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Have You Identified Your Holiday Mobile Strategy?

10/04/2017 by wcapra No comment(s) black friday, Consumer Engagement, CRM campaign, Digital commerce, holiday shopping, mobile app, mobile application, mobile engagement

The sheer amount of pumpkin spice flavored offerings in the recent marketplace tells us that the holiday season is right around the corner (or it could just be an impatient marketplace offering pumpkin spice as early as July?). Last holiday season, consumers flocked in droves to their smartphones to complete their Black Friday shopping, to the tune of $1.2B spent[1].  How prepared is your organization’s holiday mobile strategy to handle this season?

Engage- Don’t Annoy

Mobile engagement strategy will have started long before this point of the year, but capturing your share of the holiday mobile crowd is vital. Strive to create engagement that is both appropriate and timely. If you’re offering a steep deal on something the customer has searched for within the last twelve months in your app but did not buy, send them a notification once they launch your app! Use the data captured from your prior CRM campaigns to send relevant emails at the right time of day. We are all consumers and should always apply logic about when and what works to capture our spending. If a campaign seems annoying from your consumer logic perspective, it will certainly annoy your consumers.
Conversely, avoid sending repeated push notifications about deals, relevant to the customer or not. Not only will the customer likely not purchase from you, your app may not even make it another day in their mobile real estate.

End-to-End

Prior to the holiday volume, it’s pertinent to think of the end-to-end experience. Ensure that your experience has remained consumer friendly and has responded to changes in the mobile app marketplace. Customers want to be able to quickly find the items they are looking for, and pay for them securely and quickly.  Ensuring that apps are not asking for irrelevant information and that they have enabled the most relevant forms of easy, secure payment[2] will be integral to the success of your holiday shopping season.

This chart comes courtesy of Statista

On the backend, stress testing all components of mobile platforms to ensure mobile platforms can handle the exponential volume levels of the holiday season is crucial. Again, app abandonment can happen for any number of reasons, and error messages surrounding a search, purchase completion or app launch are all prime candidates for consumers to leave an app and never look back.

Plan Your Holiday Mobile Strategy, Then Plan Again

If your mobile app fails to capture as much market share as you had hoped this holiday season, don’t dwell on what went wrong; capture as much information as possible and start working for 2018. Determine why your campaigns did not work, dig into cart abandonment issues, look at mobile app crashes- every point of less than optimal success is an opportunity to improve upon and should be considered for an immediate fix. Mobile apps and the related experiences require a never-ceasing ability to evolve, and never will reach a point of perfection and finality.
For further discussion, contact Tim at tradway@wcapra.com.
 
[1] http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161126005005/en/Media-Alert-Adobe-Data-Shows-Black-Friday
[2] Touch ID with Apple Pay, Visa Checkout, Paypal One Touch, etc.
[3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/247195/percentage-of-mobile-black-friday-sales/

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