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Why do consumers buy more and more online?

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In recent years, consumers have begun to buy more and more over the internet. This has completely changed how it is consumed, how products are sold and how positioning strategies are created for them. Stores have to play with new rules and brands have to move in a scenario that is completely different from what they had in the beginning. Things have become something very different, something that brands and consumers have to keep in mind. What has pushed consumers into the arms of e-commerce? Everyone has their own story of why and how they started buying online, but the truth is that, if you analyze all those stories and all those testimonies, you can find some guidelines that explain this boom in e-commerce. Consumers value comfort One of the great tricks of e-commerce and one of the reasons that lead many buyers to make their purchases through it is in the ease of buying. One can simply have what it wants and search with a few clicks and sometimes (thanks to easier purchase systems)

Importance of costumer service for e-commerce

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In e-commerce is equally important what happens before as what happens after the purchase. Before the consumer makes the final click that will cause the product they want to become a purchase, the brands have to pay special attention to a large list of items. The design of the web, the photos of the product, the comments of other consumers, how the prices of different products or services are presented. All these elements are crucial to convince the consumer and all of them have become the elements of manual that all the brands and all the companies take care of. But the truth is that these are not all crucial elements and are not the only ones that brands should watch with falcon eyes. One of the trends in e-commerce is that of thinking that once the sale has been closed the work is already done. The consumer has bought, the product has been shipped and everything the seller has to do or should do is done. However, this reasoning is a mistake and only causes problems and failures in t

The 4 realities that most frustrate and annoy buyers in physical stores

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When e-commerce appeared, many people rushed to announce the death of traditional commerce. Consumers were increasingly buying online and, therefore, they were condemning physical stores to a possible future death. His luck was set and it did not seem to be very positive. But in spite of it, the physical stores are still there and they are a very important part of the buying habits. In fact, consumers are quite far from being buyers of one or the other scenario. They want to buy in all the stages and they want to do it also how and when they please. That does not imply, however, that they do not see the different sales channels without problems and without fail, and that they have no complaints and negative opinions about them. That physical stores have been around for so long does not necessarily mean that everything is seen in them with special good eyes. Consumers remain highly critical and continue to find defects that should be addressed. What are the things that most frustrate co