Optimizing your Checkout Fow for Conversions

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Optimizing your Checkout Flow for Conversions

Your presenters

Chad LedfordChief Revenue Officer

+ Co-Founder

Jay AtkinsonDirector of eCommerce

Optimization

I. Quick Intro

II. Testing and Optimization

III. Checkout Campaigns that

Boost Conversion Rates

IV. Final Thoughts

V. Q&A

Agenda

AddShoppersWe track and optimize the Shopper Journey

with our suite of marketing Apps designed to

increase our clients’ Average Revenue Per

Visitor (ARPV) without having to go through

I.T.

10,000+ Users Worldwide

Blue AcornFounded in 2008, Blue Acorn is an award-

winning eCommerce agency that specializes

in design, development, and optimization for

midsize and enterprise-level brands.

Magento's 2015 North American Partner of

the Year, Blue Acorn has an experienced

team of optimization experts and developers

with a long history of creating and executing

strategies that solve even the most complex

testing and personalization challenges.

Testing and OptimizationBest Practices + Results

What’s Optimization Testing and Why is it Important?

Control Variation

I. Design

II. Checkout Buttons Testing

III. Mobile Best Practices

IV. Social Login/Data

Collection

V. Checkout Flow

Talking Points

DesignPracticality Versus Beautification

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Checkout Buttons TestingMore Than Colors And Fonts

Image courtesy of ConversionXL

Mobile Best Practices Different Tests For Different Devices

Screen Size

Physical Versus Virtual Keyboard

Social Login / Data CollectionAre Your Customers Social Savvy?

Checkout FlowMake It Dead Simple

Simplification

Checkout processes have went round and roundto make them easier over the last 5 years

One Page vs Multi-page Checkout

More information isn’t always betterDisplaying the pricing information throughout checkout will build trust with

customers by showing price and also remind them of the value they are receiving with products

+0.49%

Checkout PageCampaigns

that boost conversion rates

6 creative

campaigns to

improve the

checkout flow.

General cart page

Cart value

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2

3

Mobile 4

5 Social

6 Post purchase

Personalized

General Cart Page

Why Shoppers

Abandon Their

Carts?

Want to shop around

Searching for a coupon

Got distracted

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2

3

High shipping costs4

Beforeshabbyapple.com, a women’s clothing boutique, had no cart abandonment

strategy in place.

AfterThey designed a full-screen cart abandon modal, which offered free shipping on

shoppers’ current carts.

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Modal Conversion

Rate

ResultsShabby Apple saw huge success utilizing

this cart abandonment strategy.

Their modal resulted in a 34.49% conversion

rate.

So, over ⅓ of carts that would have been

abandoned were saved! 34%

BeforeA leading precious metals retailer had no cart abandonment strategy in place.

AfterAbandonment triggers modal that links directly to live chat.

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Cart Page

Conversion Rate

ResultsThis campaign was tested with a control

group.

The control group tracked a 28% cart page

conversion rate, while the group that saw the

modal tracked a 32% conversion rate.

That’s a 14% lift in cart page conversion

rate! 28%32%

Control Campaign

Personalized

Why Personalize

the Checkout?Increase brand loyalty

Higher performance by using 1st party data

Create “wow” moments

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2

3

Beforeoldtimecandy.com, a specialty candy retailer, ran a successful yet non-creative

email capture modal.

AfterThey sweetened their stagnant on-site campaigns with 1:1 personalization

through data collected by Social Login.

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10

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Modal Conversion

Rate

ResultsOld Time Candy’s 1:1 personalized modals

capture 644% more emails.

They also have a 16% higher conversion

rate to purchases than their non-

personalized modal.

16% Higher

Cart Value

Why Cart Value

Based Campaigns?More control over margin

Targeted free shipping

Get more aggressive with higher cart values

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2

3

BeforeFree shipping promo gets lost in top bar.

AfterDynamic promotions deploy in three tiers based on current cart value.

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Conversion Rate

ResultsThis campaign was tested with a control

group.

The control group tracked a 3.29%

conversion rate, while the campaign group

tracked a 7.09% conversion rate.

That’s a 116% lift in conversion rate!

3.29%

7.09%

Control Campaign

Mobile

Why Target

Mobile?Early Adoption Opportunity

Low Conversion Rates

Reverse the “Browse Only” Mindset

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2

3

Beforethevioletvixon.com struggled with low mobile conversion rates.

AfterTheir mobile-only behavioral targeting modal is now one of their highest

converting campaigns.

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Conversion Rate

Results10% of traffic that interacts with this mobile-

only offer converts to a sale.

50% of emails captured across all devices

are now captured through this mobile offer.

10%

Social

Why integrate

social?

Improve 1st party customer data collection

Opportunity to drive like-minded referral traffic

1

2

Make customers work for an incentive3

Beforelostgolfballs.com was losing shoppers due to cart abandonment.

AfterThey curbed abandonment by adding a share-for-coupon option to their cart

page. This eliminated the need to leave the cart in search of a coupon.

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Revenue Increase

ResultsLost Golf Balls tracked a 9% overall revenue

increase within 30 days.

They also saw a 1,048% increase in social

traffic generated in the same time frame.

9%

Post Purchase

Why post purchase

campaigns?

30% of sharing happens post purchase

Helps increase LTV of a customer

Customers like to brag about their purchases

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2

3

BeforeMissioncute.com had nothing in place to drive engagement post purchase.

AfterTaking advantage of the opportunity to continue the relationship with the

customer.

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Refer-a-Friend

Join Rate

ResultsOver 20% of their post purchase traffic now

joins their refer-a-friend program.

20%

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Additional Questions? Follow Up?

chad@addshoppers.com

@ChadLedford

jay.atkinson@blueacorn.com

@jatkinson10

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