January 17, 2013

Case Study Lessons: Increasing Trial Offer Conversions with One-Item Marketing

Here’s a great A/B test lesson from Surfline, the focus on this week’s Case Study on Subscription Site Insider. Surfline, a freemium subscription site providing ocean forecasts for surfing enthusiasts, wanted to increase its trial offer conversion. George Roletter, Vice President of Subscriptions and Product Marketing, told us how the site had already split their trial conversion process, making it possible to email prospects who abandoned the trial form. So the site then tested the marketing…

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Surfline Turns Weather Updates into a 7-Figure B2C Subscription Business

Surfline started out as a pay-per-call telephone service, providing surf conditions to surfing enthusiasts, but entered the Internet age in 1995 with live HD streams of surf breaks. Vice President of Subscriptions and Product Marketing George Roletter spoke to us about how Surfline has used A/B testing to get 30% of visitors who enter the trial funnel to convert. Plus, discover how this B2C site is able to retain up to 93% of subscribers!

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