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04 — The distance between a click and a decision

Conversion & Experience Design

Landing systems, funnels and conversion-rate optimisation — the experience layer where most acquisition budget is quietly lost.

Marketing organisations argue endlessly about the media plan and almost never about the page it lands on. This is backwards. Traffic is a rented input with a price; conversion is an owned asset that compounds. An improvement to the second is permanent in a way that an improvement to the first never is.

What the practice involves

  • Landing systems designed around a single decision rather than around a brand tour
  • Funnel diagnosis — finding the step where intent actually dies, which is rarely the step everyone blames
  • Experiment design with sample sizes honest enough to survive scrutiny
  • Form, offer and friction analysis
  • Post-click measurement wired to the same definitions used upstream in the media plan

Doubling conversion rate is worth more than doubling spend, costs less, and — unlike spend — does not have to be paid for again next month.

The agency that owns this discipline

Infinitium

In formation

Infinitium is in formation and is not yet operating. Work in this discipline is handled within the network's existing capabilities in the meantime.

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QUESTIONS ANSWERED

What is conversion rate optimisation?

Conversion rate optimisation is the practice of increasing the proportion of visitors who take a desired action, by systematically diagnosing and removing whatever is stopping them. It is diagnostic before it is creative: the first job is finding the step where intent is lost, not redesigning the button.

Why does conversion work usually beat buying more traffic?

Because conversion improvements are permanent and traffic is rented. A conversion rate gain applies to every visitor thereafter, at no additional cost, and it compounds with any future media spend. More traffic has to be bought again next month at a price you do not control.

How many experiments does a conversion programme need to be credible?

Enough that the results survive statistical scrutiny — which usually means fewer, larger, better-powered tests rather than many small ones. Most conversion programmes fail not because they run too few experiments but because they run underpowered experiments and then believe the results.