You can setup the best eCommerce store in the world, but if you
fail to fully understand online customer behaviour or how to align your
marketing practices for best results, you won’t get the results you’re looking
for.
The good news is that there is lots of information on how to best
market your products and services online.
It all begins with a working knowledge of your product and the
niche in which you operate. It would also help to have a basic understanding of
the operating systems that support your store. Then there’s the marketing side
of things, and there is a good chance you will have to cover this essential
aspect of retail all on your own.
But, there is one more crucial aspect of eCommerce that is
sometimes underappreciated and misplaced in all the facts and figures. This is
the behavior of the online customer. While the behavior seems pretty
straightforward - a customer arrives on your site, sees something that
interests them and if the price and shipping is acceptable, the transaction is
made.
In a perfect world, yes! But, in reality things are rarely that
simple. There is a lot more that goes into the buying process. The four stages
of the frameworks are these:
- Need recognition
- Search for solution
- Evaluation of alternatives
- Purchase
Each
of these stages of the process has specific factors that affect them. If you
are thinking of investing time and effort into your store, you can’t ignore
these crucial factors that affect your success.
