Retaily Drive Traffic To Your Funnel

Retaily Drive Traffic To Your Funnel

Every business needs traffic. Whether you’re a brick and mortar store or an online business, you need traffic. Period. The higher the traffic, the more chances of higher conversion rates.

There’s quite a number of ways to get this done and it’s not a one size fits all recipe. This will depend on what type of business that you’re running and what type of product you wish to promote.

Retaily aims to help businesses reach current and lost customers with its smart dynamic retargeting solution. But this can only happen if there’s traffic going to your site.

How To Drive Traffic To Your Funnel? 

No matter what product you’re selling, you need to do some research to find out where your potential customers hang out. The Pillar 1 image gives a wide range of options that any business can use to drive traffic to their funnel.

Make Use Of Social Media

Social Media

No matter what you’re selling, you definitely need to make use of social media like Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr and Twitter to get the word out and discover what people are interested in pertaining to your industry.

Keep Your Customers In The Loop

You’d also send out newsletters to all your customers informing them of the latest trend and update your own blog to give some valuable tips and advice related to your product. Throw in some recommendations to add value and knowledge to your audience.

Encourage Your Customers To Promote You

Discount

Offer your customers gift certificates or promo codes to share with their family and friends. That will generate some buzz to lead visitors to your site. People like getting a discount and when they register at your site to make the purchase, you’d be able to capture their email address to reach them.

Run A Retargeting Campaign

If you’ve got tonnes of traffic already coming to your site, make sure you have a dynamic retargeting campaign working in the background so that you don’t loose all those visitors. Retaily can help by showing the right ads to those visitors even after they leave your site to encourage them to complete the purchase.

Targeted Magazine Advertisements 

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You may need to advertise your products in specific magazines if that is your niche market. For instance, if you’re selling fishing rods, there’s a higher chance of you reaching professional anglers by advertising in fishing magazines. You get the idea.

Attend Trade Shows And Conferences

This is a good place to promote your product physically to a physical targeted audience. If your product is revolutionary, you could invite visitors to try it out in the form of free samples or watch you demo at the venue. This will also give you a chance to answer any questions there in order to close the deal.

It’s also important to have some strategic partnerships with other businesses that will complement your customer base.

Develop Your Brand

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To develop your brand and business, make sure you have a company page on LinkedIn and work on creating content to let people know more about your business. Your content could be in the form of tips, advice and guides that will add value to your target audience.

Different target audience requires different ways of reaching them. One thing’s for sure, every business needs traffic and this list will give them an overall view of the different ways to drive traffic to your funnel.

If you need help with retargeting for your site, check out http://retai.ly and drop us an email at questions@retai.ly

Retaily Holiday Shopping Retargeting Tips For Sellers

Gift Cards

We’re in the last quarter of the year heading towards the holiday shopping season (yay!). Online sellers have been making all the necessary changes to their store (I hope), in preparation for the upcoming Halloween and Thanksgiving weekend next month.

Is Your Store Ready For The Shopping Season?

If you haven’t done anything yet due to busy work schedules, you still have time to get your store in shape in anticipation of the traffic that will be coming your way as the holiday season approaches.

Bear in mind that if your store is already getting a considerable amount of traffic right now, thinking through your remarketing strategy to offer different combination of products as gift items will help.

Holiday Shopping Retargeting Tips

Shoppers are constantly looking for the best bang for their buck. So don’t be surprised that other online stores have started their holiday shopping retargeting strategy early to reach their customers. Here are a few holiday shopping retargeting tips, promotions and suggestions that you could consider offering as part of your retargeting strategy :

* Buy 1 Free 1
* Get a gift set with every purchase of {product | $}
* Offer gift set @ {irresistible value}
* Free shipping for {best seller | above certain $}
* Free gift + free shipping for orders above $
* Get X% off on 2nd purchase
* A gift for someone special
* Go ahead, gift yourself, you deserve it
* Buy Now Or Cry Later

Rule of thumb is that if you can offer something that others can’t and that the offer is irresistible and appealing, chances of you closing the deal are higher. And if you think that the holiday shopping season only starts around Thanksgiving weekend, you’ll be surprised that shoppers start shopping before Halloween! Right now, the holiday shopping season stretches the entire month of November and December.

Promote Your Best And Top Sellers

And since it’s the holiday season, it’s also a good time to promote some of your store’s best sellers, latest products, best offers. Bundling them as a gift set or allowing your customers the freedom to custom bundle a gift set of their choice would be of tremendous help.

Obviously you don’t want to keep showing the same ad over and over again to customers who have visited your site. So it’s important to have some variety and spread out the frequency of those ads. Retaily can help as it allows you to customize the type of offers and promotions that you want to show up in ads to your customers.

Make Your Store’s Checkout Smooth

Other than that, please make sure that your online store’s checkout process is smooth as you don’t want all that holiday shopping season retargeting strategy and effort to go to waste. If your store’s checkout process currently has multiple pages for buyers to fill up, that may not be ideal especially if they’re shopping from a mobile (which by the way, more and more folks are using their mobile to shop these days).

Here’s a one page checkout that you can consider which is being offered by InstanteStore to help their merchants close the sale faster and smoother :

Retaily – Small Businesses Are Turning To Smart Marketing Automation

Old Fashioned British Sweets From Your Childhood

Businesses Need To Revamp Their Marketing Strategies

As mobile users continue to increase, many small businesses are realizing that they can no longer do marketing the old fashion way. Many are now turning to marketing automation as a way to reach the many mobile users out there.

The reason for the change is because many online businesses are not satisfied with the results that they’ve been getting from their manual ways of doing marketing. These businesses see the need for better features as their old email marketing software may no longer be relevant in reaching mobile consumers.

Catching Up With New Technology And Mobile

Not only do they have to deal with the wave of new technology that is now more app-based, the age group of consumers and the way they respond to online shopping has also changed. As more and more consumers use mobile to do online shopping and browsing, businesses realized that they have to be more nimble and stay abreast with the current shopping trends.

Consumers are using their mobiles to shop online more. Emails are flicked through quickly while one is commuting from home to work or vice versa. No one wants to waste time reading long-winded emails any more. Images capture the attention faster and it’s not surprising that they have to be that way. Mobile users will only spare a few seconds of their time so the ads or offers had better grab their attention.

Retaily foresee that as mobile ads continue to rise, many businesses will turn to dynamic retargeting to be able to reach visitors who have shown interest at their products or services when browsing. And businesses want smart marketing automation.

Know Your Customers’ Preference

In order for that to happen, businesses need to take the initiative to know their customers’ preference. Like who wants to keep getting emails every day from the same company about products that they are totally not interested in? Call it email fatigue. I mean, look at your own inbox and chances are, the bulk of your emails are mostly not relevant to you at all. Most will end up in the spam folder (if that’s not already full with hundreds of spam per day!).

Smart Marketing Automation

When we talk about smart marketing automation, it’s not only dynamic retargeting. It’s also about knowing what your previous customers were buying from you along with their spending habits. All these will make your marketing efforts more productive as businesses make it a point to take an interest in their customers’ preferences and to act accordingly to it instead of blasting out generic emails or offers. Find out what Retaily can do to help your online business grow further by going to http://retai.ly/

Talk about knowing what your customers would like. Check out this short video on Spotify’s Taste Rewind where the company claims to know what kind of music you would like in the 60’s or 70’s before you were even born based on your current music preference.

Top Retargeting Strategy Involves Site and Product Modification

Volvo XC90 Excellence Lounge Concept

Many companies think that they can just rely on retargeting services to reach site visitors in the hopes of increasing their sales conversion. While retargeting will certainly help – this is provided your site is getting enough volume traffic on a daily basis and that that the retargeting strategy is suited for your type of industry. Retargeting will not work for all industries. Hence the top retargeting strategy must encompass your entire site experience along with the products and services that you offer.

Take A Step Back

Businesses are encouraged to take a step back to see whether their own site and products are in need of modification and improvements. As products and services are constantly being improved, many businesses that did not respond to change fast enough risk being left behind.

Make Time To Evaluate

Are you making the time to look at your own products and services – whether they still remain relevant to the current market demand. Or do you need to make some serious changes?

Check, Compare And Change

Depending on the type of products or service that you offer, you will need to check and make comparison in terms of pricing, affordability, practicality and see which direction the market is going. Some may prefer to chart their own course while other businesses are analyzing their own site and products while bench marking with their competitors’. It’s imperative to make the changes quickly as the consumer market is changes rapidly.

Some of the top remarketing and retargeting providers out there may just be showing generic ads to customers. Retaily aims to change that by offering a more purposeful dynamic retargeting service which is currently available for merchants using Shopify and InstanteStore.

Be More Versatile 

By knowing what your customers are looking for and how they want their products to be, you can then make the necessary changes to what you’re currently offering. This will need to reflect in your website look and product range. Offering products that will capture the consumer market requires innovation as well as insight into consumer behavior. Your business can either grow further or shrink faster depending on how versatile you are in making the necessary decision and changes.

Choose Your Customer Base Wisely

You can’t win them all. So you will need to choose your customer base wisely. If your site is getting a lot of traffic, please make sure that it’s able to load fast and is mobile friendly while ensuring the online shopping experience is quick and easy. Targeting more premium customers? Make sure your site reflects a sense of elegance, luxury and that it looks and works well across all devices.

The folks at Volvo certainly made the necessary changes to their Volvo SUV XC90 to cater to the growing demand for luxury vehicles in China. They basically had the front passenger seat removed, did away with the 3rd row in the car (which made it more spacious) and added in a luxurious storage, ottoman, work table, television area turning it into a first class seat. Did I mention that the cup holder is also temperature controlled? Needless to say, the Chinese were very interested and I won’t be surprised that it’ll get snapped up since having a chauffeur in China is quite common. Check out the short video below :