We are operating an app helping people apply visas using their mobile phone (fill forms, submit supporting documents by taking pictures etc.), we have acquired 300+ customers in less than 2 weeks, and 350+ visa applications created, most of the customers stop after the 1st step (Basic personal information), they won't take further step, only 2 users completed the whole process, and they are very happy with our assistance. We believe it's because of lack of trust, people are not willing to give out their private informations, but how could they trust the other traditional agents?
Ask HN: How to earn trust from users and increase conversion rate
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Re: Ask HN: How to earn trust from users and increase conversion rate
#2Have you talked to the people who stopped halfway?
Re: Ask HN: How to earn trust from users and increase conversion rate
#3Have you talked to the people who stopped halfway?
yes, we have tried to contact some of them, since we've been communicating with customers about their visa applications, the main reason they gave us for stopping halfway is they don't trust us, they have big concerns their privacy will be compromised
Re: Ask HN: How to earn trust from users and increase conversion rate
#4I'd suggest trying to get some kind of endorsement / verification from a government entity or something like a law firm, or any other entity that will boost your credibility. Then display such endorsement on the first screen the user sees when accessing your app.
I think people are scared that your app is not legitimate and the information they share could be used to harm them.
Re: Ask HN: How to earn trust from users and increase conversion rate
#5'300 customers' means 300 people paid money for the service. If people are not paying money, then they are not customers. Requiring people to pay money is a good way to filter out people who are unlikely to trust your process and ultimately, if the goal is to have a business, then getting people to pay is a necessary step toward validation. Charging people is also a reality check on the product creating value. If it doesn't seem reasonable to charge for it then it might not be a good product.
If people are not completing the process, then the product might not meet the market. In that case it's not a matter of increasing conversions, it's a matter of creating a better product.
Good luck.
Re: Ask HN: How to earn trust from users and increase conversion rate
#6I am not readily finding any of the things I want, but your website needs to LOOK trustworthy. It can't be too flashy. It needs to look conservative and banker-ish.
You need it to have the right kind of written copy and there can be no typos. You must clean up anything like that. It will signal to people that you do sloppy work and can't be entrusted with anything more important if you can't bother to clean up typos, misspelled words and grammatical errors.
You also need some explicit signals that your site is trustworthy, such as relevant "endorsements" or verifications by the kinds of organizations that do that kind of thing.
(There may be a few other things you need, but this is a place to start.)
Re: Ask HN: How to earn trust from users and increase conversion rate
#7I'd suggest trying to get some kind of endorsement / verification from a government entity or something like a law firm, or any other entity that will boost your credibility. Then display such endorsement on the first screen the user sees when accessing your app. I think people are scared that your app is not legitimate and the information they share could be used to harm them.
yeah, actually, we are supported by Immigration public section, but they can not endorse the app because there are other players in the market
Re: Ask HN: How to earn trust from users and increase conversion rate
#8'300 customers' means 300 people paid money for the service. If people are not paying money, then they are not customers. Requiring people to pay money is a good way to filter out people who are unlikely to trust your process and ultimately, if the goal is to have a business, then getting people to pay is a necessary step toward validation. Charging people is also a reality check on the product creating value. If it…
yeah, that's true, to be more precise, we have 300+ users registered for less than two weeks. People are searching `visa` in App store then see our app, we have 300+ registered users in a short period of time, which means the need is there, people are not paying since we are not that trustworthy, i am still believing it's a good product, but we do need to do more reality check see how people are willing to pay for the service
Re: Ask HN: How to earn trust from users and increase conversion rate
#9I am not readily finding any of the things I want, but your website needs to LOOK trustworthy. It can't be too flashy. It needs to look conservative and banker-ish. You need it to have the right kind of written copy and there can be no typos. You must clean up anything like that. It will signal to people that you do sloppy work and can't be entrusted with anything more important if you can't bother to clean up typos,…
thank you for all the great advices, the website is actually a landing page, we will see if we can have a more trustworthy user experience, we will also have someone proof read the content to ensure no typos or grammatical errors appear on the page
Re: Ask HN: How to earn trust from users and increase conversion rate
#10Not your app (since you didn't post a link) but I see many websites on Show HN missing basic information like the company address, contact person, phone number. Often it's only a hello@companyname.com, domain registered with privacy protection and obvious stock photos, sometimes fake-looking testimonials.
Number 7 on Show HN right now: https://realideas.site/, I personally wouldn't register since the only contact is an email address
https://toortl.com/about is only slightly better with links to the linkedin profiles of the founders. It is a company? Is it registered/incorporated? Do they have an office? Why no copyright notice/terms-of-serivce/privacy notice. I assume it's a hobby project.
On my own project (https://geocoder.opencagedata.com/) the footer lists tax and company registration numbers. I hope that makes us a little more trustworthly towards companies (B2B). In reality we've never received a letter other than tax related stuff.