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Ecommerce Quarterly
EQ22013:
EmailEngagement
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TableofContents
Executive Summary									 3
About the EQ 										 4
Make the Email Experience the Right Experience 				 5
The Potential Value of Small Segments 						 7
Benchmark Reports 									 11
Methodology 										 23
References 										 23
About Monetate 										 24
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ExecutiveSummary
As you read EQ2 2013, more than half of the year is over and ecommerce
businesses are preparing for the busy holiday season. These final few
months often determine a year’s success, which, in turn, impacts future
investments in technology and marketing in an effort to build customer
reach, engagement, interaction, and revenue.
According to key metrics used to measure ecommerce success, 2013 has
thus far been undoubtedly positive. For instance, same-store website
traffic for the more than 600 million quarterly visits that comprise this
release of the Ecommerce Quarterly (EQ) increased 17.60% in one year,
while the same companies experienced an 8.16% gain in average order
value (AOV). In fact, AOV was higher in the second quarter of 2013 ($115.27)
than the traditionally strong fourth quarter ($113.05) of 2012.
These positive signs coincide with second quarter ecommerce estimates
from the U.S. Department of Commerce, which include an 18.4% year-over-
yearincreaseinecommercesales.1
Butwhilethesestatistics—aswellasmany
of the EQ’s benchmark reports—point to a strong year for ecommerce, there
are still some concerns, specifically around mobile and email.
Produced annually in partnership between Shop.org and Forrester
Research, “The State of Retailing Online 2013: Key Metrics and Initiatives”
study reveals that 29% of retailers believe mobile traffic and sales
negatively impact their overall conversion rates.2
Within the past two years, visits from smartphone and tablet users to
leading ecommerce websites has increased from just under 7% to now
more than 22% of total website traffic. But despite the continued uptick in
mobile website traffic, conversion rates of smartphone users remain well
below that of shoppers using traditional computers and tablets.
While a lot of attention is going to native apps or responsive web design,
focusing on delivering relevant website experiences for mobile and tablet
shoppers can result in increases in these and other important metrics.
EQ2 2013 also examines diminishing returns from email, and offers new
strategies on how to increase engagement by considering the real-time
relevancy of email messages. Similar to how successful brands change
the customer experience on their websites, marketers can use “open-time
personalization,” which dynamically changes the email when the recipient
opensit,creatingrelevantemailcampaignsbasedoncontextandbehavior
that increase click-through rates and reduce list attrition.
Lastly, EQ2 2013 takes a look at geotargeting customer segments that can
have an immediate impact on a business by either attracting more visitors
from a certain state, region or country, or by delivering more relevant on-
site experiences based on the location of website visitors. But how do
you know what to focus on? A new metric that Monetate has developed,
known as Impact Score, can help.
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AbouttheEQ
As ecommerce companies look for ways to increase customer engagement
and sales in a highly competitive online environment, they’re faced with
challenges centered on massive amounts of data. This big data conundrum
goes beyond the collection and storage of information about customers
and prospects.
Using a combination of historical and real-time data allows ecommerce
marketers to glean meaningful insights, resulting in more relevant
shopping experiences that drive loyal customers who share their
experiences with others. Ecommerce businesses that tackle big data head-
on focus their attention on different customer segments that continue to
be explored in every release of the Ecommerce Quarterly (EQ):
•	Predefined: New versus returning; referring
traffic sources; technographics; geography.
•	Custom or Proprietary: Demographics;
proximity to location.
•	On-Site Behavior: Shopping cart
activity; brand or category affinity.
•	Behaviors Across the Web: Browsing and purchase
patterns demonstrated on third-party websites.
The EQ also includes EQ Takeaways, ideas and best practices used by
leading ecommerce websites, based on insights gained from the more
than 600 million online shopping sessions that contribute to the analysis
and benchmark reports found in every release.
EQ2 2013
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MaketheEmailExperiencetheRightExperience
Customers demand relevant and meaningful interactions with your brand,
which often begin with how they reach your website.
On average, 55% of retailers’ interactive marketing spend goes to paid
search and email, according to Shop.org’s “The State of Retailing Online
2013: Marketing & Merchandising,” released in July. And marketers spend
$92 on driving traffic to their websites for every $1 they spend converting
that traffic.3
Both referral traffic and conversion rates to leading ecommerce websites
from email decreased since last year. In addition, the number of same-
store purchases from email is down 30.66% in the past 12 months.
To compensate, many marketers will just send more email. In Shop.org’s
study, 80% of retailers indicated that they will spend more on emailing
their house list in 2013.4
The result of this strategy is likely a downward
spiral: The more emails marketers send, the more customers unsubscribe
or mark the email as spam. And because revenue then declines, marketers
send even more emails, perpetuating the negative cycle.
Email Search Social Email Search Social
3.56%
Q2 2012
3.75%
Q2 2013
2.36%
2.12%
0.62%
3.34%
1.94%
0.79%
Q2 2012 Q2 2013
ConversionRatesbyTrafficSourceEmailReferrerTraffic
26%
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But what can be done when there’s a drastic year-over-year drop in website
traffic from the email channel? Not unlike the experience customers have
on websites, email messages must be based on behaviors and data to be
more effective. Circumstances can change from the time an email is sent,
to when it is actually opened. For example, after receiving an email, a busy
consumer could visit another part of the country where a climate change
drives different needs, while another shopper, before opening the email,
looks on your website at only one particular brand.
No two consumers think or behave in the same way. That’s why testing
entire emails—or sections within an email—to determine the types of
messages that different customer segments will most likely respond to
also remains crucial to the success of any campaign.
Successful email marketing involves understanding what works, and how
much money is driven to your business. The result is smarter marketing
and more intelligent emails that maximize click-through rates and overall
performance.
Takeaways
•	 Use “open-time personalization” in your emails. Most email content,
if personalized at all beyond “Dear [First Name],” changes at the time
the message is sent or, even worse, when the email campaign’s list is
selected within an email service provider (ESP).
	 Open-time personalization targets offers and creative to the moment
when a customer actually opens the email. This makes it easy for
marketers to account for how their customers’ context and behaviors
change, while increasing important email and website metrics, such as
click-through and conversion rates.
	 Consider what could change from the time you deploy a campaign to
when the recipient actually opens the email. For instance, a customer
could visit your website directly and either view or purchase additional
products after the email is sent, while another shopper opens the email
on his iPhone inside your store or in close proximity to one of your
competitor’s stores.
	 Plus, with open-time personalization, you can deliver relevant
experiences right to a customer’s inbox. From intelligent product
recommendations to offers timed to current or forecasted weather,
marketers have more freedom to help determine the right experience.
•	 Connect relevant emails with great on-site experiences after your
customers click through. From click to conversion, customers should
see consistent experiences that span every page of your website
reinforcing the offer in the email. Use website creative and messaging
to echo the reason why the potential buyer responded to the offer.
EQ2 2013
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ThePotentialValueofSmallSegments	
Whenevaluatingtheperformanceofyourcustomersegments,whetherit’s
simply new versus returning visitors or a more targeted group, you’ll likely
notice that some perform well, but don’t represent a significant amount of
visitors compared to overall traffic. These high-potential segments should
not be discounted; rather, marketers should prioritize them and determine
where to spend more resources in the future.
Compare high-impact segments to these groups of customers with high
potential. The simplest way to differentiate the two is to consider that a
high-impact segment has a positive key performance indicator (KPI)—
such as revenue per session (RPS) or conversion rate—and a large volume
of traffic, while a segment with high potential likely has a similar strong
KPI, but less traffic.
When you consider Impact Score—the potential overall value of a
customer segment to your business—you’ll discover a new way to rank
customers by their potential based on the size of a customer segment and
its performance against your website’s average. More precisely, Impact
Score is the difference between the rate of a behavior in one customer
segment from the rate of a behavior in all website visitors multiplied by the
number of visitors in the same segment.
A great example of this is website traffic from smartphones. When looking
at RPS for the past five calendar quarters, you might think that everything
is fine. After all, traffic continued to move in a positive direction.
With Impact Score, you notice a potential problem when looking at
smartphone traffic over the past five calendar quarters. There was a
significant drop in Impact Score during Q4, while RPS increased. The reality
is that smartphone customers represented a big loss in potential revenue
despite an increase in smartphone traffic and RPS.
2012
Q2 Q2Q3 Q4 Q1
2013
WebsiteVisitsbyDevice
Smartphone
Tablet
7.31%
7.89%
8.91%
9.57%
9.63% 9.69%
8.55%
9.51%
11.49%
12.44%
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2012
Q2 Q2Q3 Q4 Q1
2013
SmartphoneRevenuePerSession
Smartphone RPS
Impact Score
$0.89
$0.84
$1.11
$1.06
$1.20
Learn more about Impact Score.
Download “Introducing Impact Score”
at monetate.com/impactscore
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Without improving the purchasing experience for your mobile visitors, this
negative impact will be even greater as more traffic comes to your website
from smartphones. Within only the past year, combined smartphone and
tablet traffic grew from 15.2% to 22.13%.
While it appears now that there’s something interesting to work on, you
actually could have started to optimize your website for mobile traffic
earlier, after seeing the dip in Impact Score.
Finally, you can’t give website visitors new iPads just because tablet traffic
is getting an increasing share of visits and converts just as well as traffic
from traditional computers. However, there is a tremendous opportunity
to increase revenue with better on-site experiences when you consider
that a nearly equal share of traffic from smartphone users has a lower
conversion rate.
Q2 2012 Q2 2013
84.80% 77.87%
7.31%
7.89%
12.44%
9.69%
Smartphone TraditionalTablet
DeviceShareofWebsiteTraffic
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Showing these visitors relevant messages and improving the customer
experience provides a more measurable way of knowing just how
important this segment is to your business. Stay ahead, prioritize, and
make decisions based on what data tells you. Use your inbound channels
and iterative on-site testing and optimization strategies to deliver the right
message to the right customer at the right time.
Takeaways
•	 Understand which customer segments an online experience worked
for and where that same experience wasn’t as effective. Then take
action to carve out more of the high performers, while running
additional experiments to find something else that works better for
customers who didn’t respond as well.
•	 Build customer relationship over time. Your goal should be to discover
what an individual customer means to your brand by putting each
one at the center of your organization and tying data to analysis to
understand who are your most important customers to acquire and
retain.
•	 Don’t separate the ability to know your customer from the ability to
take action. If you can’t combine knowledge with action, everything
you know about your prospects and customers is useless.
2.56%
2.54%
0.96%
Traditional
Tablet
Smartphone
Q22013ConversionRatesbyDevice
$115.74
$113.15
$112.73
Q22013AverageOrderValuebyDevice
Traditional
Tablet
Smartphone
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BenchmarkReports
Website Visits by Device Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q2 2013
Traditional 84.80% 82.54% 80.92% 78.88% 77.87%
Tablet 7.31% 8.55% 9.57% 11.49% 12.44%
Smartphone 7.89% 8.91% 9.51% 9.63% 9.69%
iPad 91.68% 90.18% 91.02% 90.83% 90.63%
Kindle Fire 3.58% 4.11% 2.98% 2.15% 1.74%
Android 4.75% 5.71% 6.00% 7.02% 7.63%
iPhone 60.23% 60.00% 60.61% 63.89% 62.73%
Android 38.30% 38.33% 37.97% 34.85% 35.92%
Windows 0.90% 0.89% 0.91% 1.01% 1.16%
Other 0.57% 0.77% 0.51% 0.25% 0.19%
TABLETOVERALLSMARTPHONE
Website Visits by Traffic Source Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q2 2013
Search 33.33% 34.62% 32.75% 31.91% 32.90%
Social 1.95% 1.70% 1.21% 1.33% 1.11%
Email 3.75% 3.49% 3.97% 3.05% 2.36%
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Conversion Rates Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q2 2013
U.S. 2.90% 2.80% 2.85% 2.37% 2.60%
International 1.12% 1.08% 1.14% 0.89% 0.89%
Conversion Rates Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q2 2013
New 1.95% 1.94% 2.12% 1.58% 1.69%
Returning 3.46% 3.33% 3.27% 2.82% 3.14%
Add-to-Cart Rates Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q2 2013
New 6.08% 6.30% 7.33% 6.47% 6.19%
Returning 10.99% 11.18% 12.31% 11.09% 11.30%
Add-to-Cart Rates Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q2 2013
U.S. 8.68% 8.85% 10.02% 9.09% 9.00%
International 6.56% 6.62% 7.25% 6.35% 6.30%
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Conversion Rates by Device Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q2 2013
Traditional 2.85% 2.80% 2.90% 2.35% 2.56%
Tablet 2.53% 2.43% 2.56% 2.27% 2.54%
Smartphone 0.82% 0.77% 0.86% 0.84% 0.96%
iPad 2.58% 2.49% 2.62% 2.32% 2.60%
Kindle Fire 1.65% 1.51% 1.65% 1.46% 1.56%
Android 2.47% 2.24% 2.13% 1.91% 2.00%
iPhone 0.79% 0.77% 0.90% 0.83% 1.01%
Android 0.89% 0.79% 0.82% 0.85% 0.88%
Windows 0.73% 0.75% 0.72% 0.77% 0.77%
Other 0.03% 0.22% 0.39% 0.45% 0.38%
TABLETOVERALLSMARTPHONE
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Conversion Rates by Device Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q2 2013 Q2 2013 Impact Score
Traditional
Tablet
Smartphone
iPad
Kindle Fire
Android
iPhone
Android
Windows
Other
Traditional
iPad
Tablet
Smartphone
iPhone
Android Phone
Android Tablet
Kindle Fire
Windows Phone
Other
What you see here…
The mean—or average—for the respective
key performance indicator is represented
by the dotted lines. Negative Impact Scores
appear in red, while positive Impact Scores
are blue. The distance between Impact
Score and the mean represent the relative
additional opportunity for the specific
customer segment.
TABLETOVERALLSMARTPHONE
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ConversionRatesbyTrafficSource Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q2 2013
Search 2.12% 1.99% 2.27% 1.81% 1.94%
Social 0.62% 0.71% 0.85% 0.69% 0.79%
Email 3.56% 3.50% 3.40% 2.91% 3.34%
Conversion Rates by Device Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q2 2013 Q2 2013 Impact Score
Search
Social
Email
Email
Social
Search
Learn more about Impact Score.
Download “Introducing Impact Score”
at monetate.com/impactscore
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Add-to-CartRatebyReferrer Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q2 2013
Email 10.51% 10.59% 11.48% 10.46% 10.73%
Search 6.64% 6.59% 7.84% 6.74% 6.81%
Social 2.52% 3.03% 3.75% 3.23% 3.37%
AveragePageViewsbyReferrer Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q2 2013
Email 9.09 9.46 9.12 9.11 8.84
Search 9.27 9.09 9.03 8.94 8.71
Social 4.83 4.89 4.97 4.56 4.82
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Browser Market Share Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q2 2013
Internet Explorer 39.05% 37.16% 37.51% 33.66% 32.31%
Chrome 17.38% 18.94% 18.99% 20.84% 22.15%
Mobile Chrome 0.01% 0.15% 0.42% 0.70% 1.08%
Firefox 16.01% 14.77% 13.65% 13.17% 12.76%
Mobile Safari 11.30% 13.01% 14.31% 16.31% 16.99%
Safari 12.09% 11.45% 11.30% 11.30% 10.74%
Android Browser 3.41% 3.77% 3.93% 3.73% 3.70%
Kindle Fire 0.33% 0.35% 0.29% 0.25% 0.22%
Opera 0.38% 0.35% 0.13% 0.01% 0.01%
Other 0.05% 0.05% 0.04% 0.04% 0.05%
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Average Order Value by Device Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q2 2013
Traditional $106.69 $105.14 $112.68 $107.06 $115.74
Tablet $108.14 $104.05 $114.49 $108.70 $113.15
Smartphone $97.79 $97.60 $119.15 $114.26 $112.73
iPad $109.55 $105.23 $115.26 $109.52 $114.18
Android Tablet $97.27 $94.62 $107.45 $100.47 $101.22
Kindle Fire $87.03 $82.07 $95.83 $89.32 $91.84
iPhone $99.02 $98.84 $120.73 $115.88 $114.45
Android Phone $96.23 $95.86 $116.65 $111.78 $109.82
Windows Phone $91.64 $94.99 $111.84 $100.76 $112.36
AverageOrderValuebyTrafficSource Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q2 2013
Search $103.00 $101.63 $110.12 $104.46 $111.18
Social $75.82 $75.23 $79.61 $76.59 $86.80
Email $89.43 $86.43 $102.74 $95.27 $99.93
TABLETOVERALLSMARTPHONE
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Conversion Rates by State Q2 2013
Armed Forces - America 5.00%
Armed Forces - Europe 4.47%
Wyoming 4.35%
Armed Forces - Pacific 3.71%
Montana 3.68%
West Virginia 3.61%
North Dakota 3.35%
Pennsylvania 3.34%
Delaware 3.29%
Vermont 3.27%
South Dakota 3.22%
Alaska 3.16%
New Hampshire 3.14%
Connecticut 3.13%
New Jersey 3.11%
New Mexico 3.09%
Nebraska 3.03%
Maine 3.02%
Maryland 2.98%
Wisconsin 2.98%
Ohio 2.95%
Iowa 2.94%
New York 2.94%
Indiana 2.93%
Michigan 2.91%
Kentucky 2.90%
Idaho 2.88%
Conversion Rates by State Q2 2013
Rhode Island 2.83%
Kansas 2.79%
Nevada 2.77%
District of Columbia 2.70%
Tennessee 2.68%
Arkansas 2.67%
Oklahoma 2.67%
Colorado 2.66%
Illinois 2.65%
Arizona 2.64%
Massachusetts 2.63%
Mississippi 2.62%
North Carolina 2.62%
Alabama 2.60%
South Carolina 2.60%
Washington 2.57%
Georgia 2.55%
Louisiana 2.55%
Missouri 2.51%
Utah 2.51%
Florida 2.43%
Oregon 2.43%
Virginia 2.32%
Hawaii 2.28%
California 2.24%
Texas 2.20%
Minnesota 1.61%
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Q2 2013 Conversion Rates Impact Scores by State Q2 2013 Conversion Rates Impact Scores by State
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Ohio
Michigan
Maryland
Connecticut
Illinois
Wisconsin
Indiana
Massachusetts
North Carolina
Kentucky
West Virginia
Tennessee
Georgia
Colorado
Arizona
Washington
New Hampshire
Iowa
Delaware
Nebraska
Kansas
Montana
New Mexico
Maine
Armed Forces - America
Armed Forces - Pacific
Hawaii
Virginia
Texas
California
Minnesota
Nevada
Alabama
South Carolina
Wyoming
District of Columbia
Oklahoma
North Dakota
Vermont
Rhode Island
Louisiana
Missouri
Florida
Armed Forces - Europe
South Dakota
Idaho
Arkansas
Alaska
Mississippi
Utah
Oregon
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Average Order Value by State Q2 2013
Armed Forces - America $197.60
Armed Forces - Europe $150.93
Armed Forces - Pacific $132.86
Hawaii $131.17
Alaska $128.19
District of Columbia $127.36
Minnesota $125.83
California $123.04
New York $120.48
Texas $119.92
New Jersey $117.69
Maryland $116.38
Florida $115.59
Massachusetts $115.14
Washington $115.04
Virginia $114.54
Nevada $114.51
Georgia $113.61
Delaware $113.55
Oregon $113.51
North Dakota $112.84
Illinois $112.63
Connecticut $112.56
Colorado $111.87
Louisiana $110.80
Arizona $110.16
Mississippi $109.80
Average Order Value by State Q2 2013
New Mexico $109.52
New Hampshire $109.48
Rhode Island $108.81
Montana $108.55
Michigan $108.36
Wyoming $108.13
Idaho $107.80
Utah $107.50
South Carolina $107.43
Alabama $107.24
Oklahoma $106.67
Vermont $106.67
Tennessee $106.63
Ohio $106.44
Pennsylvania $106.28
North Carolina $105.92
Kentucky $105.59
Wisconsin $105.08
Arkansas $104.79
South Dakota $104.76
Missouri $104.39
Indiana $104.36
Kansas $103.05
Iowa $103.04
Maine $102.50
West Virginia $100.29
Nebraska $98.27
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Q2 2013 Average Order Value Impact Scores by State Q2 2013 Average Order Value Impact Scores by State
California
New York
Texas
Minnesota
New Jersey
District of Columbia
Hawaii
Armed Forces - Europe
Maryland
Alaska
Florida
Armed Forces - Pacific
Armed Forces - America
Massachusetts
Washington
Nevada
North Dakota
Delaware
Wyoming
Montana
Oregon
Vermont
South Dakota
Virginia
New Mexico
Idaho
Rhode Island
Mississippi
New Hampshire
Connecticut
Utah
Louisiana
Maine
Georgia
Colorado
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Nebraska
West Virginia
Arizona
Iowa
Alabama
Kansas
South Carolina
Kentucky
Illinois
Tennessee
Wisconsin
Missouri
Indiana
Michigan
North Carolina
Ohio
Pennsylvania
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Methodology
The EQ analyzes a random sample of over 600 million online shopping
experiences using “same store” data across each calendar quarter.
Averages throughout the EQ are calculated across the entire sample. Key
performance indicators, such as average order value and conversion rate,
will vary by industry/market type. These averages are published only to
support the analysis in each release of the EQ, and are not intended to be
benchmarks for any ecommerce business.
For all media inquiries, questions, and feedback
regarding the information in this report, or to obtain
copies of previous releases of the EQ, contact:
Marifran Manzo-Ritchie
Director of Corporate Communications
(215) 987-4441
mmanzoritchie@monetate.com
References
1. SEC Wants Chains to Cough Up More E-commerce Data, Internet Retailer (August 2013)
2. The State of Retailing Online 2013: Key Metrics and Initiatives, Shop.org (January 2013)
3. 92:1: Marketing’s Dirty Little Statistic, Econsultancy (June 2011)
4. The State of Retailing Online 2013: Marketing & Merchandising, Shop.org (July 2013)
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AboutMonetate
Monetate empowers marketers to leverage big data to create more
personalized and engaging online customer experiences. By providing
more relevant web interactions, leading brands are able to anticipate and
react to consumer preferences to generate stronger customer relationships
and significantly increase profits.
Monetate drives billions of dollars of revenue every year for some of the
best-known brands in the world, including Best Buy, Frontier Airlines,
Aeropostale, The Sports Authority, and PETCO. The company’s solutions
and conversion expertise enable marketers to deliver a more relevant
customer experience with unprecedented agility.
Leading marketers rely on Monetate’s cloud-based browser solutions to
achieve a new level of speed and control, allowing them to run 16 times
more optimization campaigns compared to industry averages. Monetate
solutions include advanced products for testing, merchandising, targeting
and cross-channel consistency, providing an opportunity to bypass IT
restraints and react in real time to customer demands. Monetate also helps
marketers implement best practices and drive online revenue through its
expert strategic services and content publishing teams.
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Ecommerce Quarterly - EQ2 2013: Email Engagement

  • 2. TableofContents Executive Summary 3 About the EQ 4 Make the Email Experience the Right Experience 5 The Potential Value of Small Segments 7 Benchmark Reports 11 Methodology 23 References 23 About Monetate 24 EQ2 2013 a monetate publication | 2
  • 3. ExecutiveSummary As you read EQ2 2013, more than half of the year is over and ecommerce businesses are preparing for the busy holiday season. These final few months often determine a year’s success, which, in turn, impacts future investments in technology and marketing in an effort to build customer reach, engagement, interaction, and revenue. According to key metrics used to measure ecommerce success, 2013 has thus far been undoubtedly positive. For instance, same-store website traffic for the more than 600 million quarterly visits that comprise this release of the Ecommerce Quarterly (EQ) increased 17.60% in one year, while the same companies experienced an 8.16% gain in average order value (AOV). In fact, AOV was higher in the second quarter of 2013 ($115.27) than the traditionally strong fourth quarter ($113.05) of 2012. These positive signs coincide with second quarter ecommerce estimates from the U.S. Department of Commerce, which include an 18.4% year-over- yearincreaseinecommercesales.1 Butwhilethesestatistics—aswellasmany of the EQ’s benchmark reports—point to a strong year for ecommerce, there are still some concerns, specifically around mobile and email. Produced annually in partnership between Shop.org and Forrester Research, “The State of Retailing Online 2013: Key Metrics and Initiatives” study reveals that 29% of retailers believe mobile traffic and sales negatively impact their overall conversion rates.2 Within the past two years, visits from smartphone and tablet users to leading ecommerce websites has increased from just under 7% to now more than 22% of total website traffic. But despite the continued uptick in mobile website traffic, conversion rates of smartphone users remain well below that of shoppers using traditional computers and tablets. While a lot of attention is going to native apps or responsive web design, focusing on delivering relevant website experiences for mobile and tablet shoppers can result in increases in these and other important metrics. EQ2 2013 also examines diminishing returns from email, and offers new strategies on how to increase engagement by considering the real-time relevancy of email messages. Similar to how successful brands change the customer experience on their websites, marketers can use “open-time personalization,” which dynamically changes the email when the recipient opensit,creatingrelevantemailcampaignsbasedoncontextandbehavior that increase click-through rates and reduce list attrition. Lastly, EQ2 2013 takes a look at geotargeting customer segments that can have an immediate impact on a business by either attracting more visitors from a certain state, region or country, or by delivering more relevant on- site experiences based on the location of website visitors. But how do you know what to focus on? A new metric that Monetate has developed, known as Impact Score, can help. a monetate publication | 3 EQ2 2013
  • 4. AbouttheEQ As ecommerce companies look for ways to increase customer engagement and sales in a highly competitive online environment, they’re faced with challenges centered on massive amounts of data. This big data conundrum goes beyond the collection and storage of information about customers and prospects. Using a combination of historical and real-time data allows ecommerce marketers to glean meaningful insights, resulting in more relevant shopping experiences that drive loyal customers who share their experiences with others. Ecommerce businesses that tackle big data head- on focus their attention on different customer segments that continue to be explored in every release of the Ecommerce Quarterly (EQ): • Predefined: New versus returning; referring traffic sources; technographics; geography. • Custom or Proprietary: Demographics; proximity to location. • On-Site Behavior: Shopping cart activity; brand or category affinity. • Behaviors Across the Web: Browsing and purchase patterns demonstrated on third-party websites. The EQ also includes EQ Takeaways, ideas and best practices used by leading ecommerce websites, based on insights gained from the more than 600 million online shopping sessions that contribute to the analysis and benchmark reports found in every release. EQ2 2013 a monetate publication | 4
  • 5. MaketheEmailExperiencetheRightExperience Customers demand relevant and meaningful interactions with your brand, which often begin with how they reach your website. On average, 55% of retailers’ interactive marketing spend goes to paid search and email, according to Shop.org’s “The State of Retailing Online 2013: Marketing & Merchandising,” released in July. And marketers spend $92 on driving traffic to their websites for every $1 they spend converting that traffic.3 Both referral traffic and conversion rates to leading ecommerce websites from email decreased since last year. In addition, the number of same- store purchases from email is down 30.66% in the past 12 months. To compensate, many marketers will just send more email. In Shop.org’s study, 80% of retailers indicated that they will spend more on emailing their house list in 2013.4 The result of this strategy is likely a downward spiral: The more emails marketers send, the more customers unsubscribe or mark the email as spam. And because revenue then declines, marketers send even more emails, perpetuating the negative cycle. Email Search Social Email Search Social 3.56% Q2 2012 3.75% Q2 2013 2.36% 2.12% 0.62% 3.34% 1.94% 0.79% Q2 2012 Q2 2013 ConversionRatesbyTrafficSourceEmailReferrerTraffic 26% a monetate publication | 5 EQ2 2013
  • 6. But what can be done when there’s a drastic year-over-year drop in website traffic from the email channel? Not unlike the experience customers have on websites, email messages must be based on behaviors and data to be more effective. Circumstances can change from the time an email is sent, to when it is actually opened. For example, after receiving an email, a busy consumer could visit another part of the country where a climate change drives different needs, while another shopper, before opening the email, looks on your website at only one particular brand. No two consumers think or behave in the same way. That’s why testing entire emails—or sections within an email—to determine the types of messages that different customer segments will most likely respond to also remains crucial to the success of any campaign. Successful email marketing involves understanding what works, and how much money is driven to your business. The result is smarter marketing and more intelligent emails that maximize click-through rates and overall performance. Takeaways • Use “open-time personalization” in your emails. Most email content, if personalized at all beyond “Dear [First Name],” changes at the time the message is sent or, even worse, when the email campaign’s list is selected within an email service provider (ESP). Open-time personalization targets offers and creative to the moment when a customer actually opens the email. This makes it easy for marketers to account for how their customers’ context and behaviors change, while increasing important email and website metrics, such as click-through and conversion rates. Consider what could change from the time you deploy a campaign to when the recipient actually opens the email. For instance, a customer could visit your website directly and either view or purchase additional products after the email is sent, while another shopper opens the email on his iPhone inside your store or in close proximity to one of your competitor’s stores. Plus, with open-time personalization, you can deliver relevant experiences right to a customer’s inbox. From intelligent product recommendations to offers timed to current or forecasted weather, marketers have more freedom to help determine the right experience. • Connect relevant emails with great on-site experiences after your customers click through. From click to conversion, customers should see consistent experiences that span every page of your website reinforcing the offer in the email. Use website creative and messaging to echo the reason why the potential buyer responded to the offer. EQ2 2013 a monetate publication | 6
  • 7. ThePotentialValueofSmallSegments Whenevaluatingtheperformanceofyourcustomersegments,whetherit’s simply new versus returning visitors or a more targeted group, you’ll likely notice that some perform well, but don’t represent a significant amount of visitors compared to overall traffic. These high-potential segments should not be discounted; rather, marketers should prioritize them and determine where to spend more resources in the future. Compare high-impact segments to these groups of customers with high potential. The simplest way to differentiate the two is to consider that a high-impact segment has a positive key performance indicator (KPI)— such as revenue per session (RPS) or conversion rate—and a large volume of traffic, while a segment with high potential likely has a similar strong KPI, but less traffic. When you consider Impact Score—the potential overall value of a customer segment to your business—you’ll discover a new way to rank customers by their potential based on the size of a customer segment and its performance against your website’s average. More precisely, Impact Score is the difference between the rate of a behavior in one customer segment from the rate of a behavior in all website visitors multiplied by the number of visitors in the same segment. A great example of this is website traffic from smartphones. When looking at RPS for the past five calendar quarters, you might think that everything is fine. After all, traffic continued to move in a positive direction. With Impact Score, you notice a potential problem when looking at smartphone traffic over the past five calendar quarters. There was a significant drop in Impact Score during Q4, while RPS increased. The reality is that smartphone customers represented a big loss in potential revenue despite an increase in smartphone traffic and RPS. 2012 Q2 Q2Q3 Q4 Q1 2013 WebsiteVisitsbyDevice Smartphone Tablet 7.31% 7.89% 8.91% 9.57% 9.63% 9.69% 8.55% 9.51% 11.49% 12.44% a monetate publication | 7 EQ2 2013
  • 8. 2012 Q2 Q2Q3 Q4 Q1 2013 SmartphoneRevenuePerSession Smartphone RPS Impact Score $0.89 $0.84 $1.11 $1.06 $1.20 Learn more about Impact Score. Download “Introducing Impact Score” at monetate.com/impactscore EQ2 2013 a monetate publication | 8
  • 9. Without improving the purchasing experience for your mobile visitors, this negative impact will be even greater as more traffic comes to your website from smartphones. Within only the past year, combined smartphone and tablet traffic grew from 15.2% to 22.13%. While it appears now that there’s something interesting to work on, you actually could have started to optimize your website for mobile traffic earlier, after seeing the dip in Impact Score. Finally, you can’t give website visitors new iPads just because tablet traffic is getting an increasing share of visits and converts just as well as traffic from traditional computers. However, there is a tremendous opportunity to increase revenue with better on-site experiences when you consider that a nearly equal share of traffic from smartphone users has a lower conversion rate. Q2 2012 Q2 2013 84.80% 77.87% 7.31% 7.89% 12.44% 9.69% Smartphone TraditionalTablet DeviceShareofWebsiteTraffic a monetate publication | 9 EQ2 2013
  • 10. Showing these visitors relevant messages and improving the customer experience provides a more measurable way of knowing just how important this segment is to your business. Stay ahead, prioritize, and make decisions based on what data tells you. Use your inbound channels and iterative on-site testing and optimization strategies to deliver the right message to the right customer at the right time. Takeaways • Understand which customer segments an online experience worked for and where that same experience wasn’t as effective. Then take action to carve out more of the high performers, while running additional experiments to find something else that works better for customers who didn’t respond as well. • Build customer relationship over time. Your goal should be to discover what an individual customer means to your brand by putting each one at the center of your organization and tying data to analysis to understand who are your most important customers to acquire and retain. • Don’t separate the ability to know your customer from the ability to take action. If you can’t combine knowledge with action, everything you know about your prospects and customers is useless. 2.56% 2.54% 0.96% Traditional Tablet Smartphone Q22013ConversionRatesbyDevice $115.74 $113.15 $112.73 Q22013AverageOrderValuebyDevice Traditional Tablet Smartphone EQ2 2013 a monetate publication | 10
  • 11. BenchmarkReports Website Visits by Device Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q2 2013 Traditional 84.80% 82.54% 80.92% 78.88% 77.87% Tablet 7.31% 8.55% 9.57% 11.49% 12.44% Smartphone 7.89% 8.91% 9.51% 9.63% 9.69% iPad 91.68% 90.18% 91.02% 90.83% 90.63% Kindle Fire 3.58% 4.11% 2.98% 2.15% 1.74% Android 4.75% 5.71% 6.00% 7.02% 7.63% iPhone 60.23% 60.00% 60.61% 63.89% 62.73% Android 38.30% 38.33% 37.97% 34.85% 35.92% Windows 0.90% 0.89% 0.91% 1.01% 1.16% Other 0.57% 0.77% 0.51% 0.25% 0.19% TABLETOVERALLSMARTPHONE Website Visits by Traffic Source Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q2 2013 Search 33.33% 34.62% 32.75% 31.91% 32.90% Social 1.95% 1.70% 1.21% 1.33% 1.11% Email 3.75% 3.49% 3.97% 3.05% 2.36% a monetate publication | 11 EQ2 2013
  • 12. Conversion Rates Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q2 2013 U.S. 2.90% 2.80% 2.85% 2.37% 2.60% International 1.12% 1.08% 1.14% 0.89% 0.89% Conversion Rates Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q2 2013 New 1.95% 1.94% 2.12% 1.58% 1.69% Returning 3.46% 3.33% 3.27% 2.82% 3.14% Add-to-Cart Rates Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q2 2013 New 6.08% 6.30% 7.33% 6.47% 6.19% Returning 10.99% 11.18% 12.31% 11.09% 11.30% Add-to-Cart Rates Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q2 2013 U.S. 8.68% 8.85% 10.02% 9.09% 9.00% International 6.56% 6.62% 7.25% 6.35% 6.30% EQ2 2013 a monetate publication | 12
  • 13. Conversion Rates by Device Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q2 2013 Traditional 2.85% 2.80% 2.90% 2.35% 2.56% Tablet 2.53% 2.43% 2.56% 2.27% 2.54% Smartphone 0.82% 0.77% 0.86% 0.84% 0.96% iPad 2.58% 2.49% 2.62% 2.32% 2.60% Kindle Fire 1.65% 1.51% 1.65% 1.46% 1.56% Android 2.47% 2.24% 2.13% 1.91% 2.00% iPhone 0.79% 0.77% 0.90% 0.83% 1.01% Android 0.89% 0.79% 0.82% 0.85% 0.88% Windows 0.73% 0.75% 0.72% 0.77% 0.77% Other 0.03% 0.22% 0.39% 0.45% 0.38% TABLETOVERALLSMARTPHONE a monetate publication | 13 EQ2 2013
  • 14. Conversion Rates by Device Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q2 2013 Q2 2013 Impact Score Traditional Tablet Smartphone iPad Kindle Fire Android iPhone Android Windows Other Traditional iPad Tablet Smartphone iPhone Android Phone Android Tablet Kindle Fire Windows Phone Other What you see here… The mean—or average—for the respective key performance indicator is represented by the dotted lines. Negative Impact Scores appear in red, while positive Impact Scores are blue. The distance between Impact Score and the mean represent the relative additional opportunity for the specific customer segment. TABLETOVERALLSMARTPHONE EQ2 2013 a monetate publication | 14
  • 15. ConversionRatesbyTrafficSource Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q2 2013 Search 2.12% 1.99% 2.27% 1.81% 1.94% Social 0.62% 0.71% 0.85% 0.69% 0.79% Email 3.56% 3.50% 3.40% 2.91% 3.34% Conversion Rates by Device Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q2 2013 Q2 2013 Impact Score Search Social Email Email Social Search Learn more about Impact Score. Download “Introducing Impact Score” at monetate.com/impactscore a monetate publication | 15 EQ2 2013
  • 16. Add-to-CartRatebyReferrer Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q2 2013 Email 10.51% 10.59% 11.48% 10.46% 10.73% Search 6.64% 6.59% 7.84% 6.74% 6.81% Social 2.52% 3.03% 3.75% 3.23% 3.37% AveragePageViewsbyReferrer Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q2 2013 Email 9.09 9.46 9.12 9.11 8.84 Search 9.27 9.09 9.03 8.94 8.71 Social 4.83 4.89 4.97 4.56 4.82 EQ2 2013 a monetate publication | 16
  • 17. Browser Market Share Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q2 2013 Internet Explorer 39.05% 37.16% 37.51% 33.66% 32.31% Chrome 17.38% 18.94% 18.99% 20.84% 22.15% Mobile Chrome 0.01% 0.15% 0.42% 0.70% 1.08% Firefox 16.01% 14.77% 13.65% 13.17% 12.76% Mobile Safari 11.30% 13.01% 14.31% 16.31% 16.99% Safari 12.09% 11.45% 11.30% 11.30% 10.74% Android Browser 3.41% 3.77% 3.93% 3.73% 3.70% Kindle Fire 0.33% 0.35% 0.29% 0.25% 0.22% Opera 0.38% 0.35% 0.13% 0.01% 0.01% Other 0.05% 0.05% 0.04% 0.04% 0.05% a monetate publication | 17 EQ2 2013
  • 18. Average Order Value by Device Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q2 2013 Traditional $106.69 $105.14 $112.68 $107.06 $115.74 Tablet $108.14 $104.05 $114.49 $108.70 $113.15 Smartphone $97.79 $97.60 $119.15 $114.26 $112.73 iPad $109.55 $105.23 $115.26 $109.52 $114.18 Android Tablet $97.27 $94.62 $107.45 $100.47 $101.22 Kindle Fire $87.03 $82.07 $95.83 $89.32 $91.84 iPhone $99.02 $98.84 $120.73 $115.88 $114.45 Android Phone $96.23 $95.86 $116.65 $111.78 $109.82 Windows Phone $91.64 $94.99 $111.84 $100.76 $112.36 AverageOrderValuebyTrafficSource Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q2 2013 Search $103.00 $101.63 $110.12 $104.46 $111.18 Social $75.82 $75.23 $79.61 $76.59 $86.80 Email $89.43 $86.43 $102.74 $95.27 $99.93 TABLETOVERALLSMARTPHONE EQ2 2013 a monetate publication | 18
  • 19. Conversion Rates by State Q2 2013 Armed Forces - America 5.00% Armed Forces - Europe 4.47% Wyoming 4.35% Armed Forces - Pacific 3.71% Montana 3.68% West Virginia 3.61% North Dakota 3.35% Pennsylvania 3.34% Delaware 3.29% Vermont 3.27% South Dakota 3.22% Alaska 3.16% New Hampshire 3.14% Connecticut 3.13% New Jersey 3.11% New Mexico 3.09% Nebraska 3.03% Maine 3.02% Maryland 2.98% Wisconsin 2.98% Ohio 2.95% Iowa 2.94% New York 2.94% Indiana 2.93% Michigan 2.91% Kentucky 2.90% Idaho 2.88% Conversion Rates by State Q2 2013 Rhode Island 2.83% Kansas 2.79% Nevada 2.77% District of Columbia 2.70% Tennessee 2.68% Arkansas 2.67% Oklahoma 2.67% Colorado 2.66% Illinois 2.65% Arizona 2.64% Massachusetts 2.63% Mississippi 2.62% North Carolina 2.62% Alabama 2.60% South Carolina 2.60% Washington 2.57% Georgia 2.55% Louisiana 2.55% Missouri 2.51% Utah 2.51% Florida 2.43% Oregon 2.43% Virginia 2.32% Hawaii 2.28% California 2.24% Texas 2.20% Minnesota 1.61% a monetate publication | 19 EQ2 2013
  • 20. Q2 2013 Conversion Rates Impact Scores by State Q2 2013 Conversion Rates Impact Scores by State New York Pennsylvania New Jersey Ohio Michigan Maryland Connecticut Illinois Wisconsin Indiana Massachusetts North Carolina Kentucky West Virginia Tennessee Georgia Colorado Arizona Washington New Hampshire Iowa Delaware Nebraska Kansas Montana New Mexico Maine Armed Forces - America Armed Forces - Pacific Hawaii Virginia Texas California Minnesota Nevada Alabama South Carolina Wyoming District of Columbia Oklahoma North Dakota Vermont Rhode Island Louisiana Missouri Florida Armed Forces - Europe South Dakota Idaho Arkansas Alaska Mississippi Utah Oregon EQ2 2013 a monetate publication | 20
  • 21. Average Order Value by State Q2 2013 Armed Forces - America $197.60 Armed Forces - Europe $150.93 Armed Forces - Pacific $132.86 Hawaii $131.17 Alaska $128.19 District of Columbia $127.36 Minnesota $125.83 California $123.04 New York $120.48 Texas $119.92 New Jersey $117.69 Maryland $116.38 Florida $115.59 Massachusetts $115.14 Washington $115.04 Virginia $114.54 Nevada $114.51 Georgia $113.61 Delaware $113.55 Oregon $113.51 North Dakota $112.84 Illinois $112.63 Connecticut $112.56 Colorado $111.87 Louisiana $110.80 Arizona $110.16 Mississippi $109.80 Average Order Value by State Q2 2013 New Mexico $109.52 New Hampshire $109.48 Rhode Island $108.81 Montana $108.55 Michigan $108.36 Wyoming $108.13 Idaho $107.80 Utah $107.50 South Carolina $107.43 Alabama $107.24 Oklahoma $106.67 Vermont $106.67 Tennessee $106.63 Ohio $106.44 Pennsylvania $106.28 North Carolina $105.92 Kentucky $105.59 Wisconsin $105.08 Arkansas $104.79 South Dakota $104.76 Missouri $104.39 Indiana $104.36 Kansas $103.05 Iowa $103.04 Maine $102.50 West Virginia $100.29 Nebraska $98.27 + a monetate publication | 21 EQ2 2013
  • 22. Q2 2013 Average Order Value Impact Scores by State Q2 2013 Average Order Value Impact Scores by State California New York Texas Minnesota New Jersey District of Columbia Hawaii Armed Forces - Europe Maryland Alaska Florida Armed Forces - Pacific Armed Forces - America Massachusetts Washington Nevada North Dakota Delaware Wyoming Montana Oregon Vermont South Dakota Virginia New Mexico Idaho Rhode Island Mississippi New Hampshire Connecticut Utah Louisiana Maine Georgia Colorado Arkansas Oklahoma Nebraska West Virginia Arizona Iowa Alabama Kansas South Carolina Kentucky Illinois Tennessee Wisconsin Missouri Indiana Michigan North Carolina Ohio Pennsylvania EQ2 2013 a monetate publication | 22
  • 23. Methodology The EQ analyzes a random sample of over 600 million online shopping experiences using “same store” data across each calendar quarter. Averages throughout the EQ are calculated across the entire sample. Key performance indicators, such as average order value and conversion rate, will vary by industry/market type. These averages are published only to support the analysis in each release of the EQ, and are not intended to be benchmarks for any ecommerce business. For all media inquiries, questions, and feedback regarding the information in this report, or to obtain copies of previous releases of the EQ, contact: Marifran Manzo-Ritchie Director of Corporate Communications (215) 987-4441 mmanzoritchie@monetate.com References 1. SEC Wants Chains to Cough Up More E-commerce Data, Internet Retailer (August 2013) 2. The State of Retailing Online 2013: Key Metrics and Initiatives, Shop.org (January 2013) 3. 92:1: Marketing’s Dirty Little Statistic, Econsultancy (June 2011) 4. The State of Retailing Online 2013: Marketing & Merchandising, Shop.org (July 2013) a monetate publication | 23 EQ2 2013
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