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15 ways discounts cause irrational shopping behavior

Everybody loves a bargain – or rather, the feeling and perception that they’re getting a bargain. Smart discounting doesn’t automatically mean “deep” discounting. It takes understanding that shopping behavior often seems “irrational.” Changing the presentation of discount offers in small, but significant, ways — for example, fear of missing out, the “charm” of prices with 9s in them, using “get” vs. “save,” and dollars off discounts vs. percent off discounts — can deliver big sales and e-commerce growth.

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How to Grow Your Email List with Facebook Lead Ads

Growing your email list and staying in touch with customers with frequent newsletters can be very profitable for your e-commerce store. While website visits are transactional – visitors are there to accomplish a task – newsletters build ongoing relationships with customers. But starting that relationship depends on a simple, fast sign-up.

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Shape your email marketing voice with feeling to build customer relationships

Traffic is good, but conversation is better. And to have a conversation you have to have a voice. Does your email marketing have a voice that speaks with feeling? Does your brand speak in a characteristic voice from the get-go?

All of your email marketing – and especially welcome emails – are opportunities to shape your brand voice, and evoke the feelings that you want people to associate with your brand. This is what humanizes your brand and lets you have a conversation instead of simply delivering a sales pitch.

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How to Use the Secret of Cognitive Dissonance to Drive Email Click Rates

Some of you may know the iconic VW Beetle ad from the 1960s: Think Small.

The genius of this marketing campaign was its “cognitive dissonance” – a contradiction created when you’re presented with two opposing ideas simultaneously. In this case it’s two dissonances. One is the idea of a new car – typically bigger, more luxurious, more powerful than the car you have – being less instead of more. The second turns the familiar phrase “think big” upside down – no one aspires to be a “small” thinker.

And here’s where the advantage of cognitive dissonance becomes clear. You’ve been thinking about this cognitive dissonance for a few seconds now – probably a lot more than you thought about the last car ad you saw. And you’ll keep thinking about it until you resolve it in your mind: namely, that smaller is bigger when it comes to a car’s price, cost, reliability and efficiency.

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How to begin a customer relationship

Relationship. A word with many meanings.

What comes up to your mind when you think about the word relationship?

It can be associated with romance, business, or friendships. It takes many forms, and can, at times, encompass all the complexities of the human nature.

As an eCommerce professional, do you think deeply enough about the relationships you maintain with your shoppers?

Do you value them as prospective customers? Or do you blast them with endless sales-oriented emails?

Do you care, first and foremost, about the sale? Or do you care about providing superior customer service?

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Ultimate Guide for Cart Abandonment

So you have built the best eCommerce site experience you could think of. You may have captured a unique eCommerce niche, developed an attractive brand, fine-tuned your copy, and polished the site design. You’ve implemented some A/B testing and noticed an improvement in conversion. But why is cart abandonment rate so high and conversion so low? And more importantly, what you can do about it?