These webinar slides provide an overview of the behaviours and attitudes of multi-channel, omni-channel shoppers in Canada and the approach to take to meet their needs.
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The Canadian Multichannel Shopper (Sept 2011)
1. The Canadian
Multichannel
Shopper
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2. Your speaker today!
Director, Client Strategy
Rosalina Lin-Allen
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3. Business
Digital Strategy & Customer
Experience Design Firm. End Consumers Delvinia
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5. search trusted retailer sites
Visit store
Product ratings & reviews
What it takes to install a shed
Talk to friends & family
Buy Online
ONLINE OFFLINE
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6. What is a Multi-Channel Shopper?
Definition
Shop across different channels Retail customers who shop
across multiple channels tend
to spend 2-4 times more
Characteristics
More sophisticated & educated consumers
than single channel shoppers.
Peppers & Rogers Group
Wants CHOICE
More demanding
More loyal & more profitable Multi-channel shoppers
spend 50% more
Expectations than a single channel shopper
Channel agnostic see the retailer as a unit and expect and are typically the highest
the experience across channels to be consistent and
integrated
value customers.
McKinsey Marketing Solutions
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7. Heighten Importance for Multichannel Integration
More skeptical about corporations and Multichannel integration is no.
2 on the Top 100 Retail
their messaging Movers & Shakers list
More scrutiny and active researching on compared to no. 54 in 2009.
2011 Top 100, RetailCustomerExperience.com
their purchases
More aggregator sites available (e.g. Red
Flag Deals) Multi-channel integration will
be a strategic priority over the
More reliance on peers next 5 years.
Addition of channels that supports impulse Walmart Executives
shopping (e.g. mobile, tablets)
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8. How Do Multi-Channel Shoppers Behave?
Digital dominates pre-purchase research
Brick-and-mortar dominates purchase
60% of Canadian shoppers say their choice of retailer is influenced by their ability to conduct pre-
purchase research online
At least half of all shoppers report the Internet as their preferred pre-purchase research channel
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9. What do multi-channel shoppers care about?
VALUE is top of mind
85% of consumers research price online
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10. What do multi-channel shoppers care about?
VALIDATE their decision
65% Canadians look for customer ratings & reviews
48% look for expert opinions & recommendations
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11. What do multi-channel shoppers care about?
LOCATE product
50% look for product availability
One of the most dissatisfying channel
to complete this transactional task
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12. What features do they use?
When you shop on a retail website, how important is each of the following features?
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13. What is the approach to meet
the needs of multi-channel shoppers?
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14. Approach
Accessibility to store
Comfort with technology
P eople
Time available
Value social experience
Decision Cycle
Objectives What is the nature of your product/channel?
What are you trying to accomplish?
S trategy Define how to get your target audience to do
what the business wants them to do.
T actics Tactics & technology to realize the strategy
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15. People & Objectives
Most useful channel for pre-purchase information gathering on a specific product by category:
Persona Development
Source: AskingCanadians Dec 2010, n=500
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16. Strategy
Support &
Research Purchase Community
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18. Low Complexity & Low Perceived Risk
Pick up at store
Numerous retailers reported
success in up-selling when customer
come into the store.
Robust search engine
through faceted search
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19. Low Complexity & High Perceived Risk
Decision
Making Tool
Facility for
multiple
visits
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20. High Complexity & Low Perceived Risk
Cel phone/plan are complex
in the sense that you have to
determine several things:
Telecom you prefer/trust
Compare options, line item by line item
Usage needs
Minutes, time of call
Internet needs
Phone features
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21. High Complexity & High Perceived Risk
Push prospects to speak to Ivey
and to their experiential events
Decision making tools
Story telling through interactive
elements and videos
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22. In sum
P eople Start by understanding your customers &
clearly defining your business objectives
Objectives Offer consistency across your channels
Many Canadian retailers are not meeting the expectations
S trategy of multichannel shoppers. Theres an opportunity to stand
out by doing it right.
Mobile (impulse) channels to take into consideration
T actics including smart phone, touch pad
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23. In sum
People + Objectives
Tactics Strategy
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24. Up Next
40% 65%
of Canadian smartphone owners of Canadians look for consumer
have used their phone in the reviews and recommendations
process of shopping. when researching products online.
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25. The Canadian
Multichannel
Shopper
Sponsored by: Presented by:
Steve Bielawski Rosalina Lin-Allen
eCommerce Practice Director Director, Client Strategy
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