Kevin Hillstrom: MineThatData

Exploring How Customers Interact With Advertising, Products, Brands, and Channels, using Multichannel Forensics.

March 09, 2009

Conversion Rate Fail

At Nordstrom, we had the "3-2-1 Rule" for our 1,000,000+ multichannel customers.
  • Three Monthly Website Visits.
  • Two Monthly Store Visits.
  • One Monthly Purchase, 85% of the time in a store, 15% of the time online.
Using any web analytics package, we calculate an online conversion rate of 5%:
  • Online Conversion Rate = (15% of one monthly order happening online) / (3 visits) = 5%.
  • True Monthly Customer Conversion Rate Across Channels = 100%.
When I talk about non-linear direct marketing issues, I'm talking about issues like this one. This customer jumped in and out of our brand every six days. We needed a new set of metrics to understand the behavior of this customer, a set of metrics that measured success, not failure.

Always keep the mind open to the possibility that we're not actually measuring reality with the tools we've been given.

1 Comments:

At 6:29 AM , Anonymous James said...

Thanks for the excellent points. I have forwarded the link to your blog to EmailCharger.com customers. Keep it coming :)

 

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