Incentives are powerful.

Even if your website is riddled with elements causing fears, uncertainties and doubts (FUDs), we have found that offering great incentives counter FUDs and persuade visitors to convert.

We are not promoting the idea of having a site riddled with FUDs causing elements, however, remember that every visitor loves a bargain.

Incentives come in different shapes and forms.

They could be as simple as a free shipping offer, or a special discount on limited items, to more complex, unique approaches such as scarcity and urgency. Scarcity incentives point customer to the limited number of items available, while …

Trust is one of the most important factors that impacts conversions. However, too many visitors will overlook lack of trust, if incentives are present.

There is an art and science behind how incentives can best impact visitors, whilst saving you a lot more in the process, and maintaining the integrity and trust on your site.

For one of our clients, a poorly placed incentive as well as difficult to locate trust elements on the cart page became an obstacle to increase conversion. But by recognizing the opportunity, it eventually allowed us to achieve a 6.89% increase in conversions for a …

For CROs, case studies are as close as you can get to “text books”. Much of conversion rate optimization depends on field testing rather than theory. Keeping an eye on what’s working for others can help you create a more conversion focused website.

Some case studies often bring up surprising results that challenge widely held beliefs about CRO. In this post, I’m going to share 9 such CRO case studies with you.

1. Removing product descriptions and buying options increases conversions by 15.3%

Conventional wisdom says that customers landing on a product page want to know more about the …

Too many e-commerce pages try to present too much information to the visitor without thinking of the appropriate placement, visitor eye flow and the visitors’ cognitive progression.

As a result, you end up with e-commerce product pages that have all the information the visitors need;but difficult to use because the information is unorganized. Conversion optimization is about anticipating the information that the visitor needs, and presenting that information to the visitor at the right time and in the correct placement and location.

This case study demonstrates how presenting information at the right time and the right location, as well as …

Not all pages are created equal. Each type of page in an e-commerce website has a unique impact on the store revenue.

Optimizing bottom of the funnel pages boosts profits of e-commerce sites. For example, increasing conversion rate on product pages or the checkout process produces a greater impact on your bottom line compared to increasing the conversion rate of the home page or category pages.

The following case study was conducted to increase the conversion rate of a furniture e-commerce website by reducing customer anxiety on product pages. Reducing shoppers’ anxiety is important for successful conversion optimization. This can be done by addressing customer’s fears and questions about product quality, service quality, product description, website security, pricing and so on.

The Company

The company under study is one of USA’s largest online furniture retailers operating offline since 1913. The website has an overall conversion rate of less than 1% and an average order value of $2,200. The bottleneck for conversion seems to be the product …

Cognitive Progression is the science of predicting a visitor’s expected mental process with your product or service. We base this prediction on the product or service’s value,  investment, and price. That predicted understanding guides the design of the site to get more conversions. Once the initial understanding of cognitive progression is complete and tested, we can than work on focusing on buyer momentum, and how to increase the visitors’ movement through the conversion process. 

Testing these concepts helped us produce an over 90% increase in subscriptions for our partner. Watch our webinar to learn more about these amazing results and very …

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For the majority of e-commerce stores, a product pages should convert the majority of its traffic through proper persuasion, anxiety alleviation, and better usability. However, product pages for many e-commerce websites suffer from a low Product Page Effectiveness Rate (PPER). In this webinar you will learn:

What is Product Page Effectiveness Rate (PPER)? How can you improve your e-commerce product page effectiveness? What are the bottle necks that are stopping visitors from clicking on the “add to cart” button?

We understand that your time is limited and that you have a million …