When organizations begin a digital transformation and eCommerce journey, they often focus solely on technology. In reality, there are business decisions to be made and opportunities to explore before technology even comes into play. The first step is to set your objectives. Start by identifying what you want to achieve. There are the standard business […]
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Roles of the B2B Buying Journey: The Direct Sales Rep
Understanding the customer journey – and your internal team’s journey – is critical in B2B industries like manufacturing and distribution. A direct sales representative works for a manufacturer and represents only that organization. Her role is to meet with customers, support the distribution channel, and sell her organization’s products. It is very common for the […]
Roles of the B2B Buying Journey: The Manufacturing Sales Rep
Understanding the customer journey – and your internal team’s journey – is critical in B2B industries like manufacturing and distribution. A manufacturing sales representative is an independent seller that represents manufacturers and their products, but is not a direct employee of any manufacturer. He often represents a series of complimentary manufacturers, but generally not competitors. […]
Roles of the B2B Buying Journey: The User in the Field
Understanding the customer journey – and your internal team’s journey – is critical in B2B industries like manufacturing and distribution. You never know where you’ll find a user in the field. In fact, he usually doesn’t know where he’ll be on a daily basis. A common role in the trades, he is usually out working […]
Roles of the B2B Buying Journey: Understanding the Senior Buyer
Understanding the customer journey – and your internal team’s journey – is critical in B2B industries like manufacturing and distribution. The senior buyer has more latitude with regard to ordering, including having decision making power over other buyers. She makes purchases for her company, but she can make larger purchases without approval. She may have […]
Roles of the B2B Buying Journey: Understanding the Buyer
Understanding the customer journey – and your internal team’s journey – is critical in B2B industries like manufacturing and distribution. The buyer is one of the most common personas in the digital commerce journey. His primary role is to purchase the products he is told to purchase or is responsible for. It’s not unusual to […]
Magento Page Builder: Development Tools for the Non-Developer
Magento Page Builder is one of the new functionalities included in the most recent release of Magento 2.3.1. Designed to increase the capabilities of eCommerce platform administrators and streamline page creation, this new program allows users to design and develop pages without extensive knowledge of HTML and CSS. The module itself was designed to be […]
Roles of the B2B Buying Journey: Understanding the Researcher
Understanding the customer journey – and your internal team’s journey – is critical in B2B industries like manufacturing and distribution. One of the most important roles in the B2B buying process is a researcher. This person understands their business, and is looking for a solution to a specific problem. The researcher is the subject matter […]
Facing Business Challenges in Technology Implementations
Businesses face several challenges when implementing technology. Over the last several decades, organizations have built their tech stacks to help them with their business processes, but as time goes on, business needs grow and customer expectations change. Many businesses are now finding they don’t have the funds or technical agility to evolve their technology to […]
How Content Supports a Conversational Commerce Experience
What is conversational commerce? In January of 2015, Chris Messina, a former technologist of companies like Uber and Google, coined the term in his Medium post – Conversational Commerce: Messaging apps bring the point of sale to you. He saw an emerging trend, as others may have at the time as well. Andrew Bilak of […]
Building Better UX with a Product Content Strategy
Many manufacturers and distributors find the concept of content marketing to be daunting and complex. In fact, only 39% of B2B organizations had a documented content marketing strategy in 2018. Senior commerce consultant Karie Daudt, who recently joined Perficient Digital after serving as VP of Marketing & Customer Experience for Insite Software, weighed in the importance […]
Ad Blockers: The Key to Your Missing Web Analytics Data
If you haven’t dealt with inconsistencies between revenue and order totals reported by your web analytics platform and the numbers reported by your eCommerce transaction platform, you probably will eventually. There are many possible causes for these inconsistencies. Some of the most common are: Incorrect transaction tracking implementation Incorrect web analytics filtering configuration Transactions that […]