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How to Smartly Increase Sales with Product Recommendation Engine

July 1, 2013 By Ruben Corbo 13 Comments

Turn browsers into buyersSome Internet marketing specialists of ten say that a product recommendation engine often serves as a “mouthpiece” for big brands, because the engine invariably refers clients back to products and services that large companies sell or provide.

But that’s not the case; even if you have a small or mid-size business, you still can take advantage of the engine to increase sales and overall conversions. But that doesn’t happen overnight, though. The process is not complicated; you can do it on your own, but reach out to a specialist or use an online tool that will help you implement these traffic conversion tools.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Know Your Inventory—and Pick the “Winning” Items
  • 2. Assess Your Website
  • 3. Create an Ergonomic Website—and Insert the Engine Properly
  • 4. Track User Activity
  • 5. Interact With Customers
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1. Know Your Inventory—and Pick the “Winning” Items

Before installing a product recommendation engine on your website, know your inventory. Go through item categories and figure out those that most likely are going to draw enormous traffic on a specific day, time of the day, or hour.

Those are your “winning” items, the 20% of products or services that are going to generate 80% of revenue within that specific time frame.

For example, if you sell shoes, you can pick a specific type of footwear that might produce blockbuster sales on, say, Mother’s Day, or female denim that could sell well on Valentine’s Day.

The bottom line is: know your customers and the season, and select the winning items accordingly.

2. Assess Your Website

Determine whether your website has the technological backbone needed to handle high traffic, as well as the right security levels that should be in place to safeguard customers’ data.

If you want to operate an e-commerce portal and make money while doing it, you need to invest in IT security — if you haven’t already done so.

You would be leaving money on the table — for rivals to collect — if you had a good product recommendation engine that does what it is supposed to do. But you can not close the deal and increase your overall conversion rate.

3. Create an Ergonomic Website—and Insert the Engine Properly

Make your website sleek, attractive and user-friendly. When it comes to website optimization, ergonomics means user-friendliness — that is, the effort you make to provide your existing customers and occasional patrons the best shopping experience they have ever had.

Once you deploy an ergonomic website, place the product recommendation engine in a highly visible location. Portals that have such engines typically place them on home pages, giving users the opportunity to rate products and services and suggest potential substitutes or similar items to other users.

4. Track User Activity

To take advantage of product recommendation engines, track user activity. Monitor things like time spent reviewing a specific item; whether the item was subsequently bought; shopping patterns in terms of frequency, time and amount spent; user gender, age and profession; and shopper location.

This onsite surveillance — which is further enhanced by the product recommendation engine—helps you constantly shuffle elements in your value proposition in terms of products and services, a move that ultimately will yield higher revenues and repeat business.

This is because your supply will always match your customers’ demands — if not exceed their expectations.

5. Interact With Customers

Create opportunities to interact with your patrons, and do so as frequently as possible. Figure out innovative, effective ways to cultivate client relationships to woo new ones and retain the existing ones.

Effective yet affordable ways to do that include setting a blog, leaving a “Comments” or “Review” box underneath each item, implementing periodic surveys, and enabling clients to leave feedback on your company’s social-media pages.

The idea here is to make money — a lot of it — by picking up the slack that some companies leave when they no longer care of the customer once a sale is made or a service provided.

For example, you can implement a rewards system whereby customers who post a lot of reviews receive incentives, such as rebates on future purchases.

Summary

Product recommendation engines help you effectively increase sales by expanding the number of customers who ultimately buy the same item or item category.

To take advantage of the operational manna that the engine represents, you should do your homework and make sure your website can handle increased traffic along with the mishmash of IT requirements that things like blog, product review and comments bring onto a website.

To generate sales through a product recommendation engine, know your product portfolio, interact with customers often, track user activity, and create a website that is as user-friendly as possible.

Ruben Corbo is a freelance writer for many different topics including internet marketing, technology, gaming, music, and more. To find out more about Product Recommendation Engines, visit Maxymiser.com

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Comments

  1. William says

    January 17, 2015 at 3:42 pm

    been reading the posts from this blog for quite sometime now and I want to say thanks for all the information that you bring forth to us and especially for us who doesn’t already know this info it definitely does help. cheers!

    Reply
    • Gail Gardner says

      January 19, 2015 at 7:05 pm

      Hi William,

      Thanks for letting me know you appreciate the content here.
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  2. Bhavesh says

    January 25, 2014 at 7:21 am

    Nice post.. It comes up with many advantages. What I think is that utilizing the best thing for sale. Thanks Gail you are always come up with a good and informative post.

    Reply
  3. Jackie Allum says

    October 1, 2013 at 7:16 pm

    Thanks for this post Ruben. I’m finding that it’s keeping people on the site that matters when you’re trying to sell people something. I’m trying to improve my bounce rate and you’ve given some nice tips there. Thanks.

    Reply
  4. marytlou says

    July 10, 2013 at 12:35 am

    Product recommendation is a great way to bring traffic to your site and all the steps you have mentioned here are necessary to get guaranteed success. Thanks for sharing the useful tips.
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  5. shameem says

    July 5, 2013 at 12:27 pm

    I have tried many stuff to improve my sales but with less knowledge not able to survive it much got some few tips about the engagement with customers
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  6. Robin says

    July 4, 2013 at 5:00 am

    This seems interesting. let me give this product recommendation engine a try 🙂

    Robin.

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  7. Jakob Moroz says

    July 3, 2013 at 3:00 am

    Actually if you can set up a good strategies with online marketing then you will be successful indeed. Buy you need to adopt legitimate and natural approaches.

    Reply
  8. Jai Shah says

    July 2, 2013 at 9:24 am

    Product Recommendation Engine (PRE) is one of the best means of SEM and SMM. Lead generation is another means of such kind a marketing strategies.

    Reply
  9. nael says

    July 2, 2013 at 9:30 am

    I think that using your best products on the market is a smart concept. Also, sites need to be up-to-date and have the best technological innovation available. I believe the fact with this publish and I appreciate the conclusion at the end that covered it all together. Thanks!

    Reply
  10. Evo Plaza says

    July 1, 2013 at 9:11 pm

    Thanks for the fantastic tips, and recommendations .

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  11. Robert Koening says

    July 1, 2013 at 3:37 pm

    I think that utilizing your best items for sale is a great idea. Also, websites need to be up-to-date and have the best technology available. I agree with this post and I appreciate the summary at the end that wrapped it all together. Thanks!

    Reply
  12. Hamza Sheikh says

    July 1, 2013 at 2:21 pm

    Product Recommendation Engines always proof that they are good in what they are advertised. However, in my past venture, I have implemented PRE in our website to boost some of our sales. But due to lack of information over the PRE, we didn’t see much results.

    Thanks for the great tips, and recommendations.
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