Did you know that 50% of all searches will be voice searches by 2020 and Voice Shopping is estimated to reach $40 Billion in U.S. by 2022. More than 30% of US internet users have used a voice assistant to look for product information or purchase products. Check out our infographic on Voice Shopping in E-Commerce to know about the growth of voice shopping and latest voice shopping statistics and trends.

I will take you back to 2007 to one of the very first CRO projects we conducted for a large online retailer. The website received a massive amount of traffic (100k per day). Since it was one of our first projects, and the team was a bit trigger happy with AB testing, our first test included 30 different designs to run against the control. The headache of implementing all of these designs was overwhelming. None the less, we launched the test after about six weeks of implementation.

Seven of our challengers beat the original design within five days. The team …

Both user testing and a/b testing are important techniques used during conversion optimization. They aren’t poles apart as far as their purpose is concerned. You can say that they are indeed two sides of the same coin.

The ultimate purpose of user testing and a/b testing is to improve the overall on-site experience for users and to improve the conversion rates of websites. However, one must understand the 8 differences between the two and decide when to pick the right test based on its objective. So, let’s find out what is the purpose of each of these tests.

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Seasonality is an ever-evolving trend.

Even if you are not in a seasonal business – your customers are reacting to a particular season in predictable ways that you can leverage.

According to BigCommerce, nearly 40% of online sales are generated in the last three months of the year – October, November, and December.

What’s more:

CRO projects are complicated. They require a team, management, accuracy, creativity, and organization. There are many pieces to make a project succeed. In this article, I’m going to break down the ins and outs of a CRO project, and how to help spark creative solutions to inspire greater persuasion (and conversions).

But before we start – what does the team look like?

There are millions of aspiring entrepreneurs with actually really good ideas. But ideas are a dime a dozen. From those ideas, only a few convert their concept into a company. And that’s just the beginning of a long struggle. As per data collected by Smallbiztrends startup failure rate is quite astonishing. Only 4% of small business startups could make it to their second year (2011 data). Investopedia also states that even though every month, over half a million new businesses spur, only 50% of those shut down within less than five years.

The missing component to many of these …

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I have meant to write this post for a long time. There has been a lot written about one-tailed vs. two-tailed tests. However, most of the articles approach the topic from a purely statistical perspective providing many formulas but do not show how to do the calculations. Others articles approach the issue from a high-level business perspective. So, here is my attempt to delve deep into the topic. Some sections in this article are heavy on stats and formulas. If you are not interested in these, you can skip them! Special thanks to our data sciences team …

Did you know that sending push notifications can boost app engagement upto 88% whereas 65% of users return to an app within 30 days when push is enabled. Sending  push notifications can increase app retention rates by 3-10x whereas users who opted in to push notifications are retained at nearly 2x the rate compared to users who have not opted for push notifications. Check out our infographic to know about the growing importance of mobile app push notifications, the impact of sending push notifications on app retention and engagement rate and latest statistics and trends.

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