97th Floor resolved to implement a series of tests to uncover which improvements might see the greatest overall impact. A conversion rate optimization (CRO) test was chosen as the perfect tactic because the process of A/B testing would unveil what speaks best to The Conference Group’s specific customers. The Conference Group’s home page contained multiple primary calls-to-action, so 97th Floor started the process of A/B testing there. Our hypothesis was that by focusing user attention on a single primary call to action, conversion rates would increase. The different variants tested included:
- V1 | removing the 2nd CTA
- V2 | removing both CTA’s and replacing them with a new one
- V3 | changing the 1st CTA
- V4 | changing the 2nd CTA
In the process of running these tests, we paid careful attention to trends in the data, enabling us to pivot towards the strategies that were most effective. We began with a focus on one CTA vs two CTA’s, but also wanted to test CTA’s promoting top of funnel content vs lower funnel content. We learned that bottom of funnel verbiage paired with product pages led to the biggest increase in conversion rates. With this variation, more users viewed more product pages and signed up for more services.
