social media for ecommerce
75 Words to Consider During Your Next Electronic Campaign
Social media and e-mail, for all of their popularity, can only offer so much reach to potential customers. You can have the perfect sale at the perfect time using the most pristine analytics possible but lose conversion because your message got lost along the way.
How can you be sure your message will get in front of as many eyes as possible?
- Consider using some of the most popular retweetable and repeatable words on Twitter and Facebook.
- Avoid words that will land your message in a customer’s spam filter
The 20 Most ReTweetable Words & Phrases (according to DanZarrella.com) are:
you | please | |
retweet | post | blog |
social | free | media |
help | please retweet | great |
social media | 10 | follow |
how to | top | blog post |
check out | new blog post |
According to spam filter experts, there are at least* 55 words or phrases you want to avoid in your e-mails include:
#1 | Accept credit cards | Affordable |
All natural | Apply online | Bargain |
Best price | Billing address | Buy direct |
Call | Cards Accepted | Check |
Click /Click Here / Click Below | Click to remove | Congratulations |
Cost / No cost | Do it today | Extra income |
For free | Form | Free and FREE |
Free leads | Free membership | Free offer |
Free preview | Full refund | Get it now |
Giving away | Guarantee | Hidden |
Marketing | Marketing solutions | Money |
Name brand | Never | No Hidden Costs |
No-obligation | Now | Offer |
One time / one-time | Opportunity | Order / Order Now |
Order today/ Order status | Orders shipped by priority mail | Performance |
Please read | Price | Risk free |
Sales | Satisfaction guaranteed | Save $ |
Save up to | Special promotion | Urgent |
US dollars |
You may obviously need to use some of the words above in your next e-mail, however, be sure to use the word(s) sparingly and never put a word like Free or Now in all capital letters. Increased frequency or repeated use of these words can highly increase your chances of an email landing in the spam folder.
Many third party email systems like Constant Contact, iContact, and AWeber automatically pre-check your email for you against a spam database and then give it a “spam rating”. The rating is supposed to help you gauge how your email stacks up against other spam and thus provide an idea of whether it will be caught in spam filters or not. I highly recommend one of these types of services if you are not already utilizing a third party system.
*This list was adapted from http://www.marketingforsuccess.com/wordstoavoid.html. For a list of 250 words and phrases to avoid, take a look at Words and Phrases that Trigger Some Spam Filters at http://www.wilsonweb.com/wmt8/spamfilter_phrases.htm
Appeal to Your Recession Shoppers Through Social Networking Venues
Welcome to the age of the Recession Shopper. According to research conducted by Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates and commissioned by LinkShare Recession Shoppers are the new breed of consumers.
Careful and conscious of what they’re purchasing, Recession Shoppers scour the Internet for good deals as meticulously as Martha Stewart folds hospital corners.
According to LinkShare, “Retailers that offer discounts, special promotions and product comparisons to engage – and keep – these consumers will have more success than those that continue to try striking emotional chords through traditional channels.”
The study also revealed that in order to engage with these consumers e-commerce retailers must change how they think and connect with current and potential customers.
Your e-commerce consumer is going to be an information-based shopper. They are going to click through a lot of websites before making a final decision. They’re going to ask their friends on Facebook, send out a Twitter post and post a question to their online web group.
To separate yourself from your competition, you’re going to need to get into those online channels with them. You’re going to appeal to those Recession Shoppers through social networking.
Facebook. If you’ve done your homework, you’ll know that there are more decision-making purchasers using Facebook than nearly any other tool out there. These purchasers are asking their Facebook friends for opinions on products as well as referrals. If you want to get in — or stay in — the conversation, you want to be on Facebook, too. You’ll want a fan page that your loyal or prospective customers can click to in order to learn more about your site and your products or services. Use your Fan Page to post pictures and announcements about discounts or sales. Consider it a customer service portal.
Twitter. Twitter is closing in on The New York Times as one of the most often clicked-on sites in the United States. Like Facebook, this is another place where your decision-making purchasers are talking. Like Facebook, they’re posing questions and doing research. Creating a Twitter account and using it to connect with your brand loyalists will show you’ve already gone above and beyond your competitors.
YouTube. Given our visual nature, it’s no wonder YouTube has taken off the way it has. Why not serve up a series of how-to videos for current or potential customers. Create a channel dedicated to your site and post tutorials, consumer testimonials or alternative uses to your products. Host a contest that asks people to post a 60-second video on why they love your product. Create buzz and the customers will follow.