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Button Magic

newegg-not-largest.jpgInteresting article on Call to Action Buttons on the Get Elastic blog.

Which of the buttons do you think was most effective? My “gut” would go with first column, third button down. It’s red, big and says “cart,” not “bag.” (I don’t like the word bag, maybe it’s a personal thing or something.)

But alas, I was wrong. The one that worked the best was the yellow button in the last column. Ok, that makes sense, too. After all, red is the universal color for “stop,” so I’m less likely to “go” to the checkout if I see it.  Yellow grabs attention, but in a nice way. And I like the little graphic of a cart. So, now you know….

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Hi Susan,

Thanks for linking to Get Elastic!

Actually the images above are not all NewEgg's test buttons. NewEgg tested buttons and decided on the yellow one. We don't know what the other test buttons looked like.

The image above is a screenshot from another post
http://www.getelastic.com/add-to-cart-buttons/
where we collected a gallery of a number of different online retailers' cart buttons.

I used the above image in http://www.getelastic.com/cart-button-size/ to show that NewEgg's button isn't as big as other retailers'. Because some say that bigger cart buttons convert higher.

I guess without testing we'll never know for sure.

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