Understanding Customers Across A Non-Traditional Funnel

  • Analytics

Understanding Customers Across A Non-Traditional Funnel

WOW! is a leading provider of high-speed internet, cable TV, and phone services in the United States. With a mission to provide reliable and affordable services to its customers, WOW! has been consistently delivering exceptional connectivity solutions for over two decades.

As WOW!‘s Conversion Rate Optimization partner since 2019, we leveraged analytics to provide longitudinal performance and key insights derived through A/B testing.

The Challenge

WOW! has a unique business model in that its products and services are limited to serviceable geographic areas. As such, they need to understand how to best reach their target customers and ensure an ideal customer experience for those who are within their ideal customer profiles. As one can imagine, the customer journey and onsite experience are fraught with nuances in aspiring to this goal.

The Solution

Due to the unique customer journey, a typical funnel analysis wasn’t going to suffice. We began by ensuring we were properly capturing and collecting data, and that analytics were configured optimally against customer use cases and KPIs. This included incorporating website analytics and marketing data into a data warehouse. From there, we configured multi-dimensional funnel analyses, allowing for filtering based on key attributes such as geography, traffic source, device, product and service types. Because determining customer serviceability is complex, we created visualizations to easily understand each aspect of the customer journey. This reporting evolved to include comparison metrics based on key events, such as market shifts, a site redesign, and a CMS integration.

Results

WOW! has plenty of data, but they weren’t sure how to use it to improve their marketing efforts. For example, how to measure whether efforts to improve page speed are having an impact on conversion. Or identifying break points in the funnel and separating out increased traffic from existing customers, versus new customer targeting. By removing confounding variables, these visualizations allow WOW! to extract signal from the noise and get a clearer picture of what is driving conversions.

WOW! now has readily accessible data to drive key business decisions—particularly understanding how consumers use the site and how best to position the site across consumer and business markets, and how to best understand product and service adoption, upgrades, and upsells.

We continue to actively work with the WOW! team, providing analysis, and iteration on their reporting tools, helping them uncover and capitalize on opportunities for growth.

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Iterative Experimentation Outperforms the Traditional Website Redesign

  • CRO

Iterative Experimentation Outperforms the Traditional Website Redesign

Metromile is the leading pay-per-mile car insurance company in the U.S., and one of the first innovators in disrupting the $280 billion personal auto insurance industry.

-17%

customer acquisition cost

28X

return on investment

The Challenge

As with most innovations, market education is crucial to adoption. Having already established a robust channel experimentation program, Metromile was no stranger to testing. However, the ad hoc website testing wasn’t achieving the results they needed, so Metromile turned to Cro Metrics with the goals of lowering Customer Acquisition Costs (CAC) and increasing conversion rates.

The Solution

Initially, Metromile had considered a website redesign to solve its lower than expected conversion rate. After successfully lowering CAC and increasing conversions on Metromile campaign landing pages, we zeroed in on the most impactful experiments and applied these learnings by developing a series of tests to reduce friction in the primary quote funnel. Early success led to a series of iterative tests, leveraging insights based on positive customer response.

Results

Not only did Metromile abandon its idea of a redesign, but saved a 7-figure investment in the initiative. Cro Metrics effectively redesigned the website through iterative testing, leading to a 17% reduction in CAC and 28X ROI for the program.

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Boosting Revenue and Long-Term Success for Home Chef

  • CRO

Boosting Revenue and Long-Term Success for Home Chef

As a direct-to-consumer meal kit service, Home Chef faced some unique challenges when trying to keep up with the competition. Looking to make strides without costly missteps, they partnered with Cro Metrics to help them find and expand on high-impact, high-return ideas. 

+2.4K

APP DOWNLOADS

+83%

clicks to reactivate subscriptions

+37.1%

subscription sign-up

Cro Metrics’ involvement has allowed us to double our A/B testing speed so that we don’t have to do everything internally and we can focus on other priorities. They really know our business, and we’ve learned together what works well and what doesn’t.

– Senior Manager of Product Insights, Home Chef

The Cro Metrics Process

Our strong culture of experimentation allows our experts to break down and test multiple solutions for every challenge. With over 30k tests in our database, we always start with a strong foundation to accelerate our clients’ speed to impact.

Here’s how we broke down the challenges and tested to find sustainable, scalable solutions. 

The Goals

  • Increase subscription sign-ups
  • Increase subscription reactivations
  • Increase app downloads
  • Increase onsite engagement
  • Reduce overall subscription cancellations

Our Strategy

For such a holistic challenge, we started by using Iris, our integrated reporting and data platform, to track and analyze the digital customer journey. This allowed our experts to clarify what was actually working, what wasn’t, and uncover opportunities for maximum impact. From there, we built a quantitative, full-funnel strategy and roadmap that included initiatives to:

  • Build brand trust
  • Engage more closely with customers
  • Optimize the on-site experience
  • Highlight into brand value

Results

Through 25 longitudinal tests, we unlocked additional growth opportunities and identified some key high-level learnings.

  • Social proof and benefits in interstitials build brand trust and increase downloads
  • A personalized quiz drives engagements and sign-ups
  • Shortened landing pages lead to more conversions
  • Conversational language boosts reactivations
  • Highlighting app value increases downloads

Like most of our enterprise clients (97.1% of them), Home Chef continues to work with us to build on the success of the initial strategy. With our continued learnings, we’re able to build and refine growth solutions no matter how much the marketing landscape changes.

At Cro Metrics, our track record of results starts with more than 30,000 client experiments under our belt. Our time-tested experiment-led process, bank of winning test results, proprietary analytics tools and high-impact growth roadmaps help us propel clients like Home Chef to the next stage of growth.

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