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What are the most important business goals of a homepage? [closed]
For a website / app homepage what are the most important business goals? Being aware of the minimal amount of time to hold the users attention, its really important that the page is designed in such a ...
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What conversion rate should new site expect? [closed]
For online info product related sites, what type of conversion rate should a new B2C site expect? I'm thinking below 1%.
Are there any references to conversion numbers for his category?
Is the ...
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Examples of email autoresponder strategies?
I'm searching for some examples / case studies / strategies / advice for crafting an email autoresponder series, with the goal of converting newsletter subscribers into customers of my saas service.
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When is it too early to measure conversion rate?
My bootstrapped saas startup launched only a few months ago. My traffic is growing steadily but still fairly low (~200 hits/day). Although I do consider the product validated (we have a growing ...
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Methods to track desktop software sales conversions
What methods are people using to track landing page -> time limited free trial -> purchase of desktop software?
I'm having trouble coming up with a clear solution.
Anybody face this issue and come ...
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Does extended validation improve conversions?
Is there any (unbiased) data available on what effect Extended Validation certificates have on conversation ratios? Is there any measurable improvement to normal certificates?
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What is good conversion from trial to paid for SaaS?
I wonder what is a good conversion ratio from trial to paid for B2B SaaS which costs $10/month. Our service is about cloud management.
We have conversion of 20% (20% of people end up paying at the ...
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What format for a software homepage will result in more sales?
Currently reviewing two types of homepages for software products:
Stylish with minimum content on the homepage: boxshot, download button, buy now button and sometimes features listed as small ...
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Selling Software: How Short Can My Sales Form Be? People Are Lazy!
Ok, I want to sell software online. To boost conversion rates I want a really short and sweet sales form, because people hate long forms.
So, what are the minimum things I should ask for. I guess at ...
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Trial email schedule
The users of my saas app have a 14 day trial run to decide if they like it enough in order to stump up the cash for a monthly subscription.
I'm trying to work out a schedule of emails to send the ...
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How effective is Facebook marketing?
What impact did your Facebook fan page have on your sales or traffic?
Did you try to measure conversion rate: "Facebook fans/visits" or "Facebook fans/sales"?
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Should I be concerned with a low conversion rate?
I have a new bootstrapped SaaS app that targets small businesses. It has a 30 free trial offer. The visit to trial conversion is around 1%.
Currently I have 9 paying customers with 360 trial sign-ups ...
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Does 20,000 free downloads mean at least 10,000 paid sales?
I have found certain shareware software products have large number of downloads. My question is if there are some 20,000 free downloads, how many of the downloaders would have actually bought and ...
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How much do “where did you hear about us?” type questions impact signup/conversion rates?
There's a truism I often hear - claiming that the less complicated the signup process for a web-service, the higher the conversion rate (as a rough measure of complexity, count mouse clicks to signup ...
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Converting website visitors to registered members
I've got a niche restaurant rating site, and there is only one direct competitor out there, that has been the go to site for this niche for about a decade. My site is different in every way other than ...
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Free tools to help increase conversion rate of a site?
I am at a stage of growing a site where it is in open alpha, and there are about 50 people coming to the site per day or so...without any solicitation. They come from stumbleupon, google, and a few ...
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Desktop Software Startup: 11 Downloads, 2 pre-sale questions, no purchases
I am really stressed out. I launched about a week ago. So far there were 11 downloads of the free version. I had 2 pre-sale questions about the product. There have been no sales.
I advertise that ...
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When should I start worrying about the number of signups I have on my landing page?
I just launched my landing page a few days ago,and I'm already fearful that I won't succeed, which may be unrealistic considering how early I am in the process. I've started working through The Noob ...
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Why are most call to actions on websites to the pricing page?
I am just wondering why most standard web 2.0 websites have the main call to action button on the homepage send the visitor to the pricing page? This is assuming a pretty typical navigation structure ...
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On an e-commerce site, how do you attribute a sale to PPC if a visitor comes from PPC but then returns to buy through another website? [closed]
Can we use cookies and if so how do we install this? What software could track this kind of conversion scenario?
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Is the “invite based” sign up worth having for a new application or startup?
So, just as the title states, is it worth it? I've seen a lot of newer services try this model, including Google+, Spotify, etc. but I'm not sure if it really created enough value for the services. ...
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Converting users to enter content on crowdsourced site
I've been running a crowd sourced quiz site for a while:
http://www.quizmash.com
While I'm getting plenty of quizzes taken through google search traffic, my conversion rate to entering a question is ...
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Page flow: Multiple pages vs One Single page
I'm considering how to structure my product tour and was wondering what the best approach would be with regards to the page flow.
Currently, I have split the entire tour into 7 subpages.
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Open-Source / Free Live Website Chat - for customer service / sales
I was wondering if anyone has come across a free / open-source website chat? I'm interested in something similar to oLark or Live Person, without the monthly fee's...
Has anyone ever come across ...
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Should I be concerned with a 0.2% conversion rate?
I have a new bootstrapped web service that targets consumers. It has a free trial offer. The visit to trial conversion is respectable, ranging from 10% to 15% on 300 samples. However, my conversion ...
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How can I set up a way to automatically calculate (goal number/new visitors) in Google Analytics
I have set up a goal which will count the amount of sign ups I get on my site. I need to divide this number by the amount of new visitors in order to get my conversation rate.
From what I can tell, ...
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How do I calculate conversion rate when users can login from the landing page?
I know conversion rate is calculated as
(signups/visitors)*100
but my landing page is also used as the page that users login to the site. Therefore, some of the visitors will be existing users ...
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Experience including site links on splash page
Has anyone done any ab testing between a splash page which includes links to other sections of the site vs. a splash screen with basically just a "sign up" link? My site (http://getcreditable.com), ...
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Live Chat on website, does it work?
We are planning to support live chat / support from our websites to increase sales/conversions.
Has anyone tried it? Does it worth the effort and human resources that need to be allocated for this?
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Advice in placemat advertising for a web based healthy snack delivery startup?
I'm starting a web based healthy snack box (consisting of a variety of dried fruits, nuts, organics, etc.) delivery business in a busy commercial area. The box is designed to provide a healthy ...
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Clients taking a long time to pull the trigger
We are a startup building an e-learning tool for the medical education market, and we had a few meetings with colleges.
One potential client is taking a long time to decide whether to use our ...
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Does code-signing a software app improve the conversion rate?
My small software company ships both SaaS and downloadable versions of software. I was wondering if signing the "downloadable" apps with a code-signing certificate will improve conversions?
Well, I ...
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Should I announce a 1-866 number on my landing page?
My company has a toll-free number (1-866) in the US. Will it improve my conversion rate if I announce this number on the landing page for my AdWords campaign?
Will people feel more confident if they ...
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Do I have a really low conversion rate?
My startup sells designer furniture exclusively via an internet shop, we are have been around for about a year now and sell in 5 different countries. We do manage to get plenty of visitors but the ...
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Trial to paid conversion ratio
Are there any good reference points about trial-to-paid conversion in SAAS world? What factors impact this ratio.
I am looking at streaming rich media for B2C.
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When freemium goes bad, How to fix?
Basically we went down to freemium path quite a while ago, now got thousands of users who don't convert and free version cannibalizes sales (there is no exact way to figure out numbers on this one ...
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Can anybody that has used Google Merchant Center share his experience?
Can anybody that has used Google Merchant Center share his experience here? I am particularly interested in selling consumer software.
What traffic do you receive compared to other traffic sources?
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Download to Install Conversion Ratio - Are these numbers 'normal'?
Got to know about this forum through Jason Cohen blog. I actually just sent a similar email to Jason as well.
I have a bit of an issue that is proving to be very challenging and I thought of asking ...
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What can i do to convert “half-conversions” to conversions?
I'm running a niche dating site and I'm working on improving our conversion rate, which is not bad (about 15%), but can always go better. Our registration consists of :
user registration step 1 - ...
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Is 1 to 3 % an acceptable conversion rate for a web service startup?
My friend and I are developing a web service startup at http://gnymb.us, and out of 70 unique visits to the site, we have had two signups so far. Is this good?
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What's a good conversion rate?
Ideally 100% :), but realistically, what should I expect a decent conversion rate to be? 20%? 2%? 0.2%?
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How can I improve my conversion rate?
We've yet to start beta, as we would first like a large user base to start with. But our conversion rate to sign up for beta isn't the best. Any advice on that front is appreciated.
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Facebook like open sign up form on the frontpage, is this better?
Faebook has a sign up form on the front page itself? has any body done A/B test on something like this vs. another page loaded for the sign up form?
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Do 3rd party seals like Truste or Verified increase signup/sales?
Can anyone point me to a blog post with hard metrics? I'm referring to seals like this: https://store.truste.com/privacy_services_aff/
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Really low conversion rate, what does it mean?
My startup sells a fairly expensive (2500$~) desktop product, we are new in a well-established market and it's been 2 months that we are selling the product.
We do have an evaluation request page ...
