Tag: eCommerce
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CarStory and its ways to enhance your car inventory
The other day I came across CarStory. Since I’ve started with car comparison site carwow I’ll always keep an eye out for similar sites, changing the way in which consumer buy new or used cars. Given that I’m not a US based car dealer, my testing of the CarStory site and app is limited. I did,…
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AO.com (Product Review)
Looking at eCommerce sites helps me to learn more about effective User Experience design and user journeys. I recently looked at AO.com, a UK website specialised in selling white goods. Fig. 1 – Screenshots of the homepage of AO.com Fig. 2 – Different ways to discover fridges on AO.com Way 1 – Via top level…
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The what and why of programmatic marketing
The term “programmatic marketing” is relatively new. Ben Plomion, VP Marketing at Chango, first wrote about programmatic marketing back in 2012. In this article he expands on the ‘what’ and the ‘why’ of programmatic marketing. Ben’s piece formed a great starting point for me to learn more about what programmatic marketing means and what its…
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Site review: Carwow
“Be a happy car buyer” is what it says on the homepage of http://www.carwow.co.uk/. The promise here is that people will “Experience new car buying without any of the hassle or uncertainty”. Carwow’s proposition is effectively a reverse marketplace; enabling users to specify the car that they would like to buy and attracting offers based on their specifications. Once…
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The importance of digital product pages
In an online retail course which I did recently, its instructor Ian Jindal talked about the importance of retailers getting their product pages right, making sure these pages are relevant to the consumer. Even though consumers don’t think in terms of traditional sales funnels, and might use a variety of sources to come to a purchase decision,…
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