In this article, I’m going to explain what a customer avatar is, how to create your own, common mistakes to avoid, and how to use…

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Image Optimization on Your Ecom Store: 5 Ways to Boost Trust and Your Conversion Rate

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Product images play an important role in a customer’s decision about whether or not to buy a product from you. For this reason, ecommerce store owners should invest heavily in creating product images that are sure to help answer customers’ questions about a product and motivate them to buy. Here are five very desirable characteristics…

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The #1 Reviews App for Your Ecom Store

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Reading Time: 7 minutes With so many choices out there, it’s hard to know which ecom reviews app would be the best for your ecommerce store. Which apps are good? What makes a reviews app good? Can a reviews app have pros and cons? Does it really matter as long as your ecom store is getting reviews? It can…

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How to Leverage Your Ecom Store Search Functionality to Decrease Search Abandonment

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Reading Time: 5 minutes When users perform a search query in the search bar of your ecom store, they’re looking for a particular product or type of product. They expect relevant results to guide them to (or toward) the product for which they’re looking. The best way to leverage your ecom store search bar is to make it as…

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Branding Your Ecom Business: How to Create a Message That Evokes Passion and Loyalty

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Reading Time: 5 minutes It’s been said that, “People don’t buy products—they buy brands.” It’s dramatic … but it’s not true in all cases. Sometimes you just need a kitchen towel, and you don’t care about the brand.  But new brands entering the fiercely competitive ecommerce space, heed this advice: Creating a clear brand message that resonates for people…

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Why Content Creation for Your Ecom Store Is Just As Valuable As What You Sell

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Reading Time: 4 minutes There’s a reason people say, “Content is king.” Good content attracts and captures the attention of visitors to your ecom site, educates them, and—when they’ve gathered enough information about a product or service—influences their buying-decision process. Investing in the Creation of Good Content Why invest in content creation? It’s about adding value for customers. An…

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How Perceived Value Keeps Your Ecom Store Profit Margin Healthy!

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Reading Time: 8 minutes Imagine this: you run a survey and find that most of your customers say that your products are too expensive, but they would have purchased if you had reduced the price or offered a discount. This is a common response when doing customer research.  There are two ways to address this problem: You can reduce…

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Ecom Navigation: How to Lead Them Home to Checkout, Not Off the Store

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Reading Time: 5 minutes When a user visits your ecommerce store, they should be able to easily navigate from one page to another, regardless of the path of the shopping journey they are taking.  Navigating from the homepage to checkout should be a simple and easy-to-follow process. There shouldn’t be any hurdles to clear or constraints that limit users…

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How to Create Irresistibly Clickable Ecom Emails

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Reading Time: 5 minutes If you’ve been in ecommerce for any length of time, you know that your customer list is one of the biggest assets of your business. In fact, we’ve found that communicating by sending daily, weekly, or monthly emails to your list can contribute as much as 30% of your business income. So why do ecommerce…

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Using Lucky Orange to Visually Analyze Your Ecom Store’s Data

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Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s human nature to observe, analyze data, and draw conclusions. No doubt the ancient peoples of the world observed bird migration and anticipated a change of season just as we look at dark clouds and predict rain.  Ecommerce store owners are doing the same when collecting and analyzing data to learn more about the behavior…

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