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The Smarter Data Manifesto

June 14, 2013

Continuous Improvement, Customer Experience, Interview, Optimization, Strategy, web analytics

“An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.” – Jack Welch Fifteen years of working with many organizations (it is an impressive list) has taught us most organizations have not yet achieved a point where marketing analytics is like financial reporting: simplified; fairly universal; with a clear line of sight to business financial statements and tied to specific goals and objectives. If everyone had a simple marketing analytics framework that made reporting simple, then everyone…

Adopting a Culture of Experimentation

April 5, 2013

Bryan Eisenberg

Continuous Improvement, Optimization, Strategy, Testing

“Almost any question can be answered cheaply, quickly and finally, by a test campaign. And that’s the way to answer them – not by arguments around a table. Go to the court of last resort – buyers of your products.” “Scientific Advertising” was published in 1923 by Claude Hopkins, who began to evangelize the need for testing and experimentation in marketing and advertising. 40 years later David Ogilvy a huge disciple of Hopkins was quoted as saying that “Nobody, at…

Leadership in the Age of Agility & Experimentation

March 22, 2013

Bryan Eisenberg

Continuous Improvement, Optimization, Seminar, Testing, Uncategorized

Here’s the punchline; The role of today’s leadership is to “remove the speed bumps in the experimenters’ way!” ~ Scott Cook, co-founder and Chairman of Intuit Nobody worth arguing with argues whether search, social, and mobile technologies have impacted customers’ minds and changed buying behavior over the last five years. Today while companies worry about keeping ahead of their competition; the truly critical issue is keeping pace with their customers. Technological and social advances are forcing companies to embrace authenticity…

Conversion Optimization 101: Pricing Tables – Ecommerce

September 28, 2012

Bryan Eisenberg

B2C, Continuous Improvement, Conversion Rate Optimization 101, Ecommerce, Pricing Tables, Testing

On Twitter, I shared a link to this article from Smashing Magazine, Pricing Tables: Examples And Best Practices. When I shared it, I said that while many of these were beautiful there was still plenty of room for some conversion optimization. This won’t be as tricky as my first Conversion Optimization 101 post that you needed to pick up on the nuance that corporate culture trumps any conversion optimization tactics. Even so, we had some fabulous suggestions in the comments. For my…

Conversion Optimization 101: Culture Trumps Strategy and Tactics

September 14, 2012

Bryan Eisenberg

Call to Action, Continuous Improvement, conversion rate, Conversion Rate Optimization 101, Customer Experience, Optimization, Testing, usability

Last week, I published my first Conversion Optimization 101 post and asked you if you could look at a particular screenshot and also to tell me: What’s wrong with this picture? How would you fix it? Here is the image: There were some very good suggestions on what you would do to improve this picture: Dennis Moons said: The three buttons: Previous, Process and Cancel all have the same colour and visual weight. I would change the Cancel & Previous buttons…

Online Advertising in the Age of Agility

April 20, 2012

Bryan Eisenberg

Advertising, Continuous Improvement, Customer Experience, Optimization, PPC, Testing

Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising is not at all like a Ronco Grill! If you just set it and forget it you can also kiss your money goodbye. We have been telling clients this for the last several years. So I was fascinated by the research my friend Larry Kim, founder of WordStream, shared with me from the data his free AdWords Performance Grader had accumulated. The key findings that WordStream is seeing through thousands of accounts grading profiles are very low…

The CEO’s Accountability for Conversion Rates

December 2, 2011

Bryan Eisenberg

Continuous Improvement, Customer Experience, Optimization, Strategy

Increasing sales conversion rates offers a greater ROI than what you can get from optimizing your traffic; either from paid or earned media. The math is simple – even if many never do the calculations. Companies with higher conversion rates almost always have better marketing efficiency ratios (net contribution/marketing expenses.) The upside is that these companies make more money and that’s a good thing. The downside is that it’s hard work to accomplish better marketing efficiency ratios. These companies are…