Online sales are booming, and the competition is fierce. Your strategy must be sound if you want to make a noise in this crowded marketplace. That's why we teamed with comScore to find out exactly what keeps online shoppers clicking all the way to checkout.
Design a Better Customer Experience
Shoppers are discriminating--they have very specific ideas about what they want. The new comScore study shows that a majority of shoppers want clearer communication about shipping costs and shipping rewards.
They want to know what to expect, and they want convenience--easy checkout and easy returns. And if they don't get those things, they're more likely to abandon their shopping cart and leave your site.
comScore reports 80% of shoppers have left an online retailer with a full cart and no purchase. There's an opportunity here: improve your customers' experience and give them more reasons to click that button and finalize the sale.
| Opportunities to Enhance the Customer Experience Online shoppers report 86% satisfaction, but there's room for improvement. |
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| Flexibility to Re-route Packages |
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| Flexibility to Choose Delivery Date |
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| Availability of Live Customer Service |
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| Ease of Making Returns/Exchanges |
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| Clear Returns Policy |
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| Ability to Create an Account |
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| Number of Shipping Options Offered |
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| Free/Discounted Shipping |
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| Online Tracking Ability |
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| Variety of Brands/Products |
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| Ease of Checkout |
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| From a February 2012 comScore survey of more than 3,100 U.S. online shoppers | ||
See all the results and find out what you need to target so you can improve your customers' experience and convince more shoppers to buy, return, and tell their friends.
See what real online shoppers really want.
This Harvard Business Review white paper helps you understand the new consumer landscape--and how you can maximize opportunities within it.
Watch highlights from our comScore Customer Experience presentation at the 2012 Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition (IRCE).