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Use FUN Theory To Increase Ecommerce Conversions [Videos]

Use FUN Theory To Increase Ecommerce Conversions [Videos] | Must Play | Scoop.it
There is a way to encourage customers to participate or what is the same to encourage him to buy. It's called The Fun Theory, a phenomenon that uses game techniques to influence and motivate people.
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:

Small Moves In Big Numbers

When I was a Director of Ecommerce a .5% increase in our conversion rate was worth a half a million bucks. You know we were testing and tweaking, tweaking and testing. 

If I only knew THEN what I know now about gamification we could have achieved more than a .5% gain. I make this claim with caution. Ecommerce websites are tuned to do a single thing - move visitors to buyers. 

If your conversion rate is over 10% I wouldn't touch a thing until it begins to lag. If your conversion rate is in the more typical 4% range TEST a little gamification as described here to see if you can find that elusive conversion rate increase that lives out there near Mach 2. 

Good luck. Report any gamification to conversion breakthroughs and I will curate in.  

Yu Ji's curator insight, April 24, 2013 5:52 AM

During CRM, high customer pariticipating rate is a very important requirement. Fun Theoey can be used to figure out how to motivate customers most effectively.

Luigina Sgarro's curator insight, April 28, 2013 6:44 PM

Fun can be also key to discover our passion. What do we have more fun at?
Il divertimento può aiutarci a scoprire la nostra passione. Che cosa ci diverte di più fare? 

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Gamification Increases Engagement 29%

Gamification Increases Engagement 29% | Must Play | Scoop.it
In fact, gamification boosts commenting 13 percent, social sharing to Facebook, Twitter, and networks 22 percent, and content discovery by a massive 68 percent.

Via Stan Smith
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:

Post Panda & Penguin Engagement Is Queen
If CONTENT is truly and finally KING post Google's Panda and Penguin updates then engagement, those things that visitors coming back to your website and viewing it for longer periods of time are queen.

In the land of engagement GAMIFICATION is a prince because here are just a few things gamification does:

* Increase time on site.
* Increase social shares.
* Increase commenting and User Generated Content (UGC).

I could go on but why. If those three don't convince you nothing will. The stat that I love from this post is the almost 30% engagement lift. Don't think of this magic as "engagement" think of it as MONEY. 30% engagement lift could translate into MILLIONS for many websites as great customers come back more often, share move often and BUY MORE OFTEN.

Couple of interesting support posts include

Gamification Backlash (on Scoopit)

http://sco.lt/7rqCIr

Storytelling is the New SEO (on Slideshare)
http://www.slideshare.net/martinmartysmith/storytelling-new-seo


Winning Hearts Minds and Loyalty Online (white paper)

http://www.atlanticbt.com/blog/gamification-white-paper-atlanticbt/

Martin (Marty) Smith's comment, March 28, 2013 7:59 AM
Great stats sure to help sell gamification to the C level.
Martin (Marty) Smith's comment, March 28, 2013 12:01 PM
Cool digital art and media Scoop.it Fausto. Marty