Bryan Eisenberg, Author at Bryan Eisenberg & Jeffrey Eisenberg

Bryan Eisenberg

Bryan Eisenberg is coauthor of the Wall Street Journal, Amazon, BusinessWeek, and New York Times bestselling books "Call to Action," "Waiting For Your Cat to Bark?," and "Always Be Testing." Bryan is a professional marketing keynote speaker and has keynoted conferences globally such as SES, Shop.org, Direct Marketing Association, MarketingSherpa, Econsultancy, Webcom, SEM Konferansen Norway, the Canadian Marketing Association, and others. In 2010, Bryan was named a winner of the Direct Marketing Educational Foundation's Rising Stars Awards, which recognizes the most talented professionals 40 years of age or younger in the field of direct/interactive marketing. He is also cofounder and chairman emeritus of the Web Analytics Association. Bryan serves as an advisory board member of SES Conference & Expo, the eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit, and several venture capital backed companies. He works with his coauthor and brother Jeffrey Eisenberg. You can find them at BryanEisenberg.com.

Social Conversions: The Launch Story of BO.LT

October 7, 2011

Bryan Eisenberg

Uncategorized

Nobody in this industry has been in the conversion rate optimization game as long as my brother Jeffrey and I have. Yet, brothers Matthew and Jamie Roche are responsible for many organizations beginning to test. They founded Offermatica (which is today’s Adobe Test & Target). So when the Roche brothers decided that they were ready to start their next project, BO.LT, you assume they’d know something about speaking to their audience and converting them into customers; especially since the product…

Confessions of an Online Tool Junkie

September 26, 2011

Bryan Eisenberg

Tools

As many of my readers know, I have been a tool junkie for a long time. Every year for the past several years I have shared my favorite free and low cost tools to improve your website and online marketing efforts. Last year I published a list of 99 tools and this year I was aiming to publish a list with over 120 tools. Well, I got carried away and decided that it would be easier for you and me…

99 Excuses For Your Digital Marketing

September 23, 2011

Bryan Eisenberg

Advertising, Continuous Improvement, Strategy, Tools

Let’s get right to that list…. 1. Online Marketing budgets aren’t allocated to enable you do to the job right. 2. Because of #1, I am sure you could list 98+ more reasons! Too often the C-Suite has not figured out that your digital marketing (I include web, email, mobile & social here) activity is the glue that binds their brand together. They miss that online is that initial first impression before most people even decide to step into your…

21 Secrets of Top Converting B2B Websites

September 20, 2011

Bryan Eisenberg

B2B, Seminar

Enjoy this presentation by Jeffrey Eisenberg which was presented at Dreamforce 2011 in San Francisco:

Conversions: Whose Job Is It Anyway?

September 9, 2011

Bryan Eisenberg

conversion rate, Strategy

I just presented the keynote at the European Conversion Summit in Frankfurt, Germany. It was the best attended conversion-oriented conference I’ve attended to date. In a discussion with the conference organizer, André Morys, about the number and backgrounds of the people attending, André apologized that Germany was at least two years behind the United States. Baloney! I told him I couldn’t agree and that I was very impressed with the number and quality of people in attendance. Nevertheless, I told…

Data Rich, Optimization Poor

August 12, 2011

Bryan Eisenberg

Continuous Improvement, Optimization, Strategy, web analytics

Building an optimization culture is hard and it seems that it might be getting harder. My friend Avinash Kaushik, the analytics evangelist at Google, recently shared an important stat and his observation on Google+: Only 22% of companies have a strategy that ties data collection and analysis to business objectives. Down from 25% last year. [Source: Econsultancy Online Measurement & Strategy report http://goo.gl/OGscu] The problem is not the tool. The problem is you and me and our management. Think of it…

5 Reasons Your Competitors May Be Kicking Your B&^(

August 10, 2011

Bryan Eisenberg

Competitive Intelligence, Continuous Improvement

There are a finite number of ways to stand out and capture significant market share in any marketing category. You can be lowest price driven (a dangerous path), operationally excellent, channel dominant, or focused on customer intimacy. Many companies excel at two or three but it is nearly impossible to excel at all of them. Can you name the company that does? Here are 5 strategies companies use to become market leaders. They have efficient operations – Operations that let…

Accidental Marketing: Have We Changed in the Last Decade?

August 9, 2011

Bryan Eisenberg

Strategy

I originally published Accidental Marketing on ClickZ September 10th, 2001. How much in our world has changed in the last decade? Has your organization changed to make sure they aren’t doing any accidental marketing? What are the obstacles holding organizational change back? Here is the article as it appeared when I first wrote it: —————————————– No, no, that’s not the title of Seth Godin’s next book. “Accidental marketing” refers to a pervasive Web-based trend that is focused on the “how”…