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How to Turn Data into
Customers
Structuring your conversion optimization efforts
Peep Laja, ConversionXL
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
How would
you go
about it?
“you can easily sort through
the 100+ techniques”
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
Best practices?
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
Don’t copy your
competitors, they
don’t know what
they’re doing either
So you need a
systematic approach.
A process.
If you can’t
describe what
you’re doing as
a process, you
don’t know what
you’re doing
William Deming
How do we
optimize the
optimization
program?
The discovery of
what matters
What are the
problems? Where?
1. Testing
2. Research
Yet another guy
with a bunch of
data 
Ask the right
questions
• whose problem are we solving?
• what do they need?
• what do they think they want?
• why?
• how are they choosing / making a decision?
• why?
• what are they thinking when they see our offer?
• how is what well sell clearly different?
• where is the site leaking money?
• what is the problem?
• what are they doing or not on the website?
• what leads more people to do X?
…careful with your interpretations
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
Step #1: Technical analysis
• Is shit broken?
• Where?
• Which browsers?
• Which devices?
• Which pages are slow?
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
Step #2: Heuristic analysis
• Relevancy?
• Clarity?
• Motivation?
• Friction?
Clarity
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
Visual hierarchy
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
Screw
Screw
Screw
Screw
Uninspiring
headline. Not
enough info
5 bullets is too
much, lack of
focus
My grandma
designs
better sites
Testimonial
credibility
questionable
Too little is
done to get
me to click
Unhelpful
screenshot
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
What’s
wrong with
this picture?
Step #3: Digital analytics
• Where are the leaks?
• Which segments?
• What are users doing?
• Which actions correlate
with higher conversions?
Measure everything
You’ll need it later
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
How many
different ways are
there?
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
#4: Mouse tracking & form analytics
• Where do they click?
• How far down they scroll?
• Differences between devices?
• Session replays
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
#5: Qualitative surveys
• Buyer groups
• Which problem are they solving?
• How are they deciding?
• What’s holding them back?
• What else do they want to know?
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
#6: User testing
• What’s difficult to understand?
• What’s difficult to do?
• What goes wrong?
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
Now you know what
(most of) the
problems are with
your site!
• Instrument
• Just Do It
• Test
• Hypothesize
• Investigate
1. Solve big problems with
obvious solutions first
2. Use persuasion, creative
ideas for trickier stuff
3. Test radically different
concepts to move past
local maxima
Issue Bucket Background Action Rating
Google Analytics bounce
wrong
Instrument Google Analytics script is loaded twice!
506 of the home page both contain GA
all the other pages.
Remove the double entry
★★★★★
Conversions are low for Investigate Possible cross-browser issues. Conduct cross-browser
★★★
People don’t know how
category pages
Hypothesize Too many options, unfamiliar
architecture & layout.
Re-think the category
★★★★
Missing value
home page
Test Add a compelling value proposition in
your website that states what your
what can they do here and why should
Add prominent value
★★★★★
Content is very hard to JFDI Font size 11px is too small Increase font size
★★★
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
Full case study:
http://conversionxl.com/case-study-how-we-improved-landing-page-conversion/
79.3% uplift in conversions
Peep Laja, ConversionXL @peeplaja
Systematic, repeatable,
teachable process
Turning Data into Customers - Conversion Hotel - Peep Laja
This shit is difficult
“Everybody
wanna be a
bodybuilder but
nobody wanna
lift heavy ass
weights”
Ronnie Coleman
“Everybody
wants a win,
but nobody
wants to do
the heavy ass
conversion
research”
Peep Laja
Remember this:
1. Think in terms of processes, not tactics
2. Focus on the discovery of what matters
3. Do the heavy ass lifting
Thank you!
Come to ConversionXL Live
March 30th – April 1st 2016

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