Mathew BrandtCreative Leader
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West Shore Home CRO

A pricing hook hypothesis that moved conversion rate across search, social, and media paid channels

+32% Avg. conversion rate lift
$3M Potential annual revenue
5 Landing pages tested
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Brief

The question: what actually motivates a visitor convert? We designed a structured set of A/B tests across five landing pages to find out if our assumptions around price is a key driving factor .

Hypothesis

The headline is the most-read element on the page, so it became our test surface — but the headline copy itself wasn’t the real variable. The hypothesis was about the motivation prospective customers care most about. Price. A headline that leads with a pricing hook should feel more relevant and lower the anxiety that stalls a lead.

The test

Across the five pages we ran controlled variants isolating the pricing-hook headline against benefit- and offer-led controls, holding layout, imagery, and form constant so the headline framing was the only meaningful change. Winners were called on conversion rate with adequate sample and significance.

Result

The pricing-hook framing won, lifting conversion rate by an average of 32% across the set. Modeled against average value per lead (VPL), that improvement represents a potential $3M in additional annual revenue! All from reframing the first line of copy, not rebuilding the entire page or some elaborate flow.

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