14 November, 2019
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Last year we already showed you the importance of your payment gateway during Black Friday and similar dates in which a great sales peak is expected. And this year we are going to focus on marketing strategies that have proven to work especially well in these important days for online stores. Get ready to sell more than ever on Black Friday and Cyber Monday!
We will assume that you already know well the best practices that get more sales nowadays: free shipping and returns, offer the highest possible discount, do marketing campaigns in Google Ads and social networks, send mailings to your customer bases… But, just in case, here you will find several posts with different strategies to consider to improve sales results:
But focusing on Black Friday and Cyber monday, which are the dates that most worry these days, we will see some important tips to sell more than ever and that are not usually taken into account:
Not all online businesses take into account that higher sales also means more traffic on your website and higher chances of running out of stock. Therefore, it is important to anticipate possible problems and write specific terms and conditions these dates, that are accessible from the website and that take into account any possible user complaints.
Slow website, lack of stock or delays in shipments are the most common problems, but the more scenarios contemplate the terms and conditions, the more headaches you will save.
Every year more online businesses decide to join the whole Black Friday’s and Cyber Monday’s Black Week. This means starting to make discounts from the first Monday of the week (this year on November 25) and to Cyber Monday itself (this year on December 2). And something that is very effective to take advantage of this week of offers and further improve sales is to differentiate discounts by days and make flash offers, as they create the feeling of urgency and reduce the amount of abandoned carts.
So, you can choose a range of products to be on sale on Monday, another on Tuesday, another on Wednesday … And Black Friday itself and Cybermonday put more products on offer. But this is only one option: the possibilities are unlimited and you know better than anyone what can work for your business. And, of course, you must announce these flash discounts on the website, in mailings to customers, in social networks and in Google advertising, if not, it will do almost no good.
There are many people who weeks earlier already start looking for products that they want to buy accompanied by the words “black friday” or “cyber monday”. Creating a Google Ads or social media campaign with these keywords and showing juicy discounts either in text or image format is a very interesting idea.
You want to be the first result of these searches and the most eye-catching, so do not skimp on advertising, because if you reach your target audience and the discounts are worth it, the benefits will undoubtedly far outweigh the advertising investment.
There are countless tools that favor the visitor to complete the purchase process, such as complete descriptions, free shipments, verified opinions or having a payment gateway with a quick purchase process.
But in these important days the competition is more voracious than ever, so you need to make sure that your visitors feel the need to buy in your online store and not in others, and that they do so as quickly as possible. For this there are tools that generate a sense of urgency, such as putting a counter of the items in stock or a countdown of the time left for each offer to end.
As you will see, there are a lot of strategies to sell more these Black Friday and Cyber Monday. If you follow these instructions and review the posts we have recommended, you will surely improve the results, and if you need a payment technology that favors sales while gaining security, do not hesitate to contact us.
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