Lead Generation

Want More Actions? Leverage the Point of Action

May 7, 2010

Two weeks of West Coast jet lag while keynoting three conferences means a lot of parties. At a reception, a guy named Peter told me that he read my book “Call to Action” a few years ago and that he used it as the basis to redo his company’s shopping cart. Peter more than doubled [...]

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7 Form Factors to Increase Conversions

April 23, 2010

My last two columns focused on evaluating the five dimensions that make the 10 design elements of the anatomy of a landing page convert better. A prominent feature found on many landing pages is a form to complete, or at the end of a retail landing experience, forms required to complete a check-out. I haven’t written about designing [...]

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What Your Form Design Reveals About You

February 9, 2010

There is no question that improving the forms on your website can improve your conversion rate. In fact, Gavin Doolan, of the Google analytics team, did a wonderful job explaining the basics concepts needed to improve form conversion rates. However, what do the forms that exist in the “wild” tell your visitors about you? Does [...]

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21 Secrets of Top Converting Websites – The Webinar 1/7/10 12pm EST

January 4, 2010

Can you spare an hour this week for what took me the past decade to put together? This Thursday, January 7, 12pm EST, courtesy of my friends at MarketMotive, you can join me for this free workshop on the 21 Secrets of Top Converting Websites. The average conversion rate for a website is around 3%, [...]

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What’s With Demand Generation / Creation?

October 13, 2009

I dislike the term “Demand Generation”, also referred to as “Demand Creation” because it’s misleading. Surely marketing professionals know better. I hope. You could always look it up on Wikipedia where it’s reasonably explained. It’s only in several conversations with business owners and C-level executives over the last few months that I realized how misleading [...]

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