Web Design Archives - Page 4 of 4 - Bryan Eisenberg & Jeffrey Eisenberg

How to Prove That Your Designer Is Costing You Money {4:00 video}

January 14, 2011

Optimization, Tools, Uncategorized, Web Design, Webinar

Often times, marketers approach me to tell me they think something is wrong with their page but they aren’t sure how to convince their designer or management that their are any issues. In this four-minute video, I share a simple technique and how to use attention mapping software like Feng-GUI.com to prove to your designer that they are costing you money. Attention mapping software uses software algorithms to create heat maps based on how people would engage with your Web…

Google, User Experience & Thinking Beyond Conversion

August 25, 2010

Jeffrey Eisenberg

PPC, Search Marketing, usability, Web Design, Webinar

Google is a money making machine; that is why it has tremendous influence in the online ecology. Google has a lot to teach the world about relevance, credibility, value & user experience. However, Google isn’t a training company; it derives more than 90% of its revenues from advertising. It’s fascinating that Google makes most of its money from advertisers (sellers) but is forced, like every media company, to think primarily about the experience of its audience (buyers). When buyers “buy…

Want More Actions? Leverage the Point of Action

May 7, 2010

Bryan Eisenberg

conversion rate, Ecommerce, Lead Generation, Uncategorized, Web Design

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 conversions based on the advice we gave him. However, he said he had an unbelievable battle to explain and use an obvious technique: leveraging his…

5 Dimensions of Landing Page Element Success

April 9, 2010

Bryan Eisenberg

Continuous Improvement, Optimization, Uncategorized, Web Design

Last time, I shared with you the 10 landing page elements, such as the call to action, that make up the anatomy of a landing page. Once you have identified your elements, there are five dimensions to evaluate if the elements will work at converting your visitors. The five dimensions are: Relevance Quality Location Proximity Prominence Relevance Everything else about your page can suck (the technical term we use in Brooklyn), as long as you manage to understand your visitor’s intent…

Anatomy of a Landing Page: Design Elements Exposed

March 26, 2010

Bryan Eisenberg

conversion rate, Optimization, Uncategorized, Web Design

Landing pages have become an important part of the marketer’s toolbox. To create effective landing pages, you should understand the anatomy of a landing page and it should be part of your landing page and optimization framework. After optimizing thousands of landing pages over the years, I want to offer this framework for understanding the 10 key elements of a landing page. Not all of the following elements always need to be on a page to create an effective landing page.…

What Your Form Design Reveals About You

February 9, 2010

Bryan Eisenberg

Lead Generation, Optimization, Uncategorized, Web Design

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 it say you care about your visitor? Your sales team? Your legal department? No one? This past week one of my MarketMotive conversion optimization students…

8 Characters That Could Make Amazon.com Millions

December 3, 2009

Bryan Eisenberg

Ecommerce, usability, Web Design

Yesterday, my aunt Arlene called me in a panic. She had an appointment to run to and an online shopping cart full of gifts for her grand-children and great nieces and nephews and couldn’t figure out how to ship them to their multiple addresses. Amazon.com does a pretty good job at letting you put multiple addresses in your address book but when it came time to selecting which products go to which addresses a simple 8 characters could have made…

Design for Persuasion

November 10, 2009

Bryan Eisenberg

conversion rate, Optimization, Tools, Uncategorized, Web Design

Ask any designer what makes a great design for a web page or web site and you’ll almost always here the same common themes; usability, intuitiveness, feel/mood, eye catching, etc. Yet few will respond with what makes your business revenue – how the page converts visitors to take the action you want them to take! Following are some practical and commonly overlooked elements of landing- and buying-page design to help answer some the above questions and help you think about…