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18%

18% -- conversion rate increase for Booking.com (2023)

2023  · CXL

Booking.com reported an 18% increase in conversion after implementing social proof widgets.

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18%
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2023
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Booking.com
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Global
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https://cxl.com/blog/creating-urgency/?__hstc=134735854.783eb372249addfccbb951092ae2f8ee.14634559836… ↗
Confidence: 20/100 Vintage: 2023 Channel: Common Crawl
Source Article
How to Effectively Create Urgency in Sales (11 Best Ways)
Creating a sense of urgency is one of the most powerful ways to turn potential customers into actual buyers. Urgency taps into deep psychological triggers that drive human behavior. When people perceive an opportunity as fleeting, they instinctively place a higher value on it. This principle is why …
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Implementing social proof widgets

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Booking.com: 18% conversion rate increase. Source: CXL (2023). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/bookingcom_reviews
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/bookingcom_reviews" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>18%</strong> -- conversion rate increase for Booking.com<br><small>Source: CXL (2023) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/bookingcom_reviews" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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