Bryan Eisenberg

Bryan Eisenberg

Bryan Eisenberg is an award-winning, internationally recognized authority in marketing and persuading customers. A pioneer in digital analytics, conversion rate optimization, persuasion architecture, persona marketing, buyer narratives, and customer experience, Bryan has co-authored bestselling books including Call to Action, Waiting For Your Cat to Bark?, Always Be Testing, Buyer Legends, Be Like Amazon, and The Rice and Beans Millionaire, all of which have appeared on Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, Business Week, and Amazon bestseller lists. With decades of experience, Bryan has been part of the founding team of four data-driven startups and has successfully raised capital for each. He has also advised over a dozen startups, guiding companies like Bazaarvoice, UserTesting, and Runa (acquired by Staples) to successful exits. His proudest accomplishments include helping thousands of companies, including Google, Chase, Dell, Disney, and GE, dramatically improve their sales using frameworks developed with his brother Jeffrey. A sought-after international keynote speaker, Bryan has headlined events such as Shop.org, SalesForce's DreamForce, Direct Marketing Association, and the Canadian Marketing Association. His work has earned him recognition as one of the top 10 User Experience Gurus by eConsultancy, a LinkedIn Retail Influencer, and an IBM Futurist. He was also named one of the iMedia Top 25 Marketers and a Marketing Edge Rising Star. Bryan and his wife serve their local community, running A Place At Home – North Austin, a home care agency in Round Rock, TX. He also serves as Ambassador co-chair for the Round Rock Chamber of Commerce. Bryan takes pride in mentoring growth-focused entrepreneurs, from SaaS founders to local businesses.

Why Everything You Thought About Mobile Might be Wrong

Today marks my 13th anniversary writing for ClickZ. I have seen change happen more slowly than I believed possible and more rapidly than I could notice in this evolving digital marketing space. So, is 2014 the year of mobile? Do you remember every time over the last decade, when everyone claimed the year of mobile was just about around the corner? We all know how many times the year of mobile didn’t happen. When Apple released the iPhone and Google…

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10x blog subscriber conversions

Social Logins: Maximizing Conversions & Engagement

Do you publish content or have a blog? It seems everyone has one today. In the last year or so, many more companies have been in touch, asking us how to improve blog conversions. That could be from blog to actual leads or customers, blog to blog subscribers, blog commenting and sharing increasing, etc. Having recently published on my blog how Jeffrey and I helped Marketo increase their blog visitors to subscribers by 10x, I was asked to present more information…

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Great Metrics Lie About Social Media

A Bain survey recently shared that 80 percent of company executives believed they delivered a “superior experience” to their customers. But when Bain asked the executive’s same customers about their own perceptions, only 8 percent of customers felt those companies were really delivering. That’s a huge disconnect. How can that be? Great social media metrics often disguise mediocre performance. That’s what happens when metrics are focused inwardly on company performance instead of customer experience. It happens everywhere but nowhere is…

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Please Don’t Stereotype Your Personas

In my last column, I promised to show you how to take these lists of personality mapping attributes and turn them from your typical persona stereotype (soccer mom, techno geek) into characters that ensure deep understanding and empathy. Many of the techniques we use to draft our personas come from the same techniques used by great storytellers and scriptwriters. The goal of a great character is to make you emotionally connect with them and to empathize with who they are. Without empathizing with…

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Personas: The Magic behind the Mirror

Did you know most persona efforts fail as soon as the personas are completed? Teams create their personas, design slick posters to put on the walls, and say “these are our personas!” Creating personas is really just the beginning. A persona is not a document — it is a clear understanding of a target customer that exists in the minds of your team. Personas evolve as your data around them evolves as well. Every test you do, every insight you…

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90% of Content Marketers Suffer From ‘The Curse’ & How to Remedy It

When it comes to stuff in which you have a huge personal investment (your kids, your homes, your businesses), you risk losing your objectivity. Hey, it’s a human thing. Too much knowledge about your company and what you offer leads you to answer questions nobody is asking. When you’re inside the bottle, it’s hard to read the label. But that’s also when you risk pushing your own interests at the expense of your customers’ interests. This will often lead you…

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Michelle Smith & Persuading Your Potential Customers

In order to plan the click-through-experience models, or persuasion scenarios, on a web site, we develop archetypical fictional characters composed from real data, called personas, who represent your buying audience. We must allow for multiple personas to reach many of the same pages or marketing entities (emails, ads, tweets, etc.), but must separately address their needs. Before designing a single pixel or writing a single word, we get a feel – using a wireframe – for the experience the personas…

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Complexograms: An Illustration of Your Content Marketing Needs

The web is littered with uninspired flaccid words,  words with virtually no meaning. What some people might call web copy or content. In most cases it exists because the marketer was designated a box to fill in with words. You’ve seen it the 100-150 word count blocks that sit on homepages here and there. Think of it as checkbox copy, copy that had to be written to check off a box. It has gotten a bit better over the last…

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