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2011年11月26日 星期六

EC網站資料



EC網站成功因素

http://blog.roodo.com/ad264/archives/10555359.html 
Visitors to retail e-commerce sites are most likely to be heading to online stores in order to learn, rather than to shop or buy. iPerceptions’ “Retail/E-Commerce Industry Report Q2 2009” found that 38.6% of e-commerce visitors were at the initial information-gathering phase at the top of the purchase funnel.
去網路零售通路的訪客通常是為了找資料而去,不是想要購買。根據
iPerceptions 2009年第二季的產業報告,發現有28.6%的電子商務顧客在購買決策中處於初步找資料階段。According to the report, visitors in the learning phase have a high level of satisfaction with the retail sites studied and more than 85% are able to complete their task. Lower down the funnel, however, sites are less likely to meet the needs of visitors.
根據這份報告,在找資訊階段的訪客對於零售通路網路有很高的滿意度,超過85%的訪客有順利完成其任務。然而,在往決策流程繼續走,網站比較不能滿足消費者的需求。
Task completion rates dropped to 76.9% among respondents who were aiming to shop, and declined further to just 61.5% among those looking to make a purchase at the retail e-commerce sites studied.
對於想要瀏覽購物的受訪者,任務完成率就降到76.9%;對於想要做出購買決定的人來說,任務完成率更下降至61.5%。
The most common reason shoppers did not buy was the failure to find what they needed, cited by 34%. Pricing and problems with navigation or usability tied for second place, with 13% of respondents.
瀏覽購物者不買最常見的原因是無法找到他們要的東西,約有34%。價格問題跟網站導覽或使用方便性問題,位於第二個原因,約有13%。


Considering navigation problems could prevent shoppers from finding what they are looking for, e-tailers should not ignore site design as a barrier to increased sales.
考慮到網路導覽問題可以讓購物者找不到想要買的東西,線上零售商應該不要輕視網站設計,以增加銷售。
“By structuring their sites to facilitate the ability of visitors to look for (and find) crucial decision-making information, companies can remove a major hurdle responsible for causing initially determined purchasers to eventually abandon the process altogether,” according to the report.

How To Build A Successful Social Business – Groupon Case Study


How To Build A Successful Social Business – Groupon Case Study


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I have no shame in proclaiming my absolute adoration ofGroupon. I love everything about them, from their business model, to their branding, marketing and everything in between. In my opinion I think they’re right up there with the big 3 in social media – Facebook, Twitter & Foursquare. Having a presence on groupon will be making its way into more and more social media marketing plans and it’s easy to see why. They’re responsible for some great case studies,such as Gap, which we covered last week. I want to go a little deeper into the actual business of Groupon and see what lessons can be learned for new businesses setting up.

Make social your business model

The business value of social media has been well and truly proven now, particularly with the rise in social commerce that we’re now witnessing. One of the smartest things you can do right now is to find a way to make social fit at the very centre of your business model. While established brands are forced to adopt social technologies to enhance their existing way of doing business, new brands have the benefit of making their business function around social completely. This is exactly what Groupon did with their group buying concept. They tied into the aspect of community so simplistically. If you want to get  a great offer yourself, increase your chances by sharing the offer (and the brand) through your own social channels. It’s absolute genius.

Make it simple, forget about the buttons

One of the most common downfalls of new businesses is to invest months and months in building a website, redesigning it, optimising it and adding more buttons. There is such a temptation to add on a load of functionality and widgets in the hope that this will increase your business. Groupon is so simple, and it proves the case that you don’t need a load of extra technology to create a product that people will buy into. On their site they just provide a few actions – receive deals by email, connect through Facebook, view latest deals and the option join their friend referral scheme. It’s an eyecatching site but it’s a tight user experience that importantly doesn’t require too much from the consumer to take part in the scheme.

Be ambitious with your marketing

This may not be the same outside of Ireland, but if my own Facebook profile is anything to go by, Groupon are investing a lot in Facebook ads. I’m constantly seeing their ad for ‘one huge coupon emailed daily’ and it always gets my attention. By being such a visible brand I’m instantly interested in their site and inevitably trust them more as a business. They’re also not afraid to work with big brands, which in turn creates significant marketing value and coverage for them, as these case studies get featured on tech and business sites around the world. What Groupon consistently do is to invest in the channels that are immediately tied to their business strategy of sharing. At the time of the Gap promotion, they purchased an ad spot on Digg to promote it, where the user is just one click away from sharing the coupon and obviously helping groupon get one step closer to the deal reaching the right amount of users to validate.

Grow fast, grow big

While some may argue that Groupon’s concept isn’t all that new, you certainly can’t argue with the fact that they’re not afraid of growing quick and expanding into new markets. From July to August the site saw an increase in traffic of 23%, making it the fourth fastest growing web company. With this growth in traffic they’re grabbing on fast to the opportunities and growing out their office space. In May this year they opened an office in Silicon Valley, purchased the  mobile development company mob.ly and hired Mark Johnson, former ad exec at Netflix. Ambitious moves for what was still a relatively new company and it shows they recognise the moves they need to grow into the market, when their concept is so easily to replicate.
They’ve also rapidly expanded the cities in which they operate, which is so central to their business success. They bought up Citydeal for their European operation and recently expanded into the Russian and Japanese markets, buying up Qpod and Darberry. This brings them up to 29 cities worldwide and they show no sign of slowing down. Such ambition is admirable and shows the speed with which you need to move in business today, particularly online, if you are to beat off competitors and actually sustain a profitable business.

Take something and make it cool again

The fundamental reason why Groupon is so successful is because they took advantage of an untapped market need. The simple fact is that we all love a great deal. Coupons will always work but they hadn’t really expanded that much beyond being cut out of a magazine, with the odd exception of a Pizza Express email voucher. Groupon have taken advantage of a simple idea such as a coupon and found a way to make it cool, by making it social. This is the challenge for so many new businesses now, when you face stiff competition in an overloaded market. You have to find a way of making your product or service relevant to the market and turn something simple completely on its head with the use of social media.
These are just a few of the lessons that can be learned from Groupon, and they’re an excellent example of how social media is giving rise to completely new business models and concepts.



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在團購的模式中,Groupon怎樣利用social media進行EC而成功,這一篇講其business model的個案研究可以看看。機制關鍵點在於「簡單」與「用團購折扣促成分享的動機」。
  • 簡單:頁面設計簡單、每日一個限量促銷產品也簡單。簡單讓人容易專注跟討論,最近思考消費者自願會分享的網絡活動連結,通常貼一個URL,如果一個網絡campaign有N個不同的小活動,很少有人會將所有小活動的URL給貼出來。
  • 具誘惑力的團購折扣:「免費」跟「打折」一向吸引人眼光,達到某種人數門檻才可以享有某種折扣的方式,促成人有動機去呼朋引伴。
而這些坦白說都不是新的概念,因為Groupon加入social media元素:
  • 不但自己常買facebook廣告,也鼓勵消費者多多在自己的SNS分享優惠。
  • 而所選擇的商品從其過往的促銷清單中,可看出通常是吃喝玩樂類,在social media上,大家的話題其實吃喝玩樂的也蠻多。
Groupon介紹影片:

那廣告主做團購的目的?
一般來說,團購的折扣很低,下殺至5折以下,除了實質的銷售目的外,還可以是「拉低門檻擴大體驗」,或是搞噱頭迅速打知名度。

怎麼做比較好,GAP的案例讓我想到:因為量大,所以直接訴求超低折扣,而且就算是超低折扣,也不單獨依賴團購網站的人氣,而是也選擇不同social media的管道進行宣傳,加大效果。

GAP的案例

在2010年8月19日,針對開學前的促銷,Groupon賣一張50美元的GAP禮券,只要25美元就可以買到,地點包括85個美國與加拿大城市,賣一天下來,創下約1100萬美元的營收,總共44萬1千張的折價券。(資料來源:Mr. 6)

但是為了這一天的促銷,GAP運用多個social media的管道進行宣傳,不單只靠Groupon的宣傳力量。
  • 午夜時,對Groupon與GAP會員發送約1千500萬的EDM。
  • 在Twitter的Earlybird Offers帳號,發送訊息,約有18萬的followers。
  • 告知GAP本身在twitter以及facebook粉絲數,約3萬與60萬個粉絲。Groupon也如是做。
  • 同時,GAP的1,500個affiliates也宣告此訊息。
  • 甚至在Digg也買廣告版面。
source: http://www.clickz.com/clickz/news/1729509/how-gaps-groupon-went-crazy-viral

2011年11月15日 星期二

愛評網 VS Cyber Agent Ventures


  • 愛評網店家數為7.5萬家餐廳、不重複到訪人數每月500萬人,是全台美食第一大網站。至於獲利,愛評網2010年營收為新台幣3000萬元。(網路文章)

  • 【Inside】CyberAgent Ventures在台成立分公司,年底前花6000萬投資兩間網路公司

    數位時代網站|撰文者:Inside部落格發表日期:2011/10/26
    推文至Facebook 推文至騰訊微博 推文至新浪微博 推文至Plurk 推文至twitter
    CyberAgent  Ventures 這個名字也許大家真的很陌生,但是接下來台灣網路圈的朋友應該會越來越熟悉這家公司;他們在10月份正式成立公司,在之前,他們已經在台灣投資過宇峻奧汀、愛情公寓以及愛評網(100萬美金,占20%股份),在中國大陸則投資過 土豆網(影音網站)、機鋒網(Android討論社群)、五分鐘(Faceboom遊戲,開心農場)等知名服務,在日本則投資過日本的社群網站Mixi,母公司CyberAgent並與社群網站DeNA一同成立了一間智慧型手機網路公司,韓國的Kakao Talk等,詳細列表可以參考這裡,你可以發現除了日本、中國大陸、台灣、韓國外,投資對象還包含了越南以及印尼等地的網路公司。
    在10/18號,該公司在台灣進行了一場小型的開幕茶會,而根據事後的許多媒體報導,比如說Foucs Taiwan的這篇,台灣區的總經理Alice Fang表示:
    • 「在年底前計劃再投資兩間台灣網路公司,一間是入口網站(Internet Portal)」
    • 「投資金額則各為3,000萬台幣」
    • 「接下來計劃於大中華區花2,300萬美金於投資25家新創公司,主要是手機應用開發商」
    • 同篇報導也指出,iPeen在接受投資後,人力規模由30人擴增至70人,預期營收將從2010年的3,000萬台幣向上衝到2011年的9,000萬台幣,並將推出與Android相關的平板以及手機服務。
    在日本,CyberAgent Ventures 的母公司為CyberAgent,2011年預計營業額為1,100億日幣(約430億台幣)。
    • Ameba 社群網站(部落格、影音分享以及社群Pigg)
    • 網路媒體
    • 網路廣告代理
    • 投資育成(即CyberAgent Ventures)
    根據其六月底的公開資訊,Ameba的會員數有1,645萬人、一個月的造訪人次可到達2,691萬人,在日本排行第五(不過印象中好像Facebook 現在似乎已經追上?),根據下面這張圖,每個月的PV可以到達 268億。
    而Pigg則擁有820萬人會員,中國大陸的新浪看到其火熱的狀況,也山寨了一個稱之為「火星微」的類似社群網站
    每季Ameba的虛寶營收上看25億日幣,每月會員ARPU將近2,000塊日幣。 其餘廣告等事業都也都跟著Ameba的高流量,而水漲船高更多詳細資訊,可以參考本份PDF


    所以,大家可以開始猜年底是哪兩家公司要被CyberAgent投資了?