As 2009 begins to blasts into 2010 I’ve been thinking a lot about how to do more with less, on how to focus on the most important, and on how to let good things not get done and instead focus on the getting the best things done. I hear over and over again, “We need more visitors to our site” or “We need to get 20,000 visits per month and we’ll be all set.” Lets step back a bit and think about what those visitors mean to the business.
If my website gets 100 visitors today and I sell my product or service to 2 of them, then my conversion rate is 2.0%. Could I get this conversion rate up to 4.0% and sell twice as much stuff with the same amount of visits? In a word, yes. This can be accomplished by optimizing the conversion process on the website. The folks over at Conversion Rate Experts have a great “free” article that includes 108 things you can do to improve your conversion rate. All 108 are very insightful and worth the time to read.
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