3. Performance – Unit sales
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Unit sales up 21% YOY
398k v 321k
Kits + 18%
Liquids + 77%
Carts - 23%
Accessories - 5%
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4. Performance – Revenue
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Revenue up 8% YOY
£2.9 mill v £2.7 mill – driven by:
Kits + 20%
Liquids + 78%
Carts - 24%
Accessories - 3%
6. Performance - kits
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Big Photon discounts in early 2018 saw sales of 443 in January,
dropping to 151 in February at full price.
Strong growth in Beginners kits
More advanced kit range in 2018 than early 2017
10. Performance – Discount
Discount levelling off at 15% WOW
Earlier increases – multiple offers
Plan
Discount to 15%
Streamline offers
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Total units per customer up 38% YOY (8.5 v 6.1)
Increasing deals, 3 for, 10 for, etc have driven growth
Strong liquid growth primarily driving
13. Performance – Key messages
Unit Sales – up by 21% YOY
Revenue – up by 7% YOY
Units per order – up by 38% YOY
Growth driven by Liquids (77%) and kits (18%)
Discount % pulling back to target 15
Liquids / Kits driving growth
Will not meet target £6.3 mill
16. Channels – SEO
More phrases ranking
More indexed content
More referring links
More visitors can see our terms
Reflected in Non Brand traffic
June 2018
September 2017
17. Channels – Key messages
Brand traffic – has declined YOY without brand activation (-39% YOY)
Direct traffic – continues to decline as per same reasons as brand (-13% YOY)
Non Brand traffic – increase of 22% YOY from decline (Investment)
Non Brand increase is offsetting loss in Brand and Direct traffic
18. KPIs
12 month growth = -25%
6 month growth = 2%
12 month decline = -22%
6 month decline = -34%
12 month decline = -39%
6 month decline = -16%
12 month growth = -33%
6 month growth = -11%
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20. KPIs – Key messages
Gaining more new customers YOY
Losing less customers YOY
Increasing conversion rate YOY
Significant Lead increase YOY
Traffic challenge (Brand and Direct)
2nd orders challenge (but improving)
Editor's Notes
Units sales increases up 21% YOY – driven by 77% increase in Liquids sales
Liquids sales – driven by multiple deals / 3 for / 6 for etc – not new product coming through
Less blanket offers vs more targeted offers – greater relevance via CRM
February – multiple promos running to drive biggest MOM increase – impacted discount
April pulled back promos but maintained increase in Units per Order – maintain rev growth
Despite traffic drop
In terms of Revenue growth - *% YOY growth despite drop in traffic to site
We are getting more out of our existing customer base as new customer numbers have dropped
Revenue stabilising MOM as we have pulled back promotions – eg last June running 25% off VIP and 10% off Vaping kits but matching sales (With 33% less traffic to the website)
LiquidsBetter trading – getting more out of existing base
Limited offers in 2017 / better offers increasing Units p order
Unique orders increase of 19,755 – 52%
Unique Customers increase of 5,539 – 28%
Average Orders per customer increase of 0.37 – 19%
First Orders 2017: increase of 2,871 – 78%
Kits
All kits growing aside from Intermediate (eg stopped selling cool fire mini etc) beginner kits up 51%Photon sales strong 2018 v 2017 driving Beginner plus better range for Advanced kits
Beginner
Unique orders 2017: 2,219
Unique orders 2018: 3,528 increased by 1,309 – 59%
First Orders 2018: 1,246 increase by 699 – 127.8%
Intermediate
Unique orders 2017: 846
Unique orders 2018: 627 decrease by 219 – 25.8% (some coolfires discontinued (battery issue – been in warehouse ages)
First Orders 2018: 205 increase by 12 – 6.2%
Advanced
Unique orders 2017: 244
Unique orders 2018: 409 increase by 165 – 67.6%
First Orders 2018: 222 increase by 155 – 231.3%
LiquidsBetter trading – getting more out of existing base
Limited offers in 2017 / better offers increasing Units p order
Unique orders increase of 19,755 – 52%
Unique Customers increase of 5,539 – 28%
Average Orders per customer increase of 0.37 – 19%
First Orders 2017: increase of 2,871 – 78%
Kits
All kits growing aside from Intermediate (eg stopped selling cool fire mini etc) beginner kits up 51%Photon sales strong 2018 v 2017 driving Beginner plus better range for Advanced kits
Beginner
Unique orders 2017: 2,219
Unique orders 2018: 3,528 increased by 1,309 – 59%
First Orders 2018: 1,246 increase by 699 – 127.8%
Intermediate
Unique orders 2017: 846
Unique orders 2018: 627 decrease by 219 – 25.8% (some coolfires discontinued (battery issue – been in warehouse ages)
First Orders 2018: 205 increase by 12 – 6.2%
Advanced
Unique orders 2017: 244
Unique orders 2018: 409 increase by 165 – 67.6%
First Orders 2018: 222 increase by 155 – 231.3%
Carts
Strong discounting last year drove exceptionally high cart sales (33%, 20% off carts)£188k of discount was applied to carts – 33% drove higher than normal Cart sales
Actual drop in carts after removing discount = 13% drop in carts YOY
TPD 24 mg discounting also to May 17 / Pre TPD Warehouse Stock issues May and end Summer – lost some customers Cart % share of categories drop from 60% 2016 to 39% 2018Sales stabilising v LY May / June – first orders stabilising / increasing
AccessoriesLtd range of accessoriesCustomers confused re Compatability (feedback)
Education piece re what goes with what (coils go with Kit, Tanks go with kit)
Compatability Matrix – range review – will see positive YOY increase
Carts
Strong discounting last year drove exceptionally high cart sales (33%, 20% off carts)£188k of discount was applied to carts – 33% drove higher than normal Cart sales
Actual drop in carts after removing discount = 13% drop in carts YOY
TPD 24 mg discounting also to May 17 / Pre TPD Warehouse Stock issues May and end Summer – lost some customers Cart % share of categories drop from 60% 2016 to 39% 2018Sales stabilising v LY May / June – first orders stabilising / increasing
AccessoriesLtd range of accessoriesCustomers confused re Compatability (feedback)
Education piece re what goes with what (coils go with Kit, Tanks go with kit)
Compatability Matrix – range review – will see positive YOY increase
Carts – decline matches drop in brand traffic
Cat mix drop from 2016 – 60% to 39%
Beginning to see recovery post Oct stock issues
Discount now pulled back to target 15% with targeted emails and no blanket sitewide offers
Possible to further pull back with loyalty program changes
Maintaining discount
YTD units purchased per customer has increased by 38% YOY Increasing deals are driving this growth – particularly across liquids
Cart offers also drove increased units per order
Reforecast to £5m with pull back on promos and drop in brand / direct traffic to the website
No brand activation activity to drive growth re brand
Budget plan focus on Increased non brand SEO
AOV increase
Conversion increase
Brand has been in decline and levelling off (looking for VIP)
Non brand has been increasing (Looking for Ecig) – half that of brand so recovery not equal to decline in brand
Direct traffic has declined by 13% YOY BUT stabilised at 10k sessions pm – brand activation will drive traffic up
Directly related to drop in Brand traffic – needs brand activation to get consumers on board
SEO has been improving for non brand – and has offset loss in brand traffic
In 6 months to date Organic search has dropped YOY by 8% BUT first 10 days of July it is now +16% (1st month in 1.5 years its more)
This chart shows: 1 - We have more phrases ranking now than September – plus with outreach / link building, we have more links from high quality sites
2 – We have more indexed content now than September – plan to increase
3- With link building / Outreach, we are getting more links from high DA sites (Note - we review backlink profile of Blu, Ecig and Etobacconist – some spammy links which are not good – we only target quality links)4 – With more phrases ranking, more prospective customers are seeing VIP in search results 5 – With more prospective custoemrs seeing us, we get more traffic (improvement in Non Brand traffic shown earlier) 6 - Focus stage 1 – ecig, e-liquids, carts, vaping – stage 2 further investment in vape terms (with new site redesign, content, revised Vaping sections to get more Vaping tradffic etc)
BUT – this does not offset brand / direct decline
Positive customer growth – despite 33% less traffic
2% growth YOY – vs -45% LY
We are also losing less customers – over 12 months a 22% drop in customers at risk - 34% over 6 months – same with Lapsed
Lapsed spike LY was the result of a PHTONB giveaway the previous Xmas (16) – 88% of orders given free and never came back to shop
2nd orders – improving but still challenge – 4 week ECRM program / shift to in store shopping / E tobacconist
-11% vs – 41% LY – we are getting more customers to place 2nd order
Traffic – Ive explained the drop in traffic but should take positives in Non Brand traffic improvement
Re Orgnanc traffic, in July to date we are 16% up YOY – first month in last 18 months this has happened – achieved by focus on SEO with agency Conversion driven by improved stock levels / better trading / targeted comms / website changes (UX) – 20% growth is strong
Leads – added popup to site July and started improving data capture – this has driven £586k in sales from increase in sign ups