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Boost your Christmas conversions by 10.2% with a simple JavaScript trick (code included)
Hot off the conversion press and just-in-time for Christmas.
Last year we posted about our Merry Christmas v. Happy Holidays test we ran for one of our clients. This year we decided to some landing page optimization tests with variations of the Christmas theme.
If you’ve followed our blog before, you know that creating a sense of urgency for your users to act usually increases conversions. Since we practice what we preach, we decided to run a headline on one of our client’s websites doing just that. We tested a headline that reminds them how near Christmas is. We came up with 2 variations of this headline: one that just states the days, and another that states the days, hours, minutes, and seconds and counts down in real time.
The test:
Here’s the day countdown:
10 days til Christmas.
Here’s the realtime seconds countdown, +10.2% in conversion rate:
9 days, 13:22:03 til Christmas.
Small Business Marketing Examples – Is your mechanic honest?
Is your mechanic honest? Find out!
Wow. Great way to communicate several different ideas in one headline.
1. Adds F.U.D. (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt). The reader now is going to question themselves, “Is my mechanic lying? Is he over charging me?” It’s a great way to help the prospect be more open to what you’ve got to say.
2. Implied Credibility. Asking tough questions make you look like the good guys just trying to look out for the little guy, “We just want to make sure you’re OK.” If we’re asking if your mechanic is honest, then we must be honest. They are now positioned as the “Consumer Reports” of auto repair.
3. On “my side”. The fact that this company is asking this question, puts them on the same side of the table as the prospect. Now their mechanic is the “other guy” and is now on the other side. We’re now buddies locked arm-in-arm to double check to make sure “those guys” are honest.