30-second summary:

  • Pandemic-driven lockdowns have driven a lot of businesses online pushing the competition and increasing demand for more conversion optimization solutions
  • One of the most effective ways to increase your sales is to revamp your cross-selling tactics
  • To get more people down the sales funnel, you need to include off-site activities into consideration, that is, when your customer interrupts their buying process and how to return them to your site
  • To better understand (and meet) your customer journey, use semantic research of your target search query
  • Finally, keep analyzing your site’s sales funnel using Google Analytics

As more and more small businesses are going through digital transformation[1], there’s an emerging demand for new ways to attract and engage customers.

As online shopping is becoming a norm, both the competition and customers’ expectations are quickly growing.

How to create a more effective ecommerce sales funnel? Here are few fresh ideas:

1. Revamp your product recommendations

Cross-selling (that is, showing related products on all stages of the sales funnel) is one the most important – yet often neglected – components of the sales funnel. 

Did you know that cross-selling accounts for more than a third of Amazon’s revenue? Based on the public company’s data[2], 35 percent of what people buy on Amazon comes from product recommendations based on AI-driven algorithms.

No wonder Amazon is using cross-selling all over the site – from product pages…

Ecommerce sales funnel optimization tips - Example from Amazon

All of these cross-selling blocks are included on a single product page.

Source: Amazon[3]

…to checkout pages using different methods to match a customer to better products:

Ecommerce sales funnel optimization tips - Revamp product descriptionsSource: PayKickstart[4]

Resources

Cross-selling comes in many forms, including:

  • Personalized upsells: These usually show up on product pages to urge the customer to

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