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If you were on a first date with someone and they proposed marriage, wouldn’t that be inappropriate? They would seem to skip all of the getting-to-know-you parts of courtship and go straight to the big “yes”—a macro conversion beyond measure. And you’d probably find a way to get yourself away from that date as fast as possible because that’s not normal behaviour.
Yet marketers do this all the time. They go for the big yes, the macro conversion, the sale. They forget that to get to that big yes requires a few little yeses along the way. A potential customer needs time to develop trust in a brand and to know for certain that they do in fact want or need whatever it is that the brand is selling.
How do you build this trust with prospects? Through micro-conversions. Micro-conversions are small ways a company can both instill trust and move a prospect along the buying journey to an eventual sale. With each small yes, you get the opportunity to prove your worth and trustworthiness as a brand. Over time, those small yeses and up to more trust and eventually a sale.
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How many and what kind of micro-conversions you’ll need depends. The higher the price and bigger the risk of what you’re selling, the bigger the role micro conversions will play.
What exactly you use for micro-conversions will also depend on your brand, product or service, price point and goals. Micro-conversions can be:
Any of these micro conversions listed above can be helpful in creating trust and influencing customers to make a purchase, moving customers down a path toward your ultimate goal: the macro conversion that means revenue for you.
Below are four different examples of ways businesses can use strategic micro-conversions to move prospects along the path to a macro-conversion. Note that micro-conversions happen after the awareness stage and, in fact, can be part of it. But before you can get a micro-conversion, you have to have someone’s attention. Therefore, we’ll assume all of these scenarios below start with someone landing at a website they found through organic search, paid search, a recommendation, a social media ad, or some other way.
These examples differ in what these businesses are selling. Yet you can see how each of these illustrates a prospect moving along a path of micro conversions that lead to macro conversion:
Macro conversion = making a purchase
Macro conversion = eating at the restaurant
Macro conversion = engaging the consultant
Macro conversion = buying a subscription
We used the word “strategic” above because micro conversions work best when they are well thought out with the intention of moving someone along the path toward a sale, as in these examples.
Analyzing micro-conversions
No matter how strategic and well-planned your micro-conversions conversions, however, you have no guarantee that you’ll get a sale. That’s why you must track your micro-conversions just as you do any other marketing methods you use. Tracking them helps you understand the actual customer journey, for one thing, because it’s easy to make assumptions about how we think customers are moving along that path while customers are doing something quite different.
Tracking micro conversions will also help you understand what is and isn’t working so you can make adjustments and tweaks as necessary to improve your results. For example, if very few prospects are using the Wish List feature on your website, it could be they don’t need it because they are putting items straight into their online shopping cart. Or it could be that the Wish List feature or button is too hard to see or figure out.
Push notifications are another way to improve the effectiveness of your micro conversions. Push notifications can personalize customer engagement and increase sales with just-in-time messaging that strikes when the prospect’s behavior has shown a readiness to yes yet again, either to a small ask like a micro-conversion or to the ask we ultimately want them to answer: a sale.
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Sunayana has been the first Product Marketing at MoEngage. She spends her weekdays positioning and launching new products at MoEngage and on weekends, she is always up for a good binge recommendation or a quick travel trip.
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