Whether the goal of your next big campaign is to get people to willingly try out your new service, quadruple the sign-ups in that given month or simply push sales over the roof the first indicator that you will probably always look at when assessing your success is the conversion rate. Traditionally at the end of these online campaigns, there is always a visually appealing landing page with a strong message, dedicated content tailored to one specific task, to convert. Like this one (by the way you can click on the button and start creating your own here, while reading the article):

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These pages are designed with one sole purpose in mind, to catch every single person you drive there and make them take your intended action. However, they have an extremely difficult task in doing so. Their content is static, there are usually multiple steps involved and each with their own possible drop off points and they can’t provide that feeling of instant connection with the brand, that today’s customers need. Modern customers don’t want to waste their time by reading some lengthy product copy nor they are happy to fill out a form and wait until your sales team eventually gets back to them. This is exactly why we came up with the concept of conversational landing pages.

 

So what really is a ‘conversational landing page’?

Although, it is the next evolutionary step in converting and qualifying, the concept itself is really simple. Instead of arriving to a static landing page and facing with a wall of text, your customers are greeted by a chat conversation. Its primary goal is to engage visitors in a conversation with a live agent or a chatbot and exchange instant messages. It can be viewed as a full screen chat window but with the same design options and visual opportunities you have with a static landing page, so it can fully reflect your brand or product. A really carefully designed interactive conversation flow engages the visitor and instead of trying to present all information at once, it slowly guides your potential customers through. It focuses your visitor’s attention, there are no pop-ups, sidebars and extra menus, it offers a completely distraction free experience.

 

Why do they work better?

If you think about it, when someone clicks on your ad or a link placed in your email, they are ready to connect with your brand. You captured their interest with your marketing message and now they want to know more. They don’t want to read a long generic description, they have specific questions, they are ready to get convinced and this is your window of opportunity and this is when conversational landing pages can kickstart a fruitful conversation with a potential client.

Instead of the generic one size fits all approach of the traditional landing pages it can accommodate different clients’ different needs and the conversations can head into completely new directions. No matter how well you prepared your buyer persona, a two way communication approach in which the client can actually state his preference will always yield far more superior results. It is like having your best sales rep in always listening mode, ready to immediately engage with all the new customers opening the door of your shop.

Today’s clients demand the absolute best customer experience and their attention span is shortened to just a few minutes so your brand needs to take actions immediately and can’t risk the precious conversions on the guesswork that you are stuck with when presenting your marketing message on static page based on a one way communication flow.

 

 

Where should I use them?

They of course work perfect in place of any kind of classic landing page, but they particularly excel at places where their interactive nature is useful, such as lead qualification, registration or for example handling broad email newsletter traffic. You can merge and replace multiple steps so your customers don’t need to separately click on the contact us form or find your CTA button at the bottom of your page, they don’t need to navigate to different pages if they need more info about a product. This eliminates potential drop off points and keeps clients in the flow, maximising the return on your google or facebook ad spendings.

They really shine when you have a complex business offering with many variables, for example if you are selling a travel insurance that is tailor made to your buyer’s upcoming trip. The conversational flow guides customers through the qualification questions, collects contact information, recommends services in a natural and seamless way. This also makes them the perfect first qualification step if have different sales reps handling different geographic territories, company sizes or product groups. 

My personal favorite use is to have a dedicated conversational landing page handling traffic from email newsletters. The visitors coming in this way have a really broad interest so it is much more difficult to predetermine what will cut it for them. With the option of asking questions and letting the user choose from different options you can avoid spamming them with offers they are not really interested in and only show your best cards.

 

A/B test results

Comparing 12 different user campaigns recently, the results are pretty convincing. Conversion rates were up by 41% on average and in two cases up by almost 75% compared to the previously used static landing pages. In the ecommerce examples we examined, conversational landing pages had the added side benefit of shoppers spending more on average, cart value was up by 17%. These pages were the landings of paid ad campaigns so the CAC (customer acquisition cost) was also an important measure that the raised conversion rates could improve significantly.

More advanced conversational engines, like the one you find in multichat.ai allow the transition between chatbot based automatic replies and personal chat with a live agent on a conversational landing page. As the chatbot could take care of the more common questions and only escalate the queries that really needed human interaction we found that the same number of staff could handle a x27 swing in workload during a countrywide recent telecommunications campaign.

Our system in multichat.ai allows users to switch between a pop-up style webchat window that you can place on your homepage in the right bottom corner or a full screen webchat interface that can be fully customized as a conversational landing page so you are free to run your own tests. We would love to hear about your campaign results and design your next landing page that really converts together!

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