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SAP lance un nouveau programme d’incubation de startups spécialisées dans l’amélioration de l’expérience client par le biais de son incubateur SAP.iO.

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 Paris, le 21 septembre 2023 – SAP, leader mondial des logiciels professionnels d’entreprise, lance ce jour son nouveau programme d’accélération de startups autour de SAP.iO, son accélérateur interne. Un programme qui vise à soutenir l’engagement des consommateurs grâce à une meilleure expérience et une satisfaction client. 15 startups seront ainsi accompagnées.

 

De nouvelles tendances dans l’expérience client qui incitent à l’innovation.

Dans un environnement numérique en constante évolution, SAP poursuit sa quête vers plus d’innovation pour répondre aux besoins de ses clients. Aujourd’hui, les exigences des clients finaux ne cessent de croître, notamment en raison d’une volonté accrue de l’accès instantané à l’information. Cette tendance incite les entreprises à réexaminer régulièrement leur approche, en intégrant à leurs solutions, des avancées technologiques telle que l’intelligence artificielle.

 

Un programme complet d’incubation de startups  innovantes dans l’expérience client. 

C’est la raison pour laquelle SAP lance son programme SAP.iO, axé sur l’amélioration de l’expérience du consommateur en fournissant les solutions les mieux adaptées à cette tendance. Ce programme initié par SAP, piloté par l’incubateur SAP.iO, est essentiellement orienté B2C (Business-to-Consumer), l’objectif étant de fournir tous les outils et solutions nécessaires aux clients finaux pour améliorer significativement leur expérience, avec un accent particulier sur l’amélioration de leur expérience d’achat. Ce programme couvre l’intégralité de la chaîne d’approvisionnement, depuis la sélection du bon produit jusqu’à sa livraison, dans les délais impartis. Cette nouvelle initiative démontre l’engagement continu de SAP à demeurer à la pointe de l’innovation pour ses partenaires, et à créer une valeur ajoutée dans le domaine de la gestion de la relation client.

 

Le programme de SAP.iO accompagne 15 startups à partir du 21 septembre.

Le programme sera officiellement lancé le 21 septembre à la Tour SAP (Inscription ci-contre) en compagnie des 15 startups sélectionnées pour y participer. Ces startups ont été choisies en fonction de plusieurs critères, notamment leur taille et leur expérience relative, la viabilité technique de leurs solutions, leur unicité par rapport aux technologies existantes chez SAP, et leur valeur commerciale. Ces startups sont toutes spécialisées dans l’expérience d’achat et seront intégrées au programme SAP (voir listing ci-dessous).

 

 

« SAP.iO est fier d’accompagner 15 startups talentueuses qui incarnent notre vision d’un avenir où l’engagement des consommateurs est au cœur de chaque entreprise. Ce tout nouveau programme d’accélération illustre notre engagement à améliorer la satisfaction des clients finaux et donc de nos clients. » Odilia von Zitzewitz, Head of SAP.iO Foundry Paris

 

 

Les startups sélectionnées pour participer au programme

 

Anaphora

Anaphora conçoit et crée des plateformes permettant aux marques internationales d’améliorer et de contrôler leurs expériences de marque dans tous les points de contact numériques.

 

Booxi

Booxi est un logiciel de prise de rendez-vous qui améliore la satisfaction client, augmente les conversions et les ventes en facilitant la création de parcours clients fluides du site web au magasin.

 

ChatLabs

Avec ChatLabs les marques peuvent générer une expérience unique pour chaque client, en combinant le contenu, les produits et les appels à l’action dans des parcours hyper-personnalisés. Chaque parcours est entièrement automatisé et alimenté par l’IA.

 

Digitoo

Digitoo est une solution de comptabilité alimentée par l’IA conçue pour résoudre les problèmes du secteur (manque de personnel, les coûts élevés, la complexité du traitement des documents papie…)

 

Find & Order

Find & Order travaille depuis 3 ans avec les leaders de la logistique et de la distribution pour challenger leurs opérations et leurs systèmes d’information. 

 

Frontnow

Frontnow redéfinit le commerce électronique grâce à l’IA, en fournissant aux entreprises de puissants outils d’avant-vente pour maximiser les indicateurs clés de performance et offrir une expérience d’achat semblable à celle d’un magasin.

 

Logicbroker

Logicbroker est la première plateforme de commerce électronique de gestion de l’expérience de la chaîne d’approvisionnement (SCXM). Leur suite intégrée relie tous les participants de la chaîne d’approvisionnement d’une organisation, quel que soit le type de modèle commercial.

 

Measmerize

Measmerize propose une solution de recommandation de taille pour la mode, qui établit un équilibre entre le taux d’adoption et la précision.

 

Notify

Notify est le 1er SaaS d’orchestration CRM qui place l’intelligence artificielle au cœur du dialogue entre les marques et leurs clients. Leur IA nourrit un CRM innovant qui réduit la pression marketing, individualise et légitime la relation, et optimise l’empreinte carbone du CRM. Notify est la réponse aux enjeux du Capital Client et aux indicateurs de transformation du CRM.

 

Particular Audience

Les solutions de Particular Audience comprennent des offres groupées et automatisées sur la politique d’alignement des prix, les produits sponsorisés, la recherche vectorielle basée sur les transformateurs, la recherche visuelle, les recommandations, les informations sur les prix et la tarification dynamique.

 

Potions

Potions développe et distribue la première plateforme de personnalisation de parcours sans cookie, grâce à laquelle ils déploient des expériences uniques pour les visiteurs des sites web des clients.

 

Q°emotion

Q°emotion est une solution sémantique et émotionnelle qui analyse automatiquement les avis clients, ceci afin de détecter et d’éliminer tous les irritants du parcours client.

 

Uncrowd

Uncrowd est une plateforme d’analyse de l’expérience qui explique aux entreprises comment être le premier choix pour toute mission client. La combinaison unique d’observation de l’expérience client, de mesures quantitatives et de résultats comparatifs permet de construire des cartes de parcours client qui aident les entreprises à séduire de nouveaux prospects.

 

Unea

Unea est une plateforme tout-en-un qui révolutionne la gestion des dépenses médiatiques et commerciales des détaillants. Elle permet aux détaillants et aux marques de collaborer de manière transparente, en présentant des produits et en réservant des emplacements en temps réel.

 

YDISTRI

YDISTRI est une startup SaaS B2B spécialisée dans la gestion des stocks d’invendus du commerce de détail. En redistribuant intelligemment les stocks invendables, ils augmentent l’efficacité et la rentabilité, tout en renforçant la fidélité des clients, la durabilité et la résistance aux perturbations de la chaîne d’approvisionnement.

 

A propos de SAP :

La stratégie de SAP est d’aider chaque organisation à fonctionner en « entreprise intelligente » et durable. En tant que leader du marché des logiciels d’application d’entreprise, nous aidons les entreprises de toutes tailles et de tous secteurs à opérer au mieux : 87 % du commerce mondial total est généré par nos clients. Nos technologies de Machine Learning, d’Internet des objets (IoT) et d’analyse avancée aident nos clients à transformer leurs activités en « entreprises intelligentes ». SAP permet aux personnes et aux organisations d’avoir une vision approfondie de leur business et favorise la collaboration pour qu’ils puissent garder une longueur d’avance sur leurs concurrents. Nous simplifions la technologie afin que les entreprises puissent utiliser nos logiciels comme elles le souhaitent, sans interruption. Notre suite d’applications et de services end-to-end permet aux clients privés et publics de 26 secteurs d’activité dans le monde entier, de fonctionner de manière rentable, de s’adapter en permanence et de faire la différence. Grâce à un réseau mondial de clients, de partenaires, d’employés et de leaders d’opinion, SAP aide le monde à mieux fonctionner et à améliorer la vie de chacun.

 

Contact presse :

Sylvie Lechevin : sylvie.lechevin@sap.com / sap@the-arcane.com

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The Complete Guide To Personalized Marketing

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Personalized marketing is when you attune your marketing efforts based on customer data. This data can be anything from the first and last name to purchase intent, concerns, and history.

Personalized marketing has revolutionized the way businesses market their product and service to their audience. It brings value to people’s lives, spiking the sales graph for brands and businesses. So it’s a win-win situation for both the company and the consumer.

Even big companies do this for their campaigns. They do so because it gives them great results and ROI for their marketing initiatives. If these multinational businesses do this, it’s a good idea to incorporate this strategy and learn from a top resource on digital marketing.

This article aims to explain every nook and cranny of personalized marketing. By the end of this 5-minute read, you will know the impact of personalized marketing on our lives. And how you can integrate this into your marketing strategy to benefit your business.

What Is Personalized Marketing?

Have you ever encountered a business that knows what you’re going through? Or did you see an ad online that you closely relate to? Chances are, you were one of the target markets of those marketing materials. And if you could associate yourself with the ad, their marketing strategy worked.

That is what personalized marketing does to your audience, market, or particular demographic. This style of advertising leverages personalization in your marketing materials. The details of your marketing content are tailored to a specific audience and address the issues or real-time problems of a particular segment in your market.

Personalized marketing has become popular because more people demand it from businesses. Once the people have experienced what it felt like, they want to feel more of it.

To objectively see the demand for personalization, here are some statistics to back it up.

Accenture reported that 91% of consumers are likelier to shop with businesses that offer them relevant content. This shows that the right product recommendations can increase the chances of shopping with you.

Salesforce mentioned that 66% of consumers expect companies to understand their individual needs. This statement proves that a generalized way of marketing isn’t as effective as before. The consumer mindset has already developed, and they demand more personalization from businesses.

A striking piece of data from Statista showed that 90% of consumers in the US find the idea of personalization appealing. If that figure is accurate, almost all businesses should start incorporating this into their strategies. There’s no reason for them not to try this out.

Given the high positive demand for personalized marketing, it’s no secret why more and more businesses are doing this. However, not every company out there is doing this right. A wrong way of doing this can bring a loss of clients and a negative ROI.

To help you go on the right track of using personalization in your marketing, read up on the next section of this article.

Know These 6 Tips To Correctly Do Personalized Marketing

You’d agree that knowing your customer’s first and last name is essential. But with the dynamically changing strategies, personalized marketing is going beyond that. It’s actually about understanding what your targeted consumers need, merging with a way to convey the message that your business is the solution.

To help you achieve this, take note of the things below:

1. Leverage Your Customer Data

The foundation of personalized marketing is laid on customer data. The best marketing professionals and strategists emphasize gathering relevant data if you want to scale. Excellent digital marketing courses will teach you that customer data will help you build a solid foundation for your content and campaigns.

Consumer behavior has always been the most important detail for target marketing. With every click, it has become easier to gather data about individual customers, their interests, hobbies, purchase history, buying behavior, and more.

You’ll be able to get this information if you’ve practiced data management and collecting customer data throughout the years of your operation. However, it’s not too late to begin if you haven’t started with this yet. There is a lot of marketing automation software that aids marketing teams in doing this. For example, many businesses use lead scoring software to gain insight into their clients’ needs and categorize them appropriately.

For your personalization efforts, you can use questionnaires, surveys, and feedback forms to capture personal data on the internet. A customer will happily fill out a survey form if a reward in return entices him. This reward can be in any form– a voucher, a first buy discount, free shipping, or more.

This initiative will help you get more data in a shorter time frame.

2. Understand Your Customer’s Needs

Hoarding data will be a complete waste of marketing efforts, capital, and efficiency if you do not extract consumer behavior from it. When you have access to a rich set of data, you have the privilege to understand your customers’ trending needs deeply. After gaining insights from the data, create a marketing strategy based on those findings to target your audience.

Doing this doesn’t just apply to B2C; it also works for B2B companies, which is why the demand for custom software development, tailored services, personalized packages, and B2B data providers have been on the rise in these recent years.

It is a two-way road. While you are on the lookout for your target market, at the same time, the customers expect businesses to know what they need. The market you’re currently serving expects you to know what products or services are fit for them.

So this is where it gets crucial: you have to dig deeper into your niche and find the specs of your audience’s needs. Having a general idea about the needs of your target audience and personalized marketing usually don’t go harmoniously.

Planning a better-personalized marketing strategy will not be a piece of cake but will be much more rewarding for every aspect of your business. May it be sales, return on investments, customer relationships, or personalized marketing campaigns.

3. Personalize Every Stage Of The Customer Journey

The first rule of business is convincing the customer that you are their best friend. Now that you know what they want, you pledge to provide them with whatever best you can. Limiting personalization to marketing is not the solution. You have to be vigilant in meeting these individual requirements at every stage. And remember that consistency is the name of the game. That is how you bring your business into the running.

You can integrate CRM automation, email marketing tools and deploy other content marketing strategies to help make this process a lot simpler. Personalized live chat and chatbots, such as those offered by ThriveDesk, allow businesses to personalize their offerings and build their brand reputation.

As a customer, my requirement would be reading content, browsing, and experiencing products that would hit home. A personalized experience is what every consumer demands. And this is what makes them want to go back and do business with you again.

By creating helpful and relevant content, recommending the right products to them, and giving out convenient payment options, you are setting your business apart from the rest. Doing this allows you to have personalized every touchpoint that your customers do with your business.

4. Present In An Engaging Way

Consider customer engagement as absolutely necessary. Having the best data set and knowing what your customers want is not enough. In the competitive space of business and marketing, everyone is trying to get the attention of one another. And this is what you are supposed to do. This helps in building consumer-brand relations.

When a consumer engages, meaningful things happen. Engaging content pushes the consumer through the funnel and hence promotes conversions. Your content should be creative and eye-catching.

Engaging content blended with personalization boosts the brand experience. Increased loyalty, trust-building, and improved customer experience enhance the conversion and sales speed.

A great way to use personalization in an engaging manner that most businesses overlook would be through exit-intent popups.

5. Be Where Your Customers Are

This is an element that some businesses miss out on. They have created excellent social media marketing content but only distributed it on the wrong channel. For personalized marketing to be effective, it needs to be seen by people.

Are you questioning your marketing techniques because all you see is stagnancy? You have set up an engaging online store on Shopify or Wix, collected all the relevant data, your content is engaging enough, and your marketing strategy is top-notch. But you are still unable to reach your clientele.

You start wondering what you are missing out on. Your content and your strategies will not be prolific if you are on the wrong channel. Remember: the message of your content has to reach the right people for it to be effective.

Should you be on social media? If so, which one? Do you get more traction with email campaigns? Or do you have more engagements on forums?

Find out where your market is, then spend your focus there. Now the next step is how to know where they spend most of their time?

This is where we go back in the loop. And hence we again emphasize that data collection is the foundation of any great marketing strategy.

6. Improve Marketing Content

Don’t rest on your laurels when you’ve gotten everything down to a tee and have attained your desired marketing analytics behind your personalized marketing content. Always think of ways how you can improve.

Evolving at every step will keep you in the running. Don’t be misguided into thinking that your work is done if you feel like you have reached the pinnacle. Keep looking for ways to get better. Set bigger goals and status for your business.

Always go back to the drawing board and brainstorm with your team on how you can change and strive with the dynamically changing world and mindsets. In the end, all you want is to build better relationships with your customers, new and existing.

For enhanced productivity, your marketing team should always look for new strategies. This is how fresh and great marketing ideas are made.

See How You Can Benefit From Personalized Marketing

Irrelevant information can waste energy and time for both customers and the business. Personalized marketing hits the bull’s eye 99% of the time. It brings immeasurable value to the company as well as the customer.

Here are some of the top benefits of personalized marketing:

1. Better Engagement

The first target personalized marketing aims at is grabbing an individual’s attention. And this results in better engagement eventually. If you are presenting your customer with something that wows them, needless to say, it will grab their attention.

This will help bridge the gap between your customer and your brand. Identifying customers’ needs and then giving them what they want will help improve customer interaction with your brand.

It can even be enough for them to follow your call to action. The next thing you know, they will be checking your website, signing up for a list, or even purchasing a product right then and there.

2. Higher Conversions

Are you there for your customer at the right time and place? One-on-one marketing provides easy solutions to customers because you hit them with just what they are looking for at the right time.

When potential customers realize that you understand what they’re going through and provide the solution, most won’t hesitate to try your business out.

Personalization isn’t just focused on content. It can also be integrated into your processes. This results in aiding the increase of higher conversion rates.

3. Improved Customer Experience

Offering personalization will significantly improve the user experience. Once you provide the products, services, and content that meet their needs, their opinion of your business automatically improves.

Considering the statistics about personalized experiences, it is evident that consumers demand personalization strategies from companies. And if you offer such an experience, you increase the chance of making them do more business with you. Personalization helps businesses in reducing cart abandonment rates, better customer journey, increased customer satisfaction, and many more.

4. Customer Retention

Retaining persisting customers is equally important to your business as bringing new ones. Most businesses face low customer retention. It’s also a factor that some companies overlook. You must understand that it’s not all about converting prospects into paying customers. Your focus should also be on retaining those customers to make them loyal advocates of your brand.

One of the major benefits of consistent personalization is an improved customer retention rate. Consumers tend to stay with a business that understands their needs and provides solutions to their problems.

Once you can transfer a customer to a loyal advocate, you can also receive a ton of benefits. These are people that are going to defend your brand from critics. These are the same people who will give you free marketing via word of mouth and positive reviews.

5. Better Customer Relationships

Personalized experience leads to customer retention, eventually building better relationships with your nurtured customers. These entities are connected in a loop.

Customer relationships are an aspect of business that significantly helps with scalability and higher revenue. So connecting with your customers and building a relationship with them is as important as the product you are selling. This is why strengthening customer relationships should be a top priority for businesses.

Personalization makes you an expert on your target market trends. You get to know your audience deeper, which helps you build a foundation for creating a great customer relationship. And this requires marketing and customer experience teams to work together in a symphony.

For this, you can use team collaboration software which aids in the optimization of content and your approach toward the market. You’ll have a better strategy in getting their attention, providing what they want, and recommending things they’ll be interested in.

All of these things help in building customer rapport. When a customer feels that you treat them as more than just a paying customer, their customer loyalty goes to your business.

Best Examples Personalization Marketing

To inspire you to integrate this marketing strategy into your operations, below are different personalization marketing campaigns done exceptionally by various businesses. Grab inspiration, ideas, and motivation from these examples.

1. Coca-Cola

We all know the most basic form of personalization is addressing your customers’ names, but Coca-Cola took this simple idea into a massive global campaign. Their “Share a Coke” campaign started in 2011, wherein they printed different popular names on their Coke bottles and cans.

It seemed like a regular campaign at first, but it started getting traction as more customers wanted to get the name of their family, friends, and themselves. Coca-Cola said the campaign’s purpose was “to create a more personal relationship with consumers and inspire shared moments of happiness.”

The soft drinks giant used personalization and tied such a strategy with its mission: to bring memories and happiness to its consumers. You, too, can do the same – combine your mission and personalization strategy to create a unique campaign.

2. Spotify

Spotify leverages user data in its marketing strategy. They have several campaigns that make users want to use their application more often because it gives out a more tailored experience.

Other than their year-end campaign( #spotifywrapped), where they show the most played songs and podcasts their users listen to (which was a viral hit), they now also have an #OnlyYou campaign that shows your unique listening taste partnered with a musical astrology reading.

3. Nike

Nike has consistently been recognized for authentic, personalized, and heartfelt ad campaigns. This personalization always makes them capture an audience who can relate and those who start connecting to the brand. So Nike isn’t new to personalization. Their aim is robust community engagement.

Their highly inspirational campaigns with real-life heroes induce inspiration in their audience. Nike is great at converting people because of its excellent storytelling ability while adding personalization to the mix.

Nike’s just launched a new app that offers personalized content and rewards for committed fans. They tackle challenges and issues head-on, but they always make their marketing messages relatable to their audience. That is why they “just do it.”

Conclusion

Personalized marketing is the secret sauce to thriving businesses in the world today. However, incorporating this marketing strategy and finding success is not as simple as you might think. You will face challenges, but with enough perseverance and brainstorming, you can surpass them and successfully create a great campaign.

Remember, this marketing approach can be a hit or a miss. The first step to making it a success is relevant data collection followed by judicious implementation. This isn’t an overnight activity that you can do. It requires months of diligence in the right direction with the proper guidance. And you can gain valuable insights into this guidance via the content marketing strategies outlined in this article. But remember, once you start rolling, there is no looking back.

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Cultivating Customer Confidence with UX

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Businesses rely on designers to help them build the perfect relationship with visitors.

After all, as much as companies may wish it wasn’t true, many consumers still judge a book by its cover. A website that fails to prioritize concepts like trust and transparency could instantly lose the confidence of its target audience. 

As a designer, it can be tempting to focus on figuring out ways of convincing an audience to convert or give up their money instantly. However, while design experts know how to enhance conversions, they also understand how important it is to make sure that customers feel confident in a website.

Here’s what you need to know about cultivating confidence in user experiences.

How Does Transparency Affect Confidence? 

In a survey conducted in 2016, 94% of consumers stated that they would happily be loyal to a fully transparent brand. As customers continue to search for more honest and reliable companies, the demand for transparency in UX will likely continue. 

As a web designer, you can’t force a company to share all vital information with its clients. However, you can use your design knowledge to help the honesty of a company stand out.

Here are some other strategies that designers can use to build transparency for their clients. 

Create an Eye-Catching “About” Page

One of the first things that today’s businesses need to be honest about if they want to delight their customers is their people. 

For instance, creating a page where your client can highlight the nature of the products that they sell is an excellent first start. Maurele has a beautifully designed “About” page to tell its customers everything they need to know about the business. 

At the same time, drawing attention to the footer where customers can check things like the terms and policies of the website or FAQs that answer their most common questions is another fantastic way to build transparency. 

Giving a brand a human face makes it easier for that company to establish lasting connections. That’s why designers should always prioritize using real, authentic images over stock photos where possible. For example, a large feature image on an “About” page that addresses the company’s unique nature makes it easier to connect with a target audience. 

Make sure that there’s plenty of space on the “About” page to introduce significant members of staff that can give a face and personality to both the website and the brand. For instance, Mociun.com uses a fantastic hero image of a person with her cat.

Add Space for Testimonials and Customers

While you don’t need to post a customer’s entire consumer list online to prove that they’re a reputable company, it is worth highlighting some of their clients. No one wants to be the first person online to trust a new website. Testimonials and reviews from other people are how you add instant confidence to any experience. 

For designers, social proof can come in a lot of different formats. For instance, if you’re building a website for a company that sells directly to other businesses, you could add pictures of the logos of the brands that the company has worked with. Alternatively, for a B2C brand, basic reviews and quotes will often work wonders. For instance, there’s a list of great reviews included on the product pages of the PlaySuperlative.com website.

Unless customers leave comments directly on the web page themselves, remind your customer that they need to get permission from the client to use their quotes on any web page. 

Additionally, remember that adding pictures and names to testimonials where possible can sometimes make them more believable. 

Tell Your Client’s Story

When building a website for a client, there are many different things that you’ll need to think about. For instance, you need to focus on the company’s USP or whatever makes them unique. You’ll also need to ensure that clients have all the information they need to make purchases easily. 

At the same time, it’s important not to go over the top with too many features. Simplicity is often the key to good UX. 

Where possible, however, if you want to boost confidence for your client, it’s a good idea to highlight their unique motives and vision as a business. Ask the company that you’re designing for what their mission is. Do they want to transform the way people communicate and collaborate like Trello? Do they want to fill the world with information, like Google?

Focusing on the unique ambitions of the business, beyond the desire to make money, makes them seem more three-dimensional and real. 

Highlight Security

Use your skills to ensure that certain aspects of safety and security stand out for your client. For instance, notice how Fetching Fields instantly pulls attention to the fact that they’re using certified and organic, human-grade wellness solutions.

Other steps you can take include making sure there’s an SSL certificate installed to cement the website’s safety. Additionally, if your customer has any badges or certifications that can highlight their security strategies, it may be a good idea to include those too.

If your customer takes payments online, you can use several secure website seals to boost confidence. For instance, showing that you’re “Verified by Visa” or using Mastercard Secure Code is a wonderful choice. 

Make Sure Visitors Can Find Contact Information

As a website designer, one of the best things you can do for your customer is making sure that they have excellent navigation, complete with easy-to-find information. 

On any website, innovative navigation ensures that an audience can find the pages they need to make sure that they feel as comfortable as possible, making their purchases. 

Make it easy for visitors on a website to track down useful insights about the products they want to buy or the kind of services available from the company in question. Additionally, if your client has any FAQ pages or additional resources, make sure that customers will have no trouble tracking those down. 

The example above from Petersham Nurseries makes it easy for clients to find everything they need on the website, thanks to a convenient vertical navigation bar. 

Remember, one piece of information that should always be as easy as possible to find for your customers should be the contact page. A contact page shows that the business is willing to answer any questions a client might have via many channels. 

List a physical street address and phone number for the website where possible, or at the very least include an email address where people can get in touch. 

Make Sure Pricing is Clear

Finally, if you want to ensure that visitors can trust your client’s website, you need to avoid hiding any critical information with fine print or content hidden in the website’s footer. When designing product pages or service information, make sure that you’re as transparent as possible about the company’s pricing. 

You don’t want a customer to wait until they click through into the checkout page to discover that they have to spend a fortune on postage and packaging. And, no one purchasing a service wants to wait until they’ve got their credit card out to discover that they’re going to be paying extra for things like set-up fees. 

According to Jakob Nielsen, one of the top mistakes anyone can make on a website is not listing their pricing as clearly as possible. 

As tempting as it may be to hide certain expenses and send customers through to the checkout page faster, avoid any opportunity to hide information about costs. 

Designing for Confidence

Ultimately, many different things can make a website stand out today. 

Designers can experiment with unique strategies like dynamic loading and video-based backgrounds. You might even decide to explore new styles with the right company or adapt certain pages to take advantage of things like 5G and new connectivity options. 

However, before you can begin exploring new opportunities on any website, one of the most important things you can do is ensure that you get the foundations of the website’s credibility right. Take an approach to design that focuses on transparency and trust first, and the rest will naturally fall into place. 

In a world where consumers are less trusting of brands than ever before, people who design for transparency will be sure to stand out from the crowd. Don’t underestimate the power of embracing trust for your clients in 2020. 

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Gestion de la relation client : une solution CRM pour PME/ETI

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Vous souhaitez vous concentrer sur votre cœur de métier ? Vous ne voulez plus perdre des heures en analyse de tableaux, de comptes-rendus et autres données concernant vos clients ? Optimisez votre temps et celui de vos salariés. Investissez dans un logiciel de gestion client, autrement appelé logiciel CRM pour Customer Relationship Management. Pour une PME/ETI, cette solution CRM de gestion de la relation client vous permet de synthétiser en un seul lieu, via Internet sur le cloud, toutes les données de vos clients et leur parcours dans votre entonnoir de vente.

Qu’est-ce qu’une solution CRM au sein d’une PME/ETI  ?

Le CRM, ou Customer Relationship Management, est une solution globale permettant de gérer la relation client au sein d’une entreprise, et ce, quel que soit son domaine d’activité. Elle est particulièrement adaptée aux petites et moyennes entreprises ainsi qu’aux entreprises de taille intermédiaire. La solution CRM regroupe trois notions :

  1. Une stratégie de gestion des clients choisie par la PME ou l’ETI, en fonction de ses valeurs et de sa vision du marketing.
  2. Un processus permettant de mettre en œuvre cette stratégie.
  3. Une solution technique : le logiciel CRM, hébergé sur le cloud où chacun enregistre ses données clients, qui sont ainsi mutualisées. Celles-ci sont alors accessibles aux différentes équipes de l’entreprise pour pouvoir être analysées et utilisées à des fins marketing.

Quelles sont les différentes fonctions d’un logiciel de gestion relation client ?

Un progiciel CRM est constitué de modules afin de l’adapter à chaque type d’entreprise en fonction de ses besoins et de son domaine d’activité. Vous bénéficiez ainsi d’un portefeuille de solutions sur mesure pour l’expérience client et votre stratégie CRM.

Voici les principales fonctionnalités d’un logiciel de gestion relation client.

Solutions pour les données clients

Côté entreprise, vous centralisez les informations concernant vos clients en un seul lieu, grâce à votre logiciel de gestion de base de données clients. Outre les coordonnées (adresse mail, adresse physique, numéro de téléphone, etc.), vous pouvez y répertorier leurs données socio-professionnelles (âge, sexe, composition familiale, niveau d’études, emploi, etc.). Vous avez également un aperçu personnalisé du parcours ayant conduit à la mise au panier et l’acte d’achat ainsi que le type de produits achetés ou consultés par chacun de vos clients et prospects.

Côté utilisateur, chaque client se voit proposer des produits susceptibles de l’intéresser, grâce à des suggestions ciblées en fonction des informations qu’il a lui-même fournies. D’ailleurs, pour qu’il accepte de vous transmettre ses données personnelles, il doit pouvoir le faire en toute confiance. Ainsi, vous devez le rassurer quant à la sécurité de ses données et au respect des informations confiées. Votre logiciel CRM doit donc répondre au RGPD et, en général, à la réglementation en vigueur en matière de confidentialité des données.

Solutions marketing

En étudiant le profil et le comportement de vos clients, vous pouvez mieux définir votre persona et affiner votre stratégie marketing. Il vous est également possible de la modifier afin d’élargir votre cible. En effet, un prospect à qui on propose exactement ce dont il a besoin est plus enclin à vous faire confiance et à faire appel à vos services ou produits.

Pour effectuer cette étude précise et poussée, quelques clics sur le tableau de bord de votre outil CRM marketing suffisent. Vous avez accès à de multiples statistiques en fonction du critère sélectionné (région, sexe, âge, catégorie socio-économique, nombre d’enfants, propriétaires d’animaux, etc.). Fort de ces informations, vous avez toutes les clés pour augmenter votre chiffre d’affaires par des campagnes marketing ciblées.

Solutions commerce et e-commerce

Afin d’optimiser l’expérience client, vous observez le comportement des personnes au moment de leur visite sur votre espace de vente, qu’il soit physique ou virtuel, puis après, à l’aide de sondages. Vous récoltez ces précieuses informations sur votre logiciel de gestion e-commerce. Leur analyse vous permet alors d’ajuster la configuration des points de ventes ou l’ergonomie de votre site et application.

Autant il peut être matériellement compliqué de modifier un lieu de vente physique, bien que la logistique en soit facilitée grâce à votre CRM, autant, toujours grâce à celui-ci, vous pouvez tester toutes les possibilités de boutique virtuelle en temps réel. Adaptez votre site marchand à chaque prospect afin de le convertir plus facilement en client, le fidéliser et ainsi maximiser vos profits.

Solutions de vente

En étudiant la satisfaction client avec vos solutions CRM, vous facilitez le travail de vos commerciaux et de vos équipes marketing. Suivez le tunnel de vente emprunté par vos prospects afin de supprimer des canaux d’appel inutiles et d’améliorer les plus efficaces dans votre entonnoir de vente.

Ainsi, vous optimisez votre budget publicitaire et de prospection. Votre système CRM vous indique en effet quelles actions marketing apportent des clients. Est-ce plutôt la distribution de flyers, une campagne emailing ou un contenu sponsorisé sur les réseaux sociaux ?  

Solution de service

En amont d’une vente, votre logiciel de relation client génère très facilement devis et contrats. Cette automatisation personnalisable accélère le processus de vente. Or, un client rapidement servi est un client satisfait. Il sera alors susceptible de faire de nouveau appel à vos services et à vous recommander auprès de son entourage.

En aval, il peut cependant s’avérer qu’un client ne soit pas entièrement satisfait du produit ou de la prestation. Il contacte alors le service après-vente. Grâce au logiciel CRM, tout l’historique des conversations écrites et orales entre le client et le SAV est enregistré et est accessible à n’importe quel opérateur du service clientèle. Ainsi, le suivi client en est grandement facilité. C’est la fidélisation assurée.

Quels sont les avantages d’une solution CRM pour les PME/ETI

Avant l’ère des solutions CRM, gérer l’ensemble des relations clients relevait parfois d’un exercice d’équilibriste. À partir du moment où plusieurs personnes sont concernées par la gestion client dans une entreprise, informer chacun de la moindre modification ou évolution des dossiers devient vite chronophage en logistique ou réunions. L’installation d’une solution CRM dans une PME/ETI est donc un gain de temps et d’argent. Voyons tous ces avantages en détail.

Une installation technique centralisée sur un cloud

Souvenez-vous quand il était nécessaire d’installer un nouveau logiciel sur tous les ordinateurs de votre entreprise. Vous deviez faire appel à une entreprise de techniciens spécialisés qui : soit travaillaient de nuit, soit devaient immobiliser les services de votre société pendant plusieurs jours. Il en était de même à chaque opération de maintenance qui se faisait laborieusement poste par poste.

Dorénavant, vous achetez une solution CRM auprès d’un opérateur qui vous en donne l’accès en ligne. La seule manipulation à effectuer est de télécharger via Internet l’application sur chaque terminal (PC, tablette, smartphone…). Chacun de vos collaborateurs et salariés peut même le faire lui-même.

Toutes vos données sont alors sauvegardées sur un cloud sécurisé, et mises à jour en temps réel. Ainsi, tous vos employés ont accès aux dernières informations clients et peuvent ainsi agir en conséquence. Quant aux mises à jour de la solution CRM en elle-même, elles sont réalisées par votre fournisseur, en ligne et en général la nuit, et sont installées automatiquement à l’ouverture de l’application par vos équipes en charge de la relation client.

Un logiciel de relation client accessible par tous et partout

En tant que PME ou ETI, vos équipes et collaborateurs sont répartis partout sur le territoire. Certains se déplacent et restent longtemps éloignés de votre siège. D’autres ont choisi le télétravail depuis leur domicile. Grâce à votre solution CRM pour PME/ETI, la gestion de la relation client s’effectue aussi facilement, voire même mieux, que si tout le monde était sur place.

En effet, chaque commercial sur le terrain, chaque vendeur en magasin, chaque opérateur du SAV, chaque analyste… entre les nouvelles données clients depuis le terminal pro qu’il possède, à partir du moment où il a accès à Internet. Cette condition est en général possible de quasiment n’importe où, grâce à la 4G ou la 5G, une borne wifi ou une connexion filaire (par câble ou fibre optique).

Une logistique rapide et simplifiée

Fort de toutes ces informations, vous voyez tous les avantages en termes de simplification et de rapidité que vous pouvez tirer d’une telle solution CRM au sein de votre PME/ETI. Vous ajustez en temps réel vos campagnes marketing. Vous adaptez vos pipelines de vente à chaque client. Votre service après-vente devient réactif et efficace. Ainsi, vous captez les bons prospects et vous fidélisez vos clients.

À qui est destinée la solution CRM ?

En faisant le choix des solutions SAP Customer Experience, vous avez la certitude de bénéficier d’un outil parfaitement adapté à votre secteur d’activité. En effet, la solution CRM que ce prestataire propose est entièrement modulable et personnalisable. Services publics ou secteur privé, vente de produits ou prestations en B2B ou B2C, magasin physique ou e-commerce… exigez le portefeuille de solutions de gestion de relation client qui vous convient parfaitement.  

Solution CRM pour le secteur public

Vous travaillez dans le secteur de l’eau, de l’énergie ou des télécommunications ? Vous êtes prestataire de services pour les administrations publiques ? Vos clients sont contraints de faire appel à vous, non par choix, mais par nécessité. En général, leur budget est calculé au plus juste, et la plupart cherche même à faire des économies. Grâce à votre solution CRM sur mesure, vous répondez à leurs demandes, et ce, à moindre coût.

Solution CRM pour le B2C

Vous êtes dans le secteur de la mode, des biens de consommation, de l’assurance, de l’automobile, des voyages, etc. et vous vous adressez aux particuliers ? Vos clients aiment vos produits, les valeurs véhiculées par votre entreprise, votre univers. Ils achètent chez vous par choix et par envie. En magasin ou sur votre site e-commerce, offrez-leur la meilleure expérience client possible. Répondez exactement à leurs attentes et leurs désirs de consommateur. Pour cela, utilisez toutes les fonctionnalités de votre logiciel CRM.

Solution CRM pour le B2B

Hautes technologies, équipements industriels, bâtiment… vos clients sont avant tout des professionnels comme vous. Vous parlez d’égal à égal, avec le même langage. Ils sont exigeants avec vous, comme vous l’êtes avec eux. Devis, contrats, gestion de la marketplace, factures, tout cela doit être fluide, intuitif, rapide, connecté et surtout performant.  Votre solution CRM intègre tous ces critères afin de fournir à vos clients ce dont ils ont besoin. Ainsi, ils ont une vision rassurante sur l’avenir et continuent à vous faire confiance. 

PME/ETI, augmentez vos performances, l’image que vous renvoyez à vos clients et donc votre chiffre d’affaires en choisissant les solutions CRM entièrement personnalisables de SAP Customer Experience.

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The Latest Research for Web Designers, December 2020

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2020 has been an interesting year, to say the least. And although I’m sure many of you can’t wait until the calendar flips ahead to 2021, it doesn’t look as though we’re going to be able to say goodbye to 2020 so easily. Many of the changes we’ve had to make this year are now expected to stay with us — a least for the following year.

The latest research gives us some hints about what’s to come.

If you want to start preparing for 2021 now, then these reports and surveys from organizations like 99designs, Upwork, Content Marketing Institute, and McKinsey & Company are a must-read:

1. 99designs Reports on the Common Challenges Freelancers Faced in 2020

I don’t want to make 99designs’s Design Without Borders 2020 report sound like it’s all doom-and-gloom. Because it’s not.

That said, 2020 has been a rough year and it would be irresponsible for me not to acknowledge the challenges that all of us freelancers have encountered this year. This report is one of the few I’ve found that includes data on the major challenges freelancers have dealt with this year, including:

  • 36% have struggled to maintain a steady flow of work or a stable client base;
  • 27% had clients who cut their business budgets and, consequently, their freelancers’ workloads;
  • 26% had at least one project cancelled or indefinitely paused;
  • 22% have been ghosted by at least one client.

Beyond working more hours and hustling to find new clients all the time, what else can freelancers do to weather a business disruptor like COVID-19? There are a number of things.

For starters, it would be really helpful to have a crisis management plan for your finances. It would also be beneficial to refocus your efforts on finding clients who pay for the value you provide and not for the hours you spend building websites. Clients who see the value in what you do will be less likely to ghost or drop you at the first sign of trouble.

2. Upwork’s Survey Reveals Educational Opportunities for Freelancers

Upwork commissioned Edelman Intelligence to put together its very first Freelance Forward survey. The goal of the ensuing report was to shed light on the state of freelancing, how the pandemic has changed it, and what we can expect in the future as a result.

One of the data sets I think web designers should pay close attention to is this:

According to this survey, freelancers only spend about 52% of their time on billable work.

Now, one of the reasons why entrepreneurs and enterprise companies make so much money is because tasks are relegated to different team members. For instance, if a design agency owner is good at building relationships with prospects, they’re going to spend time on sales calls and managing social media. The day-to-day admin tasks would then get offloaded to virtual assistants and billable project work would go to designers, developers, writers, and so on.

But as a freelancer, you don’t have the ability to delegate and scale when you’re working solo.

Rather than burn yourself out trying to handle all these things yourself, the report suggests there’s something else you can do:

Although freelancers recognize how important soft skills and business skills are, the first data set suggests that not enough attention might be paid to them.

What I suggest is that you take a look at the division of your work hours. If you’re spending less than half of your time on billable work, it might be a good idea to strengthen your non-design skills. That way, things like marketing, contract preparation, and client management won’t consume so much of your time in the future and you can bill more.

3. CMI’s Annual Report Reveals Profitable Opportunities for Web Designers

Content Marketing Institute’s annual B2B Content Marketing Report is, once again, chock full of useful tidbits about the state of content marketing.

While a lot of the data is focused around marketing organizations and how they’ve pivoted during the pandemic, I thought this bit of info would be really helpful for web designers:

For those of you who design B2B websites, take note of where these companies plan to invest in 2021. If 2020 has been particularly hard on you, or you simply want to expand your horizons, there are some other opportunities worth jumping into:

B2B Marketing Investment => Web Designer Opportunity
Content creation => Blog graphic design, infographic design, and schema markup creation
Website enhancements => Website redesign, website audits
Content distribution => Social media ad design, Google ad design, schema markup creation
Getting to know audiences better => UX research, UX design
Customer experience => Chatbot/live chat development, support portal creation

4. McKinsey B2B Analysis Suggests That Digital Is Here to Stay

For those of you who’ve worked for a B2B sales organization before, you know how important in-person interactions are to them. It’s not as though they can just sell their products or services online the way B2C ecommerce companies can. The key to B2B success is through customer (and partner) relationship building.

Prior to 2020, this meant lots of in-person meetings, phone calls, and emails. But something has changed this year, on both sides of the fence.

This chart from McKinsey suggests that digital relationship building and customer service aren’t just a temporary solution for COVID-19. B2B decision-makers are coming around to the idea that this is going to be their “next normal” (as McKinsey refers to it).

These new “go-to-market models” include the following:

  1. Talk to prospects, customers, and partners via video calls;
  2. Digital self-service options for customers who prefer the DIY method.

As a web designer, you can help your B2B clients level up their efforts to achieve this next normal.

For starters, you can integrate scheduling into their websites. This’ll empower prospects to schedule video meetings (for demos, discovery calls, etc.) with your clients’ sales teams.

Another thing you can do is build out self-service elements like live chat or chatbots, FAQs pages, knowledgebases, and support portals. As consumers become more confident with doing business online, these self-service options will make a world of difference in their experience with brands.

Wrap-Up

I know, I know. 2020 sucked. But at least we have a good amount of research and experience that gives us a much clearer idea of what we’re getting ourselves into with the coming year. (At least, I hope so.)

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Logistique : quelles leçons tirer de la crise ?

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La crise sanitaire a appris aux entreprises combien il est essentiel de savoir s’adapter rapidement. Que ce soit en termes de production, de sourcing ou encore de distribution. En adoptant un modèle plus durable, il est possible de garantir la continuité de l’activité, même en cas de changement inattendu et massif de la demande.

L’économie d’expérience s’est imposée comme la thématique clé de l’année 2019. Ce concept a toutefois été éclipsé en 2020 par un invité inattendu, la résilience. Les PRA et autres plans de préparation aux risques ont en effet été confrontés à une réalité de terrain : une crise sanitaire et économique, doublée de schémas de consommation et de distribution profondément perturbés.

Défi 1 : éviter la rupture d’activité

Les moins chanceuses des entreprises sont celles pour lesquelles le confinement a enlevé toute possibilité d’activité. Au plus dur de la crise sanitaire, certaines ont dû ainsi purement et simplement fermer leurs portes. Mais d’autres ont su également rebondir, au travers de la distribution multicanale, de l’innovation métier, ou de la saisie de nouvelles opportunités de marché.

Les industriels qui ont su rediriger rapidement leur production vers de nouveaux produits (masques, respirateurs, gel hydroalcoolique, repas à emporter…) ont pu tirer leur épingle du jeu. Avec les crises économiques, sanitaires et climatiques qui s’annoncent, il faut s’attendre à une multiplication de ces défis de flexibilité, et s’y préparer.

Défi 2 : le télétravail

Dans l’absolu, beaucoup d’entreprises pourraient poursuivre leur activité avec une majorité de leurs salariés en télétravail. Mais peu étaient prête à travailler de la sorte, du fait d’un back-office inaccessible hors des murs de l’organisation et manquant de flexibilité opérationnelle. Des solutions cloud, comme Teams ou Zoom, ont pu compenser en partie ce manque. Mais ce n’est pas suffisant.

Il faut maintenant mettre en place des systèmes plus agiles et intelligents, capable de mieux analyser et prévoir, mais aussi de mieux s’adapter à une forte volatilité de la demande. Ceci doit d’accompagner d’infrastructures ouvertes vers l’extérieur et sécurisées, mettant en œuvre des technologies comme des équipements informatiques mobiles, des solutions informatiques en mode cloud, des systèmes de communication unifiée, de la blockchain, etc.

Défi 3 : se rapprocher du consommateur

Qui dit télétravailleur dit consommation à distance. Les entreprises se doivent donc d’aller vers le consommateur, en privilégiant le B2C, par exemple au travers de l’e-commerce. Mais aussi en transformant le B2B en B2B2C ou encore le Direct Selling en Social Selling.

Cela induit des changements profonds dans la structure logistique, avec une nécessité d’optimiser à la fois la production et la chaîne de distribution, afin de desservir un maximum de clients en un minimum de fret. Nous retrouvons ici une problématique que nous avions déjà rencontrée avec la montée de l’économie d’expérience. Celle-ci se traduit en effet par une hyper-personnalisation des produits, qui doivent être directement livrés au client, sans délai.

La solution est donc peut-être de combiner ces deux problématiques, afin de les transformer en opportunité : savoir combiner l’impératif de résilience imposé par la situation économique et sanitaire à la volonté d’expérience portée par les consommateurs et partenaires.

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8 Design Secrets of B2B Vs B2C Websites

Web design clients come from a wide variety of backgrounds. One day, you’ll be designing a portfolio website for a voiceover artist, the next you’ll be creating a comprehensive ecommerce site for a leading retailer. In an ideal world, you’ll get to a point where you eventually specialize in a niche. However, you’ll need to master both avenues first.

The more time you spend in this industry, the more you’ll learn that every client comes with their own unique requirements and challenges to consider. However, there’s a particularly huge divide between the kind of web design projects you do for B2B clients, and the ones you do for B2C customers.

Both B2B (Business to Business) and B2C (Business to Consumer) websites need to be clear, concise, and aesthetically pleasing. They should always have a strong focus on user experience, and they need to work consistently across devices. However, being aware of the difference between B2B and B2C projects will help you to deliver better results to your customers.

Defining the Differences Between B2B and B2C Sites

Some web design trends remain consistent in any environment.

Whether you’re creating a site for a hairdresser, or a leading SaaS company, you’ll need to deliver responsive design, intuitive navigation, and excellent site security.

Your process is unlikely to differ from B2B to B2C much in terms of project milestones, phases, prototyping and wire-framing. The differences that arise between B2B and B2C projects often come in the approach you take to building certain elements.

Let’s take a closer look at the things you might need to consider:

1. The Target Audience

In any design project, it’s always important to keep the end customer in mind. Knowing your client’s target audience will help you to create both an image and a tone of voice that appeals to the right people.

B2B Websites

With B2B websites, you’ll be speaking to a range of highly-educated individuals who already have a general knowledge of your service. The aim here will be to show the end-user how you can help them achieve better results. For instance, m.io highlights “syncing communication” so you can “effortlessly chat” with your team.

The language and content of the website is all about highlighting the key benefits of the products, and the kind of outcomes that they can deliver. The Nielsen Norman Group reports that there’s often a lot of discussion between decision-makers when they’re checking out a B2B website.  

Designers need to work harder at convincing B2B buyers that they’re making the right decision. This is particularly true when you’re selling something like a software subscription that requires a lot of long—term investment.

B2C Websites

On the other hand, while B2B customers make decisions based on logic, information, and well-explained benefits, B2C customers are more influenced by emotion. They want quick solutions to their problems, and the opportunity to purchase from a brand that “understands” them.

Look at the Firebox website, for instance. It instantly highlights an ongoing sale at the top of the homepage, addressing any concerns a customer might have about price. That combined with a quirky layout full of authentic photos and bright colors means that customers are more inclined to take action.

2. The Purpose

Another factor that can vary from B2C to B2B websites, is the motive behind a customer’s purchase. Knowing what’s pushing a target audience to interact with a brand will help you to create a website that appeals to specific goals.

B2B Websites

B2B websites often aim to solve expensive and time-consuming problems for companies. To sell a decision-maker on the validity of a solution, it’s important to thoroughly explain what the solution is, how it works, and how it addressees a specific pain point.

Look at the Zoom website for instance, they don’t just tell people that they offer video conferencing, they address the practical applications of the platform:

B2C Websites

Consumers are a lot easier to appeal to in terms of emotional impact, because many of them come to a website looking to fulfill an urgent need. Because of this, many web designers can take advantage of things like urgency and demand to encourage conversions. For instance, look at this website from TravelZoo. It takes advantage of a customer’s desire to get away:

A B2B website needs to focus on providing information that helps companies to make more confident decisions. What’s more, with B2B sites, decisions are often made by several stakeholders, while B2C sites ask a single person to make a choice. A B2C website needs to address immediate concerns and connect with customers on an emotional level. B2C buyers still want to do their research on products or services, but the turnaround is much quicker, and often requires less information.

3. The Design Elements (Visual Appearance)

Just as the focus of your website design and the audience that you’re creating the experience for can differ from B2B to B2C websites, the visual elements of the design might change too.

B2B Websites

In most cases, B2B websites are all about presenting a highly professional and respectable image. You’ll notice a lot of safe and clear choices when it comes to typography and imagery. It’s unusual to see a B2B website that takes risks with things like illustrations and animations.

Look at the Green Geeks website for instance. Everything is laid out to encourage clarity and understanding. Information is easy to find, and there are no other issues that might distract a customer.

B2C Websites

On the other hand, B2C websites can be a little more daring. With so many different options to choose from, and most customers buying out of a sense of urgency or sudden demand, designers are under pressure to capture attention quick. This means that it’s much more likely to see large pieces of eye-catching imagery on B2C sites, with very little text.

Movement, like slideshows and animations often play more of a role here. Additionally, there’s a good chance that you’ll be able to experiment more aggressively with color. Take a look at the Yotel website, for instance. There’s very little textual information here, but the appeal of the website is conveyed through sliding images:

4. Website Content

The way that information is conveyed on a B2B website is very different to the messages portrayed on a B2C site. Usually, everything from the language, to the amount of content that you use for these projects will differ drastically.

B2B Websites

When designing for a B2B website, you’ll need to be careful with content, as you’ll be speaking to a very mixed audience. If your site caters to different industries, you’ll need to ensure that you show authority, without using too much jargon. Some companies even create different pages on their site for specific customers. The aspin.co.uk website covers the benefits from a company, sale and integration perspective:

Rather than try to talk to all business owners about their differing communication pains, G-Suite anticipates its audience and creates pages for each.

B2C Websites

Alternatively, B2C websites can make things a little simpler. For instance, on glossybox.co.uk, there’s no need to provide a ton of information for different types of shopper, designers can appeal to one audience, i.e. the “beauty addict”:

In both B2B and B2C websites, the aim of the content should always be to answer any questions that the end user might have.

5. CTA Buttons

Call to Action buttons are often a crucial part of the web design journey. However, it’s sometimes difficult to determine where they should be placed, or how many buttons you need.

B2B Websites

Because the decision to buy something won’t always happen immediately with a B2B website, these kinds of sites often use a variety of CTAs. For instance, you might have a “Request a Quote” button at the top of a page, as well as a Sign in button.

On the Klaviyo site, for instance, you can request a demo, sign up or log in:

You can place CTAs lower on the page with B2B websites too, as it’s more likely that your customers will be scrolling through the site to collect more information before they decide to buy.

B2C Websites

On the other hand, with B2C websites, you usually don’t need to give your visitors as many options. A single option to “Add to Cart”, or perhaps an extra choice to “Add to Favorites” is all your user will need. Customers need to instantly see what they need to do next as soon as they arrive on a page:

On the Evil Hair website, you immediately see how to add a product to your cart.

Remember, the sales process is a lot quicker with B2C customers. This means that you need your CTA buttons to be front and center as soon as someone clicks on a page.

6. Contact Forms

In a similar vein, the way that you design your contact forms will also depend on the end-user that the website wants to appeal to. There’s a very different process for getting in touch on a B2B website, compared to a B2C site.

B2B Websites

B2B websites often require longer contact forms, as clients need to collect additional information about a prospect’s position in a company, and what that company does. B2B companies need to share things like what they’re looking for in a service, and how many users they have, so a sales team knows what kind of demonstration to give.

As with any strategy for contact form design, you should always only include the fields that your client needs and no more. If you demand too much from any client, you could send them running in the opposite direction. Check out this straightforward option from Ironpaper, for instance:

The form addresses as many relevant questions as possible without overwhelming the customer. Because the site handles things like design, it makes sense that they would ask for a link to the company’s existing website.

B2C Websites

On a B2C website, there are very different approaches to contact forms. You may have a dedicated contact form on your website where people can get in touch if they have any questions. A FAQ page where customers can serve themselves is another great way to help your client stand out from the competition. Check out this option from River Island, for instance:

On the other hand, you might implement pop-up contact forms into a website if your client wants to collect emails for email marketing. In that case, it’s important to make sure that you’re only asking for the information you need, and nothing more.

The easier it is to sign up for a newsletter, the more likely it is that customers will do it. Being able to enter their name and email address and nothing else will make the signup seem less tasking.

7. Search Bars and Navigation

Whether you’re designing for B2B or B2C companies, navigation will always be a critical concern. End users need to find it easy to track down the information that they need about a company, whether they’re looking for a particular product or a blog.

B2B Websites

On a B2B website, the search bar often takes up a lot less prominence than it does on a B2C site. That’s because all of the information that a client needs, and the buttons they need to take their next steps, are already visible front-and-center.

As a designer, it will be your job to push as many people to convert as possible, by making the purchasing journey the most appealing path for visitors. For instance, on the Copper website, the “Try Free” buttons are much easier to see than “Continue with Google” or “Login”:

With B2B sites, the focus is on a very specific goal. Although navigation still needs to be available, it doesn’t need to be as obvious as it is on a B2C site.

B2C Websites

On the other hand, most B2C websites offer a wide range of products, and they’re perfectly happy for their customers to purchase anything, as long as they eventually convert. Because of this, they make navigation a much more significant part of the customer journey.

The search bar is often presented at the very top of the screen where customers can see it immediately. Additionally, there may be multiple pages within certain product categories, so that customers can browse through the items they’re most interested in. For instance, look at the homepage on the IWoot website:

The navigation elements in B2C websites need to be a lot more obvious, because consumers are more likely to use them when they’re searching through their options.

8. Social Proof and Testimonials

Finally, social proof is one of the things that will work well for improving conversions on any kind of website. When your customers aren’t sure whether or not they should buy from you, a review or testimonial could be just the thing to push them over the edge.

B2B Websites

On a B2B website, the decision-making process takes a lot longer. Because of this, it’s worth including as much social proof as possible in every part of the website. Client testimonials, reviews and ratings, and even high-profile company logos make all the difference. Many B2B websites include a page dedicated to case studies highlighting the success of other brands.

Your client might even go as far as to ask for a page that highlights their awards and recognition or showcases comparison tables that pit their products against the competition.

For instance, Authority Hacker has a “what the pros say about us” section as social proof:

B2C Websites

With a consumer website, you can include consumer ratings and reviews wherever you like. However, it’s most likely that you’ll want to have a place where customers can see the reviews of other clients on the product pages themselves. On the EMP website the company gives users the option to click on the star review section to jump to a different space on the page where testimonials are listed. This ensures that customers don’t have to scroll through a lot of excess information if they just want to add an item straight to their cart.

Designing for B2B vs B2C

In the world of web design, no two customers are ever the same. While you’ll need to adapt your processes to suit each customer you interact with, you can set your expectations in advance by learning the differences between B2B and B2C strategies.

 

Featured images by Chris Ross Harris and Mike Kononov.

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