Your site can always perform better, so how do you know where to start? Which pages need the most help and will give you the most "bang for your buck"? In this session, Marta will help you make the most of your time in finding your poor performers, diagnosing their problems, and fixing them quickly. Real world examples will be included from a B2C Internet Retailer Top 500 company as well as a Fortune 500 B2B company.
20. SEM
Did you update ad
landing pages?
Change site design or
structure?
Close any locations?
Add new campaigns?
21. Social
Using the same
content for
everything?
Have enough
resources?
Timing your content
appropriately?
Hitting the right
audience?
22. Email
What’s the frequency
across campaigns?
Are there new
segments you can
try?
Are your triggers still
applicable?
Is your target page
still the best fit?
When was the last
time you did “spring
cleaning”?
23. Direct
Are you sending print
mail?
Did you attend any
trade shows?
Did you offer holiday
promos?
Is the sales team
getting training?
Any given day can include challenges in supply chain, systems, customer service, sales
How do you bring order to the chaos?
I’m going to walk you through a framework to find and fix your problem pages
I’ve got so many problems on a daily basis, how do I know where to focus?
I use this equation in many different ways
So we round up the usual suspects
Who were your biggest spenders, which segment? Is there an 80/20 play here where a few big guys are killing you?
Did that segment stop buying from you? Or did they just change what they’re buying?
Did they change the frequency of purchase so now they buy smaller orders but more often?
Story – in B2B it’s easy to have a few customers dominate the AoV
Did you have any specific hot items that had popular accessories/cross-sell that dropped off?
Did you have popular big-ticket items that have declined due to a trend?
Story – swine flu & hand sanitizer in 2009
Are your higher-priced items or bundles not getting as many views? Did you change something on your internal search or your category structure?
Is product conversion different for higher priced items? Did it increase for lower-priced items?
So we round up the usual suspects
Story – big competitor changes/launches – AMAZON INDUSTRIAL
If you configure your sort to show accurate/highest $ value first it can drive AoV
is the conversion rate for products going down or are less people looking at them?
Category structure includes how categories are related and how items are ordered in a category
So we round up the usual suspects
Stories:
1) the time we launched a web redesign without any 301’s
2) when IT rolled out the URL update changing + to -
Strategic could be a change you consciously made – to spend less, to update the CPA target, to allocate spend to certain campaigns
Accidental could be changes made by your settings, updating a page that an ad points to without updating the ad
Story - Web redesign that broke our quality score
Maybe you had the best of intentions
Accidental could be changes made by your settings, updating a page that an ad points to without updating the ad
Story - Web redesign that broke our quality score
Same content – it’s easy to start well and then over time fall into the trap of not having enough time and posting same stuff everywhere
Story – we hired an intern to do social
Email – beware the set it and forget it trap!
54% say email came too frequently, 49% say content was boring or repetitive, 25% the content wasn’t relevant to me from the start