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Always Be OptimizingZarget CRO Meetup, Bangalore

February 17, 2017#CROmeetup

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Arvind Parthiban CEO & Co-founder, Zarget

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“For every $100 spent on driving traffic to websites, companies spend only $1 converting that traffic into business.” - Forrester Research

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Deepak Kanakaraju Founder at DigitalDeepak.com

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“The Art & Science of CRO”

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The Art and Science of Optimization

Who is Deepak Kanakaraju?

• Graduated in 2008. Started “BikeAdvice.in” in 2008 and sold it in 2012. Had 1 Lakh+ Subscribers and 1M page views per month.

• Worked as Digital Marketing Manager at Exotel, Practo, Instamojo and Razorpay.

• Blogging at DigitalDeepak.com about digital marketing.

Understanding Your Target Market

• Imagine a B2B company doing sales. How do they acquire the first 100 customers?

• Near 100% Targeting, Near 100% Conversion.

• Spillovers happen with expansion.

• Develop customer avatars, understand target market, convert with the right messages.

Why Optimize for Conversions?

• Does it ring a bell with your target audience?

• Ideal State: 100 views -> 100 Clicks -> 100 Leads -> 100 Sales.

• Think about the worst case scenario. Wrong targeting: Showing a women’s shoe ad to a men.

• Where are you in the targeting spectrum?

“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.”

~ John Wanamaker (1838-1922)

Where did split testing originate?

• “The book is cited as being the original description of the process of split testing and of coupon based customer tracking and loyalty schemes.” - Wikipedia

• “Hopkins outlines an advertising approach based on testing and measuring. In this way losses from unsuccessful ads are kept to a safe level while gains from profitable ads are multiplied. “

Why A/B Testing?

• Start with hypothesis, confirm with experiments.

• Things like: Blue Button Vs. Green Button can be discovered only using experiments. To deep to understand by talking to customers.

• Minimum points - 1000. (1000 impressions to clicks, 1000 visits to leads). - Maintain same target audience.

The Law of Large Numbers

• Numbers stabilize over time.

• Ex: Throwing a dice 6 times vs. 60, 600, 6M and so on.

• Predicting Random Events (Clicks, Conversions are random events)

Murder Rate in New York?

Thank You!

“Companies with a structured approach to improving conversions were twice as likely to see a “large increase” - eConsultancy.com

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Ranjit Radhakrishnan Chief Product Officer, BYJU’S

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“Gaming to eCommerce”

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Optimizing Conversions RANJIT RADHAKRISHNAN | @ranjitr

A quick dive

The experimentation and optimization Karmic cycle Templating the culture Experiments and Impact Estimates Yin and Yang: Human centred design and Analytics

A quick dive

The experimentation and optimization Karmic cycle Templating the culture Experiments and Impact Estimates Yin and Yang: Human centred design and Analytics

Karmic Cycle

Karmic Cycle

UNDERSTAND METRICS, INSIGHTS

& BASELINE

BUILDING A HYPOTHESIS

DESIGN EXPERIMENTS

PRIORITIZE

RUN THE EXPERIMENT

POSTMORTEM ANALYSIS

Business Goals

Product objectives

Learning objectives

Insights

Control & Variants Duration, Effort, Complexity

Expected Outcomes

Take-aways Iterate Share & document

A quick dive

The experimentation and optimization Karmic cycle Templating the culture Experiments and Impact Estimates Yin and Yang: Human centred design and Analytics

Templating the Culture

Analytics Cultural Maturity

I: Capture Events

Guessing

• Transactional systems

II: “What Happened?”

Awareness

• Reporting, Dashboards, and Alerts

III: “Why Did it Happen?”

Understanding

• Analysis, Experiments, and Mining

IV: Create Advantage

Action

• Analytics Driven Execution and Innovation

Postmortem Analysis

Every feature or initiative should be reported with 1. Summary overview – Objectives – Hypothesis 2. Experiment Design 3. Expectations vs. Outcomes funnel 4. Support 5. Takeaways/ Next Steps

Feature Read: Executive Summary

Overview: • Describing high level hypothesis/ goals design

Experiment design: • Describing high level hypothesis/ goals design

Expectations

• +xx BPS D30 retention

• +yy% Task completion rate

• Neutral for revenue

Actual Outcomes • +xx BPS D30 retention

• +yy% Task completion rate

• - zz% Revenue

Insights & Recommendations:

• Concrete takeaways for other teams

• Point of contact

Support data, Conclusions and Next Steps

Takeaways: • Takeaway 1

• Takeaway 2

• Takeaway3

Next Steps • Next Step 1

• Next Step 2

• Next Step 3

New Buyer conversion • Rev hit mainly due to lower than expected new buyer conversion

0.0%

0.5%

1.0%

1.5%

2.0%

2.5%

3.0%

3.5%

D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7 D8 D9 D10

New Buyer conversion

Variant1- ControlVariant 2Variant 3

Create competitive advantage by

providing everyone with

fast and easy access to the

insight that’s needed

Analytics Vision

Compete on Analytics

A quick dive

The experimentation and optimization Karmic cycle Templating the culture Experiments and Impact Estimates Yin and Yang: Human centred design and Analytics

What is an Impact Estimate ? The dark art

What is an Impact Estimate ? The dark art

A quantitative prediction of how new content or features will impact user behavior and thus high-

level metrics.

Example impact estimate for a new social feature involving gorillas: 50% of DAU will send gorillas to each others’ campsites every day, causing:

a) Increased retention for people who have been clamoring for gorillas and otherwise might have quit the game b) Catchy gorilla virals will bring in new installs. c) An extra 20% DAU one month after launch, all things considered

What is an Impact Estimate ? The dark art

• Improves designs & increases ROI of features

• Help us diagnose poor performance after feature launch

• Help us set experiment sizes

• Aid in prioritization of feature backlog

• Turns us into product ninjas

1. Estimates make for better designs

• Good estimates demand thorough evaluation of every facet of your design.

• They often expose opportunities to increase return on investment (ROI) of the feature by cutting scope

2. They help us refresh features quickly post-launch

• Estimates help you quickly identify bottlenecks and drop-offs in your feature after it launches (the funnel)

• Fast reaction reduces time for the refresh, and revenue that otherwise might be lost

Example of rapid identification of a busted flow: “A Valentine’s Day event saw a significant decay in clicks on a cupid statue, which was the beginning of the user funnel. Because we had predicted high clicks on the statue and implemented a counter, we immediately saw that it was underperforming against our expectations and reacted quickly by adding a persistent sparkle effect. This significantly increased daily feature participation.”

3. We need estimates to set experiment sizes

If you want to prove a small bump in a metric, we need a large group of people in the experiment to prove it confidently • Small experiment groups may not be random enough to capture enough behavior or represent the

diversity of players on platform. This is especially true with ARPU features.

Small sample sizes = skewed results

4. Estimates help us prioritize the product backlog

Avatar shoes Revenue impact: $300 per day Dev cost: Low

Jelly missiles Revenue impact: $1,500 per day Dev cost: Low

5. Estimates make you a product ninja over time

• You’ll become more objective and scientific in your approach to product

• You’ll recall results when designing future systems and content

• You’ll make better products, faster

What is a SWAG?

XKCD

SWAG: A Sophisticated Wild-Ass Guess Use SWAGs early in the feature design process to help focus on and refine the right bets

A SWAG is composed of three parts: 1. Low-level impact on user behavior

The sustained, long-term impact to one or several low-level metrics for user behavior that you intend to improve

2. High-level impact on DAU, revs, etc. The sustained, long-term overall impact to the target high-level metric (installs, retention, engagement, DAU, revenue.) 3. Supporting evidence

…for why you assume increasing these low-level metrics will correlate to the predicted increase to the high-level metric • It’s OK for this to be based on product instinct • It’s better for it to be based on past results, research, a

previous experience or evidence, even if qualitative.

I worked in a coal mine previously and have little or no basis for SWAG’ing. How do I catch up?

Creating a thorough estimate

XKCD

Process drives Impact

• Most of the value of impact assessments comes from the *process*, not the final estimate

• Help drive that evolution by questioning your and others’ assessments and continuing to innovate

• Build an internal body of knowledge within the company. Make it a knowledge economy not a people economy.

A quick dive

The experimentation and optimization Karmic cycle Templating the culture Experiments and Impact Estimates Yin and Yang: Human centred design and Analytics

Human Centred design & Gaming

Using Gamification to drive conversions

It is not about mechanics or game elements!

Mechanics do no trump Core human motivations

Design optimization and experiments with core human motivations in mind

Ying and Yang: Human focused design & Analytics

Use data to understand product metrics and experiment results

Use understanding of human behaviour and motivations to

structure optimization and innovations

Don’t be this!

Optimizing Conversions RANJIT RADHAKRISHNAN | @ranjitr

“Companies with over 40 landing pages generate an average of 12 times more leads than those with 5 or fewer pages.” - HubSpot

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Pratik Kumar Co-founder, Green Giraffes

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“Product to Marketing and Beyond”

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Product to Marketing and BeyondThe road to funnel optimization

Are you tracking Conversion?

Conversion as a metric is Overrated & Misleading.

The funnel

Your Product

CartAudience Customer

Funnel Optimization

“Marketing Weds Product

Top-down vs Bottom UpBottom of the funnel customers are the most engaged

Lose them and in effect you lose 50-100x of your top of funnel cost

Scale of business does not matter (Rooter/TVF)

The Zivame story

Fixing the funnelCart Success

Acquisition

Retention

Cart success

Cart Success, dɛfɪˈnɪʃ(ə)n/

Total # of Transactions

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Unique # of add to cartsWhat is the optimal number??

Desktop vs mobile, web vs app, horizontal vs vertical/niche, fashion vs necessity, video vs gaming

Cart success

Marketing

Shipping Costs

Offline conversions

PGs

Product

Avoid one page checkouts

Guest Checkout ??

Friendly Error messages

Analytics based compatibility testing (device/browser etc.)

Marketing & Product

Cart abandonment mailers

Cart offers

Acquisition

Marketing

Interest based targeting (LookAlikes etc.)

The Marketing funnel - Prospecting to re-targeting

Marketing & Product

Ads optimization automation (Adwyze)

Carousel/ dynamic product ads and product innovation

Banner links

Product

Email capture

Wishlists

Retention

Marketing

Promotional e-mailers (Ayr, text)

Product

Recommendations

Marketing & Product

Drip Campaign (Nykaa e.g)

Loyalty points

Thanks@pratikks

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“For every $92 dollars spent acquiring customers, only $1 is spent converting them.” – eConsultancy

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Leslie Joseph Sr. Director Marketing, [24]7 INC

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“Gaming to eCommerce”

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Promises and Pitfalls

Predictive Marketing

Senior Director Product Marketing[24]7

Leslie Joseph

@lesliejoseph

Who am I?

@lesliejoseph

Who am I?

A complex combination of:• Demographics• Behaviors and behavioural patterns• Device usage patterns• Preferences and attitudes• Intents• Signals and data

I am unique. Just like everybody else!

@lesliejoseph

On today’s digital battleground… moments matter

4

REVENUE MOMENTS

BRAND EXPERIENCE

MOMENTS

SERVICE RESOLUTION

MOMENTS

Initiate service

Pre-purchase research

Offer premium service

Make purchase

Cross-sell

Give feedback

Set-up profile

On-time delivery

Inquiry Greeting

Billing error

Product stopped working

Where is my

order?

Wrong item

shipped

Credit card

expired

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Marketing in the age of Intent

@lesliejoseph

Data, data everywhere, but not a drop to drink?

@lesliejoseph

Yet

• 99.76% of online ads are ignored• 60% shoppers abandoned a purchase due to a poor service experience• 61% CMO’s said they struggled to access or integrate the data they needed last

year.

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Source: Google, 2016

@lesliejoseph

The big picture

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• From touchpoints to journeys• From channel-centric to intent-

centric• From analytics to insight• From reactive to predictive

@lesliejoseph

Intent infuses the entire consumer journey

Organic Search

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Web/ mobile

Social

Paid Media What are these people doing on your website?• Who are they?• What are they trying to do?• How likely are they to purchase?• Do they need help? An offer? A chat?

@lesliejoseph

Data + Math = Prediction

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• Predictive models• Real-time targeting• Artificial intelligence• Machine Learning

@lesliejoseph

Deriving intent from interactions

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@lesliejoseph

Intent infuses the entire consumer journey

Organic Search

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Web/ mobile

Social

Paid Media

Personalisation

Retargeting

Engagement CONVERSION

Who to targetWhen to engageWhat to present

@lesliejoseph

Leveraging intent-driven prediction in real time

Identifying segments

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1

Multi-intent modeling

Predicting Intents and characteristics1

Dynamic Personalization1

Interested in Phone

Cart Abandoner

New Customer

Deal Seeker

Switcher

Custom home pagesPersonalized bannersTargeted offersChat engagement

3x

Conversion:+ Search signals

7x

+ Predictive chat

@lesliejoseph

Takeaways

• Make predictive marketing a part of your strategy• Integrate predictive with mktg. automation and programmatic

• It’s the journey, stupid!• Focus on consumer intents for key consumer journeys

• Identify opportunities to leverage interaction data to hone prediction• Experiment!

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Prediction in the B2B world

@lesliejoseph

Account based marketing

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versus

Account based marketingHigh ACV/ Low volume

Traditional demand genLow ACV/ High volume

• Coordinated strategy between marketing and sales

• Understanding and marketing from the prospect’s perspective

• Measured on engagement/ account success, NOT MQL’s and leads

@lesliejoseph

Finding and classifying prospects by ABM account tiers

Machine learning

Account scoring

Target Market Assumptions

Technographics

Firmographics

Behavior/ Intent

Growth Signals

Buyer Personas

@lesliejoseph

The ABM personalized content spectrum

100% personalized

Generic

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Next up

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Programmatic Account Based Marketing?

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Questions?

https://www.linkedin.com/in/leslie/

@lesliejoseph

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Bharath Ganesh Head - Product Solutions, Zarget

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“Zarget and It’s Role in CRO”

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And it’s role in Conversion Rate Optimization

Questions to ask your website

Where to Opt imize? Funne l Ana lys i s

What to Optimize?

Heatmaps + Fo r m Analyt ics + Pol l s

How to Optimize?

A/B Test ing + Spl i t URL Test ing

Where to Optimize?

Funnel AnalysisHelps you identify high drop-off pages which should be optimized on priority

Identify bottlenecks in your conversion funnel

21%

65%

14%

Homepage

Signup

Buy

Identify drop offs in each page

Identify the holes in your funnel and fix it with integrated A / B Testing & Heatmaps

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What to Optimize?

Heatmaps now

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No more heatmaps of your website on a snapshot

Track visitor behaviour on dynamic elements

Get accurate, live reports that nobody else in the industry can offer

with Dynamic Pages Support

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Form AnalyticsOptimize your forms, increase form fills rate, find out which ones are ambiguous and which ones cause hesitations etc

Helps you identify high drop-off fields which should be optimized on priority

Sign Up

Login

73% filled

often edited

45% hesitated

24%dropped

56% skipped

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Polls & FeedbackGet instant feedback from your customer

Understand if your website, product etc. meets users’ expectations by asking them directly

FEEDBACK

Good

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How to Optimize?

A / B TestingCompare two or more versions of the same webpage against each other to determine the best performing version

Test out hypothesis and get the best converting design

Industry’s first Chrome Plugin to create and manage A/B tests

No more importing or loading the pages in an iframe

Optimize gated pages beyond the login screen

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Polls &

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