What is the cheapest way to grow fashion in Saudi Arabia?
Selling again to somebody who has already bought. It is not a strategy anyone finds exciting and it is the only one where the cost per order falls as you use it.
The cheapest growth is the growth you already paid for
Ranked by cost per incremental order: owned channels first, then referral, then paid. Most budgets run that list backwards, and the reason is usually that paid is the only one with a dashboard.
Winning a customer costs money and selling to them again costs almost nothing, and most budgets are spent as though the reverse were true. For a fashion store in Saudi Arabia, the answer turns on one thing in particular: Fashion carries the highest return rate in retail — sizing is guesswork on a screen — so the margin has to survive a third of the order coming back.
What is different about Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia is the largest ecommerce market in the region by some distance, and the most phone-dominated.
Cash on delivery remains common in Saudi Arabia, which changes the economics of every refused delivery.
What is different about a fashion store
Discounting to grow trains people to wait for the discount. It works once.
Where a mobile app comes into it
Repeat rates in fashion are strong once a customer trusts the sizing, which is exactly the behaviour an app is built for.