Just gonna go straight for the elephant in the room: COVID-19. It’s had a wildly transformative effect on our current daily lives. Our carefully crafted business plans have been thrown out the window. If you’re in exercise equipment, toiletries, dog food, or bread makers, maybe you’re overwhelmed trying to...
In these challenging times E-commerce is about the only industry that is flourishing. But people need assurance that the products they order online will not jeopardize their health, or render their quarantine ineffective. Here is a CRO test idea that has the potential of allaying fears and boosting e-store...
Type I and type II errors happen when you erroneously spot winners in your experiments or fail to spot them. With both errors, you end up going with what appears to work or not. And not with the real results. Misinterpreting test results doesn’t just result in misguided optimization...
Are you aware that marketers spent a third of their marketing budgets on Martech in 2019? Gartner Inc reports that marketers are investing more in marketing technology to achieve improved efficiency and increased ROI. It comes as no surprise that optimization, personalization and experimentation tools have received more investments...
Setting up an optimization program that impacts your business’s bottom line, reduces churn and improves user experience requires a great A/B testing tool. After careful research, you finally choose an A/B testing tool that fits into your stack and meets your experimentation needs. But before you dive into optimization,...
When it comes to running experiments, optimizers can choose between client-side and server-side testing. While you can run almost every client-side test on the server-side and a few light-weight backend experiments via client-side testing (using split URL or redirect experiments), doing so won’t be as feasible or robust as...
It’s 2020! A new year chock-full of opportunities to improve the performance of your ecommerce business and take it to entirely new heights. My only question is: Are you brave enough to dive in head-first? You may have not even known that 2019 was a pivotal year for ecommerce...
A test by test optimization framework is not going to cut it if you want to achieve continuous growth. In 2019, CXL reported that 38.3% of optimizers have an undocumented or unstructured process while 17.1% have no process whatsoever. Proper optimization that drives sustainable growth is a process that...
When an optimization agency researched how A/B testing tools impacted a website’s speed, it found lags. While most seemed perceptible to the end users, a few posed potent threats to a website’s user experience (at ~ 4 seconds!). We, too, participated in the analysis — competing head-to-head with the...
When experiments target the right audiences, they get better and more conclusive results. For Ken Hanson, a Convert Experiences user, audience targeting didn’t just get better results, but 50 percent better results. Here’s what happened… Hanson wanted his users to leave reviews for their apartments. He hypothesized an experiment...
Changing a core part of your marketing stack is never easy. Balancing product features, pricing, and great customer service makes choosing a new A/B testing tool challenging. The push to change tools may come from outgrowing your plan on your current tool, but upgrading will cost an arm and...
The CRO events lined up this year will arm you with the tools you need to meet and exceed your growth goals and give you an edge over your competitors. They promise to take you from where you are (struggling to send enough and quality leads to your salespeople...