If you’ve never had the opportunity to integrate a payment processing solution, you’re in for quite the learning experience. Payment processors have a range of features and offerings… from fees, how long your payments are held, to the user’s checkout experience, global support, fraud prevention, as well as the quality of tools for you to monitor revenue. 2Checkout is a cloud-based payment service that maximizes online sales conversions by providing global payments with a localized
Mastering Freemium Conversion Means Getting Serious About Product Analytics
Whether you’re talking Rollercoaster Tycoon or Dropbox, freemium offerings continue to be a common way to attract new users to consumer and enterprise software products alike. Once onboarded to the free platform, some users will eventually convert to paid plans, while many more will stay in the free tier, content with whichever features they can access. Research on the topics of freemium conversion and customer retention is plentiful, and companies are continually challenged to make even incremental improvements in
Customer-First E-Commerce: Smart Solutions for the One Thing You Can’t Afford To Get Wrong
The pandemic-era pivot toward e-commerce has come with shifted consumer expectations. Once a value-add, online offerings have now become a primary client touchpoint for most retail brands. And as the main funnel of customer interactions, the importance of virtual customer support is at an all time high. E-commerce customer service comes with new challenges and pressures. First, at-home customers are spending more time online before they make their purchase decisions. 81% of respondents researched their
Image Compression Is A Must For Search, Mobile, And Conversion Optimization
When graphic designers and photographers output their final images, they’re typically not optimized to reduce the file size. Image compression can drastically reduce the file size of an image – even 90% – without reducing quality to the naked eye. Reducing the file size of an image can have quite a few advantages: Faster Load Times – loading a page faster has been known to provide a superior experience for your users where they won’t
Composable: Delivering on the Personalization Promise
The promise of personalization has failed. For years we’ve been hearing about its incredible benefits, and marketers looking to capitalize on it have bought into pricey and technically complicated solutions, only to discover too late that, for most, the promise of personalization is little more than smoke and mirrors. The problem starts with how personalization has been viewed. Positioned as a business solution, it’s been framed through the lens of solving business needs when really
Subbly: Launch Your Subscription Box Service With This Ecommerce Platform
One huge rage that we’re seeing in ecommerce is subscription box offerings. Subscriber boxes are an intriguing offering… from meal kits, children’s education products, to dog treats… tens of millions of consumers sign up for subscription boxes. Convenience, personalization, novelty, surprise, exclusivity, and price are all characteristics that drive subscription box sales. For creative ecommerce businesses, subscription boxes can be lucrative because you turn one-time buyers into repeat customers. The subscription eCommerce market is worth
UserTesting: On-Demand Human Insights to Improve the Customer Experience
Modern marketing is all about the customer. In order to succeed in a customer-centric market, companies must focus on the experience; they must empathize with and listen to customer feedback to continually improve the experiences they create and deliver. Companies that embrace human insights and get qualitative feedback from their customers (and not just survey data) are able to better relate to and connect with their buyers and customers in more meaningful ways. Collecting human
Beyond The Screen: How Blockchain Will Impact Influencer Marketing
When Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web over three decades ago, he couldn’t have foreseen that the Internet would evolve to be the ubiquitous phenomenon it is today, fundamentally changing the way the world functions across all spheres of life. Before the Internet, children aspired to be astronauts or doctors, and the job title of influencer or content creator simply didn’t exist. Fast forward to today and nearly 30 percent of children aged eight to twelve