I'm Christopher, and I'm running a marketing agency aimed mainly towards German-speaking clients.
We optimize and improve digital sales processes so when I heard about the webtests.com certificate, I definitely wanted to check it out.
I guess I was facing the exact same challenges as everyone else in this industry - getting good, high-quality leads.
When clients first visit my website they don't know my agency, so from talking to them, I often heard they are a bit sceptical: "Is this the right fit?", "Do you have the experience required?", basically it always comes down to: "Can we trust you?"
That's why I signed up for the webtests.com certificate. I wanted to have an award that I can display prominently on my landing page, so that clients can see that I'm trustworthy, and that I run a serious marketing agency.
"I guess I was facing the exact same challenges as everyone else in this industry - getting good, high-quality leads."
As I'm very data-driven, I ran an A/B test with and without the webtests.com certificate.
Here my test setup:
- Hypothesis: "When I add the webtests.com certificate to my landing page in a prominent position, my leads will increase."
- Timing: Run it for at least 30 days to have significant data to make an informed decision.
- Changes: Do not change anything else during this time period, so only 2 variants.
- Significance: I'm aiming for a p value of less than 0.05 to have statistical significance.
I went to webtests.com and signed up myself.
For the implementation on my website, I asked my web developer to add it for me, as I'm only doing the consulting part. I have no development experience.
I gave him access to my account at https://app.webtests.com/, and my web developer added it centered to my home page right below the teaser box: https://marketing-optimieren.de/
The location is pretty prominent and according to my analytics tool, around 85% of my website visitors scroll a little bit, and so see the certificate.
Much better than expected! I actually checked how many people click on the button "Book free consulting" (this is my conversion goal for the data below) to get faster statistical significance and have more data available.
Version without certificate: In the testing period, I had 5904 visitors who have seen the version without certificate. They led to 198 conversions.
Version with certificate: This version with certificate was shown to 5952 visitors, and has seen 234 conversions. This means an increase in conversion rate of 17.23%! (p=0.0465)
More leads
"I not only got +17.2% more leads, but also revenue increased accordingly."
"Now I also recommend my clients to add this certificate to their website. Once the business reaches a certain level, even a small increase in conversion rate quickly leads to a positive return."
"Much better than expected!"
I not only got +17.2% more leads, but also revenue increased accordingly. For an investment of just 99 EUR/month this is a no-brainer for me.
Now I also recommend my clients to add this certificate to their website. Once the business reaches a certain level, even a small increase in conversion rate quickly leads to a positive return.
