Translated copy tests badly.
The standard approach to a Spanish-language funnel is to write the English one, send it to a translation service, and ship it. It reads correctly. It also converts worse than it should, for reasons that do not show up in a translation QA pass.
Conversion copy works through register, familiarity, and the specific words a market uses for money, risk, and commitment. Those do not survive translation intact. A call to action that lands as confident in English can land as presumptuous in Spanish; a trust signal that reassures a US buyer can read as boilerplate to a Colombian one. Formality alone (tú versus usted, and which is right in which market) changes how a page feels before anyone reads a benefit.
None of this is exotic. It is the same reason you would not let a Spanish agency translate your English checkout copy and assume it was optimised. It just rarely gets applied in the other direction.
What we actually do differently
Spanish variants are written in Spanish by someone with genuine regional fluency, then tested as their own hypotheses rather than as translations of a winning English test. Sometimes the English winner also wins in Spanish. Often it does not, and that difference is exactly the kind of thing an averaged programme never surfaces.
Where you serve multiple Spanish-speaking markets, we treat them as separate segments rather than one, because Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, and Spain do not behave like a single audience and the data usually says so within a couple of tests. The personalization guide covers how to act on that once it shows up.
What is structurally different in a LATAM funnel.
These are the places where a US-designed funnel tends to leak once it meets a regional audience.
Payment methods
Card penetration varies enormously by market, and funnels built around card-first checkout quietly exclude a large share of otherwise-willing buyers. Which alternatives to surface, and how prominently, is a testable question rather than an assumption.
Instalments
In several markets, the instalment option is not a nice-to-have at checkout; it is the deciding factor. Whether the price is displayed as a total or per-instalment is one of the highest-leverage tests available in the region.
KYC and documents
FinTech onboarding depends on national ID types and document formats that differ by country. A KYC step designed around one market’s document set produces avoidable drop-off in every other.
Trust signals
The badges, guarantees, and proof formats that reassure a US buyer are not automatically the ones that reassure a regional one. Local presence and support availability often carry more weight than security iconography.
Mobile-first, genuinely
Mobile share is higher and device capability more varied than most US-built funnels assume. A variant that is fine on a recent flagship can be unusable on the hardware a large share of the market is actually holding.
Currency and pricing display
Whether to price in USD or local currency changes perceived cost, perceived legitimacy, and conversion, and the right answer differs by market and by product category.
How the working relationship runs.
Overlapping hours
Miami-based, working across US and LATAM time zones. Approval conversations happen the same day rather than the next one, which matters more for test velocity than most teams expect.
Either language, throughout
Calls, reporting, and documentation in English or Spanish, whichever your team actually thinks in. We do not charge extra for one of them.
Regional segments as first-class
Where you serve several Spanish-speaking markets, results are read by market as well as in aggregate, because the aggregate frequently hides the interesting part.
Local hypotheses, not imported ones
The roadmap is built from your regional funnel data rather than from a list of tests that worked for a US company in the same category.
We are not publishing regional client names or per-market case study numbers, here or anywhere else on this site. The experimentation history behind this practice is described by category and scale by decision, not by oversight. On a call we will go into specifics about what has and has not worked in these markets, with the same discretion we would extend to your work.
Bring us a Spanish funnel.
If you are running a translated funnel and suspect it is underperforming, that is a very testable suspicion.