Comparing the Anatomy of B2B Landing Pages

square lp

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...]

Can You Optimize This? A Mobile Landing Page

hulu mobile landing page

My cable contract just ended, so I have been thinking about how little actual cable TV my family watches. I was wondering if we could do with Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu. I had some time waiting to pickup my kids from school, so while I was parked in the car, I decided I would do a bit of … [Read more...]

When Conversions Come Easily

dropbox old home page

When you consistently deliver a great customer experience, build a great product and develop a brand people trust you don't have to try as hard to convert your visitors. Check out an old version of the DropBox home page: Check out what their home page looks like today: What are your … [Read more...]

Conversion Optimization 101: Social Media Landing Pages

Bloomreach Moneyball LP

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: Perfectly Persuasive PPC Landing Pages

raven tool landing page above the fold

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...]

It’s Not My Job: Why Marketing is Broken

Bathroom sign

I was in Moscow last week with Jeffrey, waiting in the lobby for a taxi. I passed the time taking screenshots of "promotional" emails and ads with their corresponding landing pages. After clicking through some ads and emails I needed to vent.  I posted the following message on my Facebook … [Read more...]

Halloween Special: Frightening Landing Pages

scary landing page

Trick not treat! Most visitors clicking your promotions hope that you'll offer them with some tasty treat. If instead you do things that shake their enthusiasm and frighten them from taking advantage of your offer, they'll just bail on you no matter how delicious the treat you may be offering. In … [Read more...]

Conversion Optimization 101: When Ads and Landing Page Don’t Stink!

beagle puppy

Last week I asked how you would improve scent from this NetFlix ad and landing page combination, I found while looking at FaceBook on my iPad. From a scent perspective the issues include: a mismatch of languages mixed messaging in the offers image issues - if I was on my iPad the landing … [Read more...]