This year’s MITX eCommerce Summit on July 25th is focused on understanding what customers want and delivering them a seamless shopping experience. Defining and delivering a seamless experience can differ by category, however, because the same customer will behave differently depending on what they are purchasing. Combine the complexity of shopper behavior with selling a big-ticket item online, like furniture, and it requires a unique approach. An approach that respects and builds on the importance of brick-and-mortar stores to customers in a retail segment where 96% of the purchases still happen in a store.
Here are some learnings in how we approach turning furniture shoppers into furniture customers:
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Topics:
MITX,
e-commerce,
ecommerce,
seamless,
customer experience,
mobile,
attribution,
omnichannel,
path to purchase,
content,
retail,
brick and mortar
Our 2015 MITX eCommerce Summit is Tuesday! As we finish out this week we have one more guest blog for you. Ryan Mulloy, Experience Design ACD at SapientNitro discusses factors to consider when designing your eCommerce experience and content. Interested in guest blogging next month? E-mail taylor[at]mitx[dot]org.
As an Experience Design ACD at SapientNitro, he gets to work with some of today's biggest brands on cutting-edge omnichannel experiences that span desktop to mobile to in-store to DOOH. With over 15 years of experience to pull from, he finds himself most comfortable embedding himself in the culture of other companies and leveraging a creative background to design experiences that are useful, usable and desirable.
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Topics:
e-commerce,
MITX,
technology
