10 Ways to Reduce Shopping Cart Abandonment

| Blair Lyon

While there is no silver bullet for reducing shopping cart abandonment, online merchants that attack the issue from many angles will achieve the best results. The good news is that organizations have an arsenal of powerful strategies at their disposal, each designed to address specific reasons for shopping cart abandonment. Here are 10 effective strategies you should try to keep cart abandonment rates low and conversion rates high.

How to Recognize Online Fraud

| Jim Tierney

Online fraud moves rapidly worldwide and is often impossible to identify. Here’s a few things you need to know about recognizing online fraud.

4 Ways to Personalize Your Customers’ Experiences

| MCM staff

Knowing who your customers are is what changes their experiences from merely adequate to delightful, and can turn a customer into a raving advocate. Here are four things that you should start to do over the next three to six months to improve customer engagement in an incremental fashion while strategizing for the long run.

Report: Frequent Live Chatters Demand Special Attention

| Jim Tierney

Live chat patrons are more likely to have higher household incomes, more likely to shop more frequently, spend more, have a college degree, and be between the ages of 31-50, the report says. While this demographic appeals to merchants, frequent live chatters (those who have chatted at least four times in the previous three months) exhibit these traits in an amplified way and warrant special attention.

4 Ways to Screw Up Abandoned Cart Messages

| Jim Davidson

Shopping cart abandonment rates are high, but so are conversion rates from post-abandonment emails, so you are missing a sizable opportunity by not sending them. Here are four things you will want to avoid when launching your post-abandonment email program.