fresh egg's 10 b2b tips for cro success
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CRO for B2BJoe DovetonBusiness Director – Fresh Egg
What is CRO?
Conversion rate optimisation (CRO) is the discipline of improving
website and app performance through an ongoing programme of
analysis, testing and iteration.
Why CRO?
Well, why do you have a website?
B2B marketing is mostly about leads
To get leads you need to make it easy for website users to interact
The principle is the same as B2C marketing; make it easy for the
user to gather information and make decisions
10 B2B tips forCRO success
1. Trust your data
How much do you really trust your data?Don’t make decisions on inaccurate data - get an analytics health check
Are you tracking the right things?
Are the correct events being recorded?
How is it reported back to the business?
Who is acting on it?
Trust your data
2. Get a process
Get a process
Anyone can do CRO, you just need to follow a clear process
Gain an executive sponsor in your business
Get a project team (maybe even part time)
Spend 80% of your budget on staff and 20% on tools
Always have a data gathering / discovery / research phase
3. Have a scientific approach
Have a scientific approach to uncovering the evidence of why users are not converting
The HIPPO could be wrong
Stop making site changes based on an opinion
Collect evidence. Both quantitative and qualitative
Quantitative: web analytics, and business reporting
Qualitative: UX studies, customer surveys, user testing, competitor analysis
(Have clear hypotheses for the changes you want to make)
Have a scientific approach
4. Page leakage
In Google Analytics, one of the most valuable reports is page valueleakage – this gives you the priority areas to look at
To calculate leakage multiply page value by the exit rate
This will give you a list of the most valuable pages on your website that feature as part of a converting journey that still have a high exit rate
Fix the biggest holes first
Page leakage
5. Hierarchy of goals
#5 Hierarchy of goals
What do you want your users to do on the page? Make this the clear priority.
In visual hierarchy, all secondary actions should be downgraded
The main goal should have a clear high contrast user action; a call-to-action button is perfect
Use language specific to your business such as “request a call back” or “request a brochure”
Make those social buttons monochrome and put them below the fold
Hierarchy of goals
6. Improve those forms
Optimise your forms
B2B sites often have a form completion as a main form of data capture
Problems with forms include bad labelling, extraneous fields, unclear outcomes and unresponsive elements
Use form analytics to work out which form fields are causing you problems
Use form analytics to collect field-by-field data
Improve those forms
7. Mobile is a game changer
Mobile web issues that stop conversions include:
Site load speed. If your website has lots of bandwidth hungry images this may slow down your page loading on a mobile
Use a “mobile first” approach - either a responsive site that renders appropriately for mobile, a specific “m-dot” site built for mobile
Ergonomics are different on phones - users will mainly be looking at the screen in portrait
Avoid drop downs and enable click-to-call functionality
Mobile is a game changer
8. Sales & customer service
You may not know ‘what you know’.
Conduct stakeholder interviews with your sales team and customer services
What feedback do they get about your website?
What improvements to your site are your clients suggesting?
Sales & Customer Service
9. Get a good tool kit
Get a toolkit that matches your budget and aspirations.
There are options for every budget
For the enterprise level, Optimizely and Adobe have the most complete functionality and best support network
Equally, at the lower cost end of the market AB Tasty, Feng Guiand Hotjar do a brilliant job at an affordable price
Get a good toolkit
10. Towards personalisation
B2B generally has more focus than B2C - some businesses have a finite universe of customers. In fact,
segmentation and personalisation is easier in B2B.
You can personalise by geo-IP location, time of day, products previously viewed
The list is endless
Getting customers to log-in and present lists of requirements allows you to build segments of users with
similar requirements
Personalisation is a journey not a destination
Towards personalisation
Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) is for everyone. Especially B2B
Following these top 10 tips will help you start eliminating the reliance on opinion in your web design
CRO is not just AB or split testing - there are many methods of generating insight - from querying your web analytics, to undertaking
user studies, interviewing internal stakeholders and running surveys for your customers
There are many alternatives to writing up a lengthy business case and recruiting a team - start small and agile
CRO is bringing the spirit of enterprise and experiment to a B2B organisation like yours. So, why not you?
Thank youJoe Doveton – Business Director, Fresh Egg
T: 01903 285857
E: [email protected] www.freshegg.co.uk