The importance of execution in e-commerce

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THE BRANDINTERACTION

COMPANY

28th of September 2012

WHO IS THIS?

THIS GUY

@BrunoDillen

Studies: TEW (University of Antwerp)

Work:Coolblue - Online marketeer BelgiumThese Days – E-business Manager

Artinthepicture.com, Socialimmo.be, ... - Owner

Introduction

THESE DAYS

• We are a full-service digital marketing agency• We believe in added value and in a true

businessunderstanding, so we focus on structural, long-term partnerships with our customers

• We believe there is no one-size-fits-all-solution, so we adapt our structure, our teams and our people to the needs of our customers

• We believe in combining strengths, which is why we choose for in-house experts

• We believe true success is a combination of long-term strategy and short-term execution, which is why we are a strategic and hands-on partner

WHAT WE WON’T TALK ABOUT (which does not imply it isn’t vitally important)

Differentiation!

ENTRY HERE

EXECUTION, EXECUTION, EXECUTION

Decide

Act

Measure

Test

Measure

Learn

Think

BUSINESS OPTIMISATION

CYCLE

(E)-Business is a continuous process

Results

Optimized website “quick wins” launched last 2 weeks. No difference in proposition, no difference in product, just optimization of bottle-neck issues.

1. BENCHMARK

Estimating market sizes

How many chefs are there world-wide? How many can I contact?

Estimating market sizes

Market study: + 500 000

Estimating market sizes

How many items of a crochet book can you sell? And how many through Amazon alone?

Estimating market sizes

10 to 20 books per week through Amazon only

Seasonality and e-commerce

Travel sector: efforts focused around winter season and summer season

Seasonality and e-commerce

Seasonality and e-commerce

Estimating competition

€6,50

€8

€4,50

€3,50

€2,40

€1,50

€1,00

€6,50

€8

€4,50

€3,50

€2,40

€1,50

€1,00

€0,80

€200 * 2,50%

2. FIND BOTTLENECK

SITUATION

Renting out vacation properties from private person to private person. Website is free for travellers, but home-owners need to pay a yearly fee.

Problem: only a small minority of –hopefully- qualitative visitors was placing an ad online. How could we do more business with same means?

ANSWER

Renting out vacation properties from private person to private person. Website is free for travellers, but home-owners need to pay a yearly fee.

After checking that traffic was indeed qualified, we decided that the problem lay in converting those qualified users to paid users.

TODO

Renting out vacation properties from private person to private person. Website is free for travellers, but home-owners need to pay a yearly fee.

Look at the sales funnel in immense detail.

3. FIX

A. Determine goals and prioritise

B. Concretise goals

C. Add a layer of best practices

D. Measure

Old versus New

OLD PAGE OLD CONV NEW PAGE NEW CONV

Landingspagina 100% Landingspagina + prijskeuze

100%

Prijskeuze Uw gegevens

Login/register Facturatiegegevens

Details woning Details Woning

Details beschikbaarheid

Details beschikbaarheid

Betalen Betalen

Conversie 3,6% Conversie 8,0%

4. SCALE

Conversion rate

Conversion rate from 3,6% to 8,0% (+122%).

€6,50

€8

€4,50

€3,50

€2,40

€1,50

€1,00

€0,80

€200 * 2,50%

5. REPEAT

Conclusion

1. There is no excuse in not knowing your playing field.

2. Strategy is of critical importance, but so is execution.

3. Test, test, test. There is always 5% to be gained.

Bruno DillenThese Days

Generaal Lemanstraat 47b

B-2018 Antwerp

www.thesedays.com

bruno.dillen@thesedays.com

+32 3 286 44 50

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