The document provides an overview of the Nitro-Pak consulting project. Nitro-Pak is an industry leader in emergency preparedness products that sells items like freeze dried foods, emergency food storage, and survival gear on its website. The recommendations provided focus on three areas: increasing traffic to the website through regional targeting, maximizing average order value by encouraging repeat orders through email campaigns, and improving conversion rates through A/B testing landing pages. The results showed some success from testing improved landing pages but limited results from expanding regional keywords. Continued engagement through emails and social media is encouraged. Future recommendations include restructuring product pages and marketing messages.
3. Client Overview
• Nitro-Pak is an industry leader in Emergency Preparedness products.
• The Nitro-Pak website sells:
• freeze dried foods
• emergency food storage
• dehydrated foods
• 72 hour kits
• camping equipment
• survival gear
• Competitors would include DailyBread, TheReadyStore, and
Emergency Essentials.
4. Revenue Source
• Nitro-Pak receives it’s primary revenue from the sale of goods on
their website.
• Products range in price and size
• 1-year food supplies around $5,300 @ 541 lbs.
• Freeze Dried Ice Cream for $2.00 @ 0.07 lbs.
• Nitro-Pak uses various channels
• Email Marketing
• Social Media Marketing
• PPC
• Other sources include affiliate websites.
5. KPIs to Business
MAIN
• AOV
• Conversion Rates
• CTR
TYPICAL
• Visits / Unique Visits
• Bounce Rate
• Etc.
7. Final Recommendations
• We wanted to explore avenues that Nitro-Pak hasn’t exploited
• Difficult because SEBO has been consultant for near a decade
• Forced us to dive deep
• Client Goals communicated to us:
• Increase Traffic to the website
• Increase website sales and orders
• Increase Average Order Values
(Basically, improve all three borders)
8. Targeted Pillars
• Increase Traffic to the Website - TP 3: Increase Exposure
• Maximize Average Order Value - AV 5: Encourage Repeat Orders
• Improve Website Conversion Rates - Keyword, Ad, Landing Page
Matching
• CV 1: A/B Test the PPC Ad
• CV 3: Keyword, Ad, Landing Page Matching
• CO 2: Marketing Messaging
9. Increase Traffic to the Website - Increase Exposure
• Explore different areas that may not have been touched by Nitro-Pak
to increase traffic to website (already well optimized)
• Regional Targeting for Adwords (TP3)
10. Increase Traffic to the Website - Increase Exposure
• Explore different areas that may not have been touched by Nitro-Pak
to increase traffic to website (already well optimized)
• Regional Targeting for Adwords (TP3)
• Adwords targeting the hurricane affected areas (Florida to New Jersey) to
advertise relevant emergency preparedness
Hurricane Emergency Prep
Hurricane Survival kits To Help
Your Family Be Ready
http://www.Nitro-Pak.com
(http://www.nitro-pak.com/survival-
kits?dir=desc&p=clear&cat=335)
Are You Hurricane-Ready?
Be prepared for the next "Hurricane
Sandy." Get 72-hour kits today!
http://www.Nitro-Pak.com
11. Increase Traffic to the Website - Increase Exposure
• Explore different areas that may not have been touched by Nitro-Pak
to increase traffic to website (already well optimized)
• Regional Targeting for Adwords (TP3)
• Adwords targeting the hurricane affected areas (Florida to New Jersey) to
advertise relevant emergency preparedness
Hurricane Emergency Prep
Hurricane Survival kits To Help
Your Family Be Ready
http://www.Nitro-Pak.com
(http://www.nitro-pak.com/survival-
kits?dir=desc&p=clear&cat=335)
Are You Hurricane-Ready?
Be prepared for the next "Hurricane
Sandy." Get 72-hour kits today!
http://www.Nitro-Pak.com
12. Increase Traffic to the Website - Increase Exposure
• Target areas prone to earthquakes with emergency kits catered toward
earthquakes (California)
Ready for the Big One?
72 Hour Food and Water
Earthquake Kits Available!
http://www.Nitro-Pak.com
(http://www.nitro-pak.com/survival-kits?dir=desc&p=clear&cat=333)
Earthquake Kits
Emergency Earthquake Kits
Be ready for the Big One
http://www.Nitro-Pak.com
(http://www.nitro-pak.com/survival-kits?dir=desc&p=clear&cat=333)
13. Increase Traffic to the Website - Increase Exposure
• Target the LDS community with keywords taken from relevant talks
• Keywords: Self Reliance, 3 Month Supply, Long Term Supply of Basic Food
Items, Freeze-dried Meals, Emergency Food Supply, Best Survival Food
Follow the Prophet
Have a 3-Month Supply of Food and
Water at all times. Get yours here!
http://www.Nitro-Pak.com
Emergency Food Supply
Self-reliance is important when an
Emergency strikes. Are you ready?
http://www.Nitro-Pak.com
Best Survival Food
Long-lasting freeze dried
food at half the cost!
http://www.nitro-pak.com
14. Maximize AOV - Encourage Repeat Orders
• Email visitors have brought in 8,017 visits, 327 orders, and $88k in
revenue from Sept 1 – Nov 8
• October 28th = Email Blast
• Accounts for spike in revenues
• Recommendations
• Two Email blasts a month
• Cater Emails to match individual customers (“Last time you bought this... you might be
interested in...”)
• Optimize layout and message similar to lever 3
15. Maximize AOV – Encourage … (cont.)
• Recommendations
• Revise Facebook Marketing
Campaign
• Page lacked personal appeal and
engagement
• Brought in around $1,000 in revenue
during the reporting period
• Implement “giveaway” campaign using
customer involvement
• Leverage customer participation through
emergency survival campaigns
16. Improve Website Conv. Rates - Keyword, Ad,
Landing Page Matching
• Nitro-Pak’s current landing page lacks some marketing elements
• Call to action should be more prominent
• Benefits of product not highlighted
• 1.19% conversion rate current average
• Create A/B testing comparing current page to revised / optimized
layout for specific campaign (We picked Mountain House)
• Goal to bump conversion rate by 1% (from 2.40%)
• Create better layout / landing page
CAVEAT: We were unable to create a page separate from the basic structure of the site, so we were limited in our expectations for the new
landing page.
20. Impact of Lever One (Keyword expansion)
• Current status is that the number of visits is not substantial enough
from the testing
• Two campaigns were created
• 17 Visitors from LDS Campaign
• 12 Visitors from earthquake campaign
• Zero purchases from either campaigns
• May indicate the need to revisit strategy
21. Impact of Lever Two (Email / Facebook)
• Emails have been sent out and Nitro-Pak has started interacting more
with customers on Facebook.
• Email campaign – Nitro-Pak had planned on sending out multiple emails in
November to announce Black Friday sales and Cyber Monday sales. Because
of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, it does look like November will produce
$75k+ in email revenue compared to $22k in October and $54k in September.
22. Impact of Lever Two (Email / Facebook)
• Facebook interaction - client
posted both a giveaway as
well as a preparedness
question and got 13 likes
and 15 responses. Still needs
more time to develop. Here
are some stats on Facebook
revenue to NP's site:
• September: $1015, 112 visits
• October: $0, 162 visits
• November: $0, 473 visits
8 Comments | 4 Likes
23. Impact of Lever Three (A/B Testing)
• Original Page:
• 2.40% conversion rate
• $84.99 cost/order
• $206 revenue/order
(http://www.nitro-pak.com/products/freeze-dried-foods and http://www.nitro-pak.com/products/freeze-dried-foods/mountain-
house-10-cans)
• New Page:
• 3.82% conversion rate
• $54.81 cost/order
• $485 revenue/order
24. Impact of Lever Three (A/B Testing)
Landing page
after revision
26. Improving Recommendations
• Lever 1
• Wait and see (especially on look out for natural disasters)
• Discontinue (Costs > Revenue)
• Lever 2
• Do a better job connecting emails with Facebook page
• Continue engaging customers with more giveaways and other engaging activities
(Young Family Dental)
• Lever 3
• Create a separate page from site
• Remove header and sidebar
• Create stand-alone page or microsite
• Use landing pages on other campaigns
27. Future Recommendations
• Restructure product layout and pages
• Design
• Hierarchy
• Increase conversion rates and repeat visits
• Revise marketing messages to include more benefits and other marketing
elements
• Expect to see higher conversion rates and AOV
• Banners shouldn’t be pictures
• Google can’t read banners (Lack Alt and Title tag)
• Low quality
• Expect to see better SEO results
• Continue email blasts twice a month
• Expect to see similar results to November (Upper Bound of $900,000/Yr)
28. Lessons and Insights
• Engaging customers is extremely important in turning prospective
customers into converted customers
• Don’t bury KPIs
• Make it easy for customers to convert
• Keep site uncluttered
• Site design has a large impact on increasing average order value and
reducing costs per visit
• Discovering improvements to SEO and PPC efforts requires hours and
hours of time and effort sifting through data and keeping your “ducks
in a row”