Amazon promotions vs coupons vs sales (Strikethrough pricing no longer works)
There are a few options you have to drive to convert your traffic better using promotional tools. While it’s easier to double your traffic than it is to double your conversion rate, there are times called for that you want to discount. Below are the options available to you.
- Promotions – no cost, but are somewhat hidden and not easy to find. I chose this option because you are driving external traffic and you can simply say, 40% off, just add to cart, no promo code needed. One benefit to this is you can have unique promo codes used for external traffic and track which external source got the sale.
- Price reduction/sale – no cost, but no strikethrough, customer can’t tell it’s on sale. We simply reduce price. This does trigger the camelcamelcamel followers, and conversion goes up with a lower price often. But customers don’t really know it’s lowered as compared to when it was higher.
- Coupon – Costs 80 cents a click. Very visible, clip to get the coupon. Shows in search results and top of product page. There is no tracking with this tool, you just know number of coupons clipped and used.
If the promotions don’t work, I’d suggest coupon next. Coupons I prefer to use if there’s not external traffic being used. With external traffic, you can educate the consumer and avoid the cost of a coupon.
