Online Selling: Choice, trust, freedom & control - Presented by @colinbentley at UX Lisbon 12.
People love the idea of choice. In theory. Research shows that too much choice inhibits sales and increases post purchase dissatisfaction. Barry Schwartz's “The Paradox of Choice” spells it out, reducing choice is the only way to go.
Then why do companies continue to offer so much choice? Why do they persist with such a large product set that's expensive for them to maintain and reduces the likelihood of a sale?
Colin has been improving the online sales of telecom companies for over three years, companies that are some of the guiltiest parties in offering an overwhelming number of products.
In his presentation Colin explores how the fundamental issue of trust is responsible for this crazy amount of choice. He argues that reducing choice can only happen in very specific high trust environments. Colin proves that too much choice is here to stay and then he shares key design insights on how to overcome this when selling online.
Colin is a user experience designer with leading UX design consultancy iQ Content. He has been working on a long term engagement with one of Ireland’s largest telecom brands, creating and refining their online sales channels through workshops, user research, prototyping and testing. This work has focused on the practical application of the theories that motivate a purchase decision and get people to buy online.
26. So far
• Only specific organisations can reduce choice
• high trust environment
27. So far
• Only specific organisations can reduce choice
• high trust environment
• For most companies there’s sound reasons to have
lot’s of choice
• mitigates low trust
• Sales person guides customers through jungle of
options
67. The stats
70 %
choose ready made option when buying
a MyWay plan
68. How do we deal with choice online
• Get people to the product listing page
• Make your listing page sweats
• Subtle suggestions can have a big impact
• Offer easy selections within the large amount of choice
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Intro to iQ Content, long-term engagement with Vodafone. \nRange of projects, from care, to My Account section and app work.\nonline sales focus\n
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38 different types of butter on offer here.\n
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These guys offer so many products\n
This is what a phone shop looks like online - so we decided to reduce the choice\n
intermediate page. When you click on phones from the navigation you are first presented with this page.\n\n
Analytics show that all people care about is this all phones button.\n\n
Comes down to an issue of trust\n
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No syrups, low fat, skinny options not even any chocolate dusting on the capachino, they’re quite a pack of coffee nazis in there. \n\nHowever less choice here doesn’t feel limiting. It doesn’t have that negative conitation of the phones page. We’re not thinking that Colin is not providing us with optional syrups or milks with different fat content because he’s trying to maximise profits. In fact in this instance it’s a positive, the menu feels curated, specifically for us. \n\n
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Have to have at least one of these high\n\n
Have to have at least one of these high\n\n
Have to have at least one of these high\n\n
Have to have at least one of these high\n\n
think of this as a set of levers business have to increase sales \n- trust, sticky hard to push, long term\n- control, easy to provide, just give more choice\n
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Web:\n- reach, cross platform with dramatically less effort \n
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make the selections we know sell well\neasy to find, and more selectable than other\n
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- test and refine \n- track & monitor\n- search queries\n
- test and refine \n- track & monitor\n- search queries\n
- test and refine \n- track & monitor\n- search queries\n
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persistent - making it the easy choice for the customer \n
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focus grops - everybody love the idea of this\nbuilt your own, tailor, only pay for what you need\n