Comparing the Anatomy of B2B Landing Pages

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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...]

Conversion Optimization 101: Copywriting Perspectives in Email Marketing

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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...]

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...]

The Number 1 Rule for Content Marketing

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...or the dog will just ignore you! … [Read more...]

Content Marketing Personas

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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...]

Everything You Wanted to Know About Us…

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It’s often the most neglected page on your website; if you even have this page. However, if you do, it is very likely among the most visited pages. I may be dating myself but it is the Rodney Dangerfield of web pages. It gets no respect. Do you have an “about us” page? Is it performing at … [Read more...]

10 Steps to Optimizing Copy and Content

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If we could spend only a few minutes working together to optimize your website, we'd still get results starting with a process. When evaluating and improving any type of content or copy, there is a quick 10-step process you can use. 1. Headlines. Why are headlines first? They are the critical … [Read more...]