E-commerce Growth Engagement & Marketing

Product Bundles: A Smarter Catalog Strategy for Modern E-Commerce

Product bundles are more than a simple merchandising tactic. When used strategically, they help shoppers discover complete solutions, increase average order value, simplify purchasing decisions, and give merchants more flexibility in how products are presented, promoted, and sold.

Run a Successful Social Media Contest:
Run a Successful Social Media Contest: "Share to Win!"

Are you eager to amplify your brand's social media presence, supercharge your reach, and spike your sales volume? If the answer is a resounding 'yes,' orchestrating a social media contest could be your golden ticket. The "Share to Win" contest is among the most engaging social media contests. This strategy is elegantly simple but brilliantly effective: Encourage your followers to share your content on their social media channels, follow your page, and in return, stand a chance to win an exciting prize. This blog post will serve as your comprehensive guide to running a high-impact "Share to Win" social media contest guaranteed to win hearts and clicks.

The real cost of managing an e-commerce website
The real cost of managing an e-commerce website

Managing an e-commerce website is nothing short of solving an intricate puzzle. The more you try to solve it, the more perplexing it gets.

It's tempting to try to unravel it by focusing on just one thing at a time, but that's not how the cost management of e-commerce websites works. What you see isn’t always what you get. Understanding the true nature of the costs requires peeling back several layers at the same time.

How Can I Tell When My E-Commerce Store Needs an Update?
How Can I Tell When My E-Commerce Store Needs an Update?

E-Commerce is the future of businesses. More and more consumers are shifting to online shopping than going to big-box, brick-and-mortar stores. In fact, in 2021, experts projected that worldwide e-commerce sales reached $4 trillion. With that, it is critical to know whether a company’s e-commerce website is truly helping them attain its goals. 

10 Benefits of Custom Web Design for E-Commerce Businesses
10 Benefits of Custom Web Design for E-Commerce Businesses

When researching the best web design for your e-commerce business, you likely know there are hundreds, if not thousands, of pre-made website templates available. Some of those website templates are even free, or drag and drop website companies lure you with their vast library of templates (for a price, of course).

Reduce Expense & Increase Profits with Knowledge Management (KM)
Reduce Expense & Increase Profits with Knowledge Management (KM)

This is certainly true in the area of IT, health care and business processes in manufacturing management where the exit of a key employee can often lead to a highly expensive process in which the company must "reinvent the wheel." But less technical knowledge, such as client preferences or internally developed process improvements, can prove costly when lost.

The Value of Community: Turning Customers into Advocates
The Value of Community: Turning Customers into Advocates

One of the most challenging lifts for your marketing department is to find customers who want to engage and then regularly interact with them. Building and fostering an online community solves that concern by giving customers a way to come to you for the conversation beyond any helpdesk needs.

How to Painlessly Upgrade Your Company Website and CMS
How to Painlessly Upgrade Your Company Website and CMS

Upgrading your company’s website CMS is always a headache. From web pages and blog articles to images, videos, and even metadata, there’s a huge amount of content to identify, categorize, and move.

But not all companies have the same challenge ahead of them when they decide to upgrade their CMS. For instance, small companies usually have less complex web environments to migrate than mid-sized or large companies, making their transition more manageable.

Why Your Competitors Are Automating Lead and Quote Management
Why Your Competitors Are Automating Lead and Quote Management

Name any business that doesn’t need to make another sales call or email tomorrow to have a robust future full of growth. If you didn’t name your company, then we want to share our thoughts on lead and quote management automation, especially for broad product catalogs, and why it might be a smart move to improving your sales pipeline.

Transforming Your Legacy Website into a High-Performing Web Property
Transforming Your Legacy Website into a High-Performing Web Property

Giving your company’s online presence a modern upgrade is more than just a nice-to-have, it’s an absolute necessity.

As today’s technology advances to meet consumer expectations, the most successful companies are rising to the challenge with high-performing websites that go beyond merely establishing a web-based property.

Multi-Channel Content Management
Multi-Channel Content Management

Managing content used to be fairly straightforward. Write the content, post it on your website, add it to another one or two websites, maybe send out an email notice about it, and you’re done. Multi-channel content management wasn’t on anyone’s mind.

How Your Marketing Team Can Measure Social Media ROI
How Your Marketing Team Can Measure Social Media ROI

If you're not using social media as part of your company's marketing efforts, then you're not marketing as effectively as you could be. And this could be frittering away your marketing budget.

In this digital age, social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ provide a way for you to boost brand awareness, reach out to a critical mass of customers and potential clients, and increase site traffic on your e-commerce site. But you first need a good plan to use social media as a marketing tool -- and that includes understanding how to measure ROI.

Bundling and Kitting Products – A Great Way to Improve Customer Experience and Online Sales
Bundling and Kitting Products – A Great Way to Improve Customer Experience and Online Sales

Bundling and kitting products is a great idea on a number of levels. Kitting (aka “bundling”) is the grouping/pairing, packaging, and marketing of separate but related, complimentary, and compatible products for sale or presentation as one unit. Multiple products are sold as an individual SKU. “Kitting” and “bundling” are interchangeable terms in this context.

Companies, merchants, and promotional teams love product bundling because it just makes their job easier, it makes them more effective, expands choices, makes their customers happy, and is a powerful tool for moving merchandise and increasing revenue.

How Your Business Can Take Advantage of Snapchat
How Your Business Can Take Advantage of Snapchat

Maybe you’ve heard of Snapchat.  It’s an app that allows users to send photos and short videos to other users – but after a limited amount of time, the material vanishes.  This feature made Snapchat notorious especially among teens, who found it easier to get away with sexting and bullying when the evidence disappeared. But Snapchat’s demographic is widening. Now moms love it too, and pretty much any female between the ages of 18 and 35.

Personalization and Multi-Channel Publishing
Personalization and Multi-Channel Publishing

In today’s business world personalizing web-based content, and its delivery, to meet each user’s needs is a competitive imperative for online enterprises. To be most effective, information should be tailored to individual users’ preferences and status, including the type of device they use.

Adrecom’s CMS Suite delivers the solutions you need to design and implement highly effective personalization techniques that offer tailor-made environments to visitors. By offering dynamic content that varies with user behavior, choices, status, and needs, you dramatically enhance your website’s utility, magnetism, and user comfort levels—which, of course, translates into higher conversion rates.

Configurable product options and variations for improved shopper experience and conversion
Configurable product options and variations for improved shopper experience and conversion

Nearly all products have options of some type or another and presenting them clearly is of great benefit to businesses.  I look at the benefits of how product variations can improve your business and make your customers happy.

A cosmetics website has many products, while each product has a number of color or shade options. The user interface was designed to feature color swatches related to the product. The product variations here allows the e-commerce and purchasing process to be simplified. The customer doesn't have to see the same product multiple times with the different colors but rather see a clear presentation of the products with its options. This example illustrates how product integration can improve navigation on the page and search results throughout the site.  This simplified presentation with the improved user experience leads to an improvement in the revenue stream.