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“Trust your gut” is usually good advice – except when it comes to CRO See how testing helped Vital Motion’s Hummingbird take flight

We didn’t just double or triple profits – see how we increased them 18 times over.

Draft Sharks learned that nothing, not even the brand aesthetic itself, is spared from our optimization tests And for good reason

See how we optimized their visitor funnel for 260% more conversions.

Time Frame: Two Years (2018 – 2020) 1,739% Increase Gross Sales ($) 14x Increase in Number of Sales

Testing-based optimization boosted Vital Motion’s conversions and profits – getting their Hummingbird flying!

Vital Motion is the creator of the Hummingbird, a device that provides fibromyalgia symptom relief by means of plantar stimulation The Hummingbird is truly a novel invention; registered with the FDA as a “Class 1” medical device and backed by clinical studies, it is the first – and only – device offering fibromyalgia symptom relief

Given the Hummingbird’s unprecedented nature and sizable financial investment, people were hesitant to purchase Fibromyalgia is a disease that affects everyone differently, and just because the Hummingbird provides relief for some doesn’t mean it is universally effective Although Vital Motion was working with a large digital marketing firm to launch the Hummingbird, the combination of uncertainties was too much, bringing just 303 sales in the first 12 months Clearly, there were some kinks in the sales funnel that their current agency was not addressing, so Vital Motion reached out to a(m) to optimize their offerings and boost their sales

1,739% INCREASE IN GROSS SALES

Through the systematic testing of offers, payment plans, and advertising channels, we found the right combination of CTAs, guarantees, and ad variations that had Hummingbirds being sold faster than they could be made! One of the biggest, most dramatic metrics to optimize was price For Vital Motion, it was more than just trying to find the highest conversion rate – it was about finding the most profitable price point Because there aren’t any other comparable products on the market, we had to discover a balance that would be fair and enticing to consumers while also creating a sustainable profit margin We tested two offers in the hopes of finding a pricing sweet spot: the original price of $295 versus an offer of $395 Conversion tracking on A/B testing showed that the higher price point only dropped the conversion rate by 6% – while increasing per-unit profit by 85% This showed that a higher price meant better profits, even if that means losing a portion of the consumer market

Once we found the right price, we then tested to see if we could gain more sales by offering payment plans This aimed to sway buyers who may be on the fence about the product’s effectiveness; without the large up-front investment, the risk is diminished while the reward remains the same We tested 4 payments of $99 against 3 payments of $129 The 4 installment payments ended up outperforming by 17 2% We had found our winning combination

We also wanted to see what the best channels were for reaching our target audience, now that we knew what to offer them We tested Google pay-per-click advertising against targeted Facebook advertising over the course of the first $10,000 in ad spend Given the target demographic, we saw better results via Facebook advertising, with an average CPA that was $32 cheaper than Google

To help determine how “new” viewers, who aren’t looking for the product, respond best, we performed an A/B test of all paid traffic on Facebook and Google We set up ads that were linked to the landing page and then redirected that traffic to the home page 50% of the time This allowed us to get sufficient traffic in order to get a statistically significant result The outcome: paid ads that brought searchers to Vital Motion’s home page had an 11% higher conversion rate than when those same ads took users to a landing page While this is uncommon overall and goes against what “best practice” tells us, we realize that sometimes landing pages aren’t the top performers when it comes to complicated, trust-based sales This was certainly true in the case of the Hummingbird

Over time we were able to continue to optimize the ads themselves, testing 10 variations of text ads and 3 variations of video ads By continually monitoring ad engagement and conversions, we were able to find a winning combination of headlines, descriptions, and urls that shared to right message to the right demographic at the right time We were eventually serving text ads with a CPA of just $51 and video ads with a $42 CPA Talk about ROI! Once working with a(m), Vital Motion ended its second year with 14 times more sales at a higher price point – and roughly 18 times more profit! Time Frame: 3 Years (2017-2020) 260% Increase in Total Conversions $160,000 Annual Revenue Increase

Savvy CRO decisions helped get Draft Sharks to the end zone with their new subscribers.

Draft Sharks is a nationally recognized Fantasy Football advice website, providing top-notch advice to football enthusiasts They offer a host of free tools, including mock drafts, depth charts, and average draft positions for all major players, as well as even more “insider only” tools and tips

Draft Sharks had a goal of selling more subscriptions for their fantasy football insights Much of their content is gated to non-members, so Draft Sharks knew the publicly available portions of the website, paired with their email marketing campaigns, had to entice individuals into becoming paying subscribers They enlisted Accelerate Media’s help in optimizing all aspects of the conversion touchpoints, including price, language, design, and more

46% HIGHER CONVERSION RATE

The Draft Sharks team seemed confident that their price of $19 99 was set in stone, but we at a(m) knew to let the tests do the talking In actuality, testing showed that raising the price to $24 resulted in a 46% higher conversion rate The Draft Sharks team was floored! This one test helped to realize an extra $160,000 in annual revenue – and cost less than $1,000 to run

After seeing such impressive success with pricing tests, we decided to try adding a 20% off offer The hope was this would act as an extra enticer for users who were still trying to make a decision Testing showed that it only increased conversion rates by 6%, and ultimately made the price point less profitable in the long run So, we decided against implementing it While we may have missed the extra point on this one, we still got the touchdown

Copy & Design Variation Testing

145% HIGHER CONVERSION RATE

The aesthetics of a website are sometimes overlooked as a conversion factor, but not by us Clean designs with ample white space are becoming quite popular, so we decided to test a minimalist design against a full-color, football-themed look For this particular audience, bold was big, and the vibrant, Draft Sharks design increased conversion rates by 8%