How to Boost Your E-Commerce Sales with Digital Marketing, Irresistible Product Offers, Social Proof, and Targeted Traffic

Selecting the Right Product

The basis of your e-commerce will always be your product or service. Creating a product that fits the needs and wants of your target audience is key to have any type of success in ecomm. The tricky part is actually finding that "winning product."

Luckily nowadays, we have a lot of information available at our fingertips. A simple search on TikTok with the hashtags "#product" or "#store" will give you loads of results of products that have been successful. Of course, copy-pasting is not the idea for you to have success, but you can get a good sense of what the market's main needs and wants are. Based on this information, you can then look up products on Spocket, Alibaba, AliExpress, and even Amazon to sell in your store.

Building a Trustworthy Ecommerce store (website)

Now that you have your product, you'll need to create a website where you'd like to sell your product(s) or service(s). Before even getting started with this you need to think about what convinces YOU to buy something online. It's always trust before any good deal/offer. Building a website that meets today's expectations is very important to get customers over the line. You're going to want to:

• Start with creating your brand: Write up a simple document and explain what you're brand is all about, why you exist, how you're better and more valuable, and what you offer. Follow the Golden Circle principle to get this done properly. The objective of this phase is to create the essence of your brand.
• Get into your tone of voice: How do you want your customers to perceive and understand you. Do you want to be friendly and fun, or be professional and educational? Write up a document on how you would want your brand to "talk" to your customers. Make sure it matches your target audience's expectations (We can't communicate an informal "rainbows and butterflies" tone when selling $50K/mo operational audit services, nor can we communicate a corporate and professional tone when selling a bubble gun).
• Start your design process: Start by choosing your brands colors, and designing logos that match your brand and tone of voice. Your logo should communicate the same essence of your brand. You can use simple design apps with AI like Canva to come up with a logo.
• Build you website: Use website builders like Shopify, Wordpress with woo-commerce, or Webflow to build out your website. All platforms offer a wide range of templates you can use to get started. Simply adjust the colors, logos, images, layout and web-copy to fit that of your brand.
• Set up your domains and integrations: Once your website is built make sure to connect a custom domain that matches that of your brand (i.e. www.yourbrand.com), integrate any drop shipping suppliers you'll be using, or upload your products manually.

Designing an Irresistible Product Offer

The next step of your e-commerce success is creating a really appealing product offer for your target audiences. It's very different to find a "killer" product than to actually sell it. A good offer, a personal touch, or high value bundles can do the trick to get those customers across the line:

• Exclusive collections: Presenting one-of-a-kind goods unavailable anyplace else. You can do this with a brand new product, an exclusive product only your brand offers, or with personalization to products (for example letting customers add their name or phrases to the product, choose different colors, sizes, etc.)
• Limited-time offers: Creating urgency with discounts or unique pricing for a limited period. Although this method might seem outdated, it does still work quite well if done properly through limited time discount codes, sale events, and referral discounts.
• Premium bundles: Combining items into value-for-money bundles that are too wonderful to ignore is also a powerful strategy.

An appealing product offer can make consumers feel as though they must buy now before the possibility disappears. The correct offer streamlines the selling procedure, therefore simplifying it and requiring just a click "Buy Now".

Creating an Exceptional Product Offer

Think about these ideas to create an outstanding product offer:

1. Market Research: Understand the demands and preferences of your audience. Conduct surveys, read reviews, and analyze competitors to identify market gaps.
2. Unique Selling Proposition (USP): Clearly state what distinguishes your offering. Emphasize unique qualities, advantages, and high points that set it apart from rivals.
3. Pricing Strategy: To boost perceived value, use psychological pricing strategies such as combining items at a lower price or charm pricing—ending prices in .95.
4. Limited-Time Offers: Create urgency with offers of limited-time discounts or sales. This strategy lessens doubt and promotes speedy decisions.
5. Exclusive Products: Offer unique items or editions not found elsewhere. This uniqueness can generate demand and urgency by itself.

The Effect of Social Proof

One of the best tools for fostering confidence and converting store patrons into eager consumers is social proof. This incorporates:

• Real consumer comments: Authentic reviews about your products.
• Video testimonials: Videos of happy consumers sharing their great experiences.
• Before/after stories: Showcasing changes or effects your product can do.

Social proof helps remove uncertainty and persuades potential consumers that your offering is the genuine thing. The more real and relevant the social proof, the stronger its influence.

Boosting Social Proof

To boost your social proof, it's highly recommend to incorporate the following key elements to your e-commerce store's experience as well:

1. Encourage Reviews: After a purchase, encourage consumers to provide evaluations by email follow-up requests. Reward honest comments with discounts on next purchases.
2. Showcase Testimonials: Display testimonials prominently on your page. Add pictures or videos to make them more real and relatable.
3. Utilize User-Generated Content: Share content created by your clients on your social media accounts. This might be images, films, or narratives highlighting their interactions with your product.
4. Highlight Influencers: Work with influencers who genuinely believe in your product. Their endorsements can significantly boost credibility and reach.
5. Before/After Stories: Share transformative stories that your product has made possible. Products related to health, beauty, and fitness where visual results have a great impact would notably benefit from this.