Smythson of Bond Street sees 31% more conversions through a multi-page product recommendations strategy
Industry: Luxury
Platform: Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Smythson of Bond Street sees 31% more conversions through a multi-page product recommendations strategy
Learn MoreChallenge:
Smythson’s experience with product recommendations was limited to the capabilities offered by their ecommerce platform.
Learn moreSolution:
A multi-page product recommendations strategy and personalised cart abandonment pop-ups
Learn moreAbout Smythson of Bond Street
Smythson of Bond Street is a British manufacturer of luxury leather goods and stationary that has been in operation since the late 1800s. The retailer now operates brick and mortar stores in five cities in five different countries across the globe, and offers their full catalogue to be shipped worldwide via their online store.
With a product personalisation category on their website’s navigation bar, Smythson is a strong believer in offering not only personalised products but highly personalised customer experiences.
Challenge
As a company with a focus on white-glove service, it was vital for Smythson to maintain its reputation for luxury as they entered the digital age. Before working with Nosto, Smythson’s experience with product recommendations was limited to the capabilities offered by their ecommerce platform Magento.
These were nice, but the luxury goods company wanted to deliver a much more personalised experience to their customers. Interested in learning about the offerings out there, and how they could improve their online performance, Smythson was extremely open to what Nosto had to offer.
As a luxury brand, we want to be able to visual merchandise colour variations of our products, since most shoppers come to our store set on a specific item but usually don’t know which colour they want quite yet. Nosto’s personalised product recommendations give us the ability to deliver highly relevant recommendations with a much larger variety of merchandising goals than Commerce Cloud’s native recommendations. The flexibility of the tool gives us a lot of added value, and their easy integration into Commerce Cloud made it so that the entire process was quick and painless.
Bianca Mercer, Ecommerce and Customer Services Director at Smythson of Bond Street
Solutions
Product Recommendations & Pop-ups
To start, Smythson implemented Nosto’s Product Recommendations on both their product detail pages and their cart page. The primary goal of this move was to increase conversion rate by giving shoppers a seamless experience to browse variations of products while they are either viewing a specific product or in the process of purchasing it.
Another goal Smythson wanted to accomplish with this move was to increase average order value by displaying products that were commonly bought with products that shoppers were either on the detail page for or had in their cart. In addition to their multi-page product recommendations strategy, Smythson began deploying personalised cart abandonment pop-ups that gave shoppers a second chance to purchase a product they had in their cart but didn’t quite commit to.
Platform change and proving unique value
After a few months of running both Nosto’s product recommendations and personalised pop-ups with favourable results, it became time for Smythson to switch ecommerce platforms from Magento to Salesforce Commerce Cloud. With the change, Smythson decided they wanted to attempt using Commerce Cloud’s native product recommendations while maintaining their use of Nosto’s personalised pop-ups.
A few short months later, Smythson concluded that Commerce Cloud’s product recommendations were far too limited for their needs, as they wanted to showcase colour variations of their products and not just different product variations in their recommendations, so they immediately re-implemented Nosto’s Product Recommendations.
Results
Smythson sought to increase conversion rate by giving shoppers a seamless experience, enabling them to browse variations of products while they are either viewing a specific product or in the process of purchasing it. They also sought to increase average order value by displaying products that were commonly bought with products that shoppers were either on the detail page for or had in their cart. This multi-page product recommendations strategy, in addition to the deployment of personalised cart abandonment pop-ups, resulted in:
- a 31% increase in conversion
- a 13% increase in average order value
31 %
increase in conversion
13 %
increase in average order value
