Social media has millions of customer experiences as photos, videos, reviews, and text. People love posting on social media, and they enjoy sharing their views upon their experiences with various brands.
For many years potential customers have found themselves searching for reviews or first-hand experiences for the products they wish to buy from any ecommerce store. If they can't physically touch and analyze the product, at least they can rely on the experience of someone like them.
Marketers identified that and came up with the user-generated content strategy that brands can use to collect content from their customers and use it to create brand trust among the target audience.
In this blog, we will be talking about visual user-generated content, in particular. Keep reading to know more.
Visual UGC is photos and videos posted by your customers, sharing their experiences with your brand. It is the next level of visual marketing as it allows brands to post fresh and engaging content almost every day that works the best for the target audience.
These visuals are engaging for the target audience as they can see the real-life experiences of their peers with your brand. The visual UGC contributes positively to the target customers' purchase decisions and making their buying procedure quicker.
Here is how visual UGC enhances sales and experience for ecommerce.
When your turn to posting visual UGC on your social media platform rather than creating new content every day, it becomes the perfect ROI for you. Every person is different, and they all have unique ways of expressing themselves with visual content.
Posting UGC on your social media platforms will encourage your other customers to post for you. You will get some visually appealing content from your customers, increase your social presence and followers, and have something new to post every day.
People love social media, and when you bring the social media content to your ecommerce website, you make it more engaging than ever before. It increases the website dwell time as your customers spend time on the interactive and visual social media feed.
Not just that, when you embed a visual UGC feed showing real-life usage with each of your products on that product's page, it contributes positively to the potential buyers' decision process. They immediately trust your brand to purchase your product.
No matter how much ecommerce has evolved, people still feel hesitant before making purchases online. We have found ourselves searching for product reviews to get a better perspective. The real-life experiences provided by experienced customers have brought a revolution in the world of ecommerce and enhanced the conversion rate for brands.
The visual UGC attracts the target audience because of the familiarity they provide. The content creation is by their peer who is like them and not by the brand that uses paid professional models.
If your brand focuses entirely upon visual user-generated content, it can be an amazing ROI with a boost in conversion rate for your brand. When you post content created by your customers on your social media platforms and your ecommerce website, it encourages your other customers to post for you, giving you fresh and unique content every day.
You don't have to worry about creating new content anymore. It will boost your conversion rates as the visual UGC will work as a reliable source for your potential customers, making their purchase decisions quicker.
UGC platforms like Taggbox Commerce focus entirely on using UGC as a marketing tool to enhance brand sales. You can seamlessly showcase UGC created by your customers to build brand trust and inspire potential customers to purchase your products.
They allow you to embed a visual shoppable gallery from social platforms like Instagram and Facebook, with their newly added feature hotspots that work as shoppable tags for these visual galleries on your eCommerce website. The goal is to merge the digital shopping experience with the social world. They also provide analytics in the form of data insights so that you can check what works best for your website visitors and bring improvement in their ecommerce website experience.
We have reached the end of this blog and hope that now you have a thorough understanding of how visual UGC works.
Also, how it contributes towards enhancing your sales and, at the same time, improving the shopping experience of your customers by making it social.
So! get, set, and go because now is your time to get on board with this train. Or else you will surely miss out.
