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Multi award winning agency Impression invited ecommerce marketers to join for a workshop on digital challenges facing ecommerce. Agenda includes:

- Adam Bly: The Ecommerce Environment
- Edd Wilson: Technologies Affecting Ecommerce Marketing
- Liam Wade: Google Shopping - How to Get Ahead
- Laura Hampton: Digital PR for Ecommerce Businesses

Multi award winning agency Impression invited ecommerce marketers to join for a workshop on digital challenges facing ecommerce. Agenda includes:

- Adam Bly: The Ecommerce Environment
- Edd Wilson: Technologies Affecting Ecommerce Marketing
- Liam Wade: Google Shopping - How to Get Ahead
- Laura Hampton: Digital PR for Ecommerce Businesses

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Ecommerce Forum: Impression April 2019

  1. 1. @impressiontalk 1 THE ECOMMERCE FORUM Digital Success for Ecommerce Marketers
  2. 2. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk The Ecommerce Environment by Adam Bly DIGITAL STRATEGIST @impressiontalk
  3. 3. Private and confidential I’m Adam ● 18 months client side - PPC, SEO, Web Dev ● Joined Impression in summer 2017 ● Strategy and planning across all areas of digital marketing. 3
  4. 4. Private & Confidential ‹#› https://www.ons.gov.uk The obvious stuff NOV 2006 SEP 2007 JUL 2008 MAY 2009 MAR 2010 JAN 2011 NOV 2011 SEP 2012 JUL 2013 MAY 2014 MAR 2015 JAN 2016 NOV 2016 SEP 2017 JUL 2018 FEB 2019 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% Internet sales as a percentage of total retail sales (ratio) (%)
  5. 5. Private & Confidential ‹#› 2014 0 200 400 600 800 2015 2016 2017 SalesinbillionGBP Wholesale Manufacturing Transport and storage Information and Communication Other services Retail Utilities Accommodation & food services Construction E-commerce sales distributed by industry sector in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2014 to 2017 https://www.ons.gov.uk via Statista
  6. 6. Private & Confidential ‹#› https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/tips-for-the-future/future-of-retail/ https://www2.deloitte.com/uk/en/pages/consumer-business/articles/retail-trends.html# The High Street ● Big name closures ● Global competitors ● Business rates ● Consumer spending ● Consumer confidence ● But can the digital and physical work together?
  7. 7. Private & Confidential ‹#› ● Direct to Consumer brands ● Image Search ● Personalisation The real threats, trends and opportunities ● In-channel Shopping/Social Commerce ● Truly Mobile-First ● International eCommerce
  8. 8. Private & Confidential ‹#› Direct to Consumer
  9. 9. Private and confidential 9 Image Search ● It’s time to think about image search. ● Google lens and e-commerce implications. ● Think of image search as a channel
  10. 10. Private & Confidential ‹#› ● Messaging ● Experiences ● Faux personalisation ● PWA’s/JS Personalisation
  11. 11. Private & Confidential ‹#› Social Commerce Private & Confidential 11
  12. 12. Private & Confidential ‹#›
  13. 13. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk Thank you Adam Bly adam.bly@impression.co.uk @impressiontalk
  14. 14. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk Technologies influencing ecommerce SEO by Edd Wilson SEO Strategist @impressiontalk
  15. 15. hello@impression.co.uk - Search marketing since 2010 - Joined Impression in 2014 - Agency and in-house experience - Specialises in Technical SEO & SEO Strategy - Award nominated SEO campaigns I’m Edd SEO Strategist
  16. 16. @impressiontalk What are we seeing? 1. Mobile first index 2. Performance focused websites 3. Crawl optimisation 4. The rise of javascript @impressiontalk
  17. 17. @impressiontalk Mobile First Index - 1 year anniversary @impressiontalk
  18. 18. @impressiontalk Googlebot Smartphone @impressiontalk
  19. 19. @impressiontalk Currys adapted to mobile first @impressiontalk
  20. 20. @impressiontalk [Headphones] - Number 1 @impressiontalk
  21. 21. @impressiontalk Currys - Organic traffic growth @impressiontalk
  22. 22. @impressiontalk Currys - Organic keyword performance @impressiontalk
  23. 23. @impressiontalk Page speed performance @impressiontalk
  24. 24. @impressiontalk Page speed performance User focused Googlebot @impressiontalk
  25. 25. @impressiontalk This becomes a major issue for ecommerce websites @impressiontalk 20,000 products
  26. 26. @impressiontalk Pagespeed insights @impressiontalk
  27. 27. @impressiontalk Speedmonitor.io @impressiontalk
  28. 28. @impressiontalk Page speed improvements @impressiontalk 1. Implement caching to reduce the size of requests. 1. Organise your code (CSS & Javascript) so it can be loaded separately and in the order of highest to lowest priority. 1. Image compression - TinyPNG
  29. 29. @impressiontalk Page speed improvements @impressiontalk 4. Utilise a CDN (Content Delivery Network) stores image files on different servers around the world. 5. Remove any code or lines that don’t contribute to the page, such as old legacy code, whitespace and comments - HTMLminify, CSSNano and UglifyJS 6. Lazy loading - loading of non-critical, below the fold images, which will only be loaded when needed by the user.
  30. 30. @impressiontalk Crawl Optimisation @impressiontalk Googlebot
  31. 31. @impressiontalk Crawl Optimisation @impressiontalk
  32. 32. @impressiontalk Crawl Optimisation @impressiontalk ● Categories & products ● Faceted navigation ● Additional pages such as blogs/buying guides
  33. 33. @impressiontalk Faceted Navigation @impressiontalk
  34. 34. @impressiontalk Crawl Optimisation @impressiontalk Googlebot crawling /trainers /trainers?price /trainers?colour=red
  35. 35. @impressiontalk Crawl Optimisation @impressiontalk
  36. 36. @impressiontalk Organic performance @impressiontalk
  37. 37. @impressiontalk Areas to focus @impressiontalk 1. Crawler restrictions (robots.txt commands and no-follow link attributes) 2. No-index low value pages 3. Focus your internal links on primary pages and restrict Googlebot when required
  38. 38. @impressiontalk The rise of Javascript @impressiontalk
  39. 39. @impressiontalk 2014 “..sometimes things don't go perfectly during rendering, which may negatively impact search results for your site.” @impressiontalk
  40. 40. @impressiontalk 2016 @impressiontalk
  41. 41. @impressiontalk 2016 @impressiontalk
  42. 42. @impressiontalk 2016
  43. 43. @impressiontalk Hulu saw a 4 million organic visitor drop off
  44. 44. @impressiontalk How does Javascript impact search?
  45. 45. @impressiontalk Three Factors Crawlability Rendering Crawl Budget @impressiontalk
  46. 46. @impressiontalk hello@impression.co.uk Crawling HTML 1. Googlebot downloads an HTML 1. Googlebot extracts the links from the source code 1. Googlebot downloads the CSS Files 1. Googlebot sends all the downloaded resources to the indexer 1. The indexer then indexes the page
  47. 47. @impressiontalk hello@impression.co.uk Crawling JS vs HTML 1. Googlebot downloads the HTML 1. Googlebot downloads the CSS and Javascript. 1. Googlebot uses their Web Rendering Service to parse, compile and execute Javascript code. 1. The WRS fetches data from external APIs 1. The Indexer can now index the content 1. Google can discover new links and add it to Googlebot’s crawling queue
  48. 48. @impressiontalk Two waves of Indexing @impressiontalk
  49. 49. @impressiontalk This process highlights how time consuming it is for Google @impressiontalk
  50. 50. @impressiontalk Our experiences with Javascript & SEO @impressiontalk
  51. 51. @impressiontalk One of the UK’s largest online tool suppliers were just seeing a quarter of their 200,000 pages being indexed by Google @impressiontalk
  52. 52. @impressiontalk Their website was built on React and it was nearly impossible to crawl and render @impressiontalk
  53. 53. @impressiontalk Organic Traffic - 40k organic monthly visitors lost! @impressiontalk
  54. 54. @impressiontalk Organic Keywords: 1,866 keywords in position 1-3 dropped @impressiontalk
  55. 55. @impressiontalk No alternative rendering solution. @impressiontalk
  56. 56. @impressiontalk Internal links & pagination injected through Javascript @impressiontalk
  57. 57. @impressiontalk Major page elements & canonical tags injected through Javascript @impressiontalk
  58. 58. @impressiontalk Results - Organic Traffic @impressiontalk
  59. 59. @impressiontalk Weekly Organic Revenue - £10,240 to £31,774 - 210% increase @impressiontalk
  60. 60. @impressiontalk What can you do? @impressiontalk
  61. 61. @impressiontalk Resources ● Rendering on the web - Google ● Guide to Javascript SEO - Elephate ● View Rendered Source - Tool @impressiontalk
  62. 62. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk Thank you Edd Wilson @EddJTW edd.wilson@impression.co.uk @impressiontalk
  63. 63. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk Google Shopping: How to Get Ahead by Liam Wade H E A D O F P P C @impressiontalk
  64. 64. Private and confidential I’m Liam ● 5 Years (!) at Impression & Head of PPC ● Speaker at SMX, HeroConf, AdWorld and Twitter (@Digital_Liam) ● Hobbies; music, running a marathon next week & founding member of the British Horological Institute 64
  65. 65. Private and confidential 65
  66. 66. Private and confidential 66
  67. 67. Private and confidential 67 Smart Insights 2018
  68. 68. Private and confidential Increased competition? Forces innovation 68
  69. 69. Private and confidential Best Practice = Old Practice 69
  70. 70. Private and confidential This session Key Challenges: 1. Feed optimisation 2. Managing query intent + Bonus Round AKA Secret Herbs and Spices 70
  71. 71. Private and confidential How do Shopping Ads work? 71 QUERY FEED PLA
  72. 72. Private and confidential Challenge #1 Feed Optimisation 72
  73. 73. Private and confidential 73 Who is feed optimisation for? The Platform The Consumer The Advertiser
  74. 74. Private and confidential Feed optimisation types 74 Functional Useful Contextual The Platform The Consumer The Advertiser SERP performance Commercial performance Profit Who is it for? Focus metrics
  75. 75. Private and confidential 75 Functional Use product data in order to comply with a platform’s requirements
  76. 76. Private and confidential Feed optimisation | Functional 76 Required Attributes Google Product Data Specification Most common Title & Description ID / MPN / SKU / GTIN Link & Image_Link(s) Price & Sale Price Availability
  77. 77. Private and confidential Feed optimisation | Functional 77 Recommended Attributes Often specific to product category Most common Adult / Gender Multipack / Bundle Age Group Colour / Material / Pattern / Size
  78. 78. Private and confidential 78 Useful Craft product data in order to better match user searches and browsing
  79. 79. Private and confidential 79 What is quality score for?
  80. 80. Private and confidential 80 There is no quality score in Google Shopping
  81. 81. Private and confidential Feed optimisation | Useful 81 Product titles in particular are shown to have the biggest impact on visibility More value is attributed towards the earlier part of the title, so front-load the most important information.
  82. 82. Private and confidential Feed optimisation | Useful 82 the higher the click-through rate, the greater reach your product will get Title Optimisation > Better for users (Better queries) > Better for advertisers (More relevant traffic)
  83. 83. Private and confidential Feed optimisation | Useful 83 Website bias Titles making sense on site does not mean that titles are useful for searchers On site Shopping results
  84. 84. Private and confidential Feed optimisation | Useful 84
  85. 85. Private and confidential Feed optimisation | Useful 85 Do Not Keyword Stuff If you include your target keywords multiple times within your product title, your product will see fewer impressions. Rolex 18k Watch - Gold Rolex Timepiece
  86. 86. Private and confidential How to write product titles for your Shopping Feeds 1. Use your existing product attributes in a sensible way {Brand} {Model} {Product Type} - {Colour} 1. Speak the language of your customers - What are your customers searching for? 1. TEST. Feed optimisation | Useful 86
  87. 87. Private and confidential 87 KW Planner Search Query Reports Site Search Competitor PLAs Reviews “Answer the Public” How do I find the language of my customers?
  88. 88. Private and confidential Feed optimisation | Useful 88 Keyword Planner
  89. 89. Private and confidential Feed optimisation | Useful 89 Search Query Reports
  90. 90. Private and confidential Feed optimisation | Useful 90 Site Search (Analytics / Site Backend) Google Analytics Website
  91. 91. Private and confidential Feed optimisation | Useful 91 Competitor PLAs
  92. 92. Private and confidential Feed optimisation | Useful 92 AnswerThePublic.com
  93. 93. Private and confidential Feed optimisation | Useful 93 Reviews
  94. 94. Private and confidential Feed optimisation | Useful 94 Speak to Salesfolk
  95. 95. Private and confidential 95 What happens when we optimise our product titles?
  96. 96. Private and confidential Feed optimisation | Useful 96 Removed unnecessary information + Added additional size / pattern information Adjusted language for key product ranges based on SQR
  97. 97. Private and confidential Feed optimisation | Useful 97 Less invasive testing, but CTR benefits
  98. 98. Private and confidential 98 Contextual Use extra-campaign data in order to influence advertising decisions
  99. 99. Private and confidential Feed optimisation | Contextual 99 Bid strategies that don’t use context are inherently flawed. Why? Unless you do, making decisions based only on campaign data. Performance data is reacted to with bidding Products gather data Products are submitted to Feed
  100. 100. Private and confidential 100 PricingMargin Best Sellers Elsewhere What do you know about your products that Google does not?
  101. 101. Private and confidential Feed optimisation | Contextual 101 Custom Labels ● For the advertiser - can be whatever you'd like ● 5 slots available (CL0 to CL4) ● Limit of 1,000 unique values (you shouldn't need more than this!)
  102. 102. Private and confidential Feed optimisation | Contextual 102 Basics - Price
  103. 103. Private and confidential Feed optimisation | Contextual 103 Better product data - Margin - Value AFTER Margin Use boundaries rather than actual % value (limit on # Custom Labels)
  104. 104. Private and confidential Feed optimisation | Contextual 104 Basics - # of Sales
  105. 105. Private and confidential Feed optimisation | Contextual 105 In future, new products that share these groups are given more informed starting bid Contextual feeds help us to make better bidding decisions (script / automated rules / smart bidding / manual) Products are submitted to Feed Bidding is informed from Day 1 Products are grouped by contextual information Initial bid is set based on business context
  106. 106. Private and confidential 106 Calculated Contextual Signals
  107. 107. Private and confidential Feed optimisation | Contextual 107 Calculated data sources | Coverage (Size) - What size is the user looking for?
  108. 108. Private and confidential Feed optimisation | Contextual 108 Calculated data sources | Coverage (Size) Anticipate conversion rates!
  109. 109. Private and confidential Feed optimisation | Contextual 109 Calculated data sources | Coverage (Model) What % of the full range of this brands products do we have on site? Eg. “Less than 20” = We stock less than 20% of this brand’s products
  110. 110. Private and confidential Feed Optimisation | Key Takeaways 110 Your campaign will only be as strong as your feed. ● FUNCTIONAL - give Google the best data you can (+ more) ● USEFUL - test your product titles for reach and engagement, allowing you to reach more users for a lower CPC ● CONTEXTUAL - provide bidding signals within platform in order to maximise ROAS
  111. 111. Private and confidential Challenge #2 Query Control 111
  112. 112. Private and confidential 112 The more aggressive the bid, the more broad queries you enter the auction for DAVE BHAVISHA NIAMH
  113. 113. Private and confidential 113 Google Shopping ads are designed to deliver diminishing returns* BROADNESS OF QUERY
  114. 114. Private and confidential 114 Google Shopping ads are designed to deliver diminishing returns*
  115. 115. Private and confidential 7% CONV. RATE 115 Unlike Search, you can’t choose a bid for different queries black trainers nike air max sequent 2 0.5% CONV. RATE £150.00 COST PER SALE X = £0.75 COST-PER-CLICK £10.71 COST PER SALE X =HIGH-INTENT QUERY GENERIC QUERY› £0.75 COST-PER-CLICK £0.75 COST-PER-CLICK
  116. 116. Private and confidential 116 Query sculpting CAMPAIGN PRIORITY SETTING NEGATIVE KEYWORDS EXAMPLE QUERY Generic High +nike “trainers” Brand Low - “nike trainers”
  117. 117. Private and confidential 117 Query sculpting CAMPAIGN PRIORITY SETTING NEGATIVE KEYWORDS EXAMPLE QUERY Generic High +nike “trainers” Brand Med +rosche “nike trainers” Brand + Model Low - “nike rosche trainers”
  118. 118. Private and confidential 118 Query sculpting 7% CONV. RATE black trainers nike air max sequent 2 0.5% CONV. RATE £30.00 COST PER SALE X = £0.75 COST-PER-CLICK £10.71 COST PER SALE X =HIGH-INTENT QUERY GENERIC QUERY› £0.15 COST-PER-CLICK £0.75 COST-PER-CLICK
  119. 119. Private and confidential Bid more aggressively for high ROAS queries, without entering broad low-performance queries 119
  120. 120. Private and confidential 120 Non-brand sculpting CAMPAIGN PRIORITY SETTING NEGATIVE KEYWORDS EXAMPLE QUERY Generic High {all 2-word+ queries with a ROAS 700%+} - High Performers Low - {high converters}
  121. 121. Private and confidential 121 Finding intent modifiers
  122. 122. Private and confidential 122 Exact match shopping campaigns CAMPAIGN LEVEL AD GROUP LEVEL CAMPAIGN PRIORITY SETTING NEGATIVE KWs AD GROUP NEGATIVE KWs SEARCH QUERIES BID STRATEGY #1 All Queries High [rolex watches] [tag heuer watches] ALL - {anything else} - #2 Focus Queries Low - [rolex watches] [tag heuer watches] "rolex watches" Specific [tag heuer watches] [rolex watches] "tag heuer watches"
  123. 123. Private and confidential 123 Bad queries
  124. 124. Private and confidential 124 Query-intent spectrum* Assist Rate (Assisted Transactions / Last Click Transactions) Predicted Last Click ROAS Rolex Submariner Silver 116610 gifts for men mens luxury watch luxury mens steel watch Low Low High Father’s Day High *We’ll need another 2 hours to go through attribution
  125. 125. Private and confidential Query Control | Key Takeaways 125 Shopping campaigns, by design, are more expensive to scale - query sculpting can help combat this. ● Separate queries by expected conversion rate ● More granular sculpting =/= a more successful campaign ● There is no such thing as a bad search query - just terms that should be treated differently
  126. 126. Private and confidential Query Control | Key Takeaways 126 Shopping campaigns, by design, are more expensive to scale - query sculpting can help combat this. ● Separate queries by expected conversion rate ● More granular sculpting =/= a more successful campaign ● There is no such thing as a bad search query - just terms that should be treated differently
  127. 127. Private and confidential Bonus Round Secret Herbs & Spices 127
  128. 128. Private and confidential Bonus | Promotions (Please Be Human) 128 Discounts for… NO REASON 10% Off For Mother's Day 10% Off For The Queen’s Birthday 20% Off Because It’s Raining
  129. 129. Private and confidential Bonus | Showcase Ads 129
  130. 130. Private and confidential Bonus | Local Inventory Ads 130
  131. 131. Private and confidential Bonus | Price is (almost) everything 131
  132. 132. Private and confidential Bonus | CSS Partners 132
  133. 133. Private and confidential Bonus | The Window Effect 133
  134. 134. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk Thank you Liam Wade @Digital_Liam liam@impression.co.uk @impressiontalk
  135. 135. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk Digital PR for Ecommerce Businesses by Laura Hampton HEAD OF DIGITAL PR @impressiontalk
  136. 136. Private and confidential I’m Laura ● 4 years+ at Impression, 10 years in the industry, Head of Marketing & PR ● Speaker at Brighton SEO, SMX London, STAT City Crawl and on Twitter @lauralhampton ● In my spare time, I represent team GB in skydiving and recently won the British Indoor Skydiving Championships 136
  137. 137. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk 137 Let’s start with a story...
  138. 138. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk 138 ● A friend of a friend is travelling in Edinburgh for business ● He goes to a local bar for a drink after his meeting and meets a beautiful woman ● She offers to buy him a drink and, flattered, he accepts ● He takes a sip. That’s the last thing he remembers.
  139. 139. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk 139 ● He wakes up in a hotel room, in a bathtub, his body submerged in ice ● He looks around frantically, then spots a note: “Don’t move, call 999” ● He does so. The operator seems oddly familiar with his situation
  140. 140. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk 140 ● “Sir, I want you to reach behind you, slowly and carefully. Is there a tube protruding from your back?” ● Anxiously, he felt around behind him. There was a tube sticking out of his lower back ● “Sir, don’t panic, but one of your kidneys has been harvested. There’s a ring of organ thieves operating in the city and they got you. Don’t move. Paramedics are on their way.”
  141. 141. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk 141 Good PR is just a story, told well.
  142. 142. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk 142 Modern ecommerce is, in many ways, a series of stories Those we tell about ours brand, and those our customers tell themselves in their purchase journeys.
  143. 143. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk “I need…” “I want…” “I deserve…” “We sell…” “We’re the best…” “We’re the most convenient…”
  144. 144. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk 144 Stories impact every stage of the funnel.
  145. 145. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk 145 “Buy…” “Best…”, “Cheapest…” “Which…” “What…”, “Why…”
  146. 146. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk 146 “Buy artificial rugby turf” “Best artificial grass for rugby pitches” “Which artificial grass is best for contact sports?” “Why use artificial grass on pitches?”
  147. 147. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk 147 “Buy G cup bra” “Best brands for larger bra sizes” “Which bra type is best for bigger boobs?” “What are the consequences of wearing the wrong size bra?”
  148. 148. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk 148 PPC / SEO / CRO PPC / SEO SEO PR
  149. 149. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk 149 Many ecommerce marketers focus solely on the “action” But the opportunity for growth lies in how we develop the top of the funnel
  150. 150. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk 150
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  155. 155. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk 155 What stories support your funnel?
  156. 156. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk 156 Ready for another story?
  157. 157. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk Comprehensive community building naturally lends itself to a return-on-investment rationale that can be modelled, drawing on existing practice.
  158. 158. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk A factor constraining the resources is that funders must often resort to targeting or categorical requirements in grant making to ensure accountability.
  159. 159. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk 159 So, what even is ‘digital PR’ then?
  160. 160. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk Comments and the press
  161. 161. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk Product led stunts
  162. 162. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk Value driven
  163. 163. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk Creative content campaigns...
  164. 164. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk Go Flynn!
  165. 165. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk Loads more examples.
  166. 166. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk https://impression.tips/PRinspiration
  167. 167. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk 167 It’s fun, right? But we also need to think about why. What are we measuring? Why should we invest? And how will we make money?
  168. 168. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk ● Links (for SEO) ● Coverage (for PR) ● Compelling content ● Traffic ● Assisted conversions ● Audience building?
  169. 169. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk
  170. 170. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk 1. Create compelling content, consider user journey 2. Promote via all channels, including paid and PR 3. Collect audience data through GA 4. Structure your remarketing messages according to funnel point 5. Nurture leads to conversion
  171. 171. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk 171 Think about your funnel.
  172. 172. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk https://impression.tips/personas
  173. 173. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk 173 A true omni-channel approach isn’t just about attribution... It’s about using all of our channels, in conjunction, to tell cohesive stories.
  174. 174. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk Who remembers story number 1?
  175. 175. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk Who remembers story number 2?
  176. 176. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk Takeaways. 1. Know what stories influence your customers 2. Find the best way to tell that story for your brand 3. Consider the full digital PR spectrum 4. Tie your PR aspirations in with your SEO, PPC… goals 5. Yes, we want to make money. But savvy marketers fill their funnel from the top.
  177. 177. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk 177 Customer journeys are powered by stories.
  178. 178. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk 178 Customer journeys are powered by stories. And good PRs are excellent storytellers.
  179. 179. @impressiontalk@impressiontalk Thank you Laura Hampton @lauralhampton laura@impression.co.uk @impressiontalk
  180. 180. Private and confidential 180 www.impression.co.uk/ecommerce-forum

Editor's Notes

  • The obvious stuff
    You don’t need me to tell you that online shopping is more popular now than it was 10 years ago. That’s why you’re here and thats why we’re here. Consumers have mpre access to more choices and are more aware than ever of how to access the channels that they need to and the channels that we all, as online businesses, focus on.
    This data from the ONS maps the share of “internat sales” as a percentage of total retail sales in the UK. A couple of quick interesting points from this one - you can see when black friday begins to kick in with those spikes from 2015 onwards, which is pretty cool, but more importantly, whilst the growth of the share is strong, it still only accounts for 22% of total retail sales in the UK. In a couple of slides time we’ll break this down but sector to show that there is still an opportunity to be had at...
  • When you break down that data by sector it gets a little more useful. For us, as an agency that works accross different sectors, its good to see a good split of revenue accross sectors. For you guys as ecomm specialists, this is a positive graph in itself. Granted, it is old data - the ONS hold this stuff back for around 18 months, we’re due the 2018 update soon - but it shows that retail is around 10%-12% of total online spend, suggesting again that whilst the industry has grown strongly over the past 10 years, there is stillc ertainly mroe to go at.
  • Now, on the flip side, strong online growth is mirrored against a backdrop of poor high street performance.
    We have seen big name closures regularly, and 2018 saw a 38% increase in nett closures. Business rates are tightening the purse strings and, in towns particularly, out of town retial parks are drawing life out of the high street.
    I’m not going to dwell on this any longer, apart from posing the question of how digital and physical can work together. We are seeing examples of online first business opening physical stores, and some brand are becoming aware of the joined up force of physical and digtial positively affecting their conversion rates.
    January sales in 2018 showed the weakest growth since 2013, and one in three consumers in a recent NatWest and Retail Economics report said their main concern about Brexit was a fear of rising shop prices. (7,500 net store closures in 2018, a 36% increase on 2017).
    Amazon is now Britain’s fifth biggest retailer, according to analyst GlobalData, accounting for £4 in every £100 spent in retail in the UK. What can other online retailers do to compete?
    High street retailers say business rates put them at a disadvantage. Rates are now pegged to the lower Consumer Price Index (CPI) measure of inflation from April 2018, rather than the Retail Price Index (RPI) measure.
  • In reality, I haven’t told you too much that you didn’t already know in those first few slides. It's good of course to understand the macro environment in which you’re operating, but when it comes to e-commerce, it is about constant innovation. The gains are to be made in doing something differently (and better) than your competitors. So with the little time I’ve got left, I’m going to touch on some of the cutting edge things people are doing out there to gain that competitive advantage.
  • The first of thoes, and the one that interests me the most is the growth of Direct to Consumer brands. These brands are able to reduce costs like comission and retialer markup, whilst simulatenaously building business models that encourage repeat custom and grow extrememly dedicated brand advocates because of their ability to cut through the noise and profle their customers in a lot of detail, given the limited product ranges that they have.

    We have some brands and some retailers here today, What I’m not saying is that the brands should stop partnerships with their retailers, or that retailers should be terrified of brands doing that, but I think there is a lot to learn by the way brands like these engage with the customers of a much much deeper level than just a need pay off.
  • Next we have a much more digital focused topic -
    Google are talking about image search a lot this year. Without saying anything concrete, they are suggesting that we stop thinking of image search as the place you go to find pictures for your slide deck, and think of it as another channel for users to find out sites. Image search is going to get smarter and more useful, with searches possibly using it for inspiration, almost in a pinterest-style way. This is reflected in Google Lens and other intellignet camera apps. These apps are able to detect items within their view and carry out a search for similiar apps. Imagine someone seeing a pair of shoes that they like the look of. Instead of finding out what they are called, and then searching that name, they simply hover their camera over the shoes and their phone brings up a bunch of similar images. If you have correctly optimised your imagery, that could be your shoes the user sees and your website that they end up on.
  • Personalisation is a term that gets banded about often as a hollow phrase. However, modern consumers do expect you to know more about what they want and tailor their experience accordingly. There are different levels of personalisation for sure and it doesn’t suit every brand to go the whole hog, but subtle things that at least make the user think this is a personalised experience will help improve customer affiliation and more importnantly conversion rates. This can be anything from dynamic remarketing dependent on product or category views right through to progressive web apps and JS frameworks. One particularly interesting,if slightly black hat example of personalisation is one of a platform testing generic abandon cart messaging vs “personalised” ones. COMEBACK10 vs NDGTU-332. Conversion rates were higher for the personalised code...
  • A big announcement earlier this year came from Facebook as they unveiled their in app purchasing capabilty. Social networks have been trying to crack this for a while, and if anyone will, it will be instagram. This is a clear opportunity for retailers, particularly for lower ticket, lower consideration purchases, to capitalise on those moments of interest, but it also raises challenges - if a user never leaves the app to buy from you, then they are getting less exposure to your brand. If this is a feature you seek to take advantage of, you need to think about how you manage to generate the brand awareness through other ways - such as your packaging and presentation of the product when it arrives.
  • The extremely exciting market in which you all opetrate is full of opportunities. Hopefully what I’ve done is raised way more questions than I’ve answered. As I said, success here comes from doing things that competitors aren’t and giving your customers a better experience in some way. Its now time to hand over to my collauges for a lot more detail on a few different ways you can do that

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