Lets see. Since I added my conversion checking code roughly 6% of all visitors (and 10%ish of the ones I pay for) actually download a trial. That means I’m paying about $1 per trial download. To make any money at that rate at all, I need to have a conversion of trial downloads to purchasers above 5%. Thats doable but challenging — I really need to work on my landing pages I think.
My conversion rate is abyssmal
Originally written: July 04, 2006
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Patrick McKenzie (patio11) ran four small software businesses. He writes about software, marketing, sales, and general business topics. Opinions here are his own.
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Day #11: First Page of Google
If you search “bingo card creator”, I’m now result #8 through my download link at Payloadz, one of the folks I’m using as a payment processor. Whee. Its not that useful to me, though, because the web store design is not so hot. I’ll have to get work on optimizing that. Unfortunately, there is a limit to what I can do, and they link back to my main site in a way that is Google friendly.
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Happy Fourth of July
Enjoy the Fourth everybody. Particularly any of you grade school elementary teachers out there. While I won’t exactly be celebrating it up in Japan it will give me some time to do actual work (imagine that) and polish the website some without accidentally cutting off any current visitors.