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Get It NowA successful optimization is much more than the software. Building a culture that embraces data-driven decision making and making hypotheses is vital for optimization to thrive.
Online survey tools are essential for collecting qualitative feedback from your visitors and users, coloring in the full picture of what you know about their behavior from website analytics. To determine whether you’re addressing their pain points, test changes to your checkout funnel informed by online survey feedback. Learn how Teespring diligently captured customer feedback to uncover a double-digit conversion increase from a straightforward change.
If you are already on board with testing and optimization but struggling to get other people at your company involved, this post is for you. Testing should be a team sport, not an individual effort.
So how do you garner the proper buy-in across all departments? This is so crucial ensuring success from your optimization work.
Based on what we’ve learned from making this a reality at our own agency and for many of our clients, here’s a 3-step game plan we’ve seen work wonders.
Even though companies believe in data-driven approaches, many underutilize A/B testing by only running a few per year. While the occasional A/B test is a start, it’s not enough to repeatedly increase revenue and gain compounded conversion lifts. To optimize continuously, organizations must prioritize and invest in a true testing program. According to WhichTestWon, most […]
About two years ago we started intensifying our A/B testing program here at The Next Web, one of the world’s largest online publications for news about Internet technology, business, and culture. We’ve found A/B testing to be a very powerful way to increase reader engagement — our primary website goal.
In this blog post I’d like to dive into some aspects of the testing program at The Next Web to provide you with some ideas to incorporate into your own testing program.
Almost 90% of companies see optimization as crucial to their digital strategy, with 72% of those companies finding success. But most companies are still not satisfied with their testing and believe they could be doing better: Improve your optimization and increase revenue by solving these five major program challenges: Irregular and Unprioritized Test Execution According […]
If you’re making a business case for starting an optimization program, or thinking about how you should grow and scale your team, there are many questions that need to be answered. Our newly-released Optimization Benchmark report includes data on the optimization industry that a number of audiences will find valuable.
Blu Dot tests everything. Really. I know what you’re thinking. Is testing everything possible? Is it even practical? The answer is yes on both counts. This is the very true story of a company that, within two years, evolved from never having conducted a split test to an organization that is continuously developing, prioritizing and validating hypotheses—big and small, broad and targeted.
Picture this: you are a superhero and you have a gift for your boss that will improve the entire company — it’s conversion optimisation. Conversion optimisation is one of the most impactful strategies marketers can employ to drive substantial growth of a business. Despite this, convincing senior management of a new strategic and ongoing process is often more challenging than it should be.
In this post, we provide tactical takeaways to help you sell CRO to your boss.
There is no better way to find new testing ideas, generate excitement about testing, and push the boundaries of optimization than to host a testing hackathon.
The gist of a hackathon is simple: put a lot of people in a big room together for two days with very few rules and see what they’re able to produce. The results are usually incredible.
In our two testing hackathons, we’ve not only spread a passion for testing throughout Webs, we’ve also learned a lot about how to put on a successful one. I want to share those learnings with others out there looking to jumpstart their optimization!
We live in an increasingly digital and fast-paced world. Much of our daily interaction now exists online. When we’re unsure, we resort to Google or Quora. When we need help, we file a support ticket and expect our question to be answered instantaneously. What’s the challenge with this reality? It’s easy to forget that real humans are answering our support tickets, or responding to our community discussions.
So, this week, as we celebrate the 1 year anniversary of Optimizely’s community, Optiverse, I want to showcase the talented and fearless people who participate in our community every day. As you think about developing your optimization skills, we hope you’ll use the community of people in Optiverse as a resource.
