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Do you care about Conversion Rate Optimization?

Hey!

I just want to know honest opinions.

Do you care about CRO? Have you done anything in order to a better Conversion Rate? 📈

It's an important thing, but I believe some people don't take it into consideration.

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    Absolutely! I think it's crucial to measure the % of users who come to you app/website -> signup page -> successful signup -> complete first action.

    It helps to use a tool like Mixpanel to track those and I often run A/B tests to try and improve the various drop offs. Just last week, I found a couple improvements that combined improved my funnel by ~14%. (This was a rare thing.)

    But! Unless you have a super mature product there are always so many tricks you can try out and apply (but always test first) like:

    • Remove password confirmation (better have a password reset)
    • Remove any useless field - do you need first AND last name?
    • Change the wording on CTAs
    • Try new signup methods - like signup AFTER your first day or phone # instead of email

    If your conversion rate is <20% you could pretty easily double it with these types of techniques.

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      Great comment Mark!!

      Which tool do you use to run A/B testing?

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    Yes. Made an entire product for that: swipe.page

    I’ve looked at over 100 products on here and maybe 50% could use significant improvements. But... I think you can sell without worrying about CRO right away as there is no way to measure if treatment is outperforming the original, unless you start running a bunch of ads or you have significant inbound traffic. Still, better to have the basics in place as a few sales early on is a great motivator.

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      You are on the top end of IHers here!

      But clearly this post didn't go too far, so I'm not so sure about it.

      Thanks for your comment, and your product looks awesome!

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        Appreciate your kind words!

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    I mean what else can you care about if it's not for CRO? This is your business revenue, the MOST important thing. I've recently implemented a personalization engine named Twik, it tracks user activity, performs user profiling and audience targeting to serve each user tailored content to improve CRO, that's after I've had a lot of time optimizing my campaigns to drive the right traffic to my website.

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    I so agree! Haven't gotten much into it yet. Do you track it? Would love to hear your take

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      Hola!

      Claro que lo trackeamos, y nuestro producto sirve para mejorarlo: https://abtesting.ai

      Segundo, el tema es que mejorarlo de 2% a 4% ya aumenta un 100% los leads, y con un poco de trabajo es realizable. Mi pregunta era porque no se si la gente le da la importancia que se merece!

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    I care deeply about it. It's exceptionally important once you get some validation your idea has merit.

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      That's awesome!

      Which tools do you use to improve it?

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