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Growing beyond boundaries with Clonable and Valued Shops
Do you want to expand internationally with your webshop? Reaching customers abroad brings new opportunities, but also challenges. You have to deal with cultural differences, different regulations, logistical issues and, of course, the language barrier. Fortunately, you don't have to do it alone. With the cooperation of the international hallmark Valued Shops and Clonable, you lay a solid foundation for international growth. Discover how their tools translate your webshop and showcase your reliability in new markets.
Trust is the key to success with your shop, in the Netherlands and abroad.
There are several ways to build this trust:
- Certificates and seals of approval: The Valued Shops seal of approvalshows that your webshop complies with international regulations.
- Translations: A well translated website is hugely important if you want to appeal to foreign customers. Clonable offers you the perfect tools for this.
- Local payment methods: Offer popular options, such as Klarna in Germany or Bancontact in Belgium.
- Customer service in the right language: Make sure customers can reach you in their own language, via chat, email or phone.
- Cultural nuances: Adapt your content to the local culture, such as custom text on buttons or specific images.
The power of Clonable: expand internationally easily and effectively
Strong translation and localization are key factors in appealing to foreign customers and gaining their trust. Clonable, a Dutch company, offers an innovative tool that allows you to fully automatically clone your webshop into another language and then easily personalize it. This means up to 90% less work for your team, so you can focus on growing your webshop.
- A perfect clone of your website: Clonable creates an exact copy of your website and translates it directly into the desired language. For that Clone you can use a separate (sub)domain. Clonable also supports multiple languages on one domain for most webshop systems.
- Manual control: After the automatic translation process, you can make manual adjustments in Clonable. For example, you can add local cultural nuances, such as the correct form of address for a specific region or country. In addition, you can use a dictionary for consistent language usage and automatically exclude certain words that should not be translated (such as brand names).
- High translation quality: By cleverly combining different techniques, Clonable delivers high-quality translations for all parts of your website. From URLs and product texts to SEO aspects, everything is optimized for the local market.
- Flexible solutions: Want to launch internationally quickly and without fuss? Clonable makes it easy to adapt your webshop to the requirements of new markets. The Clonable tool connects to most webshop systems and is ideally suited for WooCommerce, Magento and Shopware.
Valued Shops: building trust with an international trustmark
The Valued Shops trustmark, part of WebwinkelKeur, is specifically designed for webshops operating in Europe. This trustmark offers:
- Legal certainty: With the trustmark, you show that your shop complies with regulations. This gives customers confidence that they can shop safely with you.
- Dynamic general terms and conditions: As a PRO member you get access to general terms and conditions in English. These are automatically adapted to your company information, which saves you a lot of time.
- Social proof: Valued Shops automatically translates reviews into German, English and French. This helps you win over foreign customers.
- Member page in multiple languages: Your profile page at Valued Shops is available in the customer's language, including translated reviews and seals of approval. This makes your reliability instantly visible.
Why social proof makes the difference
Research shows that reviews are one of the most persuasive factors for customers to make a purchase. Valued Shops and Clonable work together to make your reviews accessible to an international audience:
- Automatically Translated Reviews: Dutch reviews are translated into English, German and French using Clonable's technology. The quality of these translations has been tested by native speakers and rated as excellent.
- Review invitations in the right language: The PRO package allows you to ask customers to leave a review in their own language. This increases the chances of a positive review.
Bas van Schijndel, one of the founders of Clonable, explains how to quickly and easily create a clone of your website in another language:
How Clonable and Valued Shops together strengthen your webshop
With Clonable's technology and the Valued Shops seal of approval, you kill two birds with one stone: you offer a fully localized international webshop, reviews and legal security. This way, you not only make a smooth transition to new markets, but also a strong first impression with your international customers.
In short: your strategy for international success
- Capitalize on local customs and cultural differences to really connect with your customers.
- Use the PRO pack and WebwinkelKeur tools to take your shop to the next level.
- Use Clonable to efficiently translate your shop for new markets.
- Build trust with the Valued Shops seal of approval, automatic review translations and legal documents in multiple languages.