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SaaS UX tips - 3 reasons your website doesn’t convert, how to make your value ridiculously clear, and more

It's Jim here - this week all of my 5 tips are about making your SaaS website convert better 💰

Let’s get into it.

Estimated read time: 2 minutes & 5 seconds.

Tip #1: Think and act like a sneakers store

Let your visitors get in your store, look at your product, feel it and play with it, without signing up. Here is how Userflow does it with an interactive public demo.

Think and act like a sneakers store

Tip #2: Express your copy visually

UI tip for your SaaS landing pages:

"Express your copy visually"

Example from my design mentor Ben Issen. The word "creative" is highlighted and expressed through colours and character animations.

Express your copy visually

Tip #3: Make your SaaS value ridiculously clear

Golden rule for your SaaS website:

"Make your SaaS value ridiculously clear and specific"

How? With examples and interactive product visuals. Amazing example from Wordtune.

Make your SaaS value ridiculously clear and specific

Tip #4: Look outside of your design to understand why your website doesn't convert

Design is NOT the only reason your SaaS website visitors are dropping off.

It could also be that:

  • They aren't your ideal customers
    (low-quality traffic)

  • They aren't ready to try yet
    (too early in their buying process)

  • The problems your SaaS solves aren't valuable enough

Tip #5: Check my top 3 SaaS websites to get inspired

My top 3 favourite SaaS websites:

What are yours? Drop a comment I am curious!


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  1. 1

    Shameless plug, we use Hubalz (hubalz.com) at Hubalz to monitor our landing pages, we watch session replays of users and view the heatmaps to see what the users interact with the most

  2. 1

    #1 is a great point. We have an interactive demo on our landing page as well which is the highest source of our inbound conversion as well.

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