Boosting Profit Per Session Over Conversion Rate for GrowthBoosting Profit Per Session Over Conversion Rate for Growth
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Razvan (Alex) Grigoriciuc
• Jul 6
Stores that scale past $5M stop caring so much about conversion rate and start caring about profit per session.
A discount bumps your conversion and quietly eats your margin. Looks like a win but is it tho?
Here's the trap imo:
You add a 10% off popup and conversion jumps.
You ship it and a few weeks later revenue's flat and your margins are down so clearly the test "won" but the business lost.
Conversion rate doesn't care if you're actually making money.
It only cares how many people checked out and those aren't the same thing.
A discount code just teaches people to wait for the next one.
A lower price eats the money you needed for ads.
A free shipping offer drops your average order value because now nobody's adding an extra item to hit the threshold.
All of these look great on a conversion dashboard. All of them can quietly shrink the business.
Profit per session actually tells you the truth.
It's what each visitor makes you after discounts, shipping, and cost of goods.
You can have a lower conversion rate and a healthier business at the same time.
Small stores try to convert more people, big stores try to make more per person.
Same traffic but totally different outcome.
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