Visual Contenting February 2016 | Page 33

EXPERT TALKS $ $ For example you could test the colour or wording of your CTA buttons. That’s a fairly simple test but you’ll be astonished at how big the impact can be! I’m constantly testing my own buttons in newsletter sign up forms or on my landing pages. With time you will feel more and more confident and start experimenting for yourself. Looking at data can be confusing but if you interpret the right numbers correctly and find the means to change them through optimization you might end up doing nothing but and actually enjoying the work. And that’s really the best part of it: conversion optimization is fun. You can “play around” (to a certain extent) and see the results directly after – although you do need a certain amount of website traffic to reach the required level of significance. Do you have any case studies where businesses have successfully implement their conversion optimization through website/landing page design/re-design? A pretty good example is the website of Germany’s leading social media academy (www. socialmediaakademie.de) which I redesigned back in 2013. We were able to increase the lead generation rate by 300 %. Visual Contenting