Learn how Brandformance increased downloads 300% for their client with Clarity.
What is Brandformance?
Brandformance was founded in 2018 by two partners with the goal of helping their clients achieve their digital marketing goals through innovative and personalized solutions. Their combination of creativity, data analysis, and focus on tangible results is what sets them apart from others in the market. They seek to establish long-term relationships based on trust and collaboration and measure their success through the growth and satisfaction of their clients, as well as the positive impact on their business metrics.
Their main clients range from small startups to large corporations across various industries, such as e-commerce, agriculture, technology, and healthcare. They cater to businesses looking to expand their online reach by providing services such as content creation, ads, behavioral research and brand experiences.
Leading the charge as CEO is Eze Joulie whose role is to lead the strategic vision and overall direction of the agency. He oversees the development and implementation of innovative strategies to ensure the success and growth of their clients.
Challenge
Joulie and team were tasked with helping Argentinian seed company Nidera re-design their website. Their goals were to redesign and improve the user experience and implement cross-selling techniques and maps to help users find local representatives. They needed a tool that allowed them to thoroughly understand user behavior and their journey, create funnels, identify pain points, and analyze scrolling.
Previously they relied on traditional analytics platforms and heatmap tools, such as Hotjar and Google Analytics, which provided them with limited information about user behavior. Although the tools offered valuable data, they lacked the visual clarity and depth needed to effectively identify specific interactions and friction points. To address these challenges and continuously improve the user experience, they chose to implement Clarity.
Using Clarity
Clarity transformed their approach to analyzing user behavior by providing them with detailed visualizations of website interactions, such as click and scroll heatmaps and session recordings. These tools allowed them to identify JS errors and improve the user experience.
Additionally, Clarity was able to track smart events and understand those that were not performing, enabling them to make real-time changes and continuously optimize the website’s functionality and design. Session recordings and funnels were fundamental in building theories and improving their users’ journey. The ability to view live sessions allowed them to identify areas of confusion and friction in real-time. Understanding scrolling behavior within their site was essential to optimizing the user experience and ensuring that each interaction aligned with their needs and expectations.
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User Journey Funnels
Actions & Results
With Clarity, the Brandformance team managed to adjust, add, and change buttons to encourage users to perform the actions they had planned in their social media campaigns. They discovered errors in mobile navigation allowing them to improve the mobile functionality throughout the user journey.
Additionally, they identified issues in the display of product sheets on mobile devices, which caused a poor experience and user drop-off. Thanks to the detection of all smart events on a landing page, they managed to double one of their main objectives, user-registered downloads of data sheets which went from 20 downloads per month to 132–an increase of over 300%.
They also gained a detailed understanding of where their campaign traffic was coming from through UTM parameters and optimized the user journey from Clarity’s analysis.
Many adjustments that were made had immediate impact such as improving the download or contact us button which led to an exponential increase in events, indicating a significant pain point. Before using Clarity, 30% of sessions had excessive scrolling on the site where they noticed users abandoning their landing page. Today, they have managed to reduce it to 0% which is the most important milestone achieved to date.
In the long term, the team saw a decrease in failed clicks and bot sessions which allowed them to understand which media brought in junk traffic and adjusted their social media campaigns accordingly.
Learnings
Clarity proved to be particularly useful due to its ability to provide detailed real-time insights into user behavior. It has been a game-changer for their digital marketing strategies. The team gained valuable insights into user preferences, pain points, and behavior patterns, allowing them to make data-driven decisions and achieve remarkable results for their client.
“Leading this project, envisioning a new site based on data collection with Clarity, was a great challenge. From understanding the tool to integrating it with our partner’s needs, we created over 700 landing pages, each of which needed to be analyzed for improvement. It was a significant challenge that we were able to tackle with the entire Brandformance and Nidera team! We are thrilled to use Clarity as an improvement tool.”
– Gonzalo Benitez, Head of Content & Innovation, Brandformance
“The structuring and redesign of the site has marked a significant change for us. The Clarity tools have allowed us to quickly identify areas for improvement on our website since our relaunch. This has resulted in a considerable increase in conversions and a better user experience. We carry out a continuous strategy based 100% on user-centric principles. As a great team, together with Brandformance, we work daily to ensure that any improvement opportunity we detect is implemented as soon as possible, thus continuing to optimize our client’s journey.”
– Belen Alvarez, Marketing Digital Analyst, Nidera Semillas – Syngenta
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Implementing Microsoft Clarity has been a significant change for us. The behavior visualization tools and real-time analysis have allowed us to quickly identify areas for improvement on our websites. This has resulted in a considerable increase in conversions and a better user experience. Clarity is an indispensable tool for our continuous optimization strategy.
How using Clarity led to a 200% increase in free sign-ups for VisualSP
What is Visual SP?
VisualSP was created in 2005 to help organizations simplify the digital workspace for their employees. VisualSP is a a Digital Adoption Platform that allows companies to provide in-context support to users through interactive walk-throughs, inline help items, searchable help articles, banners and alerts, and more. It’s been popular among Office 365 and Dynamics 365 customers because of its comprehensive library of pre-built help items.
Challenge
The team at VisualSP was in search of a visual user behavior tool to help them take the guesswork out of their content decisions. They wanted to see exactly how users engaged with their site so that they could best support them.
The team was mostly designing landing pages and as they were revamping their site, they wanted to get a clear picture of exactly how users were interacting with the site. Their ultimate goal was to increase the number of people who signed up for the free package of their Digital Adoption Platform.
Using Clarity
Before implementing Microsoft Clarity, the VisualSP team often relied on their extensive experience and intuition when making website design decisions during meetings. After using Microsoft Clarity, they found eye-opening insights that helped them make more informed decisions on their site design.
Scroll data helped them see that users were getting further on their page than they assumed. Heat maps helped them learn that certain links were not being used, links that were often on a page that wasn’t discussed much during design meetings.
Actions Taken
The team at VisualSP used scroll data to understand exactly how many pages users viewed. In addition, they used screen recordings to understand how users interacted with the page.
They looked at heat maps to identify where visitors were clicking the most on the website. As a result, they identified that their site’s landing pages had too many calls to action.
After: The VisualSP team streamlined their user pathway with one CTA.
“But it’s not even about what changes we DID make, it’s also about what changes we DIDN’T make. We assumed that users weren’t scrolling down our page to see our list of features. But when we looked in Clarity’s scroll data, we found that they were viewing most of our page,” says Tara.
Featured: VisualSP’s product features page.
As a result, the VisualSP team kept their list of product features on the page instead of altering or removing it. “Clarity’s heat maps showed us that one of the most popular links on our homepage was to our ‘See it in action’ page,” Tara shares. Previously, that page hadn’t been updated or optimized in quite some time, which was reflected in the number of dropped visitors. The VisualSP team has since revamped that page to give users a clear picture of how their product works.
Results
By leveraging insights from Microsoft Clarity, VisualSP tailored its website to more effectively encourage users to sign up for a free account of their Digital Adoption Platform. These adjustments led to a 200% increase in free sign-ups!
Learnings
For the VisualSP team, having data-backed insights into their current site user experience, helped them streamline their CTAs, improve their user pathways, and significantly increase conversion rates.
Microsoft Clarity was instrumental in eliminating the guesswork from our decision-making processes and allowed us to fine-tune our website to better support our users. With Clarity, we were able to make sure that site visitors could quickly see how our Digital Adoption Platform can improve their team’s performance and get started using our product for free.
–Tara Porter, Content Marketing Director of VisualSP
