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25 Top Free and Low Cost Tools How to grow your ecommerce sales with greater insight and execution Trinity Insight By Craig Smith, Founder & CEO My Goal: You leave here with a plan of attack. (...and that my presentation was your favorite


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25 Top Free and Low Cost Tools

How to grow your ecommerce sales with greater insight and execution

Trinity Insight

By Craig Smith, Founder & CEO

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My Goal:

You leave here with a plan of attack.

(...and that my presentation was your favorite from the week)

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ABOUT ME & TRINITY

Trinity Insight helps brands grow faster through data and optimization

  • 20 years of digital and

ecommerce experience

  • Served as a strategist at

eBay Enterprise

  • Started Trinity in 2006
  • Passionate about

ecommerce optimization and digital growth tactics

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Uncover insight Create & design solutions Create memorable user experience DATA & INTELLIGENCE USER EXPERIENCE SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION SPEED & PERFORMANCE Improve intel Integrate & unify data systems Monitor trending Diagnostic audit Page optimization Content strategy Digital promotion Email program analysis Campaign management Segmentation & List Management

Focal Areas

Create | Optimize | Manage All areas are paramount for your brand to reach market potential.

EMAIL Issue Identification Code Bloat Security

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DATA & INTELLIGENCE

Connect platforms, create audiences, gain insight

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SEGMENT

Use: Collect all your data and store in one place with the ability to “activate” Value: Consolidating your data enables synchronized experiences and a single customer view

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CYFE

Use: Dashboard Utility Value: Enables easy access to all KPI’s that are vital to your business on a single log in

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ANSWER THE PUBLIC

Use: Question Intelligence Value: Enables your brand to better structure your content to target audience questions - Drives Voice Search

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SIMILAR WEB

Use: Competitive Intelligence Value: Enables your brand to benchmark channel performance and traffic ratios

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YANDEX METRICA

Use: Alternate analytical platform Value: Additional tools beyond standard sampled data - for example the heatmap on the right

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TRINITY ONE

Use: Enhanced insight as your platforms connect in one location Value: Better insight into profitability, trending items and categories, audience constructs

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USER EXPERIENCE

Tools to improve your site usability

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CONVERSION CALCULATOR

Use: Quick modeling of revenue impact from UX optimization Value: Defines the business case in template

  • ptimization, need to construct custom

segments in GA

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USERTESTING.COM

Use: Primary research based on constructed scenarios and actions Value: Real consumer insight into presentation issues and friction points

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GOOD UI

Use: Repository of UX testing data examples that are cultivated through the platform Value: Assists in ideation and using pre-tested designs to key templates

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USERLYTICS

Use: Self Service UX observation tool Value: Provide the “why” behind the “what” and validate internal hypothesis on key page changes and perspectives

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HOTJAR

Use: Complete research tool for customer intelligence Value: Has much of what other systems provide but also provides form analytics to isolate the depth of user interactivity within friction areas

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AMAZON PERSONALIZE

Use: AWS enables the ability to use Amazon technology to construct personalization modules Value: Algorithmic flexibility complete with Amazon infrastructure make this a great option for mid market companies who wish to build their personalization stack

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IMAGIFY

Use: Simple solution to compress your image base Value: Will help mobile rendering, overall page speed, and organic search placements due to faster load times

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PERFORMANCE

Tools to improve your speed & conversion

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WEB PAGE TEST

Use: Complete diagnostic tool for performance Value: Waterfall diagrams and other tools enable exact locations of page “choke” and other issues

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GT METRIX

Use: Secondary tool to compare against WebPageTest Value: Provides further benchmarks and also integrates third party data (ex. Yslow)

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LIGHTHOUSE

Use: Google’s performance tool Value: Built into Chrome, provides deep intel across a variety of areas and checks against recent best practices (ex. Progressive Web Apps)

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OBSERVATORY

Use: Mozilla’s security tool to help identify potential issues Value: Provides free insight into vulnerable site components from a security perspective

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UNUSED CSS

Use: Scans webpages to isolate non-essential CSS Value: Gives the ability to download a “clean” CSS file to make your pages load faster

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EMAIL

Tools to improve automation & delivery

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EMAIL ON ACID

Use: Ensuring that your emails look beautiful

  • n any device type

Value: Drive email metric performance as more emails look perfect to your audience

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LITMUS

Use: Email formatting tool to ensure maximum delivery success Value: Identify and improve issues related to links, images, type, and calls to action

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KLAVIYO

Use: Primary email platform Value: Audience construction, API, and automation flows make Klaviyo our “go to” platform for small-mid market email marketing

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SEO

Tools to improve organic traffic

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CONTENT KING

Use: SEO Intelligence into page footprint, conducted through daily crawls Value: Provides the ability to monitor SEO performance at a macro level for your brand and to isolate execution areas for growth

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CLOUDFLARE WORKERS

Use: Making dynamic changes to your code using JS and service worker technology Value: In situations in which platform modifications are challenging, this CDN driven approach can drive change in your website

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GOOGLE TAG MANAGER

Platform

Use: Page level injection for SEO purposes of code mods, not from server side Value: Last resort to implementing SEO changes but free and can work (see the example to the right!)

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SITE BULB

Use: SEO performance monitoring and trend

  • identification. The data can be

“repurposed” Value: Intelligence and issue monitoring and

  • resolution. Deep mix of parameters

that matter for SEO within their crawler

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SEO MINION

Use: Nifty chrome plug in to get quick SEO data (on-page, links, href lang, SERP preview) Value: Time saver to assess page level code changes and rendering

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SEM RUSH

Use: SEO keyword tracking and competitive intelligence Value: Deep variety of tools within the platform, one of the largest and most accurate databases of search keyword data (PPC & SEO)

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FINAL THOUGHTS

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THANK YOU!

Email Craig for a copy of this deck | csmith@trinityinsight.com Visit us at IRCE for a site review: Booth 1344