5 Reasons Your Competitors May Be Kicking Your B&^(

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There are a finite number of ways to stand out and capture significant market share in any marketing category. You can be lowest price driven (a dangerous path), operationally excellent, channel dominant, or focused on customer intimacy. Many companies excel at two or three but it is nearly … [Read more...]

The Conversion Trinity: The 3 Step Magic Formula to Increase Click Throughs & Conversions

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Being able to share a great success you have is a nice thing, but it is even better when you have the opportunity to share your students' successes. Over the last couple of years I have seen my students shine writing for publications such as ClickZ, speaking at conferences, generating and … [Read more...]

Landing Page Testing: Testing for Impact Not Variations

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Last column I shared the following test, which I found “in the wild” and asked readers to identify the variables. Hoping that instead of testing all the variables you could narrow it down to the most meaningful variables so that you minimize the time and resources needed to complete the … [Read more...]

Testing – What’s the Big Idea?

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Is yours the typical company launching 2-5 tests a month, struggling to eke out more from your marketing optimization program, and wasting critical marketing resources of your team and website traffic? That’s the result of not focusing in on the Big Idea! How much should you be testing? A … [Read more...]

Betting on Future Success

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Let's play a little game of what if... You have the choice in building your organization; you can: A. Recruit and hire some of the world's best analytics, customer insight, marketing and testing team members. B. Recruit average team members but provide them with superb technology and … [Read more...]

A Tale of Two Publishers: And What Every Business Needs to Know

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It is the best of times and the worst of times for some businesses. Many look at the world and see the opportunities of being data rich, customer centric, and nimble while others imagine they can bring their old school thinking to the new media, always-on connected customer. They sit cross-fingered … [Read more...]

A Marketing Optimization Fitness Plan

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Is your corporate metabolism a bit sluggish? Are you dragged down by the weight of meeting-itis? Do you need more energy and resources to respond to the ever-increasing demands of your customers? Well I wish I could tell you about the next magical black box, with the persuasive infomercial that … [Read more...]

Play the Online Marketing Game Like “Charlie Hustle”

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With Major League Baseball's spring training under full force, it inspires me to look at how we approach our "online marketing game." We can learn a lot about winning "conversions" from how the game is played. Most baseball people will tell you that you can win the game with the "long" ball or with … [Read more...]

Optimizing the Conversion Rate Optimization Process

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Confused about conversion optimization? You should be with all the experts sharing their opinions. After all, everyone is entitled to their own spin on the measure, test, analyze, and repeat optimization cycle. When Jeffrey Eisenberg, my brother and business partner, recently spoke at a WAA … [Read more...]

How Many “Potential Buyers” Are You Driving To Your Website?

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Just do It! Stop thinking of your traffic in terms of number of visits or visitors. That metric sucks! All that matters is potential buyers and actual buyers. Everything else just inflates egos. So instead of looking at your traffic by what marketing efforts are bring the most amount of visitors … [Read more...]