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Saturday, January 22, 2022

And getting your weekly dose of DTC Brand Breakdowns!

Grab your coffee and get comfy. This is a good one. ☕️

In this newsletter, you’ll find: 👇

Brand Breakdown Part 3: Who Gives a Crap (website)

We’re back with Part 3 of our brand feature on Who Gives a Crap. 🧻

Our friends over at Oddit dove deep into Who Gives A Crap’s website and pulled out the best tips for converting more sales and building brand loyalty.

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WEBSITE

🏠 First up, the homepage

Currently, Who Gives A Crap has 5 images on their homepage carousel. We suggest removing the image slider completely.

Data suggests that carousels typically create less engagement above the fold and that 90% of carousel interaction happens on the first slide.

Multiple messages also distract from the core goal of selling toilet paper.

Humans prefer simple direction—the easier you make the initial step, the greater chance your visitors will take action and follow through to the end.

If these pieces of content are important for your brand, make them cross-sections on your homepage. Placement on the page should be based on their importance (higher up the page = more important).

Here’s what we’d change:

One of the current slides 👇

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Oddit’s suggestions:

1: Your most compelling brand statement is your 50% donations—lead with that!

2: Your review volume is insane. Make sure to call out the reviews at the very top. This is critical for building instant credibility and trust with uses new to the brand.

3: Don’t make copy on actions cryptic. Speak clearly and tell visitors exactly what they are doing when they select it.

4: Pull in a few more key traits below your action button to round out the brand story!

👀 Now let’s chat product cards (on the homepage)

Product cards need to be easy to scan and give visitors all the info they need to take the next steps in their journey.

Creating an information hierarchy that allows visitors to see the most important info first is essential.

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Oddit’s suggestions:

1: Pull out “Best Value” into a tag over the image. Much easier to see.

2: Your reviews speak volumes about the products. Always call them out on product cards.‍

3: Separate your title and info into multiple sections so that content is easier to scan/read.‍

4: Consider displaying the price as per unit. This allows visitors to see why this product would be ‘best value’ compared to the bamboo paper ($1.25/roll).‍

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WEBSITE - PART 2

🛒 Up next: The ‘Add to cart’ button

Make sure your sticky ‘add to cart’ communicates enough information to drive action.

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Oddit’s suggestions:

1: Add a subtle shadow to the BG band to give the cross-section a visual presence that sits clearly above the rest of the site.

2: Don’t make visitors scroll back and forth. Remind them what they are adding to cart, how much of it, and let them know it’s delivered free to make the decision a little less stressful.

🛍 Now onto the PDP:

There are some great elements here but lots of missing info.

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Oddit’s suggestions:

1: Your reviews are your barrier breaker. Put them at the top and make them large enough to read.‍

2: Paragraphs of text and marketing fluff can live further down the page—this area is for action. Pull in the 3 key traits of your product and clearly display them.‍

3: Don’t make customers do the math. Tell them your price per roll and sheet directly.

‍4: None of the products allow the visitor to change the ‘size’ variant selector. Don’t confuse visitors by making it look like an action.

Combine this with ‘quantity’ so that the visitor has 1 variant selector to access.‍

5: Display the price difference between one-time and subscription directly on the variants. Very important!

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DTC Newsletter is written by Thomas Schreiber, Kelsey Hess, and Rebecca Knight.

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