How Reviews Convince Customers to Buy E-commerce Products [Infographic]

ecommerce infographicAnyone who’s spoken to me this year will know how important Content is to your website – and one of the easiest ways (in that you don’t have to write it!) to get content onto your site is by implementing a product review system. But none of them come cheap and it can be hard to make the case to spend that cash. Well, this infographic has all the answers and stats you need! [Read more...]

12 Things to Do After You’ve Written Your Blog Post [Infographic]

ecommerce infographicThis is a proper ‘ronseal’ infographic – and brilliant checklist each time you publish a blog post.

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Content Marketing Media Matrix [Infographic]

ecommerce infographicContent marketing is going to be one of the key themes for success in 2013, but where you start?

If you’ve got limited resources (and haven’t we all!) of time and money – where should you be focusing them?

This infographic provides the answers AND explains what the different types of Content are…

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Creating Great Content for Boring Things

Having great content on your website is one of the best ways to grow your eCommerce business. Last week I blogged about some great tools to use to find Content ideas, here’s a follow up on some great examples of content for the less interesting product.

What do I mean by Great Content?

Great content is…

  • About your products
  • Something people want to share – so interesting, funny, informative, linked to the latest news stories

And, it probably covers some keywords that bring you good quality traffic too. But, don’t bin a great content idea just because it doesn’t have keywords in it – if it’s about your products and something people want to share – do it!

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5 Tools you can use to find Content Marketing Ideas

I’ve spent a lot of this month talking about Content Marketing – and every time I hear people struggling to think of content ideas for their products or services.

So here are my top 4 tools for sparking some content ideas.

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Christmas Card Video = Brand Builder, and Content Marketing

There are lots of Christmas videos doing the rounds at the moment (strangely enough!), but I think this one’s a great example of how it can be used in eCommerce to build some depth and personality into the brand so I thought I’d blog about it. (plus I promised Mark the owner of The Present Finder that I would, as he gave me such a lovely review of my book – it’s only fair to reciprocate at this time of year!)

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eCommerce Trends for 2013 (picked up at ECMOD)

I spent most of this week at the ECMOD conference in London. Most of the time I spent catching up with eCommerce business owners and marketers discussing the latest concerns and results in the industry. Plus, on day 2 I was privileged to be speaking on Social media.

It’s always a privilege to speak at ECMOD because the other speakers are of such high calibre! This year’s line-up included 3 stella acts from the US – the ever fascinating Amy Africa, data king John Miglautsch, and systems guru Ernie Schnell. Plus from the UK there were contributions from Boots, Charles Tyrwhitt, Naked Wines, Royal Mail, Lovehoney, Ironmongery Direct, Boden, Land’s End – the list goes on!

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Can a 2 Minute Video Change your eCommerce Business?

Yes, if you’re Michael Dubin CEO of DollarShaveClub.com.

Back in March this startup created a funny video about it’s product – a $1 per month men’s razor subscription service. Not the most exciting product in the world – and they use this fact well in the video. The video is fantastic content – it reflects the brand, it explains the product, it shows off the company and it’s ethos. Plus it’s funny, which always helps when you’re trying to get something to go viral online.

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