Google Plus Needs to Become Content Marketing Friendly

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Google+ may be growing, but anyone who spends time on it wishes it had more engagement with their connections and more content being shared. Unfortunately, it doesn't. Why is this happening? It is not just lack of people, it is the lack of integration with the content marketing ecosystem. Even … [Read more...]

Conversion Optimization 101: Social Media Landing Pages

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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...]

Conversion Optimization 101: Copywriting Perspectives in Email Marketing

Sometime you have to flip your perspective

Last week's conversion optimization challenge was to take a look at the webinar invite sent out by WriterAccess.com with the subject line: Webinar Invite: Lessons Learned From 90,000 Content Orders.  The email contained two major obstacles and a handful of smaller obstacles. The major obstacles … [Read more...]

Conversion Optimization 101: Perfectly Persuasive PPC Landing Pages

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Last week, in our Conversion Optimization challenge we looked at the following PPC ad: and the corresponding landing page (image capture below): How would you optimize the ad and the landing page? My general guidelines for marketing with landing pages: Start your marketing with your … [Read more...]

Content Marketing: Superheroes Teach the Art of Storytelling

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Last week, I visited ComicCon Austin with my 7 year old son. The people in costumes, the famous actors and characters were not what caught my attention. What fascinated me is the engagement that people had with these characters many of whom have been around for more than 50 years. That is the value … [Read more...]