A glow-up app for women · B2C · guest's paywall client
Put a short video of the app in use on the paywall
Won its A/B test; no numbers given
Workedpaywall
What they did
Mojo-inspired paywall: a Rotato-rendered video of the app in action on a phone (guest screen-records himself using the app and drops it into a Rotato template), social proof, simple bullets, monthly vs yearly plans, and a targeted CTA 'Start my glow up' for a largely female audience. Components (video, slider, text) are then swapped in further variants.
What happened
This paywall was the winner in a test; guest says the format works across the board.
“So, this paywall was the winner in a test. Uh it's it's just simple social proof with a video and bullets, so you see what you get”
“But typically what I do is, I just record uh myself using the phone uh or the app on my phone, and then I just drop in that recording, and it just creates this uh video pretty pretty seamlessly.”
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