6 Ways to Boost Sales of Your E-Commerce Store

The internet has allowed many small independent businesses to open up their own e-commerce stores.
Demand for online shopping has been rapidly growing according to Statistics Canada in 2014, $136 billion worth of goods and services were sold over the internet. 76% of Canadians shopped online in 2015, Canada Post says. WOAH!
This a staggering amount of money and a majority of the country that was shopping online. For those of you out there that are launching/managing e-commerce stores, it’s a good time to be in the business.
It’s important to remember that there are many ways to make sure that you are getting the most use of your dollars and increase sales to your store.
This post features six of my top tips for maximising e-commerce sales and includes good practice examples from some of the most successful e-commerce sites.
You’ll first need to create a Merchant Account with Google.
Creating a Merchant Account is important, because it allows you to provide Google with a ‘Product Feed.’
After you’ve created a Merchant Account, you can provide Google with a Product Feed, by clicking on ‘Feed’ in the left sidebar and then clicking on ‘+Feed.’
You can use Google resources for more info on creating a feed. If you are operating a Shopify store, you can use a plug in. If you are using a different provider than you can contact them. Your developer will also be able to help you with this.
Once this step is complete you can work on creating your Shopping campaign.
You then need to go to your keyword planner (AdWords) account, click on ‘+ Campaign’ and select the ‘Shopping’ option.
You’ll then have the chance to input some basic information for your ad campaign.
There are a few things that you’ll want to pay attention to.
The first is to make sure that your country is an exact match for the country used in your Product Feed – or else your ad campaigns won’t be triggered.
Here, you can pick how you want to filter the products that are going to be shown for this ad campaign.
You don’t have to rely on Shopping Ads for your ecommerce store. You can also run some ‘Search Ads.’ The key to seeing success in search ads is to make sure your ads are showing up under the right keywords related to your business.
When starting a new campaign, make sure to select +Search Network Only
Give your campaign a name and click on the all features section.
Deselect the ‘Include search partners’ option and pick the location where you want your ad to be shown.
When writing your text make sure that you are using the keywords that you think the user is searching for. The more precise your keywords are to the search the more likely they will click on your ad.
We’ve seen success with splitting best selling products into separate ad groups. Usually starting with 20 of the best selling products and weigh where the returns are coming from.
By having your best-selling products in separate ad groups, you are able to control the bidding more efficiently and ensure maximum exposure according to the ROI of that individual product.
It’s important to note that when creating your search ads you want to use extensions ie., call extensions, site links, etc.. Callout extensions are beneficial, because you get to highlight aspects of your ecommerce business that will separate you from your competitors.
Below is a list of Ad extensions you can use.
Sitelinks let the user easily navigate different web pages on your website. It shows the potential user that you have a speciality in certain areas and highlights the benefit of your products/services.
Conclusion
This is only the beginning in the guide to understand the online marketing for e-commerce world. I hope with this information you are able to get a better understanding of the different tools available for you to grow your online business. Do you have any success stories with using Google or Facebook to drive traffic and conversion to your store?
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Paid Traffic
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Facebook Ad’s
- Boost your posts
- Increase conversions on your website
- Increase engagement in your app
- Collect leads for your business
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Google Ad’s
Product Listing Ads(PLA’s) also known as GOOGLE SHOPPING are becoming an increasingly important part of Search Marketing for eCommerce advertisers.
Lets begin with Google Shopping
Google Shopping Ads are normally triggered when the search engine giant Google thinks that you’re searching with the intent to buy something. Here are some Google Shopping Ads –









