Awareness Dictates Page Length

Page length can be a tricky thing to nail. Make it too short, and you won’t be able to fit on all the information you want to share. Make it too long, and users may grow bored and leave prematurely.

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Unique Selling Points Are Actually Unique

Make Sure Your Unique Selling Points (USP’s) Are Actually Unique

When you offer free shipping, and your competitors do as well, your USP is not unique. I see this very often: businesses don’t compare their USP’s with competitors.

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Explain What Happens Next

Even when your visitors are just one click away from buying, they may still have some last minute fears, uncertainties and doubts (FUD’s). You should take away these doubts as much as possible.

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Prospect Awareness Pyramid

Use The Prospect Awareness Pyramid

Do you know the awareness levels of your prospects? Are they just orientating – or ready to buy? Before you can sell your product to anyone, your prospects need to know three essential things with the prospect awareness pyramid.

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Start Your Headlines with the Most Important Message

Your value proposition (or headline) can make or break your page. Within a split-second people decide if they stay or leave. Having a clear headline is super important.

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Don’t Use Cheesy Stock Photos

A great way to ruin your trust, empathy and authority is using cheesy stock photos. Research by MDG Advertising reveals that 67% of online shoppers rated high quality images as being very important to their purchase decision.

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Improve Readability With Bullet Points

Improve Readability With Bullet Points

People don’t really read your page. They quickly scan it, and if they like it, they might read. Your page should be easy to scan.

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Ask Your Customers Why They Bought

You can gain a lot of very valuable insights from your existing customers when you want to optimise your site. After all, if there’s anyone who knows what the main reason…

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Emphasize the Pain

Emphasize the Pain Your Customers Have, Before Presenting Your Solution

If you are solving a problem of your customers, such as back pain, it’s sometimes very effective to emphasize the pain – before presenting your solution. So, how does it work?  

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Phrase Your USP’s as Gain or Loss, Depending on the Risk

Phrase Your USP’s as Gain or Loss, Depending on the Risk

People are risk-averse when they have something to gain. When people have something to lose, they take more risks. People won’t take a lot of risks when they could win $100…

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Loss-Aversion

People Are More Afraid Of Losing Than Winning (Loss-Aversion)

The pain of losing is psychologically about twice as powerful as the pleasure of gaining, known as the Loss Aversion principle.

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Your Page Has Only One Job

Your Landing Page Has Only One Job

Each landing page should only have one goal. Not two, not three. Just one. Marketers sometimes squeeze several goals on one page, with the thought of ‘if people don’t want to sign up, perhaps we can offer a whitepaper as an alternative‘. Nope!

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Ask Something Small Before Asking Something Bigger

Ask Something Small Before Asking Something Bigger

The foot-in-the-door technique is a widely used method in door-to-door sales. Someone who complies with a small initial request will be more likely to agree to a later, bigger, request. If the request had been asked outright, they would not have agreed.

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Which Form Fields Cause Drop-outs

Find out Which Form Fields Cause Drop-outs

You know that people abandon your forms. But, do you know which form fields are causing people to stop and leave your site? Is it your password field, address field or perhaps the name field?

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Add User Testimonials

Add User Testimonials

Does your page contain testimonials? What would a landing page be without testimonials? Visitors won’t trust your product if no one recommends it. You need customer testimonials on your landing page to win their trust.

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Reframe 'We' and 'Our' Sentences With a 'You' and 'Your' Focus

Reframe ‘We’ and ‘Our’ Sentences With a ‘You’ and ‘Your’ Focus

Your visitors don’t care about you, frankly put. They quickly want to know what’s in it for them. Many websites are using an inside-out approach in their copywriting style. It’s all about the company itself, not about the customer.

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speed site loading time

Decrease Your Loading Time To Increase Conversions

Seconds and mini-seconds matter. Your website’s speed might have a bigger impact on your conversion rates than you might expect.

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contrasting cta

Make Your Form Stand Out From the Rest of the Page

It should be super clear what you want your visitors to do. If you look at your page through your eyelashes, is your form visible? Is it standing out from the crowd?

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heatmaps

Figure Out Where People Click With Heatmaps

Analytics software will tell you what links people clicked, but not where exactly. With a click map (or heatmap) you can exactly see where people clicked.

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survey thank you page

Run a Survey on Your Thank You Page Asking If People Had Any Issues

This is probably not the first thing you’ll think of when running surveys on your page, but you’ll be surprised how many insights you can get from this.

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All tips are meant as inspiration and I recommend split-testing them; they might not work for your site' audience. Done&Tested is curated by Gijs Wierda, a freelance CRO specialist.

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