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Conversion Rate Optimization Services Pricing: What CRO Costs
A practical guide to conversion rate optimization services pricing, with clear steps, common mistakes, and answers to the questions teams ask before they act.
•CRO CONSULTING
CRO Consultant
We restart stalled conversion rate optimization programs and hand them back to your team.
You hire a CRO consultant when the tests keep going out and the revenue never moves. We start with what you have already run, agree in writing which number decides a winner and how long a test runs, then work one full cycle beside your team. You keep the playbook.
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•Why Suff Digital
One senior operator, from diagnosis to handover.
The conversion rate optimization consultant who re-reads your test log also sits with your team through the pilot, writes the decision rules and builds the handover. The goal is a program your team can trust and keep running, not a bigger pile of test ideas.
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Matt Suffoletto
Founder & CEO
Kriszta
Chief Operating Officer
Tony
Partnership Director
•What we take on
What Our CRO Consulting Services Include
We are hired to fix the whole testing program, not to redesign one page. If you want the role explained from scratch, start with our conversion optimization services page.
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•A diagnosis of what is holding the program back
How often you test, how often it works, who decides, and how good the waiting ideas are, ending in a written verdict.
•Re-reading the tests you already ran
Every past test rechecked against the traffic it actually got, how long it ran, and the day the result was called.
•Written rules for declaring a winner
Who declares a winner, on which number, after how long, and what happens when someone senior disagrees.
•Coaching your team to run the program themselves
Working sessions on writing a test, sizing it, and reading the result, using the ideas already in your queue.
•Reporting your finance team will accept
Results written up so finance can check them, plus a revenue range you can defend in a budget meeting.
•Where programs stall
CRO testing problems that stop reliable wins
These are the patterns we get called in to fix. See if you recognize two or three of them.
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Test wins that never show up in revenue
The test log is full of green results and the finance report has not moved. Usually the win was measured on a click or a started form rather than on an order, or the change was never made permanent once the test ended.
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The testing roadmap has no owner
Ideas sit in a Slack thread and an old spreadsheet, so the next test is whatever the loudest person suggested most recently.
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Tests get stopped before they can be trusted
Someone checks the dashboard on day three, sees a good number and rolls it out. Look early enough times and you will always catch a good day, so a green result stops meaning anything.
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Test results get overruled by the most senior opinion
A senior person dislikes the winning version, so it never goes live. The deciding metric was not agreed beforehand, so taste becomes the tie-breaker and your analysts stop proposing anything ambitious.
•Methodology
Our CRO Consulting Process
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Phase 01
2 weeks
Reading what you have already run
We read every test you have run, the ideas still waiting and your analytics setup, then interview the people who run and veto tests. You get a written diagnosis.
Phase 02
Week 3
Comparing the skills you need with the skills you have
We map the skills the program needs against the skills it has, ours included. A store needs an ecommerce CRO consultant who knows merchandising; a lead-gen funnel needs someone who knows forms.
Phase 03
Week 4
Writing down who decides what
One working session with everyone who can overrule a result, ending in a one-page rulebook they have all signed.
Phase 04
Weeks 5-10
One full test cycle, run by your team
Your team runs one full test under the new rules with us alongside, from the first idea to the decision at the end.
Phase 05
Weeks 11-12
The handover and the playbook you keep
Everything the pilot used becomes yours: templates, the scoring model, the traffic calculator, the reporting format and the rules themselves. The week numbers above are an estimate rather than a final timeline; the real dates are agreed in your proposal, because a test cycle runs on your traffic, not on ours.
•Decisions, not more tests
The program is not short of ideas. It is short of decisions.
Most teams who call us are already running tests, so what is missing is not the testing. It is a rule for what counts as a win, and a test length the team agrees to protect.
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Decision rules agreed before the first result, not after it
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Results written up to match what payments show
•Why this is built to end
You are buying judgment, not a permanent dependency.
A better converting page only pays while you keep buying the traffic, and the same is true of a consultant. What you keep is your team's ability. If you are weighing that against a salary, our CRO pricing guide covers what a specialist earns.
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A joint pilot cycle your team runs, not one they watch
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A playbook written for someone who was not in the room
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An honest call on whether your volume justifies an in-house hire
CRO Consulting Deliverables
Everything below is written down and handed over, not left in a call recording.
Month One
Diagnosis
✓What is actually limiting the program — The one thing holding the program back, the evidence, and what we ruled out.
✓Which past results still stand — A line-by-line verdict on your past tests: it stands, it does not stand, or it was never going to give an answer either way.
Months 2-3
Governance
✓The rules that decide a winner — The signed one-page rulebook, and the named person who settles a dispute over a result.
✓Your ideas, re-scored and ordered — Your ideas re-scored on evidence, likely payoff and build cost, with the ones your traffic cannot test flagged.
Ongoing
Handover
✓The operating manual you own — Every template, checklist and calculator we used, in a folder you keep.
✓A forecast the program can budget from — A simple model that turns how often you test, and what each win is worth, into a revenue range.
Compare CRO Consulting Services
We re-read past tests before proposing new ones, then write the win rule, runtime and guardrails before build. That keeps the roadmap tied to evidence your team can defend.
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Senior CRO consultant owns the program after diagnosis
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Senior CRO consultant owns the program after diagnosis
Sometimes
Past results re-read before new tests are proposed
Decision rules written down before the first result
Partial
Program designed for a clean handover
Partial
Will tell you not to hire in-house at your volume
Partial
Ramps up in weeks, not a year
Partial
Find out what your test log actually proved.
Send us the tests you have already run and we will tell you which wins still stand.
•Frequently asked questions
Common Questions
A CRO consultant is a senior operator you hire to fix how a testing program is run, rather than to run more tests. Most of the job is deciding what to test, how to measure it and who calls the result, not design. It ends in a handover.
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•Related services
Services that support CRO.
Our full CRO service, if you want it run for you
The parent page covers the role, the tools and how a winner is decided.
PPC management, when the traffic is the problem
No amount of governance rescues a funnel fed the wrong visitors.
Web design, to make a winner permanent
A result that never leaves the testing tool has not really shipped.
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