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A CRO agency is a marketing agency whose primary purpose is to increase the revenue generated from your website.

Say you're a SaaS company that gets a lot of traffic, but have a hard time converting those visitors into activated users and leads. A CRO agency can conduct research and analysis to figure out why users aren't converting, and then run experiments to validate those hypotheses. By implementing evidence-based changes, like optimizing the company's landing page or onboarding flows, the CRO agency can help the company improve conversions and generate more revenue from the same amount of visitors.

Standing up an in-house CRO team has some advantages, including a deep knowledge of the product, and more seamless collaboration. But there are also some clear advantages to hiring a CRO agency. These include:

Expertise & Experience – hiring an agency provides access to specialized expertise that would otherwise be time consuming and difficult to hire in-house.

Cost Effectiveness - Building an in-house team involves significant up-front costs. For example, a senior growth PM can cost upwards of $200k USD to hire full time. By hiring flightdeck, you can get a lot of the value for a fraction of the cost. And this doesn't include ongoing training needed to stay up to date with the latest CRO techniques and trends.

Higher Win Rate - Because CRO agencies get to run a ton of experiments for a range of companies, they develop solid intuition about what types of tests move the needle. In fact, data from Convert.com, a popular a/b testing tool, found that CRO agencies had a 21% higher win-rate compared to in-house teams.

The good news is – you don't have to pick. If you already have a CRO team in place, we're happy to work with them. We can also help you build your CRO muscle if you're looking to eventually bring CRO in-house.

There's no shortage agencies offering CRO services. One big difference is that we've chosen to focus on CRO. We do one thing, and do it well.

Another big difference – we're an agency of one. That means you'll work directly with me, an experiment-led growth expert with 10+ years of experience. If you're hiring another agency, there's a good chance you'll be paired with a junior strategist with a lot less experience. Our add-on services, like high-fidelity design work or advanced development, is provided by outside partners.

And because we don't have the overhead of a typical agency, we can charge much more competitive rates. A lot of agencies are charging 2-3x what we're charging, and offering less experienced support.

This varies a lot from one business to the next. Our goal is to run multiple experiments in our first month of working together, but it might take a couple of months to see a significant lift.

Not all experiments will be a "winner" – we find about 30-40% of experiments are successful (but we often learn a lot from unsuccessful tests). Also, it can take time for experiments to show significant results – sometimes several weeks.

We recommend engaging us for at least six months to give us time to work our magic. Plus, we can often deliver $100k+ of value with a single big win.

The program works best for companies that have at least 50k and 500 conversions a month.

SaaS – We have years of experience working on SaaS growth, product, and marketing teams. We understand that in SaaS, getting users to sign up is not even half the battle, it's 20% of the battle. Most of the impact will come from optimizing activation and retention, which we do well.

Lead Gen Companies - We help lead gen companies optimize paid marketing campaigns, fine tune landing pages, and improve user flows, leading to improved ROI.

Scaleups – We work with fast-moving companies that have clear product-market fit, and have often raised Series A/B funding.

We've designed our CRO program to require as little time and energy from your team as possible. We collaborate async via Slack and Notion, and meet for a monthly strategy call over Zoom to review results and discuss upcoming experiments.

We designed a seamless onboarding process that includes a simple survey and checklist to get access to the tools we'll need.

We also recommend having a single point of contact who can help answer questions and approve experiments on a weekly basis (done via Slack).

If you don't have enough traffic to run a full CRO program, we can still audit your product to provide recommendations for improvements. We'll even do user testing and surveys of your target audience to ensure our recommendations are based on user insights.

Definitely! We've been working on CRO for more than a decade, so we know the ins and outs of all the popular tools. We've also included a list of the popular tools we're most familiar with below.