How Small Online Businesses Can Compete with Larger Businesses
Dr. Ralph Wilson from Web Marketing Today interviewed me at Search Engine Strategies (SES) Conference in Chicago:
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Free Conversion Rate Consulting for You?
In the past, I was able to offer a couple of websites free conversion optimization consulting from my MarketMotive certification students. Those students had some terrific successes with our volunteer websites. For example, one retailer increased their conversion rate by 132% and one lead generation website increased their conversion rate by 111%. I need more volunteer websites to work with my students. In order to achieve their certification, my students must perform a certain number of successful improvements for a website. Some of…
Does Your Search Strategy Depend On Customers’ Memory?
Men dread these moments: my wife’s errand was to go to the drugstore and pick up…diapers. My little guy was on his last one. I was ready to get him his Pampers when I was stymied by the store selection. The sale was nearly lost! As I stood looking at the row of diapers, all I could see was Pampers Cruisers with Dry Max. My mission was to return with Pampers Baby Dry. No husband ever wants to return with…
3 Steps to Better Prioritization and Faster Execution
Many organizations are challenged by their customers’ increasing velocity of change. They suffer from anemic corporate metabolism. My hope for the new year is that businesses resolve to improve their rate of change and adaptation. Corporate metabolism is the term I use to describe the speed at which organizations can make decisions, adapt, and evolve. While things progress faster than ever before, corporations still struggle to empower themselves to change. This week, let’s consider a simple system to enable your organization…
99 Free (and Low Cost) Tools to Improve Your Website
1. MobiReady More and more visitors are arriving to websites using mobile devices today. Is your website ready for it? Evaluates mobile-readiness using industry best practices & standards. 2. Treepodia Other than mobile, video has been the other big demand from customers. Treepodia alows you to submit your XML product catalog feed to them and they will then turn that feed into automated video (with music or voice overs), submit those videos to sites like YouTube, FaceBook, & MetaCafe and…
The True ROI of Social Media
Few would argue about the impact of social media. The voice of the customer has never been so powerful, so connected, nor so frequently measured before. Customers are obviously engaged in conversations with brands. Customers choose to affiliate themselves with brands and businesses they “Like” while others consume the content (i.e., reviews, videos, etc.) produced by their fellow customers before and after they make purchase decisions. Social media has tremendous impact on brand perception. One trend concerns me. So many…
A Quick & Cheap Way To Fix Blind Spots in Your PPC Efforts
Yesterday, Google announced that all advertisers now have access to product ads. This presents a great opportunity for advertisers. The user tests I have been involved in recently show that searchers eyes are certainly drawn to those ads before they are drawn to the standard blue links. This is just one more recent change Google has made to their search results page (SERPS) and understanding these changes have a true impact on how you market on the search engines. When…