Running an e-commerce or an online store is not an easy task. Business owners face several challenges while handling the e-commerce store. Even after spending time and money to set up perfect ads to attract people to your website you still need to persuade customers through different tactics to make purchases from your website.
To outpace your competition through analysis you must learn who your potential customers are, understand your customer’s psychology and create a tactic or strategy to trick customers into buying your products.
Yes, you will have to trick the customers. It may sound odd and chances are you are already familiar with the fact that you are tricked by online stores to buy from their website and if you have no idea about it. Then let me tell you this is how the world of e-commerce works.
This blog will cover the secret strategies that will help you drive sales through customer emotions.
Before moving forward let’s understand the type of buyers
First, there are emotional buyers. These are the type of buyers whose purchasing decisions are based on how buying a product makes them feel. If it makes their life easier nobody can stop them from buying that product.
Then, there comes a logical buyer who makes decisions based on ROI, facts and figures. They do a lot of analysis before buying a product.
The third type is the impulsive buyers, who don’t want to miss out on good deals and they are the ones who don’t do much research before buying a product.
Understanding what motivates these groups to buy the products can help you create a strategy for driving sales through their emotions.
For emotional buyers, focus more on storytelling and try to make an emotional connection with them.
For logical buyers, provide a huge amount of data that can help them make informed decisions.
For impulsive buyers, create offers with a time limit and add tactics that lure them into buying it for example “buy now”.
Trust and Credibility are the factors that make the difference
Imagine you are scrolling through an e-commerce website and you come across two products, one had 100 positive reviews and an eye-catching review badge.
Which one will you buy, of course, the one which seems more credible and trustworthy? These are two important factors which help Customers in the decision-making process. They rely a lot on positive reviews and social proof.
Tips to promote trust and credibility of website
Focus On Customer Reviews: Your Customers are your brand ambassadors and they are your best marketing tools. Motivate your customers to write reviews for the products and also work on the feedback and negative reviews.
Flaunt Your Accreditations: Showing your certifications and awards is the best way to establish trust among customers.
Provide transparent prices and policies: Always make it convenient for the customers by providing straightforward policies and pricing for them to understand.
Persuasion Is The Key
Let’s understand how these persuasion techniques can help in attracting customers to your e-commerce site.
Create urgency: Limit the availability of the product or showcase the important features of the product. This will create a fear of missing out (FOMO) on customers and that will motivate the customer to buy the product.
Have Social Proof: Social Proof goes a long way. Social proof like positive reviews, and testimonials help potential buyers to have credibility on the product. Using testimonials and reviews on websites or social media pages yields good results.
Free Offerings:This is another great technique where the customer finds it obligatory to become a loyal customer of a brand. For example, a sachet of free serum on signing the newsletter of a cosmetic brand.
Companies that used persuasion techniques
Amazon’s “deal of the day” promotions create a sense of urgency for the buyer and they end up buying the product.
Airbnb utilizes user-generated photos and use them to show the great experiences of their customers.
Zappos focuses on customer loyalty by providing free shipping to the customers which enhances their customer service.
By introducing these persuasion techniques you can create a sense of urgency, increase brand loyalty and establish authority which can bring you sales and repeat customers as well.
How to improve customer experience
Here are a few tips on how an e-commerce business can enhance the customer experience.
Simplify the checkout process: Nobody likes the clutter, make sure your checkout process is easy, simple and straightforward.
Offer customized suggestions: Make use of customer data to provide tailored recommendations.
Provide outstanding customer service: Nevertheless, excellent customer service enhances customer experience.
Nobody likes surprises: Be very clear about shipping and return policies to avoid confusion.
Showcase Your Products: A picture has more power than 1000 words. Use pictures that speak volumes about your products.
Improving customer service gives you a happy customer and encourages your customers to come again to your website to buy more products.
Tunning into customers’ emotions and understanding the psychology of the customers can help in building effective strategies to drive sales. Work on building trust and credibility that in turn leads to more happy and repeated customers and more referrals that can attract more potential customers.
