Simplicity Scales. Complexity Kills.
(And your customer doesn’t have time for a scavenger hunt.)
If you want to boost your ecommerce performance, here’s your first move:
🔪 Start deleting.
We get it—you love your site. You worked hard on it. That sleek animation. The flowery product description. That paragraph explaining how you founded the brand while hiking in the Andes with a pet goat named Gary.
Cool story. But your customer? They’re just trying to figure out what this thing is, what it does, and if it’s worth their money.
Every extra element is one more chance to confuse, distract, or lose them.
🤯 Here’s what you’re up against:
Fewer than 60% of people scroll below the fold.
Most visitors scan. They don’t read.
Decision fatigue is very real—and it kills conversion.
That’s why Matthew Stafford preaches what he calls "Homer Simpson simple."
If it takes brainpower to figure out what to do next, you’re doing it wrong.
✅ Here’s how to fix it:
Cut the clutter.
Remove anything that doesn’t help someone make a buying decision. If it’s not supporting trust, clarity, or value—it’s gone.
Use tabs or progressive disclosure.
Don’t dump every ingredient, return policy, and FAQ on the homepage. Hide the details behind tabs or accordions. Let people choose what they want to read.
Make your headlines punchy and benefit-driven.
We’re not writing poetry. Say what it is. Say why it matters. Say it loud.
And for the love of conversion—stop writing about you.
Your story is cute. But customers care about their problem. Their pain. Their outcome.
If you can describe their issue better than they can, you become the obvious solution.
TL;DR:
✨ Make it scannable
⚡ Make it fast
🎯 Make it obvious
Because clarity converts. And simplicity? That scales.
Everything else is just noise.
