Ecommerce Tip: To Be A Great Seller, Think Like A Buyer

In order to optimize your online sales, you need to think like your customers. Across our fast growing community of sellers, this powerful concept holds true. The sellers that truly understand their end customer and tailor their catalog, titles, keywords, images and descriptions to meet the needs and expectations of those buyers perform exceedingly well.

Let's say you're selling area rugs. Being able to understand who your customers are and the specific keywords your customers are using to search for their next area rug is extremely important.

We previously covered buyer personas across all major channels.

Focus on the specific product

First, let's focus on the specific product, not the general category. These area rugs are large, round and uniquely designed for the kitchen and dining room.

Put your ideas for keywords to the test by leveraging Google's Keyword Planner. Here are some keywords we found that make the cut:

• area rugs (201,100 monthly searches)
• kitchen rugs (33,000 monthly searches)
• round rugs (27,100 monthly searches)
• large area rugs (18,100 monthly searches)
• round area rugs (9,900 monthly searches)
• dining room rugs (8,100 monthly searches)
• area rugs on sale (8,100 monthly searches)
• circle rug (6,600 monthly searches)
• accent rugs (3,600 monthly searches)
• discount area rugs (3,600 monthly searches)
• kitchen area rugs (2,900 monthly searches)
• dining room area rugs (1,600 monthly searches)

Check as many boxes as possible

If you were in front of your computer, itching to buy the perfect large area rug for your kitchen, what boxes would you need to check in order to confidently purchase a rug without touching it?

• Does it come up near the top of search results?
• Is it designed for use in the kitchen?
• Do I have a good sense for the product's look and texture from the images?
• Does it come in the right size?
• Is it a good value?
• Will it be delivered in my desired timeframe?
• Do other buyers recommend this product?

Wayfair does this pretty well. Take a look at this area rug.

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This rug checks all of the above boxes:

• Does it come up near the top of search results? Yes
• Is it designed for use in the kitchen? Yes, see description.
• Do I have a good sense for the product's look and texture from the images? Yes, high quality images
• Does it come in the right size? Yes, see options, video to select the right rug and customer reviews.
• Is it a good value? Yes, it's currently on sale and comparatively low-priced.
• Will it be delivered in my desired timeframe? Yes, receive it within 5 days with Free Shipping.
• Do other buyers recommend this product? Yes, 4.8/5 star rating, 5,294 reviews and counting.

Great sellers think like their customers, do you?

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