I was recently approached by a struggling 7-figure ecommerce business with sales in the region of $350K/month rev. that dropped to $260K/month, to help diagnose their rapid 25% fall in sales and propose a turnaround.
Here is what I noticed about this business and other ecommerce businesses that have had a similar drop in revenue.
Their number one issue was their over-reliance on a single channel for traffic; in their case AdWords. Year over year, CPM increased and so did their spend; but their sales from the channel actually stalled.
They also did not focus much attention on retention.
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7:20 The Backstory
10:15 Facebook Advertising
14:08 Balancing
14:55 Spend on Adwords
16:38 Do not market on a single channel
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Attention Online retailers in Europe.
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Mastercard research shows that up to 75% of e-commerce merchants in Europe are potentially unaware of this coming into effect. SCA is a new regulatory requirement that is designed to help retailers and issuers make digital payments more secure. The challenge is to create or keep a frictionless check-out experience for online shoppers.
SCA will allow for biometric technology and dynamic passwords to create a more secure and improved online shopping experience.
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