Case Study: By Customizing Website Pop-ups, Email Capture  Increased 184% in the first 60 days

Objective

Website pop-ups work. For Twenty-First Digital’s clients, pop-ups remain the number one source for email acquisition - accounting for 50-70% of all new newsletter sign-ups.

Newsletter list growth is a top priority for publishers as they transition to digital products and drive revenue through subscription sales. Twenty-First Digital has seen success on the HubSpot platform by employing native pop-ups but has been curious if something else could work better.

Would it be possible that advanced creative, language, and call-to-actions could further increase the capturability of site pop-ups? Can we take it to the next level?

Strategy

  • Twenty-First Digital engaged a new tool that plugs directly into a client’s HubSpot account, passing email addresses into HubSpot workflows in real-time.
  • As partners, Twenty-First Digital and the client team agreed on a revised pop-up design. This included leveraging historical learnings from the account and pairing novel creative ideas.

Tactics

Customization

  • With this new tool, the following elements can be customized within your pop-ups:
    • Logo
    • Background color
    • Font
    • Pop of color
    • Image
    • Headline/color
    • Body copy/color
    • CTA language
    • CTA button color
    • Success window copy

Execution

  • Center, Slide In, and Exit Intent pop-ups used in the past can be directly translated to compare data adequately.
  • For the test, TFD built the pop-ups with the exact targeting, audience, and segmentation as the control group.

Control Pop Up vs. Customized Pop-Up

Results

As it turns out, the look and feel of your pop-ups matter as much as the copy.

The initial client who experimented with this tool experienced a 184% increase in conversion rate versus HubSpot pop-ups.

As we continue to roll out customization tools on HubSpot for additional client partners, we encourage you to take a look at your own on-site acquisition efforts and ask how variability can lead to improvement.