Effective Marketing Elements of eCommerce Pay-Per-Click and Social Media Advertising

It is difficult to grow your eCommerce business without effective advertising. Effective advertising helps eCommerce businesses to deepen their online presence and to reach more customers. It takes many marketing strategies and tactics to get good advertising results. You can use some of these strategies singly or in combination depending on the type of products you are marketing. If however you are able to effectively combine some of these strategies, you can achieve many of your marketing goals. Among these strategies, Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Advertising and Social Media Marketing are really quite popular with eCommerce business owners. Here is why.

Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Advertising

Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising is one great way eCommerce business owners can deliberately and directly reach their audience. They can succeed to directly reach their audience through PPC advertising on Google, You can only do that through specific strategies that can help to boost your chances of success. Some of these strategies include:

Diligent keywords research: By using Google Keyword planner and other research tools, you can find out what keywords your potential buyers are using to search on Google for the type of products you are marketing. When you use these keywords in your marketing content, Google adds your products in the search results of such searchers.
Using Google shopping ads: Such ads are usually created for transactional keywords. The ads will display your products and their prices on the SERPs of search engines.
Using retargeting ads: Retargeting ads are very technical and effective ads. If for instance a visitor has visited some pages on your website, you can send them ads related to those pages. You can directly target a shopper who has visited a product page with the right ads for that product. Doing so makes the shoppers more receptive to your ads.
Adjusting bidding according to your goals: You can achieve better success with your bidding if you increase your ads quality score through high-relevant ads and better click-through rates. That way, your ads can show up more for your preferred keywords.
Building relevant landing pages: For best ads results, your ad copy must align with your landing page copy. That helps to improve your chances of getting more leads and conversions.

By the time you are through with executing these tactics, you can best improve your performance through A/B testing knowing fully well that there is no single ad that works for every business the same way. For this reason, you must test various ad campaign elements to know what works and how. That’s one credible way to improve your marketing performance.

Social Media Marketing

Worldwide, many people are on social media to connect with friends and to have fun. However, many social media users also follow businesses and check out information and product offers on the platforms. On social media, many eCommerce brands do provide value to their audience through content that can solve their problems. This is why eCommerce businesses focus on social media platforms where they can easily reach their ideal customers. Specifically, eCommerce businesses can effectively use social media for:

Customer care
Posting product tips
Sharing products breaking news
Displaying product use cases
Providing industry information
Featuring influencer content
Making promo/discount announcements
Directly selling products
Making new products announcements
Featuring User-Generated Content (UGC)

These days and in many business niches, you can locate influencers, experts and celebrities who have gained tremendous following on social media due to their years of excellent and outstanding performance in their chosen business niches/professions. As a result, such influencers and experts do have audiences who trust their product recommendations. Many eCommerce businesses usually take good advantage of this relationship to promote their products. What matters most for an eCommerce business owner however is to make sure the influencers they choose to market with are in their niche and they have the right audience of followers, without which marketing with such influencers will not be very effective.
 
In addition, eCommerce businesses can sell products directly out of the sites of some social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest by taking advantage of their in-house marketing tools. On social media, there are many opportunities for eCommerce business owners to promote and sell their products. Experienced online marketers never fail to take full advantage of these opportunities.