How incentive and 3rd party credibility affects conversion rate
Experiment ID: #11608
Hillsdale College
Experiment Summary
Timeframe: 08/22/2017 - 03/12/2013
As part of an email acquisition campaign, Media Research Center visitors were offered a free bumper sticker in exchange for their name, email, and home address. They were then taken to a landing page with a contextualized giving opportunity. This page had historically produced a 0.8% immediate conversion rate.
We had recently completed an experiment that improved the general donation form conversion rate to 1.6%. With this being higher, we wanted to see if the newly validated general donation page could convert better than the existing contextualized page.
The new treatment did not mention the petition they have just signed but did include language about a matching gift opportunity and emphasized 3rd party credibility indicators, such as quotes from well known figures, as a way to lower the anxiety associated with giving a gift online.
Research Question
Which donation page will produce the greatest donor conversion rate?
Design
C: Contextualized Donation Page
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Results
| Treatment Name | Conv. Rate | Relative Difference | Confidence | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C: | Contextualized Donation Page | 0.80% | ||
| T1: | General Donation Page | 2.6% | 230.0% | 98.9% |
This experiment has a required sample size of 387 in order to be valid. Since the experiment had a total sample size of 1,271, and the level of confidence is above 95% the experiment results are valid.
Flux Metrics Affected
The Flux Metrics analyze the three primary metrics that affect revenue (traffic, conversion rate, and average gift). This experiment produced the following results:
0% increase in traffic
× 230.0% increase in conversion rate
× 0% increase in average gift
Key Learnings
The new treatment outperformed the contextualized donation page by 230%. This proved the incentive behind the matching gift language and increased credibility outweighed the specificity of associating the gift with their previous action.
This learning led to ideas for additional tests such as including this language and imagery on other contextualized pages to help lower anxiety while maintaining the specificity that comes from a contextualized donation ask.