Key KPIs delivered by Taggstar

  • 6.98%

    conversion rate uplift

  • 80m

    messages

  • 14

    message types

The Challenge

Matalan’s eCommerce team were keen to improve the conversion rate at each stage of its customer journey and identified social proof as a key techniques to achieve this.

The Solution

The Matalan eCommerce team introduced audience, add to cart and purchase volumes, plus trending messages to its Product Detail Pages. It then added urgency messaging including ‘Going Fast,’ to its Product List Pages, in order to engage and convert customers by helping them understand what other customers were browsing and purchasing.

Drawing on years of experience working with some of the largest online retailers, Taggstar’s Customer Success (CSM) team supplied message examples that followed Matalan brand guidelines. The image style, size, opacity and page positioning followed social proof best practice.

The Solution

Integration and Experimentation
Taggstar was quickly integrated with Matalan’s UK site’s Google Tag Manager dataLayer, and the first experiments began in late- 2017. Initial tests were successful on its Product Detail Pages (PDP), then extended to Product List Pages (PLP) to see whether there was an extra benefit.

Optimisation
Using Maxymiser as its testing tool, Matalan can track Taggstar message performance. It reviews results and optimizes the messages by testing different combinations, page positions and content, as part of its quarterly business reviews (QBRs) with Taggstar’s CSM team.

The team didn’t stop there. By taking an iterative approach to innovation, Matalan further optimized the messages on its product details pages over Xmas 2019 with updates to the style and animation and by adding emoji icons.

“We are always on the lookout for technology partners who can help our customers make informed purchase decisions, and Taggstar has certainly done that.”

Paul Hornby, Director of eCommerce

The Results

Matalan saw amazing conversion uplift results from its very first social proof experiment in 2017. The month-long 50:50 A/B test scored a massive 5.5% conversion uplift.

This grew to 6.98% when Matalan added ‘Trending’ and ‘Going Fast’ messages to its Product List Pages, to highlight popular products to customers at the start of their buying journey.

Its latest experiment, adding emojis for Xmas 2019, produced a further incremental conversion rate rise of 1.44% across all consumer devices (1.87% on mobile alone).

Karl Rowlands, UX Experimentation Manager, Matalan said of its most recent Taggstar experiment over Xmas 2019: “We think this is an excellent result and a great example of how if you continue to iterate on successes you can continue to squeeze out the extra juice!”

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