As a SaaS consultant, I'm on consulting calls daily and I'm always noticing one major issue among SaaS business but, this applies to tonnes of other websites/businesses.
The issue is simple, when we develop or create something, we're the ones creating it, we understand it because we're the ones that built it.
Have you ever asked your users if they understand it? Do they know how to use it? Are they dropping off before they're even on-boarded?
And this is where I get to the point, ask your granny to try out your tool. Listen to everything she has to say and simplify your landing page, onboarding progress and backend as much as you can.
Alternatively, sit in a room with your family, get them all to test your website at once and take as many notes as possible, it may be horrible to hear but, trust me, you need to hear it.
Not everyone is as technical as you and as a SaaS, people are buying into a streamlined/simplified service because they often don't have the knowledge on how to do something or build it themselves.
We have "The Mom Test" to figure out what product to build, and now we can have "The Granny Test" to improve the product. 😄
haha! I'm sure it'll help you!
I see this all the time here. A lot of people asking for landing page feedback, it's pretty obvious they haven't talked to many users before making that page. Seeing so many examples makes you humble as well...if 100s of people are failing at this, what are the chances that I won't?
Yup and although asking for LP feedback isn't a bad idea, we're all pretty technical here and most of the time, we're not the LP's target customer.
Good one!