Route 81

Do you know your customer journey?

Every touchpoint between a stranger and a second order is a place they either continue or leave. Scroll, and you travel it.

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Stop one

Being found.

Search, Shopping and assistants are three doors into the same catalogue, with one product feed behind all three. Fewer than a third of Google searches now send a click anywhere at all.

Demand

Stop two

Being chosen.

Found is not picked. The median store turns 4.6% of visits into baskets and 1.4% into orders — most of the loss lands after they have decided they want it.

Conversion

Stop three

The first order.

Unexpected shipping stops 48% of shoppers at the checkout. The answer is not showing costs sooner, it is a threshold set from what the order actually leaves you.

Order value

Stop four

Where they land.

46%of sessions end where they began

Demo figure. Nearly half of all sessions end on the page they arrived at, which makes the landing page the cheapest thing on the site to fix.

Stop five

The drop.

  • Visit
  • Product
  • Basket
  • Order

Out of every hundred visits

Demo figure. Every step between arriving and ordering loses people, and the steepest fall is almost never the one a merchant expects.

Stop six

What one costs.

£38to bring in one new customer

Demo figure. Acquisition is the number every other number is judged against — and the only one most stores can quote without checking.

Stop seven

Watch it move.

Twenty-four frames, one image, one request

Demo figure. This picture is one image of twenty-four frames, and which frame you see is decided by how far up on the card you are.

Stop eight

What it leaves you.

Gross margin stops at cost of goods. Shipping, fulfilment, fees and returns come after it — and the ad budget should be set against what is left.

Stop nine

The second order.

Around 81% of customers never place one. It typically lands a fortnight after the first, which makes the gap short, known and unusually fixable.

Lifecycle

Stop ten

Building the fix.

Every stop ends in a change to your store. That is where most advice dies — the recommendation arrives, the quote arrives, the change never does.

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