The best media buy in the world still fails on a bad landing page. A funnel is only as strong as its worst step.
3/ A page converting poorly for good traffic converts poorly for any traffic, no matter how well-targeted the campaign is.
3/ Guest checkout, with account creation offered after as an option, removes the loss without giving up eventual account capture — most buyers opt in when it's optional and useful.
1/ Asking someone to invent a password and set up a profile right before payment adds friction at the exact moment it matters most.
One checkout step quietly loses the whole sale, more often than any other single design decision: forced account creation before payment.
3/ Marketing and legal, which may have barely interacted before, need a genuinely tight relationship.
3/ That question becomes the brief nearly word for word. "How is this different from [competitor]" is a comparison page. "Does this work for our size" is a case study.




