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One of the biggest pain points for brands across industries remains cart abandonment. Whether mid-sized or enterprise, most brands have some form of an abandoned cart behavioral triggered email already in market today. However, with the advancements in deep personalization, segmentation, and channel orchestration, has your cart abandonment strategy evolved? Are you still using the status quo two-touch contact strategy, or have you evolved this to drive greater engagement and revenue?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

From understanding your average time to purchase, segmentation advancement, number of touchpoints and series length, there are some quick wins that can significantly improve business results by advancing your abandoned cart strategy, with the ultimate goal of decreasing the time from exploration to purchase for greater conversion.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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Understanding The Cart Abandonment to Purchase Timeline\u00a0<\/h2>

Whether retail shoppers or travel bookers just simply aren\u2019t ready, or are finding obstacles in the buying process, it\u2019s vital to understand the behavioral reasons of why cart abandonment occurs. Further, knowing your brand\u2019s abandonment and conversion points is crucial when developing your trigger contact and content strategy.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Let\u2019s start with some data points within the travel and retail industries. Did you know that 80% of travel bookings<\/a> take longer than 4 weeks to complete? Within retail apparel, path-to-conversion can range from a mere 30 minutes<\/a> to an average of 19 days, with some taking up to 48 days. This variability highlights the significant opportunity to better influence consumers by simply meeting them where they\u2019re at. The good news is that 25% of consumers<\/a> actively appreciate being reminded about the products they were thinking about buying or travel services they were thinking about booking.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Fun Fact: <\/b>Experience shows that 3-5 touchpoints are the <\/span>optimal<\/span> abandoned cart series length, but brands send a whopping 8 touchpoints! Different segments respond to different series lengths, so testing and evaluating touchpoints by segmentation is crucial for greater insights and conversion accuracy.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>

Why They Abandon\u00a0<\/h2>

Within travel & hospitality, studies show<\/a> that an extended research phase (39%), costs (37%), and a complex checkout process (13%) are the main reasons bookers abandon the cart. And within retail, studies show<\/a> that browsing (34%), shipping issues (23%<\/a>), and price comparisons (18%) are the main reasons retail shoppers abandoned their cart. These <\/span>insights show that carts often function as \u201c<\/span>wish lists<\/span>\u201d rather than imminent purchases. This disconnect shows the challenge with cart <\/span>abandonment as a whole, as<\/span> marketers push for the commitment to <\/span>purchase<\/span>, rather than discovering the needs or wants that delay the purchase.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Meeting Consumers Where They\u2019re At\u00a0<\/h2>

With so many shoppers at the top of the funnel researching and getting started, understanding where, exactly, your prospect or customer is in the funnel is important \u2014 and how you can best meet them where they are at to best support their needs.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Their website\/app engagement is certainly a clear signal, but where exactly are they with their purchase consideration? Are they just showing interest and research behaviors? If so, how does your brand pivot to help reinforce your brand story and value? Here, big picture content is typically needed to entertain, inform, and educate to continue their interest path.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

If they are a bit deeper within the consideration stage of the marketing funnel, this means that they may also be evaluating competitors. Here, our messaging focus needs to pivot to ease, convenience and pain point solutions. Inspirational and educational content will help bring customer stories to life, provide reviews for purchase confidence, motivational ideation through videos, editorial curation, tips and tricks, and perhaps perks through loyalty services.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

It\u2019s hard to make decisions in isolation, so make it easier for your buyer by providing meaningful context for the choices you\u2019re asking them to make. By providing options, like both a greater and inferior option to what they saved in their cart, you can actually help them to not make decisions in a vacuum. This will help simplify their decision-making process by comparing items that are similar in value. And consumers will often select the middle option (the item they initially abandoned).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Evolving To Human Experience (HX)\u00a0<\/h2>

Human Experience as the next logical step beyond User Experience (UX) and Customer Experience (CX). Why? Consumers are willing to spend +47% more<\/a> with brands that treat them like HUMANS.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Operating under the premise that UX focuses on HOW the consumer interacts with a brand and products and CX focuses on the experience that consumers have with a brand from their 1st brand encounter to the end of their journey, HX connects with the consumer on a deeper level. And all too often Cart Abandonment Triggers are over saturated with messaging focused on the WHAT (product) and the HOW (offer or urgency), but not the WHY (storytelling and value). One way we can accomplish more HX into our messaging is to instill trust and feeling into our personalization efforts \u2014 ultimately HUMAN-based principles.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

We, as humans, are driven by the emotions, needs and relationships experienced with your brand and products. And our role as marketers is to help facilitate this within our messaging.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Top positive emotions include:<\/span><\/p>