Multichannel Marketing: 3 tips to help take your e-commerce global
Achieving e-commerce growth in a global marketplace is tough for any organization.
This is especially true when you consider the increasing complexity of global e-commerce coupled with the challenges of reaching new regional customer bases that are different than your existing customers.
These were some of the challenges facing Tom Davis, Global Head of E-commerce, Puma. In a recent MarketingSherpa webinar, he revealed how Puma used an omnichannel marketing approach to successfully position the company’s e-commerce initiative worldwide.
“I think the biggest thing for us is to identify where we fit in the marketplace,” Tom explained.
In this MarketingSherpa Blog post, we’ll take a look at three tips you can use to help take your e-commerce efforts global.
Tip #1. Love your customer data
According to Tom, diving into your data to discover how your business will operate (and potentially grow) in new regional markets is paramount.
“I think it’s imperative for brands, especially retail brands that may have a wholesale part of their business, to really embrace the data,” Tom said.
Tip #2. Focus on delivering a mobile-first experience to stay ahead of the pack
One interesting point Tom mentioned was how different regional markets are in different stages of smartphone tech adoption, which will, in turn, impact both online user experiences as the mobile migration continues and the organization’s market penetration strategy in different regions.
In sum, there are a lot of smartphone tech adoption opportunities yet to occur in markets outside of the U.S.
Tom also explained that the gray bars are last year’s mobile penetration (percent of unique mobile visitors) for Puma’s Web properties versus the blue bars, which were just for Q1 of 2014.
“You can see that in almost every market, our mobile penetration is growing,” Tom said.
