Saturday, 21 May 2016

How the Consumer’s Past Experience Influence eTailers Business

Consumer’s positive experience on the product will state its success. Only if a consumer gets positive experience on using the product or service, the etailer can continue to sustain in the market selling the products in demand. This element is also based on the consumer’s awareness, attraction, purchase and use of the product. The individual expectations will also play a vital role in deciding the success of the product.

Analysts, researchers and commentators strongly recognize the importance of retaining a good consumer experience on the product. The etailers, manufacturers and other marketers must realize the fact that consumer satisfaction is always important more than the quality and service. This may influence millions of potential customers to decide upon to buy or not, from the past experience of their customers.

Although there are many analytics and metrics used to measure consumer’s satisfaction, it cannot be still fully determined.


Every etailer must concentrate on the point of increase consumer experience by convincing them with all their expectations about the product and services.

Today the world is moving to the digital market, which offers plenty of flexibility, options and time and money saving opportunities to the consumers shopping online. This has also increased the availability of same type of products from different brands and sellers at varying prices. Although quality is emphasized and given more importance, there are also other factors influencing the consumer’s experience of using the product bought online.

The etailers must consider many factors to improve their products and services, while increasing consumer’s experience to a higher level and retain the customer.

Here are a few elements that an etailer must consider to increase their customer experience;

·         Priority for retention of customer:

Keeping the current customers is of core importance to increase the leads, which the etailer will get through word of mouth and this is imperative to increase revenue. Remember, acquire new customers would cost at least five times higher, than retaining the existing one. Therefore, it is essential to retain existing customers and give priority to this.

·         Sell more to Existing Customers:

Selling more to the existing and loyal customers will lead to great success. However, to retain this loyalty, you must deliver good products that reflect good consumer experience with 100% satisfaction. You must aware of the fact that any negative feedback would affect your reputation.

·         Importance of traditional marketing

Although digital marketing plays a dominant role in attracting huge numbers of customers, traditional marketing is still effective and productive. You must try to retain your existing customers in the traditional market who still has a huge potential to bring more leads to the retail business.

·         Word-of-mouth:


Regardless of numbers of advertising options available right from media to internet, word-of-mouth is a very powerful tool to advertise your product and brand without any cost. The fact is undeniable that you can attract more customers by ensuring satisfying experience through your loyal services, which is transferred to numbers of new and potential customers from the existing ones through word-of-mouth.