Marketing Psychology: 3 purchasing incentives to boost your sales

Why do customers buy? Is the attractiveness of an offer the only trigger for a positive buying decision? Are there further triggers that make customers hit the call-to-action button? Are there perhaps even certain motives, feelings or rules behind it? And if so, what are the psychological conversion boosters?

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Your way to the perfect newsletter subject line

Email marketing is still going strong. In this guest article, our app partner CleverReach provides you with great tips that you can use to boost the success of your newsletters.

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Content marketing strategies for your online shop

The trend of content marketing is here to stay – and it is also a great opportunity for small and medium sized businesses to get new customers and keep old ones. Katrina from LeadPath took some time to break it down for you to give you a kickstart in content marketing.

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Drive sales to your online shop with Facebook advertising

Considering some advertising to boost your ecommerce revenues? Over 2 billion people worldwide are monthly active on Facebook and 42% of marketers report that Facebook is critical or important to their business. Although having a business page on Facebook and sharing organic content is a must, a little advertising budget is the key to reaching a much wider audience. Here is an introduction to Facebook ads for driving traffic and sales to your online shop. Read more

29 ways to get your first sale for your online shop

You have set up your online store, uploaded products and written product descriptions? Congratulations, your website is now open for business! But how to get your first customer, your first sale? We know that the beginnings are not always easy. Therefore we would like to present you a list of marketing ideas that will enable you to make your store known online and offline.

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Sex and Shopping: 5 insights for online shop owners

Let’s start off by pointing out that the title of this article has 3 words in it: Sex AND Shopping. Although it is tempting to skip it, the “and” is quite an important word for what we are going to talk about today. This article aims at honoring one of our favorite speakers, Graham Jones, who made a mind-blowing presentation at the Commerce Summit in Hamburg. Graham is a psychologist who specializes in Internet use and behavior. Here he explains how shopping and sex are related and how to take advantage of this perspective to succeed online.

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Google AdWords for online shops: How to create campaigns that convert

In this article, StoreYa CEO Yariv Dror explains what merchants need to know about starting their ad campaigns with Google AdWords.

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Personas for online shops: a helpful tool for audience analysis

Experience has shown that creating “personas” can be extremely useful. These are fictional characters meant to represent a particular set of customers. In this article, we show you how to create personas for your online shop.

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Google My Business for your shop

Google My Business allows you to present your physical store directly on Google. This has many benefits and can drive new customers to your online shop as well. Larissa Murillo from MarketGoo lets you know in this guest article what you should pay attention to when creating your Google My Business page.

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How online merchants can inspire their customers

Internet psychologist Graham Jones gives valuable insights on how to inspire your visitors and understand your audience.

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4 ways selling ideas will earn you more than just selling products

Ever wondered why some companies are worth so much and others so little when on the surface they all sell the same things? Well, it’s because some simply sell products and others package their products in meaning; they sell a lifestyle, an experience or a philosophy. Read more

Keeping loyal customers: the “holy grail” of business

According to the “Pareto principle”, 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. This can also be the case for ecommerce, where business leaders often find out that 80% of their profits come from 20% of their customers. In order to assure their profitability, these merchants just have to ensure that 20% continue to buy from their shop. In this guest article, Internet psychologist Graham Jones presents advice on how to keep loyal customers.

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