Winning with CRO
Key Pillars of a Successful Conversion Optimisation Program
Sameer Sinha
EVP & Head Of Revenue, VWO
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Winning with CRO Key Pillars of a Successful Conversion Optimisation Program Sameer Sinha EVP & Head Of Revenue, VWO An unoptimized website is like a leaky bucket! Can you afford not to have a conversion rate optimisation strategy in place
Winning with CRO
Key Pillars of a Successful Conversion Optimisation Program
Sameer Sinha
EVP & Head Of Revenue, VWOAn unoptimized website is like a leaky bucket!
Can you afford not to have a conversion rate optimisation strategy in place to convert those visitors into paying customers?
Conversion Rate Optimization
Visits x Conversion rate % x Average Order Value = Revenue
harder and lowers acquisition costs.
Your target audience expects great CX at every touch point! Including your website, landing pages, product pages etc.
Audience Expectations
People now shop in more ways than ever before.
Touch points on an average to generate a qualified lead
*https://www.onlinemarketinginstitute.orgIncrease Revenue
VWO Survey Results:
What is the primary conversion goal of your Website?
Generate Leads More Engagement Others
48%
41% 11% 1%
An Effective
Program Kill three birds with one stone!
So What Does It Take To Winning with CRO?
The Gap
Source: ConversionXL, EconsultancyWhat restricts you from scaling your conversion
No optimisation roadmap/framework Institutional issues like low traffic Difficulty in understanding A/B test results Poor applicability of CRO tools 28% 37% 9% 8% Lack of buy from the leadership team 7% Other 11%
VWO Survey Results:
Key Pillars of a Successful
Conversion Rate Optimisation Program
Research Tracking metrics and identifying what parts of conversion funnel need fixing Hypothesis Constructing educated hypothesis, based on your research Prioritize Planning and prioritizing your hypothesis Test Testing your hypothesis against the existing version of the website Measure/Learn Deploying the winning hypothesis and/or gathering learning for subsequent tests
Understand Audience Behaviour Improve Audience CX Improve Conversions/Revenue
RESEARCH
Understanding Audience Journey – Follow The Trail
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Most commonly used methods to generate User insights
Difficulty in generating insights Difficult Easy Value of insights Low High *Size of the bubble indicates the popularity or usage of the methodHeatmaps
Navigation bar distracting users from the primary goal of this page which is to download the app
Scrollmaps
A sharp drop-off of 40%age points happens here and content below this is going to be ineffective. Also acts as a in page funnel representation Session replays playback your visitors actual page interactions and how they navigate through your website without distracting the visitor from their desired goals
Some Popular User Insight Techniques Used Today!
Session Replays
Surveys
Understanding Word of mouth effect on your direct traffic
98% (103) views 58% (61) viewsUnder Utilised User Insight Techniques
Form Analytics
Go beyond tracking form submission rates. Form analytics help you understand how visitors interact with every form field. It gives you insights on where visitors hesitate and drop off
98% (103) views 58% (61) views27% 34%
20.5
seconds Total time spent10.3
seconds Time spent by visitors hesitating to give this data20%
Under Utilized User Insight Techniques
TEST
Choose from Different Testing Types: A/B, Multivariate, and Split
A/B Test
Change any element or section of a webpage and test both versions.Split URL Test
Test performances of separate URLs if the landing pages are significantly different.Multivariate Test
Run tests on multiple variation combinations together.Test Smarter and Faster with Bayesian Test Results, Using SmartStats
Compare the average order value and the total revenue at the end of testing campaigns.
sample size
half
Target tests to Specific Visitor Groups with Easy Segmentation
Segment your audience on the basis of predefined attributes such as device, geo-location, and browser. Or target custom segments.
Example: Depending on paid marketing channelsMEASURE/LEARN
Version A Version B
How to Measure the Impact?
Version A: Growth Version B: Revenue Growth Clicks 2000 1700 CTA Clicks 110 120
Look At The Full Funnel
Net New Opportunities 57 43 Revenue $825,000 $475,000 Net New Contacts 75 90 Net MQLs 45 45 SMB/Mid Market 20 30 Enterprise 25 15
Good: Lift
Do your indicators correlate with aggregated revenue lift? (i.e., Are you beating your benchmarks?)
The CRO Funnel
Better: Influence
At the opportunity level, are
version A more or less likely to become revenue than version B?
Best: Revenue Attribution
Connect your experiment to revenue attribution and directly draw the line to revenue
Wrap up
Don’t just focus on increasing the number of times you roll the dice, but focus on increasing the odds of winning!
HAPPY OPTIMISING
Connect with me: sameer.sinha@vwo.com