The e-commerce market is the fastest growing and the most changing industry today.

If you want to keep up with this progress and react to new products faster than the competition, you must constantly follow the latest trends that appear on this market.

Many areas of e-commerce are still developing. Below is a list of those that will have the greatest impact on the shape of the market this year.

1. AI – artificial intelligence – the most common use of AI in e-commerce is to generate huge amounts of content of various qualities. These can be both articles and graphics of various types. Their effectiveness will not be high, but they can be produced in huge quantities, which should translate into an increase in reaching customers. The second increasingly common use of AI is the use of chatbots. They give the opportunity to place an order or find out the answers to a number of questions at any time of the day or night at a cost incomparably lower than employing consultants answering phones or conducting conversations via messengers;
2. Price warfare – this phenomenon is constantly accelerating due to the availability of shops and offers from around the world and the existence of comparison websites or mass sales platforms (Allegro, Amazon, etc.). If you want to sell more expensive, you have to convince people that your product is better, unique, etc.;
3. Personalization – this important issue in e-commerce has been developing for years and its importance is still increasing. It is important that the message reaching potential customers or people who have already taken advantage of the offer is tailored to the person as much as possible. The better you predict the needs of people in a given period, the more willingly they will take advantage of the offer you present to them;

3. Social Proof – in times of a total flood of advertising ordered by everyone and presented in every possible place, the recommendation of ordinary users is still gaining in importance. This can be seen very well from the mass creation of YouTube channels or blogs reviewing all possible products and services. Referrals made by ordinary consumers should be successfully incorporated into your marketing strategy. You can encourage customers to leave reviews and comments in many different ways;
4. Mobile commerce – the share of mobile devices in internet browsing is constantly growing. The same applies to making purchases directly from your smartphone. That’s why you need to make sure your pages work well on these types of devices;
5. Social commerce is a rapidly growing trend in e-commerce. Why wait for customers on specialized platforms or online stores when you can encourage them to make a purchase where they spend the most time online, i.e. directly on social media. Services such as Instagram Checkout or Facebook Marketplace are the perfect place to attract audiences for your services or products;
6. Omnichannel marketing – in the era of a multitude of all kinds of social networking sites, sales platforms, advertising media, etc., you must ensure that you are visible in all of them. This means posting and adding content anywhere. These activities should be coherent in both graphic and verbal communication. You should also make it easy to switch between these channels. This means that the jump from social media to the place of purchase is possible with one click. It should also work the other way around, so that the customer can share his impressions and opinion about a given product or service with others;
7. Subscriptions – this is also a branch in e-commerce that has been growing for years. This applies not only to such obvious departments as sharing music or movies, but basically everything from information, through clothes, food to packages with unknown content that is supposed to surprise the recipient;
8. Ethical trade – the number of people who pay a lot of attention to the conditions in which a given product was made, from what materials, whether no one was hurt during production, what a given product has a carbon footprint and a number of similar issues. It is worth emphasizing this type of advantages, so that it is supported by valued and recognizable certificates;
9. Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality in e-commerce – these are still developing sales techniques using VR and AR. Thanks to this, the customer can, for example, virtually try on clothes, walk around the hotel or beach where he intends to go or, for example, check how a new piece of furniture will look in his own interior.

It is worth using the techniques presented above and thanks to them you will achieve much better results in the sale of your products or services. Those who do not follow the news can quickly be overtaken by the numerous and hard-working competition. Be at the forefront of progress and stay ahead of everyone with the latest ideas and ways to increase the popularity of your business.

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