An overview of how mobile commerce will change retailing. Venda is the world's largest on-demand ecommerce provider. Processing over $1Bn of transactions annually, its highly flexible convergent cross-channel platform offers retailers the scalability, stability and security for deploying world-class ecommerce sites. With over ten years' experience and a presence in the UK, US and France, Venda helps global retailers increase revenues and deliver a return on investment faster than traditional 'buy and build' methods. Its expertise in multi-channel commerce and knowledge of payment regulations in different countries allows retailers to expand quickly into new markets.
As of March 2012, over 100 brands of all sizes use Venda's platform to handle millions of transactions each month. These include Accessorize, Anthropologie, Emma Bridgewater, Jimmy Choo, Paperchase, Royal Doulton, and Clothing at Tesco, BBC and Orange. For further information please visit http://www.venda.com or join the discussion at www.twitter.com/vendauk
2. We now live in the age of new retailing, in a
multichannel world…Their high street, their
computer, their smartphone - all these offer
different ways of shopping [for consumers] and
all are converging.
Philip Clarke, Tesco Group CEO. 8 June 2011
4. No longer a straightforward journey…
From this
To this
Source: New Consumer Behaviours 2010, Krillion & the e-tailing group 2010
5. …creating significant opportunities for retailers
Multi-channel shoppers spend 50% more
than single channel shoppers
Satisfied multi-channel users have higher
attitudinal loyalty
Source: New Consumer Behaviours 2010, Krillion & the e-tailing group 2010
9. Venda announces LocalPoint
Utilise precise Geofences (cell, Wifi and GPS) to monitor
shoppers and consumer behaviours
Use time and location sensitive messages to drive store
traffic
Deliver specific promotions based on entry, check-in and
exit
Use in-store actions to generate analytics to a deeper level
10. New In Store Experience
Clicking Receiving a Scanning a QR
to Call an Store Alert Code offer
Expert
In Store
Kiosk
Web Enabled
Store
Queuing to make Receiving an Checking In Rating Products
a purchase Exit Survey at a Sampling
Table
12. Facebook drives traffic
• 90% of consumers trust
recommendations from people they
know (eConsultancy)
• 67% of consumers spend more online
after getting advice from their online
community of friends (Internet Retailer)
14. For more info
Venda Ltd.
101 St Martin's Lane
London
WC2N 4AZ
tel +44 20 7070 7000
fax +44 20 7070 7111
www.venda.com
info@venda.com
Notas del editor
I’d like to sepnd a little time today talking about the tremendous opportunity that the mobile – and in particular wireless - channel represents for retailers.
I’d like to start with a quotation from Phillip Clarke of Tesco which, if you analyse it, contains a lot of great information. There are a few words that I’d like to draw your attention to. The first is multichannel. We do live in a multi-channel world, our own social and work relationships are conducted through multiple channels, we talk about multichannel marketing and we aim to engage with our customers through multiple touch-points. The second most important word to us at Venda is converging. I’m going to explain a lot more about why we believe this word is so important as I go through the presentation but for now, I’ll say that multichannel retailing is not enough; retailers need to develop a strategy that does more than simply pile channel on channel. However, the most important word in this quote is their. “Their high street, their computer, their smartphone”; the essence of this statement is that consumers are driving this change.
Given that retailing is already starting to move towards multi-channel, what is changing? The answer is that customer behaviour is changing and that is driving the change in the way that retailing and in particular online retailing works.
Its important to note that this change is being driven not by retailers or etailers but by consumers. The old linear shopping journey is increasingly rare. In its place we are seeing channel hopping as shoppers move from shopping channel to shopping channel as they go through their buying cycle. What starts with a “like” on Facebook, becomes a product view on your website, a search for product reviews on comparison sites, a return visit to your site but this time from a tablet, before it ends up with trip to your store or even an impulsive purchase from a Smartphone during a bus journey home. And to add more complexity, each journey a customer makes is as unique as that shopper. So the new shopping journey looks chaotic to us, but to consumers it makes perfect sense and consumers are starting to demand that their journey is frictionless. They don’t want to see inconsistent offers, find that login is difficult, that you can’t remember their preferences between channels. They simply want to buy from you.
The benefit of satisfying this demand is that you attract a group of higher-spending customers, so you increase frequency, improve recency, increase basket sizes and values and engage with a group of consumers that have and express a much greater degree of brand loyalty in other words the people who are likely to become brand advocates.
So having said that consumers are driving change, how and where should retailers invest?
Its important that we don’t just think of mCommerce as a standalone shopping channel. Large numbers of customers want to visit a store to make the final purchasing decision, so while you can sell entirely on the smartphone you need to ensure that questions like where is my nearest store and do they stock this item are easily answered.
At Venda we are deepening the connection between mobile and store. We are looking to go beyond mCommerce and find a store integration and helping retailers to use customer data to increase the use of mobile devices by their customers and to maximise their mCommerce and mobile marketing investments.
The result will be a richer integrated instore experience for customers that exploits mobile technology and in many cases re-uses resources and assets you already have in place.We should also remember that shoppers take the mobile channel in-store with them. At the moment most retailers have a fairly simple integration between the different channels; for example integrating EPOS with eCommerce to order out-of-stock items and arrange home delivery. Some retailers use kiosks in store to extend the shelf and others allow check out using mobile devices and wallets.
Remember also that social is mobile. Most social network interactions take place via mobile devices. Add to that the fact that shopping is also social and you can see how important it is that you integrate the social channel and allow shoppers to easily like, tweet and seek and follow the opinions and recommendations of their social network .
So to summarise, shoppers are driving multi-channel. They also expect seamlessness between channels and a frictionless shopping journey. To achieve that you have to go beyond multi-channel online retailing and into convergent multichannel commerce. The rewards are there and the Venda platform is there to support you.