Professional Speakers, Best Selling Authors, Online Marketing Pioneers
Last week, my partner and brother, Jeffrey and I were doing an in-house training for a large B2B marketing team. At the end of our training, we had them review a bunch of landing pages across the web to see how they could apply what they learned over the two day training. One source of inspiration … [Read more...]
This week's conversion optimization challenge is to offer recommendations on a socially promoted whitepaper campaign. Bloomreach recently launched a Twitter campaign including some promoted Tweets to gain traction for their latest whitepaper, Moneyball of Marketing. Their Tweets … [Read more...]
Last week in our Conversion Optimization challenge I asked, how would you improve this Quick Tour demo video found on the homepage of UserTesting.com. I won't tell you any more about them. If you don't know them it's because the video should do a better job of "selling" you. Watch the explainer … [Read more...]
It seems like only yesterday that I typed the following words into my computer: Conversion rate is a measure of your ability to persuade visitors to take the action you want them to take. It's a reflection of your effectiveness and customer satisfaction. For you to achieve your goals, visitors … [Read more...]
In my last column, I told you about seven must-test elements on your e-commerce product pages. I left you with less tangible products and services with a promise I'd follow up in this column. So, if you sell a product or service through untraditional e-commerce or software, or even … [Read more...]
Enjoy this presentation by Jeffrey Eisenberg which was presented at Dreamforce 2011 in San Francisco: … [Read more...]
Are you selling your white papers short with poor merchandising? Many sites offering "free" white papers, case studies, or resources in exchange for some visitor information utterly fail to merchandise their downloads. Yet if your website doesn't treat your white paper as containing valuable … [Read more...]
When you ask salespeople about their biggest gripe about marketing, they complain about not enough qualified leads. You can often tell that this is an issue just by looking at a company’s lead forms. What you’ll typically see is that the the forms ask for too much information and that can … [Read more...]
If you knew the true intent of a search inquiry (query) and you could respond to that intent perfectly then you'd convert most of the time. For more than a decade Bryan, John and I have been working with clients to determine all the different buying modalities (read "Waiting For Your Cat To Bark?") … [Read more...]
Can you spare an hour this week for what took me the past decade to put together? This Thursday, January 7, 12pm EST, courtesy of my friends at MarketMotive, you can join me for this free workshop on the 21 Secrets of Top Converting Websites. The average conversion rate for a website is around … [Read more...]
