Shoppers Expect a Bargain Online

Shoppers expect a bargain when they connect to your website for online shopping. They might browse your shopping website out of curiosity, but they'll only buy when they find real bargains. Your challenge is to appeal to whatever combination of price and products or services they want to capture their business.

In effect, you must "tell" your visitors what their bargain really is what they really want. That's what online marketing of any kind is all about, just as it is with brick-and-mortar shopping malls: You turn visitors or shoppers into buyers as you appeal to their "wants," rather than their "needs."

The reality of life is this: Our needs are simply food, water, shelter, perhaps clothing, and social companionship. Our wants or desires motivate all the rest, from earning money to buying cars, clothes, and collectibles.

So a "bargain" might mean cheap prices to most of us -- but you can make it mean, "Ah, wow, I really want that Russian legacy teapot," if you sell Russian legacy teapots, for example.

If your website offers discounts and merchant sponsored coupons, all the better. Make those coupons and discounts a focus for visitors. But if you specialize instead in unique services or products, then focusing on those products or services will be what you show your visitors as the bargains you have to offer. A Victorian flowered wall mirror becomes a bargain to the visitor looking around your for one, if you feature such collectibles and they happen to find it.

Think and plan carefully as you design your site. Show your visitors what you have to offer, whether that's a bargain price or a unique gift product. You will begin to shape their ideas about bargains. It's really up to you, through your site design and content, to help your visitors understand exactly what bargains you offer. Their concept a bargain as they shop online becomes what you want it to be.

Shoppers indeed expect a bargain when they go online. Help them understand and find that bargain at your website. Master this and word will get around. You'll find visitors turning into buyers.

Gary Speer - EzineArticles Expert Author

Gary Speer, former newspaper copy editor and news editor for a major Christian denominational publication, is a freelance writer and marketer who focuses on writing tips and online marketing. Gary offers writing tips at Writing Tips at garyspeer.com. He also owns a number of affiliate marketing sites, such as Expect a Bargain Online Shopping.