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This article explores 14 best practices for creating successful shoppable videos, including understanding your audience, setting clear goals, choosing the right platform, and incorporating interactive features. Learn from successful case studies and stay ahead of future trends like AR, VR, and live-stream shopping to enhance engagement and drive conversions.
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This blog emphasizes the unique marketing opportunities presented by the UEFA Euro 2024 and the Paris Olympics for eCommerce brands. It highlights strategies such as real-time and limited-time engagement to capture audience interest during these major sports events. Industry experts share insights on leveraging live social media updates and event-themed promotions to boost sales and engagement. The post also explores the benefits of personalization, using first-party data for targeted advertising, and creating exclusive merchandise to attract sports enthusiasts. Moreover, it showcases how integrating platforms like Storyly can enhance the digital customer experience by creating interactive and shoppable content, fostering a more engaged and loyal customer base.
Explore the transformative power of shoppable videos for online boutiques. This post delves into the metrics that reveal their effectiveness—like conversion rates and ROI—highlighting tools to optimize performance and maximize returns.
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Explore the latest trends and statistics about social commerce as we examine how platforms like YouTube, TikTok, and Facebook are blending social interactions with e-commerce. Learn about the rise of live shopping events and AI-enhanced shopping experiences in our comprehensive overview of this fast-evolving market. Dive into the details and discover why social commerce is the future of online shopping.
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Discover the transformative power of interactive content in today's digital landscape. From dynamic maps and product configurators to engaging quizzes and shoppable videos, interactive content captivates audiences, boosts engagement, and drives higher conversion rates. Learn how these tools not only enhance user experience but also deliver valuable insights and foster deeper brand connections.
This blog post explores 12 types of interactive content, including quizzes, polls, interactive videos, and AR experiences, each illustrated with real-world examples. Interactive content captures user interest by prompting active participation, which enhances user engagement, satisfaction, and loyalty. Key examples include Storyly Stories, which integrates interactive elements into apps and websites, and BuzzFeed quizzes, known for their high completion rates. Tools like calculators, interactive infographics, and gamified emails also demonstrate how interactive content can drive user engagement and gather valuable insights. To create effective interactive content, brands should understand their audience, set clear goals, focus on quality, ensure user-friendliness, and provide valuable experiences. Regular testing and iteration are essential for continuous improvement. By embracing interactive content, brands can create memorable, impactful interactions that drive conversions and foster deeper connections with their audience.
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As eCommerce competition intensifies, technological advancements and shifting consumer expectations are shaping the industry's future. Key trends include the transition to first-party and zero-party data for better customer insights, the rise of AI and augmented reality for personalized and immersive shopping experiences, and a growing focus on sustainability. Industry experts predict that engaged commerce, omnichannel shopping, and direct-to-consumer models will dominate in 2025, offering both challenges and opportunities for businesses to innovate and thrive.
Retailers have been using gift guides during Holiday Season, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Valentine’s Day to make the most of these high-intent shopping seasons. It’s a proven tactic allowing marketers to highlight bestsellers or overstocked items and helping shoppers quickly find the perfect gift. Read the article to learn how to create gift guides that boost sales conversions.
As attention spans decrease, engaging consumers quickly becomes crucial. Shoppable videos, integrating product links into engaging content, are a powerful tool for eCommerce businesses. With 75% of global video consumption on mobile devices, shoppable videos are designed for mobile-friendly formats, tap-to-shop convenience, and instant gratification. This blog explores how shoppable videos can enhance mobile engagement and drive higher conversion rates. Key strategies include understanding your audience through market research, leveraging interactive elements like Storyly's features, and incorporating compelling storytelling, personalized content, and gamification. Success stories from Decathlon, Footasylum, and PICARD demonstrate the impact of shoppable videos in creating dynamic shopping experiences. Embrace these innovative techniques to elevate your mobile engagement and boost sales.
Shopping cart abandonment is a significant issue for eCommerce brands, leading to lost sales and revenue. This blog explores the top 10 reasons why shoppers leave eCommerce sites without buying and offers actionable solutions to improve user experience, optimize shipping and payment options, streamline checkout processes, and enhance customer support. By understanding shopper behavior and addressing these common obstacles, businesses can reduce cart abandonment rates, increase conversions, and drive long-term customer loyalty.
This blog post explores 17 powerful strategies, including personalized interactions, multi-channel communication, rewards programs, and user-generated content. By implementing these tactics, eCommerce businesses can enhance customer satisfaction, foster loyalty, and drive revenue growth. The article emphasizes the importance of understanding customer needs, delivering value, and creating memorable experiences to turn visitors into engaged fans and loyal customers.
Discover the transformative power of Shoppable Stories with Storyly, seamlessly integrating commerce into your digital content. Learn how to craft engaging, personalized shopping experiences that captivate and convert. Dive into the strategies and tools that make shopping as natural as scrolling through your feed.
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This blog explains the importance of CLV, its calculation methods, and the critical metrics involved. Additionally, it highlights common pitfalls and best practices to ensure accurate and effective CLV calculations, ultimately helping businesses make informed decisions to boost customer loyalty and reduce churn.
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Storyly's Smart Sorting is a powerful feature that can help companies increase the impact of their campaigns by maximizing the engagement rate of their Stories It helps provide more tailored experiences to the users, and improve efficiency and productivity.
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As a mobile-native Stories platform, Storyly makes it easy to create immersive and engaging content that your audience will love. And now, with our partnership with MoEngage, we're taking things to the next level.
As a brand, it's important to understand the difference between on-site personalization and customization. Both of these elements help you meet customers' needs based on their unique preferences. Delivering individualized experiences is a recent concept that aims to enhance personalization, but you might not be familiar with it. What exactly is an "individualized experience" and how can it take on-site personalization to the next level? Let's find out!
One eCommerce trend that's slated to change the future of this market is shoppertainment. Over the years, shoppertainment has become increasingly popular among consumers and marketers alike as people seek more engaging shopping experiences online. Out are the boring and monotonous marketing campaigns trying to get people's attention, and are in highly engaging videos that entertain as much as they promote. In short, marketing today is about the user, not the brand behind it. Wondering why shoppertainment is such a crucial investment today? Here we'll dive deeper into this trend and the many benefits you'll get from it.
Keeping up with the latest news, technologies, and trends in the retail and eCommerce industry is crucial to achieving success. Thankfully, experts who have an active voice in this field lead the way for us to get to know the industry. The following list features the top retail and eCommerce experts to follow in Europe.
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When it comes to monitoring eCommerce websites, there are so many tools you can use. For someone relatively new to eCommerce, it can be pretty overwhelming, with so many numbers and statistics to analyze and understand. And while all of these metrics bear some importance, not all of them will be important to you with every campaign. Some will be more crucial to measure than others based on your goals, making it important to cut through the noise and focus only on those metrics that matter most. To help you succeed with your eCommerce efforts, let's take a close look at what eCommerce website metrics are all about and go into some of the specific metrics worth tracking.
The checkout is one of the most critical moments in the eCommerce experience. In order to incentivize customers to checkout, you need to create an effective marketing campaign. You can then inspire those customers to jump into a purchase as you excite them with details about your products. However, all those efforts can be fruitless if your checkout process is less than desirable. To help you prevent any issues from turning customers away once you've captured them, consider the following eCommerce checkout best practices.
"Personalization" and "customization" are often used interchangeably, but they are distinct concepts with different implications for the end user. Personalization involves tailoring an experience to an individual based on their unique preferences, interests, and behaviors. At the same time, customization puts the power in the user's hands, allowing them to create an experience uniquely suited to their needs. In this blog post, we'll explore the difference between personalization and customization, highlight their importance in enhancing the customer experience, and discuss the challenges and considerations for implementing them in a business context.
For someone who is new to the retail and eCommerce landscape, it is essential to pay attention to the leading experts in the industry. Personally, I follow many different experts who help me gain a better understanding of the industry and stay up-to-date with the latest news. This is why I want to share the following list with you, which includes US-based retail and eCommerce experts that you’ll need to keep an eye out for in 2024 and beyond.
Video Stories can significantly improve engagement, conversions, and retention for retail apps and websites. The key is to use them the right way to provide customers with a unique experience that drives conversions and inspires users. To help you fully utilize video Stories and realize their possibilities, we'll give you some ideas for how to use them to your advantage.
More and more shoppers today seek inspiration online for their purchases. Even when shoppers aren't currently looking for something, a certain source may inspire them to make a purchase. In fact, according to Google, 60% of consumers get the urge to buy a product from a source of inspiration even when they're not actively shopping. If you want to incentivize your customers to buy from you, you should understand precisely what inspires shoppers and how you can appeal to this need.
Acquiring new customers and retaining existing ones helps boost revenue, but you should also do what you can to maximize their order values. Unfortunately, it's often hard to get customers to pile on items to their initial orders. If you can somehow increase the average basket size of your customers, you can significantly increase your revenue with each customer and order. High average order sizes will ultimately help your business directly, making this an essential metric to boost. Thankfully, there are plenty of means to help you increase average cart value, but Video Stories are among the most effective you'll find. There are several reasons I recommend this means in particular: Video Stories improve product discovery, decrease cart abandonment, maximize average basket size, and increase conversion rates.
It’s time to give your email strategy a glow-up! Inbox Stories, a new feature that lets you integrate Story content directly into an email is a dynamic new way to improve CTR and achieve your engagement and retention goals.
Welcome back to the Inspiration Hub! It’s time to get ready for March marketing plans, and there’s plenty to celebrate. I’ve put together some Story ideas for each of the holidays and events coming up, so you can mark your calendar with favorites or the best fit for your brand.
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