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Elastic Path™ Elastic Path™

Optimizing the Customer Journey

for the Complex Sale

May 25, 2012

Elastic Path Software Inc.

Featuring: Linda Bustos, director of ecommerce research and

author of the Get Elastic blog at Elastic Path Software

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Introducing Elastic Path Software

Digital Commerce for Innovators

• We help the world’s biggest brands sell digital goods and services

• We provide a flexible digital commerce platform and expertise in commerce

strategy and implementation

• #1 ecommerce blog www.getelastic.com

• For more on-demand digital commerce resources

www.elasticpath.com/resources

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Overview

• Keeping new visitors on your site (aka reducing bounce

rate)

• Serving the most relevant content (personalization and

targeted selling)

• Supporting device and plan selection (finders and

comparison tools)

• Guided selling (stepped process of building a bundle)

• Maximizing revenue (cross-sells and upsells) and how

they are presented at each step

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Keeping customers on your site

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Optimizing the portal page

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Making money > Being a portal

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Eye tracking tools

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Serving the most relevant content

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Geographic targeting

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Geographic targeting

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Interstitial pages

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New vs. existing customers

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Keyword referrals

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Keyword referrals

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Targeted selling vs. personalization

• Targeted selling may use cookies, IP

recognition, geolocation, customer input or

keyword referral to serve dynamic content

• Personalization tools (RichRelevance, Baynote,

etc) collect site behavior from individual and

“wisdom of the crowds” to personalize content

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Device and plan selection Device and plan selection

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Why the non-customer arrived on your site

• Has a device, wants pay-as-you-go

• Has a device but contract is ending, wants to compare

plans

• Wants a particular phone model

• Wants a particular brand model, needs help selecting

device

• Wants a phone that does THIS!

• ????

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Navigation and calls to action

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Navigation and calls to action

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Category and search filters

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Category and search filters

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Category and search filters

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Plan presentation

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Plan presentation

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Plan finder

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Plan finder

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Plan finder

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Plan finder

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Plan finder

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Device finder

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Device finder

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Device finder

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Device finder

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Device finder

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Comparison tools

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Comparison tools

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Comparison tools

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Guided selling

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Guided Selling Popup

Phone or Plan starting point

Stepped bundle builder

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Stepped bundle builder

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Stepped bundle builder

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Maximizing revenue

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Bake accessories and service add-ons into guided selling process, device and plan pages, and cart review

Upsells in guided selling

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Cross-sells in guided selling

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Upsell and cross-sell on cart pages

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Show a limited, relevant selection

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Summary

• Keep them on your site, bounce rate optimization

• Serve relevant content with targeted selling tools

• Support device / plan selection with finder tools

• Guide the purchase decision with stepped flows

• Optimize cross-sell and upsell with usability and

relevance

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Questions

For more on-demand digital commerce resources

www.elasticpath.com/resources

[email protected]

1.800.942.5282 (toll-free in North America)

www.elasticpath.com


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