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Design principles are excellent candidates for A/B testing hypotheses and are instruments for developing winning experiment variations based on proven design theory.
With that, let’s talk about one principle you can test right now: color contrast. To get the scoop on this design principle, we chatted with Jeff Zych, Optimizely’s Design Manager.
While low-cost retail leaders like Amazon dominate online retail, a race to the bottom can seem like the only way to keep up. After all, Time reports that Amazon owns 23% of online retail market share. The world of e-commerce is a hyper-competitive space.
A/B testing three key areas, pricing, product pages, and product recommendations is pivotal to stay competitive today. This blog post aims to get other online retailers caught up on these three aspects. Let’s jump into the specifics to see the impact optimization can have for online retailers.
What if you need to quickly come up with some new blog ideas, or you have to redo the copy on a page before the tight deadline your client or boss sent you. Where can you get instant feedback from?
Your top of the funnel A/B tests.
If you’re running social media, advertising or email campaigns, you’re probably doing some A/B testing on them to optimize the click-through rates. Let’s have a look at how you can use this in your website and blog copy.
For this week’s One Minute Monday, Derek Hammond from our Customer Success team explains Activation Mode, an Optimizely feature that allows you to control when an experiment activates.
For this week’s One Minute Monday, Ryan Krebs from our Partnerships team shares advice on coming up with your next test idea.
See this napkin? This is they key to your testing success because it is a canvas for your testing ideas. Ideation is an important part of testing. To get started thinking about test ideas, we recommend you first identify your key business metrics on your website and then start brainstorming tests to affect them.
For companies with limited time and resources for A/B testing, it can be tempting to rely solely on “CRO best practices”. However, those practices may not apply exactly to every organization. For example, these variations are often expected to be guaranteed, effective changes, but will not always result in a win for every business: Orange […]
This year, the Marketing Automation team at Optimizely got serious about tracking our email A/B tests. In 2015, Optimizely will be taking experience optimization to the next level, and continue to rigorously test campaigns in order to provide the best experience for our customers.
Looking back at some A/B tests we ran this year, here are some lessons learned, along with where I hope to take our email experiments in 2015.
Before you can come up with meaningful A/B tests for your e-commerce store, you need to understand what your customers value when making purchases and what turns them away. The traditional method of collecting customer feedback via surveys has drawbacks.
Other, more unconventional, sources of information exist that can be extremely helpful in generating ideas for A/B tests. They are your customer service records, public forums, competitor data, and internal search keywords.
You may have heard that keeping your ad consistent with your landing page is good. But is that a myth? And if it isn’t, how can you quantify the impact of this symmetry? In early 2013, we performed an experiment on our Pay Per Click landing page aimed at answering these questions.
Our goal was more to answer an interesting question than to find a conversion lift, but we were pleasantly surprised to discover that making our landing page mirror our ads led to a tremendous lift in conversions.
If you’ve checked a social platform in the past few weeks, you’ve probably seen at least one friend donning the latest summer trend: a soaked outfit, courtesy of the ALS #icebucketchallenge. If ALS Association isn’t already testing their donation form, they should be—they’re leaving millions of potential donation dollars on the table.
