I've been working from a checklist I created from the beginning of the year to be able to transition from in-store to primarily online. During this audit process I've literally been going through all parts of my online experience, and I've noticed there are parts of my e-boutique I haven't touched since I went live 5 years ago. How often are you guys updating your automations, website formats, pop-ups, etc. It's been a very eye-opening process.
We don't do much eCommerce. Probably because we are terrible at social media.
Our website is more of a showcase of what we have in store. Haven't really made structural changes since we started.
At some point we need to look at creating a social media strategy and redesigning our website to encourage purchases.
I do Instagram and Facebook right now. I've done a small bit of TikTok but definitely not enough to attract customers yet.
We SURVIVE on social media (and we're in similar spaces)- your product is literally MADE for social!!!! You don't really need a strategy- you just need to figure out what "voice" you want out there & then you just sorta need to start
We update regularly. The over arching style and design hasn't changed that much over the years, but do leverage when Square adds feature enhancements. We also publish our product catalog to google, and that can be a bit of a challenge sometimes resolving issues that google doesn't always like.
We've made updates to our product searches, as we didn't know the total effect when we started with putting items into categories.
We do regularly update featured items on our main page, as we get in new products.
A big item that I have been working on is updating image names and image alt text. We mostly use manufacturer provided images and the naming convention varies and does nothing for SEO. Because we have thousands of products, that updating is a slow process.
Right now, I'm updating my categories and making sure all my items are correctly placed. After that then I'll update photos from stock to pics of me and my family wearing everything. Our catalog is on google as well and like you said it's a monster of its own. It's definitely a slow process, but I'm so glad I'm going through it now.
Gemini / NanoBanana Can do some CRAZY shit with your photos
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