Shopify vs Global-e vs Lingble? The Fact is Cross-border eCommerce Head Market vs Longtail Market
Cross-border e-commerce is a secular growth industry that is forecasted to grow at a 27% CAGR until at least 2026. Global consumers across the borders spent more online shopping in 2021 versus the prior two-year trend. It is expected that up to 30% of this additional online spend will continue into the next few years. Not less of brands and merchants start webstore business using Shopify. When they do well in one or two head markets, they are rolling out to more cross-border markets and capturing more demand globally.
The question is if you should continue with Shopify, or strategically start with Global-e, flow commerce or Lingble. Instead, the right question essentially should be which are your head and longtail markets. This article tells you why.
Private Equity Investment: eCommerce Business Valuation Using NPV and IRR
China’s general trade business and companies might be in a way impacted by the cancellation of GSP treatment, or called the Generalized System of Preference treatment. Although it also depends on what product category of export business, tariff percentage implies the enforcement of reduced profitability or increasing the prices. Pros and cons always come together. The momentum of growth on D2C cross-border eCommerce, on the other hand, is rising. The question is how to evaluate the cross-border eCommerce business potential if you spot this is indeed an investment and monetization opportunity.
A Practical Guide to Set Up Shopify Google Analytics for Collecting Transaction Data Integrated with Your Profit Calculator
Every coin has two sides. Shopify provides store owners ready-to-use templates and eCommerce friendly URL structures that hugely save eCommerce website creation and increase marketing, operation efficiency.
However, due to this fixed framework and structure, Shopify can’t facilitate owners to understand granular marketing performance for each SKU transaction data by diversified dimensions, and learn web content insight which can engage, and better convert traffic into sales. All these are critical to optimize SKUs conversion rate and see if the SKU should be continued based on the profit performance.
Why Beer looks so tasty? Endorphins and Dopamine Matter – Kirin Beer Commercial Cases – Beer Video Production
There’s no doubt that video is one of the highest-converting types of content you can use today to market pretty much anything, and I believe it isn’t to be changed, in particular, low funnel and mid-funnel channels are requiring more engaging content to maintain or even perform better the cost per acquisitions and gross margin, when confronting fierce competition.
Storytelling styles and tactics do vary country by country. In it, Japanese brand commercials impress us of course by their unique storytelling skills, such as extraordinary performing expressions, and quick video commercial pieces that can connect each other to become a full story.
What’s more, Japanese video commercials well leverage human neurochemicals to tickle the right neurochemicals at the right time is a way to increase engagement and brand recall.
In this article, I would take Kirin Beer Japan commercials for example to elaborate on what’s Endorphins and Dopamine and how they create the video scripts and storylines using these factors tickling the right neurochemicals. By the end of the piece, you can learn how to start to write a video script, leveraging these psychology trigger elements.
Subscription Business Model Cohort Analysis for Retention Rate, ARPU, CAC, CLV
If you are running a subscription business model, whatever there is a similar model like yours or there is no model like it on the internet. Understanding your customer feedback about your product and service is critical because these data and insight highly reflect the trend of granular revenue and profit forecasting in this business. And with the domino effect, directly impacts your decision of branding and marketing options from paid to social and email drive sales and customer advocate. In the coming years, I believe if all the positive P&L results from actual performance and forecasts are coming up, all are thanks to this good beginning.
So the question is how to analyze the subscription business model performance. In this article, I would walk you through how to leverage cohort analysis that might be just in the Google Sheets, for the purpose to understand the subscription’s actual retention and churn rate performance. By the end of this piece, you can learn the beauty of cohort analysis for your subscription business, and deploy your marketing and sales strategy based on the analysis.
Tips and Tricks to Set Product Pricing on the Cross Border eCommerce Webstore
These two scenarios you might come across often in life. One is you might not believe a brand lipstick on a cross border eCommerce website is much lower than other websites, you spend lots of time to research but find the word of mouth is fantastic. So you check it out immediately.
The other scenario is a pair of sport shoes is priced at US$3999, which is ridiculous. However you find out that the pricing in the second hand market is much higher, which is US$5999. So you immediately check it out as well. What is blasting the magic to control the customers? That is the product price.
Social Commerce Ads – Weixin, Wechat Ads vs Whatsapp, Facebook, Messenger Ads
President Joe Biden revoked Donald Trump administration executive orders that attempted to ban TikTok, WeChat and other Chinese-owned apps in the U.S.. He said to the media that Joe Biden replaced them with a new security review that could prompt fresh steps to restrict those or other apps.
To sellers who are good at leveraging social commerce ads, Wechat is a great platform to sell products and services to Chinese customers. Although contribution margin from oversea markets might only take up 1% out of the total ads revenue in Wechat. Now it might be a good signal moving forward. Wechat ads global might reactivate again.
Baidu Duxiaodian or Baidu Shopping vs Google Shopping | eCommerce Marketing – China vs USA
eCommerce is continuing booming as the Covid-19 pandemic continues. Search engine facilitates customers access to more product information. When we talk about search engines, Google must be the No.1, with a staggering avg. 90% of the global market share. On the other hand, Baidu holds just 1.45% of the global market share. But it might be a real story depending on which market you are focusing on.
Optimise your Google Shopping Product Feed to Increase Google Organic Traffic and Sales
There are 300 millions Americans using the Internet to search information in the USA, so you can imagine how big the audience pool is globally if 22% of people start on Google. Also, we realize that many of the searches on Google had shopping intent, such as looking for product comparison, product review, youtube video introduction, etc. Particularly with Google lower cost for merchants, which facilitate merchants to do more discount offers, it has been a common realization that Google Shopping listings turn prospects into buyers faster than Amazon listings.
So we will have a collection regarding Google Shopping for eCommerce Business Success and in this article. Because SEO performance is playing an important role in bettering the overall ROI, I’ll start with walking you through how to optimise your Google Shopping product feed to increase organic traffic and sales.
Differences From Instagram Shop, Checkout on Instagram, Shopping on Instagram, and Instagram Shopping Ads 2023
When you consider that more than 500 million Instagram users use the platform daily and 50% of them follow at least one business. Plus, Instagram is hell-bent on moving deeper into social eCommerce, and in particular Covid-19 pandemic hugely increases Instagram content demand needs, It’s time for you to start selling on Instagram. Thus in this piece, I’ll talk about the difference between Instagram Shop, Shopping on Instagram, Instagram Shopping ads, and Checkout on Instagram…
Social Commerce Douyin vs TikTok vs Instagram – Social Consumable and Shoppable Content
Social commerce is such a huge part of our lifestyle and also the business world, it can not be easy to forget that last time you rolled the newsfeed or watched the short-form video and bought your favourite organic tea oil. But the rise of the video app TikTok – which has been to rival Instagram in popularity. And in mainland China, Instagram has been blocked for many years, and Douyin is the Chinese version of Tiktok. What should you deploy as an online seller?
Facebook Ads: How to Optimise Dynamic Product Ads for Sales & Revenue
Running an online store and selling your favourite products are easy, however owning a or some of hot selling SKU items are damn difficult. Once you find it, you definitely roll it out to omni channels and generate sales and profit as much as possible and as soon as possible.
Apart from business partnership and product marketing strategy, we should be trying to optimise the media cost and maximize the outcome from each channel. When talking about social commerce for eCommerce success, the first thing first must be facebook thanks to its lower cost per click, and making things easier to kick start, no matter if you are a brand, reseller, or dropshipper.
Thus in this piece, I’ll walk you through how to run and optimise Facebook Dynamic product ads campaign, which aims to generate sales and manage to earn profit from your SKU items. Same with one of my articles regarding Google Shopping ads campaign, I also take a 4 week optimisation timeline as an example, so you can visually and dimensionally understand the steps. Being said that, this article doesn’t include transaction tracking, product listing to Facebook Shop and Instagram Shop, which is regarding censorship, naming and classification. I’ll write the other piece, and it’ll be coming soon.
Baidu SEO versus Google SEO in eCommerce Marketing: Things Brand eCommerce Webstore Must Know
SEO channel to eCommerce webstore performance is playing a key contribution role, where it can take up 10 – 15% of revenue contribution regardless of sales from marketplaces. In the global view, Google is more willing to share free resources because not only is it competing with Amazon, but also it fights for more high quality content and products to please their audience. After all, the content is one of the most important product value propositions in Google. However, trends and momentum are going more toward the China market due to Covide-19, particularly in cross-border eCommerce. So is Baidu SEO for eCommerce similar with Google?
Facebook Advertising Campaign – Sales vs Clicks Driven Campaign Objective Strategy
In this article, I’m going to share with you my advice on conversion versus click driven campaign in facebook advertising. You’ll learn which one is more proper for your business and how to deploy and drive sales right away.
A Guide To Boost Sales Through Google Marketing Platform
In this article, I’ll focus to talk about a guide to boost sales through Google marketing platform. No matter you are running an online retail store, selling B2B solutions, or operating a restaurant offline, I think you can learn from my guide to leverage Google marketing platform resources to analyse sale performance, optimise the performance and implement integrated strategies to boost sales at the end.
Mailchimp vs Omnisend? Which Marketing Automation Platform Is Better for the eCommerce
Email and marketing automation would continue as one of the major traffic and revenue sources for any online sellers and eCommerce store owners. In particular, with more revolutionizing messaging and texting channels, such as WhatsApp, live chat, etc, and personally, I believe it would just have more channels. So it would become one of the key channels to drive new customers who are from the middle-funnel of a customer purchase journey and extend customer lifetime value through an efficient and considering conversational marketing strategy. There is a statistic according to a study, worldwide email users are set to grow to 4.3 billion users in 2023.
There is some free software such as GMass, Shopify email out there. They’re very helpful and I’m also using them if my purpose is to automate the email blast process, but marketing automation platforms are not just a tool of sending emails and automating the followings. So in this article, I’ll review 2 marketing automation platforms, which are Omnisend and Mailchimp from 6 perspectives. By the end of the piece, you can learn which one is better to start for your eCommerce business, and which one price is more reasonable with a similar set of the scope of service.
GMass – Personalize & Automate Email Outreach and Communication Using Gmail, GMass, Google Sheets
Trying to imagine you have scraped plenty of business email addresses by using Python, that is from potential influencers and partners who might collaborate with your business and help build the brand and increase the sales. It can be super busy and overwhelming work if you try to outreach one by one and personalize the business email communication via email. Even though you can pay for an email software or outsource to a 3rd party service provider, the cost is a matter as well.
In this article, I’ll introduce an extension called GMass, which you can use with Gmail and Google Sheets that can integrate with your Python scraper scripts, so that you can consolidate all email addresses in Google sheet and personalize the messages by using columns before sending out, and track the responsive performance, then implement automatic follow-up. By the end of this one, you can master how to just click one button and send out numbers of personalized emails.
Wechat Lead Generation and Inbound Marketing in China Market – Traffic, CRM, Online Community Tactics
Wechat is a must if you are doing business in China. This is certainly a start, but for B2B businesses seeking to create leads, reaching out directly to followers might be not enough. In the lead generation and nurturing funnel, it’s critical that how to automate the process, meanwhile the customer service and sales people can better identify the needs to communicate and close the deals efficiently.
Global SEO Strategies and Executions for eCommerce Websites
If you are rolling out your existing product value propositions and marketing strategies to a new market, please wait for a second, otherwise, your web store might be losing the current advantage of Google SEO.
Google Shopping Ads Campaign: Sales & Revenue Optimization Strategies
In the previous chapter regarding Google Shopping for eCommerce success, we discussed how to optimise your Google Shopping product listing and boost organic traffic and sales. SEO is critical to sustain a business growth and increase ROI, however today agile marketing is essential to make your business succeed, particularly if you’re running an online store and confronting a fierce competition landscape.
Thus, in this article regarding Google Shopping for eCommerce success, I’ll take a month optimisation roadmap case as an example, and walk you through how to run Google Shopping ads, optimise the campaign in order to increase sales and revenue, in particular for the purpose to achieve a good profit margin.
You won’t learn about smart shopping campaigns in this piece, because it’s almost letting you adjust budget and bidding and resting of work are done by Google AI from my point of view, which you can’t really understand your business performance through Google smart shopping campaign. On the other hand, by the end of this article, you can learn macro and granular strategic Google Shopping ads optimization, and when each approach is suggested to use when setting up a real shopping ads campaign.