Wix today launched their new platform, Ascend by Wix, to let entrepreneurs start, manage and promote their business to customers directly from their web development platform. From their website, entrepreneurs can now automatically run professional marketing and sales funnel campaigns. It can capture these leads to convert web traffic to sales.
Ascend includes a chat interface that allows for real-time interactions with customers, the ability to automatically respond to queries from their smartphone, intuitive search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization (SEO) tools, and the same ability to create unique eye-catching pictures and video to engage customers through social media channels. Ascend can even send invoices to customers!
Avishai Abrahami, CEO and co-founder of Wix.com adds that “We are expanding our market by offering management tools, marketing and promotion capabilities. Ascend is the next iteration in a long line of products, informed by our data and designed with our users, and their success, as our inspiration.”
As a cloud application, Ascend is subscription based for Wix customers with tiered pricing to fit the growth of small businesses.
Using these types of functions, Wix customers have already achieved the following milestones:
- Using Chat, they have 235% more site appointments, and 278% more repeat visitors.
- Using a Members Area, they have 154% more repeat visitors.
- Using Automations for to interact with customers, they have 151% more site traffic.
- Using Email Marketing, they have 783% more site traffic.
- Using Forms, they have 114% more submissions.
“The data shows that our products are delivering real results to our customers and their success is what drives us,” said Abrahami. “We have packaged these products within Ascend to be comprehensive, automated, and seamlessly engineered directly from the Wix platform. ….”
To learn more, watch this video on the Ascend by Wix User Journey.
This post was sponsored by Wix, which has 141 million registered users worldwide.
