Leveraging Web Scraping to Stay Ahead: Real-Time Brand Monitoring Through Customer Review

In the ecommerce business field, reviews of customers serve as qualitative information about your business’ performance, customer satisfaction, and sentiment analysis. This case study highlights how Scraping Intelligence helped a well-known ecommerce business extract their reviews from all their ecommerce sales channels and platforms. The collected review data helped the e-commerce brand monitor its brand’s perception in real-time, and improve its product assortment, descriptions, and inventory to stay ahead of its competitors in terms of sales, visibility, and customer satisfaction.
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Project Requirement

A leading e-commerce brand connected with the Scraping Intelligence team to assist them in collecting customer reviews from multiple sources. They wanted to analyze reviews that they get on their e-commerce platform, e-store, mobile app, and social media channels. In short, they wanted to implement a real-time review monitoring system to monitor their brand for customer sentiments, catch rising consumer trends early, and keep their product assortment updated as per consumer preferences. The review extraction also aimed to monitor multiple platforms for any malicious review campaigns by competitors or disgruntled customers, The system would also help them to keep their customer service proactive.

Faced Challenges

The client was initially collecting and analyzing reviews manually but as their business scaled, it was difficult to extract reviews manually from multiple channels. Our client was struggling with the below-mentioned challenges:

  • Multiple Review Data Sources: Reviews were scattered across multiple platforms and it was a challenge to centralize the review data for easy consolidated monitoring.
  • Real-Time Monitoring: Our client wanted to collect review data in real-time to stay ahead of competitors in finding rising trends in consumer preferences or address any negative sentiment issue early before it gets turned into a slander campaign.
  • Diverse Reviews format: The reviews on multiple platforms had different formats and therefore it complicated the data extraction process.
  • Blocking by Platforms: Our client wanted to analyze competitor reviews too so that they can compare and find their strengths and weaknesses. Our client used some free tools for extracting review data from other e-commerce platforms for extracting competitor reviews. However, they were getting blocked on most sites owing to the no-scraping policy implemented by most sites.
  • Compliance & Ethics: Our client had no idea how to keep scraping ethical and legal by following the guidelines.
  • Tabulating data: Our client found it difficult to tabulate review data in standard formats.
  • Delays: Manual extraction and analysis of reviews was a time-consuming process. By the time our client could analyze and get insights, the trends had changed. This made strategies outdated. They needed real-time insights to stay relevant in the dynamic ecommerce world.

Solutions

Scraping Intelligence understood the challenges faced by the client and created a custom ecommerce reviews scraping strategy to address all the needs:

  • Custom Scraping Scripts and Tools: We created specialized scrapers for each platform, where they wanted to extract reviews. These custom scrapers handled the dynamic websites and different review formats.
  • Real-Time & Automated Data Extraction: Implemented an automated system to continuously extract new reviews as soon as they were posted across all platforms.
  • Data Standardization: Created a standardized review data tabulating format for easy viewing and uniform analysis.
  • Scalable Scraping: We implemented a review data scraping system capable of handling multiple platforms, voluminous data, and bulk extraction without losing on speed.
  • Compliance Measures: Ensured all review data collection stayed compliant, ethical, and legal. All user privacy rules were followed strictly.

Impact

Real-time Brand Reputation Monitoring:

Proactive addressing of issues mentioned in reviews led to a 40% decrease in negative sentiment across all platforms within six months. Rapid response to negative reviews and customer concerns led to a 30% increase in customer satisfaction scores and a whopping 45% reduction in return rates.

Better Product listings:

By analyzing customer feedback in real-time, the client could quickly identify and address product issues, especially those related to assortments, categories, and price mismatches with competitors. For, instance if any listed product had too many reviews mentioning ‘highly-priced’, ‘too, pricey’, ‘costly’ or ‘expensive’ then our client made quick and dynamic price optimization to keep the prices close to that of competitors in the category.

Competitive Edge and Better Stocking:

By staying ahead of market trends and customer preferences, the client introduced new products based on identified gaps, resulting in a 22% increase in market share within their niche. Based on review analysis, our client could find their most loved items and implemented inventory changes to keep such popular products always in stock.

Conclusion

The adoption of Scraping Intelligence's web scraping solution scaled the client's approach to brand monitoring through reviews. The automated system for scraping reviews effectively tackled the issues of fragmented data sources, real-time review scraping, IP blocks, and multiple review formats. Our client was able to decrease negative sentiments, increase customer satisfaction scores, reduce return rates, and increase its market share. This case study illustrates how the capability to extract customer review data in real time is not only required for brand perception monitoring but also provides a competitive edge that helps e-commerce brands beat their online rivals.

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