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The four conversations peak season actually needs
Your product grid might be lying to shoppers
What your customer thinks before they bounce
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The four conversations peak season actually needs
PEAK SEASON · THE FOUR CHECKS PART 3
A good peak is four conversations you have in August, not four fires you fight in November.
Every peak season post-mortem I have sat in comes back to the same short list. None of it makes a good LinkedIn post, and all of it is settled before the first Black Friday order lands.
The four checks, in the order they need doing:
Forecast, then plan. Peak is a forecasting exercise before it is anything else. Get the numbers wrong and everything after them is a guess in an expensive costume.
Ask about capacity out loud. Every carrier and warehouse you rely on should be telling you how much capacity they will hold for you through peak. Then hand them real forecasts. Give them bad numbers and they cannot support you properly, however much they want to.
Staff for the spike. Suitable people, on site and in place, before the holiday volume arrives. A good plan run by a skeleton crew stops being a good plan by mid-December.
Plan for what breaks. Contingency planning is nobody's idea of a fun Tuesday. Do it anyway. Write down everything that will go wrong, then work out how you would blunt each one.
Four checks, four sets of people to chase, which is broadly the job a 4PL takes off your desk. Do all four and you will have a good peak. Skip one and it is usually the one that goes.
Nick Bartlett | Co-Founder @ Wayfindr — Your Growth Partner for eCommerce Logistics
Optimization
Your product grid might be lying to shoppers
A user scrolls through the "Sale" section on Nicce's mobile site. He notices something off: the same product shows up again and again, just in different colors.
His reaction wasn't relief at having options. It was confusion and suspicion.
He assumed the store was padding out the list to look bigger than it actually was.
That's the risk when every color variation of a product gets its own tile in a mobile grid.
Baymard Institute found that 42% of mobile ecommerce sites don't combine product variations into a single list item, and their testing surfaced two problems with that setup.
The list gets cluttered, so shoppers struggle to get a clear sense of the actual product range.
When variations are scattered throughout the grid instead of grouped, shoppers miss the exact color they wanted.
The fix is to combine all colors of one product into a single list item, with the color options shown as small swatches underneath.
Action Summary:
Check your mobile collection pages for products that repeat as separate tiles for each color
Group those into one tile per product, with color swatches shown underneath
Confirm tapping a swatch updates the product image without requiring a full page load
Credit: Baymard Institute
Brand Breakdown
What your customer thinks before they bounce
We're doing a 100 days of stealing strategies from brands that are already winning.
For day 21, we have Jolie.
Most brands avoid the one question that could talk someone out of buying.
If a customer is wondering "do I even need this product?", the safe move is to never say those words out loud and just keep selling the benefits.
Jolie wrote a blog post about it instead.
Same objection a skeptical reader is already thinking, used as the headline.
That works because it doesn't try to out argue the doubt. It names it first, then answers it, so the reader feels understood before they feel sold to.
So here's what you should do today: write down the one sentence a skeptical customer says right before they leave your product page without buying, and publish a blog that uses that sentence as the headline, then answers it directly.
The best marketing ideas come from marketers who live it. That’s what The Marketing Millennials delivers: real insights, fresh takes, and no fluff. Written by Daniel Murray, a marketer who knows what works, this newsletter cuts through the noise so you can stop guessing and start winning. Subscribe and level up your marketing game.
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