How To Optimize Your E-commerce To Convert More Web Site Visitors To Paying Customers

How To Optimize Your E-commerce To Convert More Web Site Visitors To Paying Customers

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Even the best products or services in the world will fail to penetrate today's extremely crowded online marketplace if due process is not applied to vital points of e-commerce. One of the most important elements of e-commerce is the sales funnel. Fail to develop your e-commerce pages around the inherent principles of the sales funnel and your business will fail, too. Adhere to the top features of the sales funnel theory throughout your e-commerce efforts and you will convert more prospects to buying customers, enabling your business for explosive sales growth.

Guide Prospects through the Sales Funnel to Build Bigger Businesses Faster

Essentially, the sales funnel is the path your website visitors take, beginning when a prospect first enters your site and ending when they've been converted to a paying customer or client. Your e-commerce site needs to be built around a strong sales funnel, featuring a poignant path you want people to take once they are on your website, smoothly leading them to your shopping cart, sign-up page, or targeted call-to-action.

A Confused Mind Never Buys

How often do you spend your hard-earned money when you're confused about what you're buying and how to buy it? Unless you're drunk, in a foreign country, or filthy rich, you most likely won't reach for your credit card unless you're clear about the purchasing process. E-commerce websites with poorly designed layouts will convert far less website visitors to actual customers. While today's online consumers are savvier than ever before and are increasingly more familiar with the latest online tools and technologies as well as how to get the most out of what the Internet has to offer, this does not mean that you can afford to get lax with your website navigation.

Variety Is the Spice of Life...and the Sales-Killer of Passive E-Commerce Sites

The steady rise of online consumer awareness and the average online-shopping intelligence of Internet users has led some conversion-killing mistakes by web designers. Among the most common instances of this is the assumption that visitors are knowledgeable enough about Internet usage that they can find their own way around a site regardless of the setup or how it's designed. As part of the increasing awareness and intelligence of online consumers, they recognize that the variety of e-commerce sites online offer a virtually limitless number of alternative websites and offers available.

This means that even if your site appears to have what your prospects want, if your e-commerce isn't set up to support a proper sales funnel and causes them to get lost within your website, there's little reason for them to make much of an effort to look for what they want. Why would they want to take the time to go trailblazing through your site when they can easily take advantage of the endless variety presented to them within the same search engine results pages that just sent them to your site?

Patience Thresholds at All-Time Low

Another reason you must provide a clear path and prevent your prospects from having to make their own is the universal, drastically reduced patience threshold of society. How often do you agonize over having to watch a single commercial because you forgot to program your TiVo, and how loud do you moan and groan when a webpage takes more than a few seconds to load? For example, with a Google search for "California attorney" producing approximately 164,000,000 results in 0.23 seconds, what motivation do your e-commerce prospects have for spending more than a minute trying to explore your site? It's this degree of on-demand, instant access to products, services and information that makes it so incredibly important for your site visitors to know exactly where they've landed, exactly what you offer, and the most precise path to purchasing it.

About the Author:
Andrew Rossillo writes about internet marketing for Content Crooner. Content Crooner drives traffic to your website by giving you everything you need to create great content, automate its distribution, and track your impact. It's fast, easy and very affordable. Visit us at Content Crooner.



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