HubSpot Website Redesign Generates 62% Increase In Closed-Won Revenue in 7 Months

PaydayHCM’s old website had an outdated user experience and design that focused more on themselves than the user. Reversing that focus on the website became a top business priority.

In the new version of the website, they were looking to:

• Align their website with their business objectives, vision, and mission
• Increase leads and generate revenue
• Intensely focus on their end-users
• Streamline the user experience
• Reduce the number of clicks to navigate the site down from 21 in each service page's header
• Clarify their service offerings
• Balance attracting and engaging prospects with delighting existing customers

A successful end-user website should align with the inbound strategy, defined as a "method of growing your organization by building meaningful, lasting relationships with consumers, prospects, and customers."

Websites should reflect excellence in all inbound flywheel areas: attract, engage, and delight. 

Content is crucial to making a connection at each stage, from drawing in the right people with valuable content, sharing insights and solutions that align with prospects' challenges, and providing help and support to empower customers.

Throughout the site, the poor design and user experience limited the PaydayHCM team's ability to create content that connected with the users, even if the information was all there. In addition to the services pages, important areas like the resource center were cluttered, crowded, and confusing.

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The solution was a cleanly-designed, user-focused, flywheel-friendly website.

Revenue River and PaydayHCM went through a complete website redesign strategy.

Here are the high-level steps we took to ensure success:

1. Evaluate current traffic and analytics to determine high-interest content

2. Compare website analytics to prospect and member data

3. Organize resources around the needs of employees and employers

4. Re-think website navigation and conversions to align with users' customer journeys

We determined it was critical to provide quick and easy access for existing members to log in to their portal and find their desired content.

We also knew that easy access to resources for employees and employers through links, forms downloads, and other media would align better with an inbound approach.

Finally, we wanted to ensure that both prospects and existing customers could have a great website experience. This would require us to emphasize the unique value propositions and information relevant to each visitor type and create appropriate strategic conversion points, with room for an ongoing optimization strategy.

The result was a clean and modern website design that leveraged more imagery and white space in order to better present the content in a storylike fashion.

In 2021 PaydayHCM is already seeing exponential success with a record month in February and almost double the revenue in March year over year.

In total, they saw a 62% increase in closed-won revenue in just 7 months at $621,110.42 as opposed to $383,319.96 in the first part of 2020 before launching the new site. 

It was clear to PaydayHCM that the new website strategy helped them to better service prospects and customers.

The final website strategy incorporates:

Bottom-line results that matter!

Although the HR and Benefits industry can be cyclical, PaydayHCM has seen some tremendous results since the launch of the new site in late August of 2020.

After launch, they saw an immediate increase in closed-won revenue, with September being the top overall month of the year. Through the remainder of 2020, they saw consistently higher average monthly revenue.

Ultimately, this momentum carried forward with a 62% increase in closed-won revenue in 7 months since launching the site.

PaydayHCM now has a website that:

• Aligns with their objectives and values
• Drives revenue
• Has a higher click-through rate
• Has greater time on page for key pages

With this new site in place, they can focus on what they do best: creating meaningful human-to-human experiences.

These bottom-line results show that focusing on the customer pays off.

Continuing the relationship

With a firm foundation in place, PaydayHCM team members can easily manage their site and come back to Revenue River for ongoing support to continuously improve the website.

We continue to support them by helping to make their service offerings better. We are now developing a set of custom modules for an internal training resources library that allows users to filter by format.

PaydayHCM and Revenue River's relationship has been a fantastic experience and continues to yield new opportunities to support one another. We couldn't be happier to support such a company with great people and a great mission.